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

There's another word added by Mark, which indeed is in Deut. 6.5. whence this is taken, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Strength; now because this word doth not express any other species or power of the Soul, but only notes the highest and most intense degree of Love that flows from all the Faculties of the Soul, I will close this Enquiry with a Word of this. We are to love God with all the Powers of our Soul, with all the members of our Bodies. Our understandings, wills, inward and outward Senses, appetite, speech, whatever we have, whatever we are, must be all directed into the Love of God, and into Obedience flowing from Love, You commonly hear that of Bernard, the cause of loving God is God himself, and the only measure is to love him without measure. We must love God strongly, because with all our strength: our love to God must get above Interruptions; no threatenings, calamities or discommodities whatsoever, must pull us away from God, but that all the Powers of Soul and Body must be taken up into his service; that our Eyes beholding the wonderful works of God, the Sun, Moon and Stars, the clear evidences of his Divinity, we may be in love with him: that our Ears piously hearkening to his Instructions, may be in love with him: that our Mouth may love to praise him; our Hands to act for him: that our Feet may be swift to run the way of his Commandments; that our Affections may be withdrawn from Earthly things and delivered over to the love of God: that whatever is within us, it may be bound over to the service of God^m. He that thus loves God, need not trouble himself how to order and dispose the several words here used; his Heart, Soul, Mind, Will; whatever he is, hath, knows, understands, obtains, is all due to God: neither is there any thing in the whole world to be valued before God; and thus I have given you a lame account, what it is to love God, &c.

There's another word added by Mark, which indeed is in Deut. 6.5. whence this is taken, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Strength; now because this word doth not express any other species or power of the Soul, but only notes the highest and most intense degree of Love that flows from all the Faculties of the Soul, I will close this Enquiry with a Word of this. We are to love God with all the Powers of our Soul, with all the members of our Bodies. Our understandings, wills, inward and outward Senses, appetite, speech, whatever we have, whatever we are, must be all directed into the Love of God, and into Obedience flowing from Love, You commonly hear that of Bernard, the cause of loving God is God himself, and the only measure is to love him without measure. We must love God strongly, because with all our strength: our love to God must get above Interruptions; no threatnings, calamities or discommodities whatsoever, must pull us away from God, but that all the Powers of Soul and Body must be taken up into his service; that our Eyes beholding the wonderful works of God, the Sun, Moon and Stars, the clear evidences of his Divinity, we may be in love with him: that our Ears piously hearkning to his Instructions, may be in love with him: that our Mouth may love to praise him; our Hands to act for him: that our Feet may be swift to run the way of his Commandments; that our Affections may be withdrawn from Earthly things and deliver'd over to the love of God: that whatever is within us, it may be bound over to the service of God