A64995:213
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Section III.
3. How Christ doth manifest Himself unto them that Love him.
3. HOw Christ doth manifest Himself unto them that Love him.
1. Christ doth here in this world manifest himself but in part and darkly. The soul is not now capable of the fullest and clearest Manifestation of Christs, This is a happiness reserved for the other world, 1. Joh. 3. 2. Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, Joh. 17. 24. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me. It is Hereafter that Christs Disciples shall be perfectly like unto Christ, and shall have a perfect manifestation of Christ, that they shall see him as he is: It is Hereafter that they shall behold his glory; The lustre ⟨p. 179⟩and brightness of Christs glory is so great that should he now let forth the beams thereof upon them, it would dazzle and amaze them, it would strike them blind, yea it would strike them dead; there is need, because of their weakness, that Christ should keep a veil on his face, when he makes discovery of himself, they cannot now bear the full patefaction and manifestation of Christ; therefore Christ doth discover himself but in part. As the Queen of Sheba saith concerning Solomons wisdom and prosperity,