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True Christian love (1745)

“ What trouble when God hides his face and seems us to forgo. Now judge again, when weights are lift Grief, anguish, torments gone: For Wrath, Death, Hell, Eternity, of Fear now there is none. But in their Place the Heart lift up, Life, Light and Rest is come: Felt love, peace, victory, hearts-health, and Christ's Sp'rit all in Sum. Judge when our much provoked Lord, himself shows reconcil'd, If with the joy that then is felt, a Heart may not be fill'd. Now what can others Love do here, to Souls in such a Case. ”
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True Christian love (1745)

“ Faiths anchor they make drive, they speak in substance, blasphemy They make the Merchant nothing wife, and very short of thought, Who pay'd the price & was not sure John 10. 11. to have what thou had bought, Yea so unwise, as for thy Sheep thine own Life not to spare: Whom thou may lose, though so dear bought such foolish blocks are rare. and 13. O wicked thought be far from me, I know thy Love doth last: Rom. 8. 10. And whom of purpose thou dost call, thy Grace doth hold them fast. and 5. 8. Who thou dost love, for them thou dy'd for whom thou dy'd they live. ”
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True Christian love (1745)

“ For Love, his Death for us a Proof, sufficient hath been. For Justice, he can do no wrong, for Mercy, there is none, Or shall in Hell be, who have sought for Grace through him alone. Most lofty and most lowly Mind, Deut. 2. 31. most good and most severe. 4. Most lovely, and most terrible, Isa 57. 15. do all in him co-here. Mat, 11. 29. The meekest Lamb to all his Friends, a Lion to his Foes. He gives his Peace to all that comes, wrath follows all that goes. No Foe can stand before his Face, no Fugitive can flee, No lurking hole can hide from him, Mal. 2. 2. his Eyes do all things see. ”
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