A Divine Cordial

¹2. Love is the most noble and excellent grace, it is a pure flame kindled from Heaven, by it we resemble God who is love. ⟨p. 117⟩Believing and obeying do not make us like God, but by love we grow like him, 1 John 4.16. Love is a grace doth most delight in God, and is most delightful to him. That Disciple which was most full of love, lay in Christs bosom. Love puts a verdure and lustre upon all the Graces: the Graces seem to be eclipsed, unless love shine and sparkle in them: Faith is not true, unless it work by love; the waters of repentance are not pure, unless they flow from the Spring of love. Love is the savoury meat God loves, it is the Incense makes all our Services fragrant and odoriferous; it is Vinum aromaticum, the Spiced Wine, and the juice of the Pomegranate.

¹2. Love is the most noble and excellent grace, it is a pure flame kindled from Heaven, by it we resemble God who is love. ⟨p. 117⟩Believing and obeying do not make us like God, but by love we grow like him, 1 Iohn 4.16. Love is a grace doth most delight in God, and is most delightful to him. That Disciple which was most full of love, lay in Christs bosome. Love puts a verdure and lustre upon all the Graces: the Graces seem to be eclipsed, unlesse love shine and sparkle in them: Faith is not true, unless it work by love; the waters of repentance are not pure, unlesse they flow from the Spring of love. Love is the savoury meat God loves, it is the Incense makes all our Services fragrant and odoriferous; it is Vinum aromaticum, the Spiced Wine, and the juice of the Pomgranate.

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