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Fourthly,¹ it is a testimony of dear love to the Lord, to deny ones self for his sake, when one is in the highest of enjoyment of all delights to the flesh; it is an argument, that God is indeed the proper place, the centre of the soul, when although it hath never so much of the creature, to give satisfaction unto it, yet it cannot rest, but works still to God through all, and from all: As a stone, though it were in never so good a place, although it were in Heaven, yet it would desire to descend, because the proper place of it is below; so let a gracious heart which hath God for the centre be put into any condition never so full of delight, yet it is not satisfied, it is willing to leave all, that it may close with God: To seek after God, and make much of godliness in the times of affliction may argue self love, but love to God appears not then.

Fourthly,¹ it is a testimony of deare love to the Lord, to deny ones selfe for his sake, when one is in the highest of enjoyment of all delights to the flesh; it is an argument, that God is indeed the proper place, the centre of the soul, when although it hath never so much of the creature, to give satisfaction unto it, yet it cannot rest, but workes still to God through all, and from all: As a stone, though it were in never so good a place, although it were in Heaven, yet it would desire to descend, because the proper place of it is below; so let a gracious heart which hath God for the centre be put into any condition never so full of delight, yet it is not satisfied, it is willing to leave all, that it may close with God: To seeke after God, and make much of godlinesse in the times of affliction may argue selfe love, but love to God appeares not then.

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