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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.
113. Love is the most abiding grace. This will stay with us when other graces take their farewell. In Heaven we shall ⟨p. 129⟩need no Repentance, because we shall have no sin; in Heaven we shall not need Patience, because there will be no affliction; in Heaven there shall need no Faith: Faith looks at things unseen, Heb. 11.1. but then we shall see God face to face; and where there is vision, there needs no Faith.
113. Love is the most abiding grace. This will stay with us when other graces take their farewel. In Heaven we shall ⟨p. 129⟩need no Repentance, because we shall have no sin; in Heaven we shall not need Patience, because there will be no affliction; in Heaven there shall need no Faith: Faith looks at things unseen, Heb. 11.1. but then we shall see God face to face; and where there is vision, there needs no Faith.
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But when the other Graces are out of date, love continues; and in this sense the Apostle saith, Love is greater than Faith, because it abides longest, 1 Cor. 13.8. [Greek or Hebrew], Charity never faileth. Faith is the Jacob's Staff we walk with in this life, 2 Cor. 7.5. We walk by Faith; but we shall set this Jacob's Staff at Heavens door, and only love shall enter. Thus love carries away the Crown from all the other graces. Love is the most long-lived grace, it is a blossom of Eternity. How should we strive to excel in this grace, which alone shall live with us in Heaven, and shall accompany us to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb?