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as it is no unkindly-like token in a wife to love her Husband, to be delighted in him, and to like well to enjoy his company: so it is a kindly like Mark for a soul to love God, on the account of the happiness and Holiness that are to be had in him, and from him: Love to God shoulders not out all regard and love to our selves simply, but it shoulders out love to lusts, and all inordinate love to self and to every Idol, nay it's inconsistent with true love to God not to care whether we be happy in the enjoyment of him or not. 2. Consider how, and by what means, and on what terms ye seek to come at that end: are ye secure, and senseless of your sin & misery without God? It's very like, that ye make but a blind bargain whereof ye will have no real advantage; but have ye any kindly touch of your sin and misery, and of your need of a Saviour; and have ye recourse to him, as one Able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through him, and who lives for ever, to make intercession for them? Ye may know somewhat of your sincerity in Covenanting with God by the way that ye come to him. 3. What use make ye of the Mediator, when ye are come to him? Is your peace with God, and your hope of holding by the bargain grounded on him? Do ye lay the weight of all the good ye expect on his mediation, on his Satisfaction and intercession, on his purchase? Do ye hold all through him? That's a good token. 4. Are ye content to give to God, as well as to take from him? To devote your selves to him for Service as well as to enjoy him and Happiness in him? This also is a good token, as well as a direction. 5. Are ye in much Holy fear and Jealousy of back-sliding; and is it in your eye and aim purposely to Article this with the Lord, to put his fear in your heart, that ye may not depart from him; many persons will ⟨p. 270⟩sometimes in a warm fit, or in a good mood (as we use to speak) come far on, as Agrippa did, but quickly fall off, and return to their wonted bias, coldness and indifferency; therefore in your Covenanting with God, there would be much Holy fear, lest it be not sound, lest it bold not; let your Soul say, now I am absolutely and unreservedly given away to God, not by Mortgage or Wadset only (to speak so) but without reversion, even for ever. 6. Ye wou•d come to close actually with God himself in Covenant:

as it is no unkindlie-like token in a wife to love her Husband, to be delighted in him, and to like well to enjoy his company: so it is a kindly like Mark for a soul to love God, on the account of the happiness and Holiness that are to be had in him, and from him: Love to God shoulders not out all regard and love to our selves simply, but it shoulders out love to lusts, and all inordinat love to self and to every Idol, nay it's inconsistent with true love to God not to care whether we be happy in the enjoyment of him or not. 2. Consider how, and by what means, and on what terms ye seek to come at that end: are ye secure, and sensless of your sin & misery without God? It's very like, that ye make but a blind bargain whereof ye will have no reall advantage; but have ye any kindly touch of your sin and misery, and of your need of a Saviour; and have ye recourse to him, as one Able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God thorow him, and who lives for ever, to make intercession for them? Ye may know somewhat of your sincerity in Covenanting with God by the way that ye come to him. 3. What use make ye of the Mediator, when ye are come to him? Is your peace with God, and your hope of holding by the bargain grounded on him? Do ye lay the weight of all the good ye expect on his mediation, on his Satisfaction and intercession, on his purchase? Do ye hold all thorow him? That's a good token. 4. Are ye content to give to God, as well as to take from him? To devote your selves to him for Service as well as to enjoy him and Happiness in him? This also is a good token, as well as a direction. 5. Are ye in much Holy fear and Jealousie of back-sliding; and is it in your eye and aim purposely to Article this with the Lord, to put his fear in your heart, that ye may not depart from him; many persons will