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

and yet whatever attractives of Love, the most strong of any, be in Jesus Christ, you are backward to this Love.

Need I say more to convince you, that you have but little Love to Christ? will not your own Conscience from these clear Evidences sufficiently witness the thing? ⟨p. 55⟩And now Christians think what a Sin, what a Shame, what a Folly it is, that you should have so little Love unto Jesus Christ: If it be so great a Sin for such as are Strangers unto Christ, to have no Love at all to him, that it brings them under the most Dreadful curse; surely it cannot be a small Sin, that you (who are his true Disciples) should have but little Love unto him; is it not very displeasing to the Father, that you should have but little Love to his Son? if he do not hate you because of your Relation unto Christ; yet, is he not angry with you, for the Lukewarmness of your Affection unto Christ? which Sin is Aggravated by the nearness of your Relation. Is it not Dishonourable unto Christ, that you should have so little Love to him? don't you in Effect say, there is no great worth or Amiableness in him, when you have no great Love unto him? are you not hereby ingrateful unto Christ, beyond what can be paralleled by any ingratitude unto the most obliging Earthly Friend? Is it not your shame, that you should have so little Love to Christ, when he doth so much deserve your Love? Besides the Infinite Excellencies and Perfections which are in his person; doth not his Infinite ⟨p. 56⟩Kindness unto you, call for (not only the Truth, but also) the Strength of your Love? Think what he hath Done for you; think what he hath Suffered for you; think what he hath Purchased for you; think what he hath Promised to you; think what he hath Laid out for you; think what he hath Laid up for you; and yet to have but little Love to Christ? yet to make such poor Returns! Moreover, is it not your Folly to have but little Love to Christ? Don't you hereby bereave your selves, or debar your selves of such peace as passeth all understanding; of such sweetness and comfort both in the strength of your love, and in the sense of His Love, as is inconceivable? is not Injury and Mischief unto your selves, the consequent of your little Love unto Christ? must you not draw on Heavily in the ways of God, as Pharaoh when his chariot-wheels were taken off? Love to Christ is like wheels, in your motion for Christ, and like Oil to the wheels, which makes you ready unto any good work which he doth call you unto;