The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

2. ¹Where there is love to Christ, there is sympathy. Friends that love do grieve and rejoice together. They have sympathizing spirits. Homer describing Agamemnons grief when he was forced to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia brings in all his friends weeping with him, and accompanying him to the sacrifice in mourning. And I remember Aristotle ⟨p. 394⟩in his Rhetoric spends almost a whole chapter upon this, proving a sympathy among friends. ^*Lovers grieve together: Thus if we love Christ, we shall grieve for those things that grieve him, Psalm 119.158. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved. We shall grieve to see truth bleeding, Heretics increasing.—Victa jacet pietas ^*—We shall grieve to see toleration setting up its Mast and Top-sail, and multitudes sailing in this ship to Hell. Toleration is the grave of Reformation. It was a charge drawn up against the Angel of Pergamos, that he had them there, (nestling and brooding,) who held the doctrine of Balaam, Revel. 2.14. by toleration we adopt other mens sins, and make them our ⟨p. 395⟩own. I pray God this doth not hasten Englands Funerals. He who loves Christ will lay these things to heart.

2. ¹Where there is love to Christ, there is sympathy. Friends that love do grieve and rejoyce together. They have sympathizing spirits. Homer describing Agamemnons griefe when he was forced to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia brings in all his friends weeping with him, and accompanying him to the sacrifice in mourning. And I remember Aristotle ⟨p. 394⟩