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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.
Doct. That it is the Property and duty of true Christians to love the Lord Jesus Christ, whom they have never seen.
Doct. THat it is the Property and duty of true Christians to love the Lord Iesus Christ, whom they have never seen.
In handling of this point I shall speak. 1. Concerning true Christians who do love Jesus Christ. 2. Concerning Jesus Christ whom they have never seen, the Object of ⟨p. 8⟩their Love. 3. Concerning the Love which they bare unto this unseen Christ. 4. Show that it is the Property of true Christians to Love Jesus Christ whom they have never seen. 5. That it is their Duty to love him. 6. How they ought to love Him. 7. Why they do love Him, where I shall give the reasons of the point. 8. Make some Use and Application.
In handling of this point I shall speak. 1. Concerning true Christians who do love Jesus Christ. 2. Concerning Jesus Christ whom they have never seen, the Object of ⟨p. 8⟩their Love. 3. Concerning the Love which they bare unto this unseen Christ. 4. Shew that it is the Property of true Christians to Love Jesus Christ whom they have never seen. 5. That it is their Duty to love him. 6. How they ought to love Him. 7. Why they do love Him, where I shall give the reasons of the point. 8. Make some Use and Application.
1. Concerning true Christians whose property it is to love Jesus Christ whom they have never seen, whom having not seen ye love, ye love, that is, ye who are true Christians, who are so in reality as well as profession; and of these true Christians that do love Christ, the Apostle doth give a description in the 2d. ver. where he calls them, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, though Sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. True Christians are Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, they are such whom God according to the Counsel of his own will, according to his own purpose and grace, did choose from all Eternity to be a holy and peculiar people to himself, to glorify him here on Earth, and that they might be glorified by him hereafter in heaven. And this election doth evidence it