A Divine Cordial

¹2. I proceed to the second Branch of Exhortation: You who have love to God, labour to preserve it; let not this love dye, and be quenched. As you would have Gods love be continued to you, let your love be continued to him. Love, as fire, will be ready to go out: Rev. 2.4. Thou hast left thy first love. Satan labours to blow out this flame, and through neglect of Duty we lose it. When a tender body leaves off clothes, it is apt to get cold: so when we leave off duty, by degrees we cool in our love to God. Of all graces, Love is soonest apt to decay; therefore we had need be the more careful to preserve it. If a man hath a Jewel, he will keep it; if he hath Land of Inheritance, he will keep it; what care then should we have to keep this grace of Love? 'Tis sad to see professors declining in their love to God: Many are in a spiritual consumption, their Love is decaying.

¹2. I proceed to the second Branch of Exhortation: You who have love to God, labour to preserve it; let not this love dye, and be quenched. As you would have Gods love be continued to you, let your love be continued to him. Love, as fire, will be ready to go out: Rev. 2.4. Thou hast left thy first love. Satan labours to blow out this flame, and through neglect of Duty we lose it. When a tender body leaves off cloaths, it is apt to get cold: so when we leave off duty, by degrees we cool in our love to God. Of all graces, Love is soonest apt to decay; therefore we had need be the more careful to preserve it. If a man hath a Jewel, he will keep it; if he hath Land of Inheritance, he will keep it; what care then should we have to keep this grace of Love? 'Tis sad to see professors declining in their love to God: Many are in a spiritual consumption, their Love is decaying.

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