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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.
112. The relation we stand in to God calls for love. There is near affinity, Isa. 54.5. Thy Maker is thy Husband: And shall not a Wife love her Husband? He is full of tenderness; his Spouse is to him as the Apple of his Eye, he rejoiceth over her as the Bridegroom over the Bride, Isa. 62.5. He loves the Believer as he loves Christ, John 17. ult. the same love for quality, though not equality. If God be an Husband, shall we not love him? Affinity requires affection. Either we must love God, or we give ground of suspicion that we are not yet married to him.
112. The relation we stand in to God calls for love. There is near affinity, Isa. 54.5. Thy Maker is thy Husband: And shall not a Wife love her Husband? He is full of tenderness; his Spouse is to him as the Apple of his Eye, he rejoyceth over her as the B•idegroom over the Bride, Isa. 62.5. He loves the Believer as he loves Christ, Iohn 17. ult. the same love for quality, though not equality. If God be an Hu•band, shall we not love him? Affinity requires affection. Either we must love God, or we give ground of suspicion that we are not yet married to him.
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