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Love's pedigree. Or A discourse showing the grace of love in a believer to…Love's pedigree. Or A discourse shewing the grace of love in a believer to…
Love's pedigree. Or A discourse showing the grace of love in a believer to be of a divine original delivered in a sermon preached at the lecture in Boston, Febr. 29. 1699[/]1700. / By S. Willard, teacher of a church there. ; [Two lines from James]Love's pedigree. Or A discourse shewing the grace of love in a believer to be of a divine original delivered in a sermon preached at the lecture in Boston, Febr. 29. 1699[/]1700. / By S. Willard, teacher of a church there. ; [Two lines from James]
printed by B. Green, 1700
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.
8. All the engagements by which our love is excited to act upon him, are from his first loving of us. As there is the planting of saving grace in us, in our Renovation, by which a principle is infused into us, enabling and disposing of us to love him, so there are the attractives by which this principle is drawn forth into act, which are so many motives to stir up this love in us; for our love of God is not a brutish passion, but it is acted with the highest reason; and all the reasons of it are found in his love to us: he therefore thus draws us in order to our following of him; Cant. 1.14. Draw me, we will run after thee, and the way in which he allures us, is by his love, Hos. 11.4. I drew thee with the cords of a man, with ⟨p. 19⟩the hands of love. Now there are principally such things as these, the consideration and belief whereof attract the love of our Souls to God.
8. All the engagements by which our love is excited to act upon him, are from his first loving of us. As there is the planting of saving grace in us, in our Renovation, by which a principle is infused into us, enabling and disposing of us to love him, so there are the attractives by which this principle is drawn forth into act, which are so many motives to stir up this love in us; for our love of God is not a bruitish passion, but it is acted with the highest reason; and all the reasons of it are found in his love to us: he therefore thus draws us in order to our following of him; Cant. 1.14. Draw me, we will run after thee, and the way in which he allures us, is by his love, Hos. 11.4. I drew thee with the cords of a man, with ⟨p. 19⟩the hands of love. Now there are principally such things as these, the consideration and belief whereof attract the love of our Souls to God.