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

(3) As for the Act, the love, it may be taken either passively and Objectively, for the Father's Love shed abroad in the heart, as Rom. 5.5. or else subjectively, and actively, for our Love to the Father. This latter I take to be primarily intended.

(3) As for the Act, the love, it may be taken either passively and Octjectively, for the Father's Love shed abroad in the heart, as Rom. 5.5. or else subjectively, and actively, for our Love to the Father. This latter I take to be primarily intended.

The words thus explicated admit this Logic Division. We find in them first a prohibition; and then the reason thereof annexed. In the prohibition we have. (1). The Act Love not. (2). The Object, and this. (1). In the General, the World. (2). In its Particularities. neither the things that are in the world. The chief whereof are specified, v. 16. As for the reason of the prohibition, it is wrapped up in an Hypothetic proposition, which is easily reduced to a Categoric Syllogism thus: two loves perfectly opposite cannot consist together in one and the same heart: but love to the world, and love to the Father are perfectly opposite: therefore he that loves the world hath not the love of the Father in him.

The words thus explicated admit this Logick Division. We find in them first a prohibition; and then the reason thereof annext. In the prohibition we have. (1). The Act Love not. (2). The Object, and this. (1). In the General, the World. (2). In its Particularities. neither the things that are in the world. The chief whereof are specified, v. 16. As for the reason of the prohibition, it is wrapped up in an Hypothetick proposition, which is easily reduced to a Catagorick Syllogism thus: two loves perfectly opposite cannot consist together in one and the same heart: but love to the world, and love to the Father are perfectly opposite: therefore he that loves the world hath not the love of the Father in him.