The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians with an appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him / by Thomas Vincent.

Section V.

Fifthly, THe Fifth thing is to shew, that it is the Duty of all True Christians to love this unseen Christ. This will appear if you look into John 21. 15. 16, 17. Peter was one of the boldest and for∣wardest of all Christs disciples, but he had been withal too self-confident, which was the introduction unto and laid the founda∣tion for his fall and thrice shameful denial of his Master; a look from his Lord put him in remembrance, and brought him to Repentance with bitter weeping for his sin so soon as it was committed. After our Saviour was risen from the dead, he ap∣pears unto Peter with other of his disciples

and in this place he asketh the same questi∣on in the same words three times, Simon Son of Ionas, lovest thou me? Whereby as he doth tacitly upbraid him for his great sin in his three times denyal of him (which had there not been a defect in his love, he would never have done) so he doth also give a signification that love to himself is the great duty, and the great thing which he doth look for in all his disciples.