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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. 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.
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 supream and soveraign 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 flye to Heaven; by love we cleave to God, as the Needle to the Load-stone.
2. The Ground of love to God, and that is, knowledge. Ignoti nulla cupido — We cannot love that which we do not know. That our love may be drawn forth to God, we must know these three things in him.
2. The Ground of love to God, and that is, knowledge. Ignoti nulla cupido — We cannot love that which we do not know. That our love may be drawn sorth to God, we must know these three things in him.
1. A fullness, Col. 1.19. He hath a fullness of grace to cleanse us, and of glory to crown us, a fullness not only of sufficiency, but ⟨p. 85⟩redundancy; he is a Sea of goodness without bottom and banks.