The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens…

Sect. 3. But though they do not transgress other commands, when they observe them without Love; yet they may violate that special command, which requires inward acts of Love, if at that time when this obligeth, they do not act out of Love. Some of them seem to say this, and we shall see what they make of it in the next place,

The nature and proper issue of Love, is its internal act, when the heart being possessed with a principle of divine Love, to God in Christ, actually loves him above all. If this actual Love (the inward act of it,) be not necessary; as there will be no need of the habit, (that being but in order to acts;) so there will be no place for the Imperate Acts; for those who would have us sometimes observe other commands out of Love, yet never think this requisite, but when the precept obligeth us to actual Love.^(o)

1. (o)Neque hoc praeceptum universum obligat ad suum ipsius modum, sed quando occurrit articulus intern diligendi. Soto. ibid. Tenemur secundum Bonaventur.—pro loco & tempore, quum viz. tenemur exire in actum charitatis. Angeli. sum. v. voluntas. n. 6. & hoc si habemus Charitatem Si autem non habemus, non tenemur ad hoc, sed ad aequivalens: quoniam tenemur facere quod in nobis est, ut eam habeamus, ibid.Neque hoc praeceptum universum obligat ad suum ipsius modum, sed quando occurrit articulus interne diligendi. Soto. ibid. Tenemur secundum Bonaventur.—pro loco & tempore, quum viz. tenemur exire in actum charitatis. Angeli. sum. v. voluntas. n. 6. & hoc si habemus Charitatem Si autem non habemus, non tenemur ad hoc, sed ad aequivalens: quoniam tenemur facere quod in nobis est, ut eam habeamus, ibid.

Now whether there be any command for this act of Love, or whether it oblige, or when, they are not agreed; only in the issue, they conspire to make the Commandment of no effect.