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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
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.
Sect. VII.
Use 2. The second Use concerneth such of you as have some Love unto Christ, but are without these Manifestations; and there are two sorts of such: 1. Some of you never had these Manifestations. 2. Some of you have had these Manifestations, but have lost them.
Vse 2. THe second Use concerneth such of you as have some Love unto Christ, but are without these Manifestations; and there are two sorts of such: 1. Some of you never had these Manifestations. 2. Some of you have had these Manifestations, but have lost them.
1. Some of you never had these Manifestations of Christ's Love. It may be you are young and raw Christians, a little ⟨p. 192⟩while ago you were forward Scholars in the School of the Devil, and served divers lusts with all your might and strength; the Lord hath lately hedged up your way with thorns, hath opened your eyes to see your sins, and made you sensible of your danger, but as yet your eyes are not open as to any comfortable sight of your Saviour; Indeed Christ hath been revealed unto you as able and willing to save you, and you have been drawn by the Word and Spirit to take hold on him, and to give up your selves unto him; but as yet you are in the da•k as to your Spiritual Estate; you are under doubts and fears of unsoundness and rottenness at heart, that you are Hypocrites, and shall fall away, as other Professors like your selves have done; you fear you shall one day perish by the hand of Saul, that the Devil and your own Lusts will be too hard for you, and prevail so far with you, as to pull you back into ways of Sn, and thereby to pull yo down into the bottomless Pit of Hell: This causeth a dread upon your spirits, and fearful apprehensions of Gods wrath and future Vengeance; this fetcheth many a sad and heavy sigh from your breasts, many a brinish tear from your eyes, you