A Divine Cordial

If this be to love God, when we love his Image sparkling in the Saints, Oh then, how few Lovers of God are to be found! Do they love God, who hate them that are like God? Do they love Christs person, who are filled ⟨p. 108⟩a spirit of revenge against his people? How can that wife be said to love her husband, that tears his picture? Surely Judas and Julian are not yet dead, their spirit lives in the world. Who are guilty but the innocent? What greater crime than holiness, if the Devil may be one of the grand Jury? Wicked men seem to bear great reverence to the Saints departed; they canonize dead Saints, but persecute living. In vain do men stand up at the Creed, and tell the world, They believe in God, when they abominate one of the Articles of the Creed, namely, The Communion of Saints. Surely, there is not a greater sign of a man ripe for Hell, than this, not only to want grace, but to hate it.

If this be to love God, when we love his Image sparkling in the Saints, Oh then, how few Lovers of God are to be found! Do they love God, who hate them that are like God? Do they love Christs person, who are fill'd ⟨p. 108⟩a spirit of revenge against his people? How can that wife be said to love her husband, that tears his picture? Surely Iudas and Iulian are not yet dead, their spirit lives in the world. Who are guilty but the innocent? What greater crime than holinesse, if the Devil may be one of the grand Jury? Wicked men seem to bear great reverence to the Saints departed; they canonize dead Saints, but persecute living. In vain do men stand up at the Creed, and tell the world, They believe in God, when they abominate one of the Articles of the Creed, namely, The Communion of Saints. Surely, there is not a greater sign of a man ripe for Hell, than this, not onely to want grace, but to hate it.

10. Another blessed sign of love, is, to entertain good thoughts of God. He that loves his friend construes what his friend doth in the best sense.