A65292:263
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.
11. If you do not love God, you will love something else,1 either the world or sin; and are these worthy of your love? Is it not better to love God than these?
- 111.
First, It is better to love God than §1the World, as […] in these eight particulars.
First, It is better to love God than §1the World, as 〈…〉 in these eight particulars.
1. If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy: You may as well satisfy your body with air, as your soul with earth, Eccles. 5.10. Job. •0.22. In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall be in straits. Plenty hath its penury. If the Globe of the world were yours, it would not fill. Adam had two sons, Cain and Abel: Cain signifies possession, Abel signifies vanity; to show us that in all our possessions there is vanity; ⟨p. 123⟩and will you set your love on that which will never give you content? is it not better to love God? he will give you that which shall satisfy,