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…

Thirdly, seeks and endeavours the protection ⟨p. 6⟩and preservation of the thing it loves, as it on the other side shuns and avoids ought that might endanger the destruction thereof; and if notwithstanding it meet with it, interposeth it self betwixt it and that to defend it, as the arm wards the blow from the head, albeit it be to the wounding of it self.

Thirdly, seekes and endeavours the protection ⟨p. 6⟩and preservation of the thing it loves, as it on the other side shunnes and avoids ought that might endanger the destruction thereof; and if notwithstanding it meete with it, interposeth it selfe betwixt it and that to defend it, as the arme wards the blow from the head, albeit it be to the wounding of it selfe.

And when these three concur together, when our love hath these three concomitants, and is attended with these fruits and effects, as you heard before, that it thus desires the fruition conjunction preservation of Christ.

And when these three concurre together, when our love hath these three concommitants, and is attended with these fruits and effects, as you heard before, that it thus desires the fruition conjunction preservation of Christ.

Then may we distinguish it from all sensual and carnal love; for there be many sorts of love in the world, but it is all but worldly love, not spiritual and Heavenly love.

Then may we distinguish it from all sensuall and carnall love; for there be many sorts of love in the world, but it is all but worldly love, not spirituall and Heavenly love.