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All duties to man, spring from love to man; and love to man from love to God: it is the affection that stirs up the duty, and stirs up the affection fit for the duty: it stirs up to do the thing, and to do all in love. Whatsoever we do to God, or man, it must be in love; all that God doth to us, it is in love, he chooseth us in love, and doth every thing in love; and all that we do to God, it must be in love. Therefore he names ⟨p. 156⟩no other affection but this, because it is the ground, the first borne affection of the soul: Therefore Christ saith, it is the great commandment to love God; it is the great commanding commandment, that commands all other duties whatsoever, it is the first wheel that turns the whole soul about.

All duties to man, spring from love to man; and love to man from love to God: it is the affection that stirres up the dutie, and stirres up the affection fit for the dutie: it stirres up to doe the thing, and to do all in love. Whatsoever wee doe to God, or man, it must bee in love; all that God doth to us, it is in love, hee chuseth us in love, and doth every thing in love; and all that wee doe to God, it must be in love. Therfore he names ⟨p. 156⟩no other affection but this, because it is the ground, the first borne affection of the soule: Therefore Christ sayth, it is the great commandement to love God; it is the great commanding commandement, that commands all other duties whatsoever, it is the first wheele that turnes the whole soule about.

Again, it is such an affection as cannot be dissembled: a man may paint fire, but he cannot paint heat; a man may dissemble actions in religion, but he cannot affections: love is the very best affection of truth: a man may counterfeit actions; but there is none that can love but the child of God. God hath ⟨p. 157⟩