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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Is any thing unreasonable that God requires? 'tis but our love;1 if he should ask our estate, or the fruit of our bodies, could we deny him? but he asks only our love; he would only pick this flower; is this an hard request? was there ever any debt so easily paid as this? we do not at all impoverish our selves by paying it. Love is no burden. Is it any labour for the Bride to love her Husband? Love is delightful; Non potest amor esse, et dulcis non esse*.
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- *Bern.
4. God is the most adequate and complete object of our love:1 all the excellencies that ⟨p. 118⟩lye scattered in the creatures, are twisted together, and united in him; he is a Magazine of blessings; he is Wisdom, Beauty, Love, yea the quintessence of Goodness; he is Optimus Maximus; there is nothing in God can cause a nauseating or loathing; the Creature doth sooner surfeit than satisfy; but there are fresh beauties sparkling forth in God; the more we enjoy of him, the more we are ravished with delight.
4. God is the most adaequate and compleat object of our love:1 all the exellencies that ⟨p. 118⟩lye scattered in the creatures, are twisted together, and united in him; he is a Magazine of blessings; he is Wisdome, Beauty, Love, yea the quintessence of Goodnesse; he is Optimus Maximus; there is nothing in God can cause a nauseating or loathing; the Creature doth sooner surfeit than satisfie; but there are fresh beauties sparkling forth in God; the more we enjoy of him, the more we are ravished with delight.