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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins Milk-Street, London; ; [Three lines from Hebrews]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 10
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.
3. The righteous will have a higher capacity for love in Heaven, than here they have, and they shall be filled with love unto the height of their capacity; they will be able to love a thousand times more than now they can do, and they shall love unto their utmost ability; they will see perfection of loveliness in God & all that are about him & they shall have perfection of love; here their love is sincere and growing, but it is weak and imperfect, hereafter it will be grown up to the full height of it, and perfect love will cast out all torment; here their love is mixed, the stream is divided, it runs and wastes it self in many small rivulets, which empty themselves upon the creatures; but then the whole stream will run forth unto God undividedly; not a drop of their love shall be spilt on the ground; God will be the sole object of their love: here their love is uneven and inconstant to God; sometimes it ebbs, and sometimes it flows, sometimes they have a high and spring tide of love to God, but at other times it is low water; hereafter their love to ⟨p. 132⟩God will be even and constant, and always at the greatest height.
3. The righteous will have a higher capacity for love in Heaven, than here they have, and they shall be filled with love unto the heighth of their capacity; they will be able to love a thousand times more than now they can do, and they shall love unto their utmost ability; they will see perfection of loveliness in God & all that are about him & they shall have perfection of love; here their love is sincere and growing, but it is weak and imperfect, hereafter it will be grown up to the full heighth of it, and perfect love will cast out all torment; here their love is mixed, the stream is divided, it runs and wasts it self in many small rivulers, which empty themselves upon the creatures; but then the whole stream will run forth unto God undividedly; not a drop of their love shall be spilt on the ground; God will be the sole object of their love: here their love is uneven and inconstant to God; sometimes it ebbs, and sometimes it flows, sometimes they have a high and spring tide of love to God, but at other times it is low water; hereafter their love to ⟨p. 132⟩God will be even and constant, and alwayes at the greatest heighth.