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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.
4 You may love worldly things, and they cannot love you again. You love Gold and Silver, but your Gold cannot love you again; you love a picture, but the picture cannot love you again; you give away your love to the Creature, and receive no l•ve back; but if you love God, he will love you again, John 14.23. If any man love me, my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. God will not be behind-hand in love with us; for our drop we shall receive an ocean.
4 You may love worldly things, and they cannot love you again. You love Gold and Silver, but your Gold cannot love you again; you love a picture, but the picture cannot love you again; you give away your love to the Creatu•e, and receive no l•ve back; but if you love God, he will love you again, Iohn 14.23. If any man love me, my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. God will not be behind-hand in love with us; for our d•op we shall receive an o•ean.
5. When you love the world, you love that which is worse than your selves. The soul (as Damascene saith) is a sparkle of Celestial brightness, it carries in it an Idea and resemblance of God; while you love the World, you love that which ⟨p. 125⟩is infinitely below the worth of your souls. Will any one lay out cost upon sackcloth? when thou layest out thy love upon the world, thou layest out gold upon dung, th•u hangest a Pearl upon a Swine, thou lovest that wich is inferior to thy self. As Christ speaks in another sense of the Fowls of the ai,