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The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to…
The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians with an appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him / by Thomas Vincent.
London: printed by J.R. for Samuel Sprint, 1677
Appendix: An APPENDIX Concerning Christ's Manifestation of Himself unto them that love him.
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Joh. XIV. latter part of vers. 21. —And he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest my self unto him.
WE read, Luk. 4. 22. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. Never did such gracious and sweet words drop from the lips of any man that ever lived, as those from the lips of Christ when he was here upon the Earth; and of all Christ's words, those which he spake to his Disciples in his last Sermon, before his last Suffering, in the 14, 15, and 16 Chapters of John, are superlatively sweet, and none more sweet in this Sermon than the words of my Text read unto you, And ⟨p. 172⟩he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest my self unto him. In the former part of the verse we have the Character of one that doth truly love Christ: He that hath my Commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. In the latter part of the verse which is my Text, we have the Privilege of one that doth truly love Christ, and that is in three Promises which Christ doth make unto him: 1. He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father. 2. And I will love him. 3. And will manifest my self unto him. It is the last of these Promises which I shall speak unto by way of Appendix unto my Treatise of the Love which true Christians have and ought to have unto Christ, and that is the Promise of Christs manifesting himself unto such as love him. And the Doctrine is this.
WE read, Luk. 4. 22. And all bare him witness, and wondred at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. Never did such gracious and sweet words drop from the lips of any man that ever lived, as those from the lips of Christ when he was here upon the Earth; and of all Christ's words, those which he spake to his Disciples in his last Sermon, before his last Suffering, in the 14, 15, and 16 Chapters of Iohn, are superlatively sweet, and none more sweet in this Sermon than the words of my Text read unto you, And