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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.
CHAP. IX. Discovering the Signs, or Fruits of love to God.
Use 2. Let us try our selves impartially,1 whether we are in the number of those that love God. For the deciding of this, (our love will be best seen by the Fruits of it) I shall lay down fourteen Signs, or Fruits of love to God, and it concerns us nearly to search, whether any of these Fruits grow in our Garden.
Vse 2. LEt us try our selves impartially,1 whether we are in the number of those that love God. For the deciding of this, (our love will be best seen by the Fruits of it) I shall lay down fourteen Signs, or Fruits of love to God, and it concerns us nearly to search, whether any of these Fruits grow in our Garden.
- 1Use 2. Trial.Vse 2. Tryal.
1. The first Fruit of love is, musing of the mind upon God. He who is in love,1 his thoughts are still upon the Object: He who loves God, is ravished and transported with the Contemplations of God, Psal. 139.17. When I awake, I am still with thee. The thoughts are as travellers in the mind: Davids thoughts kept Heaven-Road, I am still with thee. God is the Treasure, and where the Treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may try our love to God: What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and Glory? Oh how far are