Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

3. It is the effectual cure hereof that the case aims at; and in this Paroxysm of Love and of Good Works the cure consists. Hence, Labour of love, Heb. vi. 10. i Thess. i. 3. Love abounding more and more, in knowledge and in all judgment, that ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere, and without offence, until the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the Glory and Praise of God, Phil. i. 9.—11. when Love is fervent, sixth, and genuinely fruitful, then is this luke-warm temper cured indeed. Hence, zealous of good works. See Tit. ii. 11.—14.

3. It is the effectual cure hereof that the case aims at; and in this Paroxysm of Love and of Good Works the cure consists. Hence, Labour of love, Heb. vi. 10. i Thess. i. 3. Love abounding more and more, in knowledge and in all judgment, that ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere, and without offence, until the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the Glory and Praise of God, Phil. i. 9.—11. when Love is fervent, fixt, and genuinely fruitful, then is this luke-warm temper cured indeed. Hence, zealous of good works. See Tit. ii. 11.—14.

4. How this Cure of such a temper may be effectually wrought, is the next thing to be enquired into; and the great import of the case before us; and a great cluster of apt and pertinent Expedients doth the Text here entertain us with Such as, 1. Determining and designing to enterprise the thing; here called Provocation to love and to good works, [Greek or Hebrew]· This is the great concern to be espoused, and the great scope of our intentions, resolutions, and endeavours. Love, and good works, are the great Cure of this Distemper, to which we must direct our thoughts, words, deeds, provokingly. Col iv. 5 6 Such a Distemper must not be ordinarily expected to be cured by accident; nor are their Labours likely to be prosperous, who do not cordially design this Cure. 2 The mutual Considerations of Persons. Consider one another to a Provocation. So the Greek. We must take into serious, deep and frequent thoughts, the