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Love to Christ, necessary to escape the curse at his coming by Tho. Doolittle ...
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Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707.
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thereof Doth that Woman love her Husband that is gone a Journey and the tidings of his coming back is sorrowful News unto her The loving of the coming of Christ is a character of such as shall be crowned when he comes 2 Tim. 4.8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing And the Spouse that was inflamed with Love concludeth that Song of Love with this Request Cant. 8.14 Make haste my beloved and be thou like to a Roe or to a young Hart upon the mountains of spices And when in the last words save one verse of all the Book of God Christ promiseth his last and speedy coming the Church that loveth Christ catcheth the promise out of his mouth and turns it into a Prayer Rev. 22.20 He which testifieth these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Jesus But your heart saith rather Oh not so Lord Jesus great love in the mean time in your heart Yet one that truly loveth Christ might be sometimes filled with fear at the thoughts of Christs coming not because he doth not love and desire it but because he thinks he is not prepared for his coming lest Christ should find him unfitted and unready at his coming to enter with him into his glory but while he doth defer his coming the loving Soul is hasting in his preparations for it As a Woman that is told her Suiter is coming is greatly troubled not because he is coming but because she fears he might come before she he adorned as she doth desire What say ye now Sirs Do ye love Christ or do ye not Upon the laying these things to your heart by examination of your heart by them can ye upon mature deliberation say that ye find the love of Christ is there Then I shall shew in the close of this subject what cause of joy in God ye have what comfort for the present and what ground of expectation of better greater things for the future and for ever this love to Christ might be unto you But is this the case of all you in this Congregation I would to God it were Is love to Christ in every heart among you I wish it were but I fear it is not I hope some of you do love Christ but can I hope so of you all If I would never so fain I cannot while some are ignorant and some are prophane and too many are excluded by the former characters of Love from having for the present the Grace of Love Oh that I my self had more love to Christ that I might grieve more that blessed Jesus is not loved by more among you Oh that for Jesus sake I had more love to your Souls that I could weep abundantly over you that neither for Jesus sake nor your own have hitherto loved the Lord Jesus What then Have ye not Good God pardon it Will ye not Good God forbid it What shall I do Take it for granted that many of you do not love the Lord Jesus Yea I have proved that ye do not And oh how bitter are these thoughts to me that so many of you do not love the sweetest Jesus Shall I take it for granted that ye will not This were enough if my heart were not a stone to break it to pieces Shall I let you alone without this Love I dare not Shall I try to gain your Love not to me but to my Lord I am afraid ye will deny me Deny me In this that is of everlasting concernment to your Souls shall I take a denial and be gone At your first denial I will not be gone I know ye must have love unto him or be cursed by him how then can I acquiesce in a denial from you I know the Sinner doth not know what he saith when he doth deny to give Christ his love and therefore in hopes he might come to a better understanding of himself and what makes for his own eternal good I will proceed to the fourth Use by which I hope God will change some of your hearts and minds and win the love of some of you for Christ that all you that yet do not love him will not give this as your final answer That ye will not love him CHAP. X. Where the fourth Vse is an attempt of gaining Sinners consent to love Christ a serious wish for good success OH then be perswaded as ye love your Souls as ye would escape the Damnation of Hell as ye would obtain the Happiness of Heaven as ye would avoid the punishment of Devils as ye would dye in a good condition and after Death give a good account of the Wooings of Grace this day and not be Anathema when Maranatha be perswaded to set your hearts and love upon Jesus Christ for he must be loved by you or ye must be cursed by him Abraham Gen. 24. sent his Servant bound with an Oath to seek a Wife for his Son Isaac with this proviâ—o If the Womâ—n would nor be willing he should be clear from his Oath ver 1. to 10th The Servant prepares to go on this Message and Prays O Lord God of my master Abraham I pray thee send me good speed this day and shew kindness to my master Abraham ver 10.11 12. He meets with Rebekah by the Well of Water enquireth whose Daughter she was and whether there were room in her Fathers House for him to Lodge in he is invited by her Brother Laban saying Come in thou blessed of the Lord wherefore standest thou without for I have prepared the house and room for the camels to ver 32. There was Meat set before him to eat but he said I will not eat till I have told my errand And he was desired to speak on and he said I am Abrahams servant and the Lord hath blessed my master greatly and he is become great and he hath a Son and he hath given him all that he hath and my master made me swear saying Thou shalt go unto my fathers house and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son and now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master tell me and if not tell me that I may turn to the right hand or to the left Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said The thing proceedeth from the Lord we cannot speak unto thee bad or good behold Rebekah is before thee take her and go and let her be thy masters sons wife as the Lord hath spoken And the servant brought forth Jewels of silver and Jewels of gold and raiment and gave them to Rebekah and they said to Rebekah Wilt thou go with this man and she said I will go O that I might have such success with Souls this Day for the Lord my Master hath sent me bound with the obligation of a Woe to seek the love and
