The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to…

how he hath wrought a Miracle in your first Resurrection from the Grave and spiritual death of Sin, & put forth the same power in your New Creation & change of your Natures, as in his first Creation of the World! how he hath dissolved and made ⟨p. 210⟩a divorce between your hearts and your sins, and so wonderfully United and espoused you unto the Lord Jesus, and by this Conjunction and Relation given you an Interest in all the Privileges which Christ hath purchased. If you know that Christ doth love you, you m•y know assuredly that you are Justified through his Merits and Mediation, and O what matter of Joy is this, to think that all your sins Original and Actual, are pardoned, that none can lay any sin to your charge, because God hath justified you! that there is none that shall condemn you, because Christ hath loved you, and out of Love hath dyed for you, and is now making Intercession for you at the right hand of God, Rom. 8. 33, 34. to be acquitted from all Guilt, and no more liable unto future wrath than if you had never offended; and when you had no Righteousness of your own, to be accepted as perfectly Righteous in the sight of God, through the Imputation of Christ's perfect Righteousness! Who have reason to rejoice, if you have not reason? If you know that Christ loveth you, you may assuredly say, that you are the Sons and Daughters of the Lord Almighty; and will you not rejoice, when ⟨p. 211⟩of Children of the Devil, Children of Disobedience, Children of Wrath, you are made the Children of God, the Glorious Jehovah, that is the Supreme Sovereign and King of the whole World, and when you have not an empty Name only, but are entitled to all the Privileges of his Children? If you know that Christ doth love you, you may know assuredly that he will keep alive his Interest in you, preserve his Grace in your hearts, and enable you to persevere in Faith and Holiness, notwithstanding all the alluring Temptations which you may meet withal in the World, notwithstanding all the Suggestions and Oppositions of Satan, and notwithstanding all the powerful workings of your remaining lusts and corruptions, all which do combine together, and use all their power and policy (which is great) to extirpate your Grace, to draw you unto sin, to entice or force you out of the ways of God;