A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

The Absolute Properties of Love to God are among many, some of them such as these.

1. It is the most ingenious of all Graces. In poor inconsiderable Loves, not worth the mentioning, how do persons contrive ways for the expressing and exciting of Love; and there's no way to prevent it: Oh how much ⟨p. 33⟩more, when the Soul loves God? there's nothing meliorates the parts like Grace; Divine Love makes the best improvement of Wit, Parts, Time; when a Person loves to pray, though he can scarce speak sense to men, he can strenuously plead with God; a person that loves to meditate, though he knows not how to make his thoughts hang together in other things, they multiply on his hand with a spiritual and profitable consistency. In short, to do any thing that may engage the Heart to God, what gracious stratagems doth Love abound with? That^(m) as he that beholds his Face in a Glass, makes the Face which he sees; his very look is the Pencil, the Colour, the Art; so he that loves God, sees such a Reflection of God's love to him, that a proud person doth not more please her self in her own fancied beauty, than this gracious Soul is graciously delighted in the mutual dartings of Divine Love. Keep from Will-worship and humane Inventions in the things of God, especially from imposing upon others your Prudentials of Devotion: and then I will commend it to you, to try all the Experiments which the Scripture will warrant, to increase the flame of your Divine love.

1. It is the most ingenious of all Graces. In poor inconsiderable Loves, not worth the mentioning, how do persons contrive wayes for the expressing and exciting of Love; and there's no way to prevent it: Oh how much ⟨p. 33⟩more, when the Soul loves God? there's nothing meliorates the parts like Grace; Divine Love makes the best improvement of Wit, Parts, Time; when a Person loves to pray, though he can scarce speak sence to men, he can strenuously plead with God; a person that loves to meditate, though he knows not how to make his thoughts hang together in other things, they multiply on his hand with a spiritual and profitable consistency. In short, to do any thing that may engage the Heart to God, what gracious stratagems doth Love abound with? That