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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.
5. The fifth Fruit of love is, sensibility. If we love God,1 our hearts ache for the dishonours done to God by wicked men: To see, not only the Banks of Religion, but Civility, broken down, and a Flood of wickedness coming in; to see Gods Sabbaths profaned, his Oath violated, his Name dishonoured; if there be any love to God in us, we shall lay these things to heart. Lot's righteous soul was ⟨p. 100⟩vexed for the unclean conversation of the wicked, 2 Pet. 2.17. He took the sins of Sodom, and made Spears of them to pierce his own soul. How far are they from loving God, who are not at all affected with his dishonour? if they have but Peace and Trading, they lay nothing to heart. A man who is dead drunk, though another be bleeding to death by him, he never minds, or is sensible: so, many being drunk with the wine of Prosperity, when the honour of God is wounded, and his Truths lye a bleeding, they are not sensible. Did men love God, they would grieve to see his Glory suffer, and Religion it self become a Martyr.
5. The fifth Fruit of love is, sensibility. If we love God,1 our hearts ake for the dishonours done to God by wicked men: To see, not only the Banks of Religion, but Civility, broken down, and a Flood of wickednesse coming in; to see Gods Sabbaths prophaned, his Oath violated, his Name dishonoured; if there be any love to God in us, we shall lay these things to heart. Lot's righteous soul was ⟨p. 100⟩vexed for the unclean conversation of the wicked, 2 Pet. 2.17. He took the sins of Sodom, and made Spears of them to pierce his own soul. How far are they from loving God, who are not at all affected with his dishonour? if they have but Peace and Trading, they lay nothing to heart. A man who is dead drunk, though another be bleeding to death by him, he never minds, or is sensible: so, many being drunk with the wine of Prosperity, when the honour of God is wounded, and his Truths lye a bleeding, they are not sensible. Did men love God, they would grieve to see his Glory suffer, and Religion it self become a Martyr.