Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

4. The Intenseness of the principle and vigour of the practice, called here (as the designed effect of the prescribed means) [Greek or Hebrew], a Provocation; the warmth and vigour wherewith Love and Good Works are as it were to be inspired; Zealously affected in a good thing, Gal. iv. 18. zealous of good works, Tit. ii. 14. the Motive so effectually Cogent as to fix and fortify the Principle; and the Principle so powerful as to go through with its great enterprise and concern. Principles are the Springs of Action; and Love importeth intimacy; it is a Principle rooted in the heart, and it lays its beloved objects deep therein; warmth it is essential to it; and where it is perfect or considerably grown, it is serious and fervent: It is a commanding thing, and affects Regency over all the Actions, Faculties and Passions; it is peremptory in its Precepts, sixth in the Purposes and Concerns which it espouses; it is powerful in its Influences, pressing in its Claims, diffusive of it self through all that is performed by us; Impatient of Resistances, Denials or Delays, and moved to Jealousies, Indignation and vigorous Contentions, when any Injury, Affront or Rape, is threatened, attempted or pursued, that any way is prejudicial to its object, and its concerns therewith; it claims and pleads, it urges and provokes to diligence, and to all eager prosecutions of what it aims at, and endears unto it self; and it entirely reconciles the whole Man to all the cost and difficulties of its Divine pursuits. 'Tis never well but in its motions towards, its actings for, its conversation with, ⟨p. 327⟩and its reposes in its Pearl of Price: and hence its actions are invigorated; it gives no faint blows in its holy War, it runs not in its Race, it deals not triflingly in its Merchandise for God and Heaven; it is all mettle, fortitude, patience, action, desire and delight in every thing relating to its grand Affair and Scope; and it makes all its actions and performances to bear their Testimony to its own fortitude and fervours, and this is the Paroxysm of Love and Good Works.

4. The Intenseness of the principle and vigor of the practice, called here (as the designed effect of the prescribed means) 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Provocation; the warmth and vigour wherewith Love and Good Works are as it were to be inspired; Zealously affected in a good thing,