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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.
5. Love doth facilitate Religion, it oils the Wheels of the affections,1 and makes them more lively and cheerful in Gods service; love takes off the tediousness in duty. Jacob thought seven years but little, for the love ⟨p. 119⟩he did bear to Rachel. Love makes duty a pleasure. Why are the Angels so swift and winged in Gods service? it is because they love him. Love is never weary. He that loves Gold is never weary of telling it; and he that loves God, is never weary of serving him.
5. Love doth facilitate Religion, it oyls the Wheels of the affections,1 and makes them more lively and cheerful in Gods service; love takes off the tediousness in duty. Iacob thought seaven years but little, for the love ⟨p. 119⟩he did bear to Rachel. Love makes duty a pleasure. Why are the Angels so swift and winged in Gods service? it is because they love him. Love is never weary. He that loves Gold is never weary of telling it; and he that loves God, is never weary of serving him.
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6. God desires our love. It were much for a King to desire the love of a woman that is deformed and leprous.1 We have lost our beauty, and stained our blood, yet the King of Heaven is a Suitor to us. What is there in our love that God should come a wooing for it? What is God the better for our love? he doth not want it, he is infinitely blessed in himself; if we deny him our love, he hath more sublime creatures who pay the cheerful tribute of love to him. God doth not need our love, yet he seeks it.