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

Yea, to admit mortal sin, and so to love the Creature more than God, in that respect, in which alone, they say he is more to be loved, is not against this Precept. So Navarre informs us, ^(u)Indirectly, saith he, to love the Creature more than God, is not against this Command (of Love): because whoever sins mortally, indirectly loves something more than God—yet such a Delinquent doth not therefore sin against the Precept; because directly he doth nothing against it, nor acts what in it self, and in its own nature separates from God; but by accident, according to Aquinas and Scotus. So that to love the Creature more than God, and to show it in a way, which themselves say is most repugnant to the love of God, is no transgression of this Command. To say he doth nothing against it directly, is no salvo, when that he doth, is all, which they count (if they count any thing) inconsistent with the Love commanded. He tells us further, ^(*)and Lopez after him, That absolutely to love God, but so much, or not so much as other things, without making any comparison, is not evil. So that if God have some affection from us, though we love him less than other things, it is no sin, no transgression of the ⟨p. 105⟩Precept; and if this be not transgressed in the instant, when it calls for performance, it is fulfilled.

Yea, to admit mortal sin, and so to love the Creature more than God, in that respect, in which alone, they say he is more to be loved, is not against this Precept. So Navar informs us, ^(u)Indirectly, saith he, to love the Creature more than God, is not against this Command (of Love): because whoever sins mortally, indirectly loves something more than God—yet such a Delinquent doth not therefore sin against the Precept; because directly he doth nothing against it, nor acts what in it self, and in its own nature separates from God; but by accident, according to Aquinas and Scotus. So that to love the Creature more than God, and to shew it in a way, which themselves say is most repugnant to the love of God, is no transgression of this Command. To say he doth nothing against it directly, is no salvo, when that he doth, is all, which they count (if they count any thing) inconsistent with the Love commanded. He tells us further,