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Title:  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.
Author: Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.
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and that no beloved is like to the Beloved of true Christians: therefore it is that true Christians do love Christ, because of his loveliness.Rea. 3. True Christians do love Christ, because of His love. His love which he doth bear to them. He loves them with a First love, and with a Free love; He loves them with a tender and compassionate love, with an active or doing love, with a passive or suffering love: His love is Infinite with∣out Bounds or Limits; it is Superlative without comparison; Transcendent beyond comprehension; Everlasting without change, and which will have no end or conclusion. He lov'd them when they were polluted in their sins, and washt them with his own blood; he loved them when they were Naked in their Souls, and clothed them with the Robes of his Righteousness; He loves them in their sickness and sorrows, and is their Com∣forter; He loves them in their wants and Straits, and is their Benefactor, He loves them in Life, and is the Life of their Souls; He loves them at Death, and is the Stay of their Hearts; And he loves them after Death, and will be their Portion for ever. There is great Reason that true Christians 0