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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.
13. Let me exhort Christians to increase in love to God; let your love be boiled up higher, Phil. 1.9. And this I pray, that your love may abound, [Greek or Hebrew]. more and more. Our love to God should be as the light of the morning; first there is the Crepusculum or day-break, then it shines brighter to the full ⟨p. 139⟩Meridian. They who have a few sparks of love should [Greek or Hebrew] blow up those divine sparks into a flame. A Christian should not be content with so small a dram of grace, as may make him scruple whether he hath any grace or no, but should be still improving the stock. He who hath a little gold would have more; you who love God a little, labour to love him more. A godly man is like a dropsy man, the more grace he drinks in, the more he thirsts: He is contented with a very little of the world, yet he is never satisfied, but would have more of the Spirits influence, and labours to add one degree of love to another. To persuade Christians to put more Oil to the Lamp, and increase the flame of their love, let me propound these four divine Incentives.
13. Let me exhort Christians to encrease in love to God; let your love be boiled up higher, Phil. 1.9. And this I pray, that your love may abound, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. more and more. Our love to God should be as the light of the morning; first there is the Crepusculum or day-break, then it shines brighter to the full ⟨p. 139⟩Meridian. They who have a few sparks of love should 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 blow up those divine sparks into a flame. A Christian should not be content with so small a dram of grace, as may make him scruple whether he hath any grace or no, but should be still improving the stock. He who hath a little gold would have more; you who love God a little, labour to love him more. A godly man is like a dropsie man, the more grace he drinks in, the more he thirsts: He is contented with a very little of the world, yet he is never satisfied, but would have more of the Spirits influence, and labours to add one degree of love to another. To perswade Christians to put more Oyl to the Lamp, and encrease the flame of their love, let me propound these four divine Incentives.