A Divine Cordial

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 ⟨p. 96⟩they from being lovers of God, who scarce ever think of God? Psal. 10.4. God is not in all his thoughts. A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts; he never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the Prisoner thinks of the Judge.

1. 11. Fruit of love.

2. The Second Fruit of love is, desire of Communion: ¹Love desires familiarity and intercourse, Psal. 84.2. My heart and flesh crieth out for the living God. King David being debarred the House of God, where was the Tabernacle, (the visible token of his presence) he now breaths after God, and in an holy Pathos of desire, cries out for the living God. Lovers would be parleying together. If we love God we prize his Ordinances, because there we meet with God: He speaks to us in his Word, and we speak to him in Prayer. By this let us examine our love to God. Do we desire intimacy of communion with God? Lovers cannot be long asunder. Such as love God, have an holy fondness, they know not how to be from him; they can want any thing but Gods presence; they can want health and friends, they can want a full Table, but they cannot want God: