An Appendix Concerning Christ's Manifestation of Himself to Those That Love Him

_John 14, latter part of verse 21._—And he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

We read (Luke 4:22): And all bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. Never did such gracious and sweet words drop from the lips of any man that ever lived, as those from the lips of Christ when he was here upon the earth; and of all Christ's words, those which he spoke to his Disciples in his last Sermon, before his last Suffering, in the 14, 15, and 16 chapters of John, are superlatively sweet, and none more sweet in this Sermon than the words of my Text read to you: And he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. In the former part of the verse we have the character of one that does truly love Christ: He that has my Commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me. In the latter part of the verse which is my Text, we have the privilege of one that does truly love Christ, and that is in three promises which Christ does make to him: 1. He that loves me shall be loved of my Father. 2. And I will love him. 3. And will manifest myself to him. It is the last of these promises which I shall speak to by way of Appendix to my treatise of the love which true Christians have and ought to have to Christ, and that is the promise of Christ's manifesting himself to such as love him. And the doctrine is this.

Doctrine: That Christ will manifest himself to such as love him.

In handling of this point I shall show: 1. What it is for Christ to manifest himself. 2. That Christ will manifest himself to them that love him. 3. How Christ does manifest himself to such. 4. When Christ does manifest himself to such. 5. Where Christ does manifest himself to such as love him. 6. And lastly, make some application.