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For those that love him.

The disposition of the parties is, they are such as love God. He saith not, such as are elected, because that is a thing out of our reach to know; but by going upward, ⟨p. 145⟩by going backward, to go from our grace to our calling; & from thence, to election. Nor such as believe, because that is less discernible than love. Nor the love of God to us: for that is supposed when we love him; our hearts being cold, they cannot be warm in love to him, but his love must warm them first. Love is such an affection as commands all other things, therefore he names that above all. And love is such a thing as every one may try himself by:¹ if he had named either giving, or doing of this or that, men might have said, I cannot do it, or I cannot part with it; but when he names love, there is none but they may love. ⟨p. 146⟩The point considered was, that

The disposition of the parties is, they are such as love God. He sayth not, such as are elected, because that is a thing out of our reach to know; but by going upward, ⟨p. 145⟩by going backward, to goe from our grace to our calling; & from thence, to election. Nor such as believe, because that is lesse discernable than love. Nor the love of God to us: for that is supposed when wee love him; our hearts being cold, they cannot be warme in love to him, but his love must warme them first. Love is such an affection as commands all other things, therefore hee names that above all. And love is such a thing as every one may try himself by:¹ if he had named either giving, or doing of this or that, men might have sayd, I cannot doe it, or I cannot part with it; but when he names love, there is none but they may love.