The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.HThe soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H

First, observe the root and rise from whence thy love came;¹ consider this and weigh it sadly, for it is of great difficulty, yet it is never failing, and it is the narrowest search that I know of: therefore look well to it; if it come from the right mint, it is currant. You know it is the privilege of Kings and Princes,² that all the coin that comes from his Mint and is coined with his stamp, is warrantable: but if there be any other Mint, the King will not allow of it, but rather ⟨p. 218⟩punish him that did it, lust so it is with this love, it is the privilege of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of Gods love, to mint and to coin love that may be currant love indeed, that he may take for good payment. Therefore doth thy love come from the Spirit of the Father? then it is only fit to close with a Saviour, with the Father, and the Spirit, and so consequently the Father allows it. Great men must be entertained answerable to their persons:³ for such a man to have poor and lean diet, it is not meet for him; the greatest delicates that can be, do beseem such men of place. So this lean, and earthly, and natural love, that grows only out of thy own parts and abilities, or whatsoever it is, it is but lean love, and poor provision, and suites not with God the Father, nor Jesus Christ. Base love and base things for base men, and mean love for mean things, and natural love for natural things: but would you entertain the Father from heaven, and a spiritual Saviour? then you must let your love be spiritual, to welcome a blessed Saviour. This besuits him,⁴ and otherwise he will not be entertained. As it is with flowers, the flowers that are of special planting, (as Jeremiah speaks of the Jews) and the flowers that are inoculated by the hand of the cunning Gardiner, as the Province Rose, or the like, ⟨p. 219⟩there is much care and pains about them; but your ordinary hedge row Roses, there is no care taken for them. Just so it is with the work of Gods grace, and all other common graces in the world, there is a province love and joy, that is a love that comes from the planting, and a joy that comes from the inoculating of the spirit. This province love and joy is wrought by the Spirit of God, and this makes a sweet savour in the nostrils of Almighty God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ; and the Lord Christ will say, Oh that love pleaseth me.