The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to…

Thus I have done with these Directions, the last thing in this Use of Exhortation.

And what do you now say after all Motives to excite and persuade you to the Love of Christ, and Directions therein? shall all be in vain?

And what do you now say after all Motives to excite and perswade you to the Love of Christ, and Directions therein? shall all be in vain?

What do you say, Sinners? shall Christ have your hearts or no? will you harbour base lusts in your hearts, that will damn you, and keep out the Lord Jesus Christ who alone can save you? shall I gain no hearts for Christ by all may Sermons which I have preached concerning the Love of Christ? My Lord and ⟨p. 165⟩Master hath sent me to woe you, to win your hearts for him; may I speed or no? shall my Message be accepted, and Jesus Christ the most lovely person find entertainment with you? If any person or thing in the world which you do most dearly love, do so well deserve your love, lock your ears still against all my words, and let them perish like an empty sound in the Air; lock your hearts against Christ, who stands knocking at the door, and give an absolute and peremptory refusal to give him any room there; But if in the whole world you cannot find out a suitable Beloved besides Christ, if there be nothing here below but is unworthy of your hearts, if all inferior things whilst they have your chief Love do debase you and defile you, and unless your hearts be taken off from them, will certainly ruin and destroy you everlastingly; O then be persuaded without any further delay to open the everlasting doors of your hearts, to let Christ into them, and set Christ up in the highest seat of your Affections; O be persuaded to give Christ your chief Love, to give him your Heart, and your whole heart; with grief and hatred let go your hold of sin, and embrace the Lord Jesus Christ in the