Leoking unto .'fe( ta, Book. IV. 5 r3 the fme/l ofthine opum_enti th~n ~~~ fPim? co~ldll: thou 0 blelfed saviour be fo taken wtth the mcurwus and.homely features of the Church; and {ball not I much more he Ctlarnoured with thy abfoluteand divine beauty? it plea fed thee my Lord, out of thy fweet ravi{bments of thy heavenly love, to fay to thy poore Church, turne away thine eye.r from me,for they have overcome me; but oh let me fay to thee, turne thine eyes to me, that they may C ~vercome me; ' my Lerd, I would be.thm rllvifhcd, I would be over-.. ~nr, 6 • f • c~me; I wou/J be thm out of my fe!fe~ that I might be all in thee. . Thus is the \anguage of true loye to Chrift ; but alas, how dully and flatly do I fpeak it; 0 my foul how art thou out of frame? in creature-communion I ufually feele thee warme, and vigorours, active, and very ftrong;. but now thy heart u endyting of a good matter, thou art JPe.akjng ofthe thing.r which thou haft made conctrning the King, thy words do almoft freeze between thy lips; how chill and cold art thou in thy converfes with Jefus Chrift ? Oh this puts me in rnindc of r.ny deferrs: furely had Chriftslove been but like this faint nnd feebie love of mine, I had been a damn~ ed wretch without all hope: 0 Chrift I am ailiamed that I love thee fo little; ' I perceive thy loves are great by all thofe ad:ings in thy life,.come blow upon my garden, peFfwade me by thy Spirit that I may love thee much; rrumy fins are forgiven me, 0 that I .may love thee much. -------~--------~- SECT. 7· of joying .in {efm in that refpeil. 7. LEe us joy in re(m' as carryiRg on the great work of our · falvarion for us, during his life. But what is, there in Chrills life, or in all the paffages of his life to ftir up joy ? I anfwer, all his life , and all the palfages of his life, ifrightly applied, are excellent matter fort he ftirring up of this atfed:ion; indeed the maine of the work is in the application of Chrifts life ; if ever we rejoyce fpiritually in Chrift, we muft orin& together the objed: and the faculty; and this union of the ~b}ect and the faculty Ttt is
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