The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

Use 4 Hath the Lord suffered all these punishment for us? then what shall we do for the Lord Jesus Christ? return an answer to the Lord, what course you will take to answer the kindness of the Lord. When David had received many kindnesses from the Lord, he looks up to Heaven and saith, I will love thee dearly, O Lord my strength: Love is the lodestone of love; therefore have love enlarged in this duty, be not scanty in your love, but bestow your hearts fully, and liberally, upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and let all return love to the Lord Jesus Christ, and love him in all things by all means, and at all times, and know that the death of Christ requires this, and will call for it: I do not love that a man should give the Lord Jesus Christ a little scanty desire, and a few lazy wishes, but love him with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and say, I will love thee dearly, Oh Lord my strength: when thou dost rise in the morning love Jesus Christ, and bathe thy heart in it; and when thou art in the way, or at thy labour, love Jesus Christ that strengthens thee; when thou feedest upon ⟨p. 308⟩the sweetness of thy meat, think upon the sweetness that is in Christ, and thank the blood of Christ for all that thou hast, in all the riches thou seest, and in all the honours thou hast, and in all thy friends and means, and whatsoever thy heart loves or esteems, in that see Christ, and in that love Christ: why, what doth that concern Jesus Christ? I answer, it will make it appear that all that thou hast, is from the blood of Christ, and the blood of Christ is better than all the blessings you do enjoy, and they are all nothing without this: for it is the death of the Lord Jesus Christ that ads a seasoning virtue to all the good things thou hast; so that these are not good to us, neither do they work good to us, but that they are given to us in and by the Lord Jesus Christ; for were they not given us in Christ, there is such venom and gall in our sins, and the wrath of God it self which slides through all the good things here below, that it makes all the morsels gravel in the belly: In a word, the blood of Christ takes away the venom and indignation of Gods curse, which otherwise would bring a plague upon what we have, and what we do enjoy:

Vse 4 Hath the Lord suffered all these punishment for us? then what shall wee doe for the Lord Jesus Christ? returne an answer to the Lord, what course you will take to answer the kindnesse of the Lord. When David had received many kindnesses from the Lord, he lookes up to Heaven and saith, I will love thee dearly, O Lord my strength: Love is the loadstone of love; therefore have love inlarged in this dutie, be not scantie in your love, but bestow your hearts fully, and liberally, upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and let all returne love to the Lord Jesus Christ, and love him in all things by all means, and at all times, and know that the death of Christ requires this, and will call for it: I doe not love that a man should give the Lord Iesus Christ a little scanty desire, and a few lazy wishes, but love him with all thy soule, and with all thy strength, and say, I will love thee dearly, Oh Lord my strength: when thou dost rise in the morning love Iesus Christ, and bathe thy heart in it; and when thou art in the way, or at thy labour, love Iesus Christ that strengthens thee; when thou feedest upon