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

Though the Love of God, and the Love of Christ are never found one without the other, yet is there a distinction necessary to be put between them; and that, even as great in proportion, as is between God and the Mediator, or between the last end, and the principal means conducing thereto. The love of the Soul to God is [Amor finis ultimi, Or] of such a Being as it will be an eternal happiness to be united unto. The love of the soul to Christ, as Mediator, is [Amor medii principalis, or] of one, by whom, we may have access to God, and find our happiness in him. The formal reason of the former, is the Divine All-sufficiency and Blessedness, but of the latter the personal excellencies that are in Christ, together with his ability and willingness to free us from our undoing straits, and exigencies, as we are in a state of Apostasy and elongation from God. And (if I mistake not) the not observing this necessary distinction between the Acts of the Soul, as respecting God, and the same Acts [in specie, or] in kind, as respecting the Mediator, hath occasioned much confusion in those Answers, which are given to this, and many such like inquiries, such Arguments as are only proper to the one, being made use of to discover the sincerity of our hearts in the other.

Though the Love of God, and the Love of Christ are never found one without the other, yet is there a distinction necessary to be put between them; and that, even as great in proportion, as is between God and the Mediatour, or between the last end, and the principal means conducing thereto. The love of the Soul to God is [Amor finis ultimi, Or] of such a Being as it will be an eternal happiness to be united unto. The love of the soul to Christ, as Mediatour, is [Amor medii principalis, or] of one, by whom, wee may have access to God, and finde our happiness in him. The formal reason of the former, is the Divine All-sufficiency and Blessedness, but of the latter the personal excellencies that are in Christ, together with his ability and willingness to free us from our undoing streights, and exigencies, as wee are in a state of Apostacy and elongation from God. And (if I mistake not) the not observing this necessary distinction between the Acts of the Soul, as respecting God, and the same Acts [in specie, or] in kind, as respecting the Mediatour, hath occasioned much confusion in those Answers, which are given to this, and many such like inquiries, such Arguments as are only proper to the one, being made use of to discover the sincerity of our hearts in the other.