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The Obedience that springs from Love, is,

1. Uniform and universal; for the two principal and necessary Effects of Love are an ardent Desire to please God, and an equal Care not to displease him in any thing. Now the Law of God is the Signification of his Sovereign and Holy Will, and the doing of ⟨p. 116⟩it is very pleasing to him, both upon the account of the Subjection of the Creature to his Authority, and Conformity to his Purity: He declares that Obedience is better than the most costly Sacrifice. There is an absolute peremptory Repugnance between Love to him, and despising his Commands: And from thence it follows, that Love inclines the Soul to obey all God's Precepts, not only those of easy Observation, but the most difficult and distasteful to the Carnal Appetites; for the Authority of God runs through all, and his Holiness shines in all. Servile Fear is a partial Principle, and causes an unequal Respect to the Divine Law; it restrains from Sins of greater Guilt, from such disorderly and dissolute Actions at which Conscience takes Fire; but others are indulged: it excites to good Works of some kind, but neglects others that are ⟨p. 117⟩equally necessary. But Love regards the whole Law in all its Injunctions and Prohibitions; not merely to please our selves, that we may not feel the stings of an accusing Conscience, but to please the Lawgiver.

1. Uniform and universal; for the two principal and necessary Effects of Love are an ardent Desire to please God, and an equal Care not to displease him in any thing. Now the Law of God is the Signification of his Soveraign and Holy Will, and the doing of ⟨p. 116⟩it is very pleasing to him, both upon the account of the Subjection of the Creature to his Authority, and Conformity to his Purity: He declares that Obedience is better than the most costly Sacrifice. There is an absolute peremptory Repugnance between Love to him, and despising his Commands: And from thence it follows, that Love inclines the Soul to obey all God's Precepts, not only those of easy Observation, but the most difficult and distasteful to the Carnal Appetites; for the Authority of God runs through all, and his Holiness shines in all. Servile Fear is a partial Principle, and causes an unequal Respect to the Divine Law; it restrains from Sins of greater Guilt, from such disorderly and dissolute Actions at which Conscience takes Fire; but others are indulged: it excites to good Works of some kind, but neglects others that are