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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Love to God must be [Greek or Hebrew], with all the Heart, Mark 12.30. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart. We must not love God a little, give him a Drop or two of our Love; but the main Stream of our Love must run after him; the Mind must think of God, the Will choose him, the Affections pant after him. The true Mother would not have the Child divided, nor God will not have the Heart divided; we must love him with our whole Heart. Though we may love the Creature, yet it must be a subordinate Love. Love to God must be highest, as the Oil swims above the Water.
2. Love to God must be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, with all the Heart, Mark 12.30. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart. We must not love God a little, give him a Drop or two of our Love; but the main Stream of our Love must run after him; the Mind must think of God, the Will choose him, the Affections pant after him. The true Mother would not have the Child divided, nor God will not have the Heart divided; we must love him with our whole Heart. Though we may love the Creature, yet it must be a subordinate Love. Love to God must be highest, as the Oyl swims above the Water.
3. Love to God must be Flaming; to love coldly, is all one as not to love. The Spouse is said to be amore perculsa, Sick of Love, Cant. 2.5. The Seraphims are so called from their Burning. Love turns Saints into Seraphims, it makes them burn in Holy Love to God; and many Waters cannot quench this Love.