A Divine Cordial

7. Another Fruit of love is, Crucifixion. ¹He who is a Lover of God, is dead to the world, Gal. 6.14. I am crucified to the world; I am dead to the honours and pleasures of it. He who is in love with God, is not much in love with any thing else^*: His love to God moves as the Sun in the Firmament, swiftly; but his love to the world, is as the motion of the Sun upon the Dial, which is very slow. The love of God, and the violent love of the world, are inconsistent^*. 1 John 2.15. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Love to God swallows up all other love; as Moses's Rod swallowed up the Egyptian Rods. If a man could live in the Sun, what a small Point would all the Earth be! So when a mans heart is raised above the world, in the admiring and loving God, how poor and slender are these things below! they seem as nothing in his eye. It was a sign the Primitive Christians did love God, their money did not lye near their heart, but they laid down their money at the Apostles feet, Acts 4.35.

7. Another Fruit of love is, Crucifixion. ¹He who is a Lover of God, is dead to the world, Gal. 6.14. I am crucified to the world; I am dead to the honours and pleasures of it. He who is in love with God, is not much in love with any thing else^*: His love to God moves as the Sun in the Firmament, swiftly; but his love to the world, is as the motion of the Sun upon the Dial, which is very slow. The love of God, and the violent love of the world, are inconsistent^*