The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

2. Desire and use the creature as Believers. Interpret all things as they receive their meaning, from the things unseen: understand them in no other sense. It's only God and the life to come that can tell you what's good or bad for you in the world. And therefore the ungodly that cannot go to Heaven for counsel, are carried about by mere deceits. Take heed what you love: and take heed of that you love. God is very jealous of our love: He sheds abroad his own love in our hearts, that our hearts may be fruitful in love to him, which is his chief delight. By love he commandeth love; that we may suitably move toward him, and centre in him. He communicateth so much for the procuring of a little, that we should endeavour to give him all that little, and shed none of it inordinately upon the creature by the way. Nothing is great, or ⟨p. 64⟩greatly to be admired, while the great God is in sight. And it is unsuitable for little things, to have great affections; and for low matters to have a high esteem. It is the corruption and folly of the mind, and the delusion of the affections to exalt a Shrub above a Cedar, and magnify a Mole-hill above a Mountain; to embrace a shadow or spectrum of felicity, which vanisheth into Nothing, when you bring in the light. The creature is nihil & nullipotens: Nothing should have no interest in us, and be able to do Nothing with us (as to the motions that are under the dominion of the will.) God is All and Almighty: And he that is All, should have All, and command All: And the Omnipotent should do All things with us, by his Interest in Morals; as he will do by his force in Naturals. I deny not but we may love a friend: One soul in two bodies will have one mind, and will, and love. But as it is not the body of my friend, that I love or converse with principally, but the soul; (and therefore should have no mind of the case, the corps, the empty nest, if the bird were flown) so is it not the person, but Christ in him, or that of God which appeareth on him, that must be the principal object of our love. The man is mutable, and must be loved, as Plato did commend his friend to Dionysius: Haec tibi scribo de homine, viz. animante naturâ mutabili: and therefore must be loved with a reserve. But God is unchangeable, and must be absolutely and unchangeably loved. That life is best that's likest Heaven: There God will be All;

2. Desire and use the creature as Believers. Interpret all things as they receive their meaning, from the things unseen: understand them in no other sense. It's only God and the life to come that can tell you what's good or bad for you in the world. And therefore the ungodly that cannot go to Heaven for counsel, are carryed about by meer deceits. Take heed what you love: and take heed of that you love. God is very jealous of our love: He sheds abroad his own love in our hearts, that our hearts may be fruitful in love to him, which is his chief delight. By love he commandeth love; that we may suitably move toward him, and center in him. He communicateth so much for the procuring of a little, that we should endeavour to give him all that little, and shed none of it inordinately upon the creature by the way. Nothing is great, or