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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.
3. The Kinds of love, which I shall branch §3into these three.
1. There is a love of Appreciation, when we set an high value upon God, as being the most sublime and infinite good; we so esteem of God, as if we have him we care not though we want all things else. The Stars vanish when the Sun appears: All creatures vanish in our thoughts when the Sun of righteousness shines in his full splendour, Cant. 1.13. A bundle of Myrrh is my well-beloved unto me, and as a cluster of Camphir•.
1. There is a love of Appretiation, when we set an high value upon God, as being the most sublime and infinite good; we so esteem of God, as if we have him we care not though we want all things else. The Stars vanish when the Sun appears: All creatures vanish in our thoughts when the Sun of righteousnesse shines in his full splendour, Cant. 1.13. A bundle of Myrrhe is my well-beloved unto me, and as a cluster of Camphir•.
2. A love of Complacency and delight: So Aquinas defines love to be complacentia amantis in amato: As a man takes delight in a friend whom he loves. The soul that loves God rejoiceth in him, as in his treasure, and ⟨p. 86⟩rests in him, as in his Centre. The heart is so set upon God as it desires no more,