The True Christian’s Love of the Unseen Christ
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
“Faith without love to Christ is a dead faith.” So states Thomas Vincent in “The True Christian’s Love of the Unseen Christ”—a book whose sole stated purpose is to help the reader obtain love for Christ in truth and strength. Christian, if your love for Christ has gone cold, if you have lost your passion for serving Christ, this book will be a spark for rekindling that love again, and a bellows for fanning it into flame.
Thomas Vincent (1634–1678) was a Puritan pastor who was deprived of his pulpit when the Act of Uniformity was decreed in 1662. He continued to minister to young people alongside Thomas Doolittle at a boarding school in Bunhill Fields. When the Great Plague ravaged London in 1665 and everyone who could afford to leave the city was fleeing, Vincent instead chose to remain, so that he could minister to the sick and suffering.
Originally published in 1677, this classic treatise has been meticulously edited to benefit a new generation of Christian readers. Archaic language has been gently modernized, and helpful footnotes have been added to aid the reader. This edition includes a biographical preface, Scripture index, and review questions designed to facilitate group discussion or personal reflection.
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- Helps the reader obtain love for Christ in truth and strength
- Rekindles and fans into flame a Christian’s love for Christ
- Presents a classic treatise in modernized language with helpful footnotes and discussion questions
- Foreword
- Biographical Preface
- Author’s Preface
- Introduction
- 1. True Christians love Jesus Christ
- 2. The object of a Christian’s love is the unseen Christ
- 3. Concerning the love Christians bear for the unseen Christ
- 4. It is an attribute of true Christians to love Jesus Christ, whom they have never seen
- 5. It is a Christian’s duty to love Jesus Christ
- 6. How should a Christian love Jesus Christ?
- 7. Why does a Christian love Jesus Christ?
- 8. There are but few true Christians in the world
- 9. Examine yourself, to see if you truly love Jesus Christ
- 10. Reproof for those who do not love Christ, or who love him but a little
- 11. If you would love Jesus Christ, consider his person
- 12. If you would love Jesus Christ, consider his love for you
- 13. If you would love Jesus Christ, consider the benefits he bestows upon you
- 14. If you would love Jesus Christ, consider the love which Christians have (or should have) for him
- 15. How to obtain this love for Christ when it is completely absent
- 16. How to obtain this love for Christ when it is present, but in weak measure
- 17. How to express this love for Christ
- 18. A word of encouragement
- Appendix: Christ’s Manifestation of Himself
- Unto Those That Love Him
- 1. What does it mean to have Christ manifest himself unto those that love him?
- 2. Christ will indeed manifest himself to those that love him
- 3. How does Christ manifest himself to those that love him?
- 4. When will Christ manifest himself unto those that love him?
- 5. Where will Christ manifest himself unto those that love him?
- 6. Use 1: To those that have no love for Christ
- 7. Use 2: To those that have some love for Christ, but lack these manifestations of it
- 8. Use 3: To those that both love Christ and have the manifestations of his love
- Scripture Index
- Glossary
- Title: The True Christian’s Love of the Unseen Christ
- Author: Thomas Vincent
- Publisher: Digital Puritan Press
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 178
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christian life › Puritan authors; God (Christianity) › Worship and love; Jesus Christ › Devotional literature--Early works to 1800
- ISBNs: 9780359565603, 0359565603
- Resource ID: LLS:TRCHRSTNSNCHRST
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-08-21T18:17:14Z