Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Showing the equity and necessity…Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Shewing the equity and necessity…

I answer, no truly that he will not neither;¹ what then? Answer.

I answer, no truely that he will not neither;¹ what then? Answer.

1. 1Answ.

First, thou must love him withal thy strength, and with all thy power, with all the parts and faculties of soul and body.

First, thou must love him withall thy strength, and with all thy power, with all the parts and faculties of soule and body.

Now it may be thou art a Magistrate, a master of a family, a Minister, a Tutor, or any other governor, and then thou must do God more service then another private and inferior person; thou mayst compel them that are under thee, to love the Lord by thy authority and example; God looks for this (I say) at thy hands; for to whom much is given, of them much shall be required; thou art but as a servant sent to market, which must give an account for what he hath received, and the more money he hath given him to bestow and lay out, the more commodities his master looks he should bring home with him for it; so the more wit or understanding, or learning, or knowledge, or authority, and power ⟨p. 38⟩thou hast, the more love must thou bear unto Christ, and show it by thy bringing forth more fruits thereof unto him, then others that have none of all these opportunities, or not in so great a measure as thou hast, this is the first thing.