Book IV. · L1okh:g urm :}eft~~, . .Cnap.2 .Sett.6 love as this before (herein was love manifefted and commended indeed, that God would come down in our nature to ns. Oneobferves fweetly, th~t God didfo love the very mtture of his E!e[f, that though for the prefcnt he had them not all with him in heaven, yet he muft, hdv_c t?eir piflure in his Sonne . t~ fee them i», and Lt ve them m; mth1s refped' l may call Chnft mcarnate, a ftatue and monument of.Gods own i·nfinite love unto his Elect for ever. Well, hithert6we have followed the paffages of his love; and now we fee it in the fpring, ~r ~t full fca: i.f any.thing will beget our love to God, furely Chnfi: mcarnatewtll do 1t: Come then; 0 my-foul, I cannot but call on thee to love thy 'fe[m ; 2nd to provoke thy love, 0 fixe thyeye on this lovely object; come put thy candl:e to this flame ; what? doth riot thy heart yet ~uroe within thee? doll thou not at leaft begin to warme! why, draw yet a little nearer, confider, what an heart of love is in this detigne ? God is in thy ow~ nature, to take upon him aU the miferies ofthy nature; marke it well, this is none other then Gods heart leaping outof'it felfe into our bofomes; q. d. pom fouls 'I cannot ksep from y~, I love your very natur;; I will be nothing , fo you may befomething ; my glory jhall not hinder me, but I will vailc it rather thm it fha/l hurt you; fo I may but foew my felfe kjnde~tnd tender toyou, and fo I may Virt have comm~t1Jion with you ,atJdyou with me, I cnr_e not if I become one withyou, and live withJouin your very flefh. Oh ~y heart, art thou yet cold in thy loves to Jefus Chrift ? canft thou love him but a little. who hath loved thee io much ? how fhould I then but complaine ofthee to ' Chrift ! and for thy fake beg hard of qod, Oh thou fweet {ifHs. · that cloatheft thJfelfe with the clouds as with agarment, and 111 now cloathefl thy felfewith the nature of flman, 0 that thou wouldeft inflame mJ [pirit with a love ofthee, that not'hing but thy (elfc might be de11rc unto me, becaufe it fo pleafed thac to vilifle thy felfc, thineQwnfe!feformyfaks. - SECT.
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