The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

3. Love. This is an eminent part of the image or likeness of God in his Saints; As it is that great Attribute of the divine being that is,¹ alone, put to give us a notion of God. God is love. This is an excellency (consider it whether in its original, or copy) made up of pleasantnesses. All love hath complacency or pleasure in the nature, and most formal notion of it. To search for pleasure in love, is the same thing as if a man should be solicitous to find water in the Sea, or light in the body of the Sun. Love to a friend is not without high pleasure, when especially he is actually present, and enjoyed. Love to a Saint rises higher in nobleness, and pleasure, according to the more excellent qualification of its object. ⟨p. 134⟩'Tis now in its highest improvement, in both these aspects of it, where whatsoever tends to gratify our nature, whether as humane, or holy, will be in its full perfection. Now doth the soul take up its stated dwelling in Love, even in God who is Love; and as he is Love; 'tis now enclosed with Love, encompassed with Love, 'tis conversant in the proper region, and element of Love. The Love of God is now perfected in it: That Love which is not only participated from him but terminated in him,² That perfect Love casts out tormenting Fear. So that here is pleasure without mixture. How naturally will the blessed soul now dissolve and melt into pleasure! It is new framed on purpose for Love-embraces, and enjoyments. It shall now love like God, as one composed of Love. It shall no longer be its complaint and burden that it cannot retaliate in this kind; that being beloved it cannot love.

3. Love. This is an eminent part of the image or likeness of God in his Saints; As it is that great Attribute of the divine being that is,¹ alone, put to give us a notion of God. God is love. This is an excellency (consider it whether in its original, or copie) made up of pleasantnesses. All love hath complacency or pleasure in the nature, and most formal notion of it. To search for pleasure in love, is the same thing as if a man should be solicitous to find water in the Sea, or light in the body of the Sun. Love to a friend is not without high pleasure, when especially he is actually present, and injoye'd. Love to a Saint rises higher in nobleness, and pleasure, according to the more excellent qualification of its object.