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

Love to God must go through, and possess our whole nature and all the powers of it. The mind must think of God: the will must delight in God; in short,^e our whole strength must be employed to please him. We must love nothing more than God, nothing equal with God; we must love God above all, and that for himself; but all other things in God, and for God. We must be willing to lose all; yea, life it self, rather than to admit any thing contrary to the love of God.^* All these expressions denote the intenseness of our affections, the unexpressibleness of our obligation, and the contemptibleness of every thing that shall challenge a share in our love. All these expressions admonish us of our infirmity, provoke us to humility, and set us a longing after a better life. 'Tis a notable expression of one^g The love of the heart is not understood, but felt; the love of the soul is not felt, but understood; ⟨p. 3⟩because the love of the soul is its judgment: He that loves God as he is here commanded, believes that all good is in God, and that God is all that is good; and that without God there is no good: he believes that God is All Power, and Wisdom; and that without God there's neither Power, nor Wisdom, &c.

Love to God must go through, and possess our whole nature and all the powers of it. The mind must think of God: the will must delight in God; in short,^e our whole strength must be employ'd to please him. We must love nothing more than God, nothing equal with God; we must love God above all, and that for himself; but all other things in God, and for God. We must be willing to lose all; yea, life it self, rather than to admit any thing contrary to the love of God.^* All these expressions denote the intensness of our affections, the unexpressibleness of our obligation, and the contemptibleness of every thing that shall challenge a share in our love. All these expressions admonish us of our infirmity, provoke us to humility, and set us a longing after a better life. 'Tis a notable expression of one