A Divine Cordial

3. The Third Fruit of love is grief. Where there is love to God,¹ there is a grieving for our sins of unkindness against him. A Child that loves his Father cannot choose but weep for offending him. The heart that burns in love, melts in tears: O that I should abuse the love of so dear a Saviour! Did not my Lord suffer enough upon the Cross, but must I make him suffer more? shall I give him more Gall and Vinegar to drink? How dis-loyal and dis-ingenious have I been? how have I grieved his Spirit, trampled upon his Royal Commands, ⟨p. 98⟩slighted his Blood? this opens a Vein of godly sorrow, and makes the heart bleed afresh. Mat. 26.75. Peter went out, and wept bitterly. When Peter thought how dearly Christ loved him; he was taken up into the Mount of Transfiguration, Christ showed him the Glory of Heaven in a Vision; now that he should deny Christ after he had received such signal love from him, this broke his heart with grief, he went out, and wept bitterly.

3. The Third Fruit of love is grief. Where there is love to God,¹ there is a grieving for our sins of unkindness against him. A Child that loves his Father cannot chuse but weep for offending him. The heart that burns in love, melts in tears: O that I should abuse the love of so dear a Saviour! Did not my Lord suffer enough upon the Cross, but must I make him suffer more? shall I give him more Gall and Vinegar to drink? How dis-loyal and dis-ingenious have I been? how have I grieved his Spirit, trampled upon his Royal Commands, ⟨p. 98⟩sleighted his Bloud? this opens a Vein of godly sorrow, and makes the heart bleed afresh. Mat. 26.75. Peter went out, and wept bitterly. When Peter thought how dearly Christ loved him; he was taken up into the Mount of Transfiguration, Christ shewed him the Glory of Heaven in a Vision; now that he should deny Christ after he had received such signal love from him, this broke his heart with grief, he went out, and wept bitterly.