A Divine Cordial

6. The sixth Fruit of love is, Antipathy against sin. ¹Fire purgeth the Dross from the Metal. The Fire of Love purgeth out sin. Hos. 14.8. Ephraim shall say, what have I to do any more with Idols? He that loves God, will have nothing to do with sin, unless to give battle to it. Sin is Dei-cidium, it strikes not only at Gods Honour, but his Being. Doth he love his Prince, that harbours him who is a Traitor to the Crown? Is he a friend to God, who loves that which God hates^*? The love of God, and the love of sin, cannot dwell together: The Affections cannot be carried to two contraries at the same time. A man cannot love health, and love poison too: so, one ⟨p. 101⟩cannot love God, and sin too. He who hath any secret sin in his heart allowed, is as far from loving God, as Heaven and Earth are distant one from the other.

6. The sixth Fruit of love is, Antipathy against sin. ¹Fire purgeth the Drosse from the Metal. The Fire of Love purgeth out sin. Hos. 14.8. Ephraim shall say, what have I to do any more with Idols? He that loves God, will have nothing to do with sin, unlesse to give battel to it. Sin is Dei-cidium, it strikes not only at Gods Honour, but his Being. Doth he love his Prince, that harbours him who is a Traitor to the Crown? Is he a friend to God, who loves that which God hates^*? The love of God, and the love of sin, cannot dwell together: The Affections cannot be carried to two contraries at the same time. A man cannot love health, and love poyson too: so, one ⟨p. 101⟩cannot love God, and sin too. He who hath any secret sin in his heart allowed, is as far from loving God, as Heaven and Earth are distant one from the other.