A Divine Cordial

Use 3. The third Use is of Exhortation,¹ and it hath three Branches. 1. Let me earnestly persuade all, who bare the name of Christians, to become Lovers of God, Psal. 31.33.² O love the Lord all ye his Saints. There are but few that love God: Many give him an hypocritical kiss, but few love him. 'Tis not so easy to love God as most imagine. The Affection of love is natural, ⟨p. 116⟩but the Grace is not. Men are by nature [Greek or Hebrew] God-haters, Rom. 1.30. The wicked would fly from God; they would neither be under his rules, nor within his reach; they fear God, but do not love him. All the strength in men or Angels, cannot make the heart love God: Ordinances will not do it of themselves, nor Judgements; it is only the Almighty and Invincible power of the Spirit of God can infuse love into the soul; this being so hard a work, it calls upon us for the more earnest prayer and endeavour after this Angelical grace of love^*. To excite and inflame our desires after it, I shall prescribe twenty Motives.

Vse 3. THe third Use is of Exhortation,¹ and it hath three Branches. 1. Let me earnestly perswade all, who bare the name of Christians, to become Lovers of God, Psal. 31.33.