A25470:798
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
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.
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Where Love is Sincere, the soul will be often on the wing of Meditation, and busied in the contemplation of Christ. It's an old Rule and a true one [Anima est ubi amat, non ubi animat, or] The soul dwells as much where it hath fixed it's love, nay more there, than where it hath it's most natural operation: Christ and the believer that loves him, live as if they had but one soul betwixt them. 'Tis not the distance between Earth and Heaven that can separate them; True love will find out Christ where ever he is; when he was upon the Earth, they that loved him, kept his Company, and now that he is gone to Heaven, and out of sight, those that love him are frequently sending up their hearts unto him. And indeed they never think themselves Intelligent in any thing that is worth the knowing, until they have made their souls much acquainted, and familiar with their Crucified Saviour. 1 Cor. 2.2.
Where Love is Sincere, the soul will bee often on the wing of Meditation, and busied in the contemplation of Christ. It's an old Rule and a true one [Anima est ubi amat, non ubi animat, or] The soul dwels as much where it hath fixed it's love, nay more there, than where it hath it's most natural operation: Christ and the beleever that loves him, live as if they had but one soul betwixt them. 'Tis not the distance between Earth and Heaven that can separate them; True love will finde out Christ where ever hee is; when hee was upon the Earth, they that loved him, kept his Company, and now that hee is gone to Heaven, and out of sight, those that love him are frequently sending up their hearts unto him. And indeed they never think themselves Intelligent in any thing that is worth the knowing, until they have made their souls much acquainted, and familiar with their Crucified Saviour.