The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

X. Do all you do out of love to God. Spiritual l•ve-sickness is the souls healthfullest constitution. When love to God is both Cause, Means, Motive and End of all our activity in the business of Religion, then the soul is upon the wing towards its rest. Then^e is our love to other things regular, when the alone goodness of God moves us to love them; as the alone respect to health makes me use physic, the means hath no proper goodness distinct from the goodness of the end; those means which were profitable, though they remain unchanged in themselves, yet they become unprofitable by the alone change of the end, e. g. Health being recovered, physic is unprofitable, which while we were infirm was profitable; so we are not to love any means without relation to the end, because 'tis contrary to the purity of that love which we owe to God; for we ought so to love God, that with him, or under him we love nothing else, but all things only in him, because otherwise we do not love him with our whole heart. e. g. In mens loving their wives, and wives their husbands; in Parents loving their children, & children their Parents, 'tis a rare pitch to love all these in God; that is, to advance our love to God by them, and so far as any of them draw off our love to God, to say to them as Christ to Peter, Get thee behind me Satan, thou art an offence unto me. Love is extended to good; the more good therefore any thing is, the more it is to be beloved: But thou O Lord my God (saith Bradwardine^f) art the Good of every good, good above all things that are good, a good most infinitely infinite: how much therefore should I rationally love thee? should not my love be proportionably infinite? I would I could so love thee: but how shall I that am so very little & finite love thee infinitely! And yet without so loving thee, how will there be kept any due proportion in loving thee, who dost infinitely exceed all other lovely things? I ought to love thee infinitely as to the manner, though I cannot as to the act of my love, i. e. I ought to love thee finally for thy self, or else I may love thee in some sort infinitely, as to the Act, both intensively and extensively; in some sort intensively, i. e. more intensely, more firmly, more strongly then any finite good, because I love them but for thee.

X. Do all you do out of love to God. Spiritual lve-sickness is the souls healthfullest constitution. When love to God is both Cause, Means, Motive and End of all our activity in the business of Religion, then the soul is upon the wing towards its rest. Then