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

I. As for the Doctrinal Corollaries ¹or Inferences, that may be deduced from the precedent Discourse, they are various and weighty: I shall only mention such as more immediately and naturally flow there from.

1. 11. Doctrinal Corollaries.

1. By Comparing the Love of God with the Love of the World in their Universal Ideas and Characters, we learn, How much the love of God doth Excel and transcend the Love of the world. Our love is by so much the more perfect, by how much the more noble and spiritual its Object is; and by how much the more eminent degree it obtains in the subject. The greatness of the Object intendeth the Affection; And oh! how much doth this raise the value of Love to God above worldly Love?

Is not God, the most absolutely necessary Simple Being, very Being, yea Being it self; and therefore most perfect? whence is he not also our Last End, our Choicest Good, every way desirable for himself? Then O! what an excellent thing is love to God, who is so amiable? But as for this world what a dirty whore, what an heart-ensnaring thing is it? and thence, how much is our Love abased by terminating thereon? The Love of God is pure and unspotted, But O! how filthy and polluted is love to the World? What more cordial and sincere than love to God? But alas! how artificial, painted and hypocritic is love to this deceitful world? O! how judicious, wise and discreet, is love to God? what abundance of solid, deep, and spiritual reason has it in its bowels? But oh! what a brutish, sottish passion is love to the world? How foolish are all its lusts?