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

Secondly, You may know your love to Christ, by your Prizing and Frequenting those ways wherein Christ is to be found, and seeking him therein. Such are the ways of his Ordinances both public and private. Christ's way is in his Sanctuary, and in his Ordinances he may be found; do you give your attendance unto Ordinances, Public prayer, the Preaching of the word, the Sacrament of the Lords Supper? and do you prize these Ordinances because of the Stamp of Christ's Institution upon them, because of Christ's presence in them, and because they ⟨p. 40⟩are a means of bringing you and Christ together? and when you are under Ordinances, do you diligently seek after Christ in Ordinances? Don't you rest in the outside and carnal part of Ordinances, in meeting with Gods People there? or do you design, desire and endeavour after something more inward and Spiritual and incomparably sweet, that you meet with Christ there, that you may have Fellowship with the Father and the Son therein? and upon this account can you say as David, How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord! and A day in thy Courts is better than a Thousand, Psal. 84. 1, And, One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his Temple; Psal. 27. 4. Do you also seek after Christ in your Families, and in your Closets? do you seek him in secret prayer and meditation? your love to Christ doth express it self in your desires; your desires do show themselves in your seeking after Christ in his ways.

Secondly, You may know your love to Christ, by your Prizing and Frequenting those wayes wherein Christ is to be found, and seeking him therein. Such are the wayes of his Ordinances both publick and private. Christ's way is in his Sanctuary, and in his Ordinances he may be found; do you give your attendance unto Ordinances, Publick prayer, the Preaching of the word, the Sacrament of the Lords Supper? and do you prize these Ordinances because of the Stamp of Christ's Institution upon them, because of Christ's presence in them, and because they ⟨p. 40⟩are a meanes of bringing you and Christ together? and when you are under Ordinances, do you diligently seek after Christ in Ordinances? Don't you rest in the outside and carnall part of Ordinances, in meeting with Gods People there? or do you design, desire and endeavor after something more inward and Spiritual and incomparably sweet, that you meet with Christ there, that you may have Fellowship with the Father and the Son therein? and upon this account can you say as David, How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord! and A day in thy Courts is better than a Thousand,