A64995:242
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. VIII.
Use 3. The Third Use doth concern you that do love Christ, and have the Manifestations of his Love to your Souls: Three things be exhorted unto; 1. Rejoice in the Lord. 2. Admire his Free Grace. 3. Labour to retain these Manifestations.
Vse 3. THe Third Use doth concern you that do love Christ, and have the Manifestations of his Love to your Souls: Three things be exhorted unto; 1. Rejoyce in the Lord. 2. Admire his Free Grace. 3. Labour to retain these Manifestations.
1. You that have the Manifestations of the Love of Christ, Rejoice in the Lord; of all Persons in the world, you have most reason to rejoice, you are the happiest men and women alive. It is not ⟨p. 208⟩Wealth in the greatest abundance which can make men happy, the richest Persons have often thorns of the greatest discontent to pierce their hearts, and Stings of the greatest guilt to wound their Consciences: It is not the highest Honour and worldly Dignity which can make men happy; the vilest men are often exalted, and those that are in the Highest places, are in the most Slippery places, from whence they are soon cast down into destruction, and whatever security they have in Life, yet they are usually consumed utterly with Terrors when grim Death doth appear and summon them to depart. It is not the sweetest sensual Delight which can make men happy; Vanity is the Attendant, and Vexation of Spirit is the Consequent of all those pleasures that are sensual and sinful, which are the seed also of Pain and Everlasting torment: Such only can be said to be happy in truth, as are really united and related unto Jesus Christ, and through him reconciled unto God, and entitled unto the Kingdom of Heaven; but you are the most happy, and have reason to take the most comfort, who have not only Relation unto Christ, but also the Manifestations of him; who know that