consent of lost Souls to become the Spouse of his Son Jesus with this relief That if Sinners be not willing nor will accept the motion I shall be released from the Woe I have made preparation though less and weaker than such a weighty matter doth require and have Prayed that the Lord God would send me good speed this day And now I am standing by the Well of the Water of Life and some of the City are come to draw Water out of the Well of Salvation and upon enquiry made I find they are the Children of the Kindred of Jesus who forasmuch as the Children were partakers of flesh and blood himself also took part of the same to whom my message is so important that I can willingly forbear to eat till I have told my errand and therefore in your Audience desire to speak on saying I am the Lords Servant who is not made great or blessed by any other for he is great and blessed above all and over all for ever the earth and all that therein is is his the Sea and all therein is his the Heavens and all therein is also his And he hath a Son one only Son Jesus and he hath given him all that he hath even all power in Heaven and in Earth and hath set him at his own right hand far above all Principalities and Powers and Might and Dominion and every Name that is named not only in this World but that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be Head over all things the Judge of all the World And this great Lord hath sent me to ask and beg your Hearts and Love in order to an indissoluble Marriage to his own only Son and now if ye will deal truly with my Master tell me if not tell me Oh now who saith the thing is of the Lord and proceedeth from his grace and mercy we cannot gainsay we will not refuse this Message And when you are asked who will have this Jesus Who will love this Jesus methinks one should say I will another should say and I will One and Another What! no more Methinks every one should say I will that there should not be another that should say but I will not Let who will but I will not No Why Because no better a Servant is sent to gain thy consent Or doth manage this great affair with no more zeal and skill Do thou pray for the pardon of my weakness and folly and I will pray that thou mightst have more wisdom to discern when a good proposal is made unto thee but whether thou regardest me or not regardest me I regard not so thou wouldst but have regard to Jesus Christ and to thine own immortal Soul If thou dost despise me do not despise my Master nor his Son for though I am not so good as Abrahams Servant yet my Lord and Master is better infinitely better and greater than Abraham to whom he was Servant and my Masters Son Jesus is better incomparably better than Isaac Abrahams Son and would certainly prove a richer match to thy Soul than Isaac was to Rebekah Consider therefore again before thou dost again deny him thy love for hast thou not denied him thy heart long enough already but wilt thou do so still Hath not thy love run waste upon the Creature to this day And shall it do so still Art thou not weary yet in loving of the World Art thou not yet tired in setting thy heart upon Vanity Hath it answered thine expectation Hast thou found that sweetness in the Creature which thou lookedst for when thou didst first set thy heart and love upon it Thou hast tried what is the love of the Creature oh now try what is the love of Christ and if thou dost not find it better if thou dost not find it sweeter than all thy former love provided thou lovest him sincerely return to it again Behold whose cause do I plead this day Christs or mine own For whom do I ask your Love for my self or for Christ Slight me as you will but do not slight Christ Vilifie me but do not undervalue Christ Count me unworthy of your love or look but do not so by the blessed Son of the most glorious God Say I am not fit to be regarded I bless God I have learnt to bear it but I beseech you say not so of Christ Revile and hate me if you will if you will but love that Jesus that out of Love did dye for you If you would but love him that then would certainly save you and bring you to eternal Glory and Happiness for ever If you love the World never so much can the World do so much for you If you love your Honours your Pleasures your Relations never so much can they bless you as Christ will bless you Nay the more you love them the more miserable the love of them will make you Should I call you to love the World you would do it or your Pleasures Self or Sin you would do it Nay when I or any more skilful than I am have called to you to wean your Love from these yet still in love you cleave unto them What! Is Christ the only unlovely object in your Eyes Can you find Love for any thing but Christ What is it in Christ that doth displease you What do you see in him that is offensive to you Either love him or give a reason why you will not Do you blame me for my Importunity I thought since I began this Use you did refuse because I was not urgent enough with you You will not love except you be entreated if that were it that you love to be entreated to Love and would love Christ after much intreating I would study Night and Day to think how I might entreat you and what Arguments to use to prevail and obtain your love for Christ But why should you look for such long entreaties Do you know who it is that doth entreat you Is it I or God himself by me I pray you view one Text and then let him that doth entreat you wait no longer for your answer and for shame put him not to entreat you longer What place is that It is 2 Cor. 5.20 Now then we are Embassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God What say you now I from God and God by me beseech you A Minister of God stands among you in Christs stead to beg entreat beseech that from you which if Christ stood in this place this day he would Preach unto you and desire and command from you that ye would be reconciled unto God after the enmity to him you would love him God Christ by his Servant doth beseech entreat pray you to love him Oh the astonishing condescention of the holy God! That he will iâ—treat Oh the amazing stupidity and folly of the sinful Sinner that