A25470:843
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.
3. It's all you can return to him; it's all he looks for at our hands; that which lies in love, and which flows from it, is the whole, that is required to complete Christianity.
3. It's all you can return to him; it's all hee looks for at our hands; that which lies in love, and which flowes from it, is the whole, that is required to compleat Christianity.
4. The more you love him, the more lovely you are unto him. Then hath Christ the highest complacency in us, when our hearts are under the greatest Raptures of love to him.
15. It is the honour of a man to love Christ superlatively. It is the sweetest part of our lives, and that which Christ values us more by, than by any thing else: It's Heaven on Earth.
- 1Beatus est, qui intelligit quid sit amare Jesum, & contemnere scipsum propter Jesum. A Kempis. de imitatione Christi. l. 2. c. 7.