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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 6: Quest. How a Child of God is to keep himself in the Love of God. SERMON VI.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Whence we are to learn, wherein the true Nature of our Love of God stands; that the Heart rest in the enjoyment of what it desires, which it can do in nothing else: And only our Love to God is true, and perfect Love, because our Souls find rest in God only.
St. Bernard makes four degrees of our Love to God:
1. When a man loves Himself for himself; but herein he can have ⟨p. 150⟩no rest nor content, for it is not to be found in him.
2. When he loves God for himself, and not for God; when he would have God make him happy.