How lovely is the Eternal God, that gives us such Abilities and Entertainments! How lovely are the Souls of Men, that are receptive of such things! How lovely are those Labours and Designs, that are with Wisdom, Diligence and Faithfulness, directed to the Cultivation, and Salvations of such Souls! O how beautiful and lovely are the feet of those, and how deserving of our Prayers, and universal helpfulness are they themselves, who lay out all their Time and Strength, to get each other, and as many as they can, in readiness to bear their parts, and take their share in the Melodies and Entertainments of that Triumphant state of Love and Holiness in the Heavenly Glory▪ The cry of all is, Love, Love. These are things and objects, that require and deserve our Love in it's most urgent vehemencies, to promote their Interests; this noble flame is desecrated and profaned by us, and used to it's own prejudice and reproach, when it is not directed to, and diligently conversant about Objects and Services truly worthy of it self, Gal. iv. 18. I should have thought ⟨image 159⟩my Thoughts and Heart not only Faeculant, but in a sort profane; had I applied my Studies, or this Sacred Directory in my Text, to the promoting of fervour, noise and stir about things much below, or repugnant to the weightier things, and matters of Christs Gospel Kingdom, Judgment, Mercy and Love. Mat. xxiii. 23. The love of God, saith Luk xi. 42. Woe worth, that Papal zeal and diligence, that is for the promotion of an universal Visible Headship; wherein they pretend that all the Church Militant must be united; into whose Arbitrary and bold dictates it must resolve it's Faith, according to whose Edicts it must form all it's practices, and to the supports whereof in all it's secular Grandeurs, Pageantries, and usurped Prerogatives, it must devote and sacrifice it's all. Is He luke-warm in Gods account, that will not Anathematize, traduce, distress, destroy, Souls, Persons, Families, Churches, Kingdoms, and the choicest and most useful Persons; who will not absolutely devote himself hereto, and show his zeal in desolating flames and slaughters? Such Zeal, we know by whom it was called Madness, Act. xxvi. 9. — 11. Phil. iii. 6.
How lovely is the Eternal God, that gives us such Abilities and Entertainments! How lovely are the Souls of Men, that are receptive of such things! How lovely are those Labours and Designs, that are with Wisdom, Diligence and Faithfulness, directed to the Cultivation, and Salvations of such Souls! O how beautiful and lovely are the feet of those, and how deserving of our Prayers, and universal helpfulness are they themselves, who lay out all their Time and Strength, to get each other, and as many as they can, in readiness to bear their parts, and take their share in the Melodies and Entertainments of that Triumphant state of Love and Holiness in the Heavenly Glory▪ The cry of all is, Love, Love. These are things and objects, that require and deserve our Love in it's most urgent vehemencies, to promote their Interests; this noble flame is desecrated and prophaned by us, and used to it's own prejudice and reproach, when it is not directed to, and diligently conversant about Objects and Services truly worthy of it self, Gal. iv. 18. I should have thought ⟨image 159⟩my Thoughts and Heart not only Faeculant, but in a sort prophane; had I applyed my Studies, or this Sacred Directory in my Text, to the promoting of fervour, noise and stir about things much below, or repugnant to the weightier things, and matters of Christs Gospel Kingdom, Judgment, Mercy and Love. Mat. xxiii. 23. The love of God, saith Luk xi. 42. Wo worth, that Papal zeal and diligence, that is for the promotion of an universal Visible Headship; wherein they pretend that all the Church Militant must be united; into whose Arbitrary and bold dictates it must resolve it's Faith, according to whose Edicts it must form all it's practices, and to the supports whereof in all it's secular Grandeurs, Pageantries, and usurped Prerogatives, it must devote and sacrifice it's all. Is He luke-warm in Gods account, that will not Anathematize, traduce, distress, destroy, Souls, Persons, Families, Churches, Kingdoms, and the choicest and most useful Persons; who will not absolutely devote himself hereto, and shew his zeal in desolating flames and slaughters? Such Zeal, we know by whom it was called Madness, Act. xxvi. 9. — 11. Phil. iii. 6.
