Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

3. The services which love must do and the fruits it must produce to God, to Christ▪ unto the Spirit, unto our selves and others. God himself must be reverenced, adderest unto, served and entertained like himself, and walked with in all required and fit imitations of himself. And all these cannot be without just valuings of and complacency in his eminent perfections, near relations and the admirable constitutions and administrations of his Kingdom. Christ must be duly thought on, heartily entertained, gratefully acknowledged, and cheerfully obeyed, submitted and improved unto the great and gracious purposes of his appearances, performances and Kingdom, and minded most delightfully in all the Grandeurs of his Grace and Throne; the Holy Spirit must possess his Temple to his full Satisfaction, and have the pure incense of his graces in their fragrant, liberal and continual ascents; (Praying in the Holy Ghost, Jude 20.) And be feasted with the growthful and constant productions of his graces, both in their blossoms and full fruits; and we must be continually sowing to him, if we hope to reap eternal life of him, in Gal. vi. 8. We must possess our selves in God, and for him, in our full devotedness and resignations of our entire selves to him▪ pleasing our selves in this, that we are not by far so much, and so delightfully our own as his, and that we cannot love our selves so well ⟨p. 328⟩as when we find God infinitely dearer to us than we are to our selves. And as for others, much must we cheerfully do, and bear, and be, to bring poor Renegadoes back again to God, to testify our great respects unto, and pleasure in the grace of God in our fellow Christians, to accommodate our selves to their edification & concerns; and to make our best advantage of every thing discernible in them: Helping our selves and them in spirit, speech and practice. And can these things be brought to pass, or our selves reconciled & suited to all our Christian duties and interests without provoked love? And for the solemnities, transactions and results of the approaching day, what is that day to those who have no love, or very great declensions of it? For all that come with Christ from Heaven, come in the flames of love to God, to godliness and Godly Ones: and a Cold Heart, will no way be endured there.