A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

The first which I shall observe, is Union, occasioned both by the Love which we have to a thing, for it• own sake, and likewise, for the Love of our selves, that there may be a greater mutual interest each in other. Where-ever Love is, it stirreth up an endeavour, to carry the heart unto the thing which it loveth▪ Where the Treasure is, there the heart will ⟨p. 99⟩be. Hence, none are said to love God, but those that are some way united unto him. And therefore, as Gods first love to man, was in making man like himself; so his second great love, was in making himself like man. Hence, we read so often of that mystical inhabitation of Christ in his Church, of that more peculiar Union and presence with his people, of a Spiritual Implantation unto him by Faith, of those near relations of Filiation and Fraternity, of mutual interest each in other, I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine; importing an inseparable Union of the Church to Christ. And this may be the reason of that order in Saint Pauls solemn Benediction, The Grace of Christ, the Love of God, and the Communion of the Spirit: for, as the Grace of Christ only taketh away that enmity which was between sinners and God, and is the only means of our reconciliation unto him; so the Love of God is the only Bond of that Communion, which we have with him and his holy Spirit.

THe first which I shall observe, is Vnion, occasioned both by the Love which we have to a thing, for it• owne sake, and likewise, for the Love of our selves, that there may be a greater mutuall interest each in other. Where-ever Love is, it stirreth up an endeavour, to carry the heart unto the thing which it loveth▪ Where the Treasure is, there the heart wil ⟨p. 99⟩be. Hence, none are sayd to love God, but those that are some way united unto him. And therefore, as Gods first love to man, was in making man like himselfe; so his second great love, was in making himselfe like man. Hence, we reade so often of that mysticall inhabitation of Christ in his Church, of that more peculiar Vnion and presence with his people, of a Spirituall Implantation unto him by Faith, of those neere relations of Filiation and Fraternitie, of mutuall interest each in other, I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine; importing an inseparable Vnion of the Church to Christ. And this may be the reason of that order in Saint Pauls solemne Benediction, The Grace of Christ, the Love of God, and the Communion of the Spirit: for, as the Grace of Christ onely taketh away that enmitie which was betweene sinners and God, and is the onely meanes of our reconciliation unto him; so the Love of God is the onely Bond of that Communion, which we have with him and his holy Spirit.