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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
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.
1. They are Lovers of God: All things §1work together for good, [Greek or Hebrew], to them that love God. Despisers and Haters of ⟨p. 84⟩God, have no lot or part in this privilege, it is children's bread, it belongs only to them that love God. Because love is the very heart and spirit of Religion, I shall the more expatiate upon this; and for the further discussion of it, I shall clear these five things.
1. They are Lovers of God: All things §1work together for good, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to them that love God. Despisers and Haters of ⟨p. 84⟩God, have no lot or part in this priviledge, it is childrens bread, it belongs only to them that love God. Because love is the very heart and spirit of Religion, I shall the more expatiate upon this; and for the further discussion of it, I shall cleer these five things.
1 The Nature of love to God. 2 The Ground of love to God. 3 The Kinds of love to God. 4 The Properties of love to God. 5 The Degree of love to God.
1. The Nature of divine love. Love is an expansion of soul, or the inflaming of the affections, whereby a Christian breaths after God as the supreme and sovereign good. St Austin in his second Tome, calls love Pondus animae: Love is to the soul as the weights to the Clock, it sets the soul a going towards God; it is the wing by which we fly to Heaven; by love we cleave to God, as the Needle to the Load-stone.