Preachedin LE "T. cirherbegin,or follow. No not,provo_ked by all thofe fomany forcible ll)eanes,that Sr. chryfo.ftome maketh a wonde~at tt, ~•m•donon convyrteremur m 4morem, that they were not melted andrefolvedmto love tt felfe. Which cold [i 1 ccefie openetha wa~ to the hfi ~oirtt,the l'oinr it1decd.of highefc 4 , admiration, and of hardell: imitation or all ~he rcll:,mthcconJunchon Et.Ji.·. Which ~,:•; exttn;r· C ·. Eton is {iruared (much hke·Cortnth ttfelfe) manarrowLand(as !t;Werc)be. E•fiminusdi– ,;:;;;t;ofw; beaten, upon the one with (elfe-love, on rh'other with_imkindne!fe. ug.<r. Hitherto wee had eo doe, but wtth fe!fe.love, and hts affaults: but now,rmkmdnejfe alfo is up. Thefe Corinthians (faith Samt Partl) my affcchon fiar;Kjeth rowa.r.<! them in all love: Love them and fpare not (fatth Setje-love) but tme qrtodbabes, Nayfure, ImpmdAm, !will bejlowit. Well; tftherebcenoremedte:Byt (heare you~) Propititt< e.ftotibi, fo; all that•. Nay, nor that netther :Impmdar, I wtll bee b~- Jlor~~ed myfelfe too. Potejne bibere caltcem hrmc (fatthSelfe-love?). and,can you get 1t ~btth. r6. n : downe, rhinke you~ Yea: Libentifim' exceedmg gladly. There ts the Conquell: of Mn•·•0 ·4 5 · . Selfe-love. . . . . . . . · But all this whilc,he hved !hll under hope,hope ofwmnmg thetr love,for whofe fakes h~had rrodunder footthdove of himfelfe: Hope, that it had beene but/m, pend;m all rhe while l he01ouldhave hadre:urned his owneagaine a: lean. Hut,at this Etfi, all is turAed out and m. For, th1s 1sas much to fay, as, All1Holmle pur. pofe: for (tohis griefe) he mufi take notice,rhey care for none ofrhefll: nor forhiln ever awhit the more : yea, rather the lejfe by agreat dcale. So that, all t~ree bee in vaine: Et fupra omnem_laborem.labo~irritm, Nolabotirtolofllabour; Norexpence of fife orgoods, to that 1s fpenr tn vatne. For,rhar t.snot Impmdam,.'ourperdam, QP.t Jient, but ca.ft awAy. Therefore the former, though1t we1:c fnnzcrelw tr;plex, a three– fold cord andnet e4jily broken, would nor hold, but fly Ill pceccs, bot for this Et{!, To have ~hen an Etjiinourlove: thisElji, rhis ~'!)~r_;;, rho~ghinvai!JI!, .though our lmpendam, prove a perd4m ' ·That is it. To be able tq~mne the f~:on:oce<!nd fi\y, Tha~~ghthe more I love, the le/fe! belwed, TetwtllI bejlow; yea, bee bfj/otJ!ed, ~nd that mojJgladly, for all that. It is hard, I confelfe :bur,Soltt< amor erubefcit nomen dijficllt– w[t,Love endureth not rhe name of dijfictlltie,but lhameth ro confeffe any thing ~0 hard or too dangerous for it, For verily, tmkindneffl is amighrie enemie, and the wounds of ir;deepe. Nay there be, that of themfelvfS are moll: kind, in all the~hJ~f degrees before remembred, as was KingD.wid, and as all noble narures are: why Selfe-love is nothing in their hands.• But;let them beencounrred with ll»kindne/Je(;tJ; Davidwas inNabal) they cannot ll:and the firoke ; it woundeth deepe :.and rhe fell:er xslfll.:f. r!': ofdifcontentment more dangerous than it. Indeed (faithDavidJ thu ftllow, 1[~/ " · • have done allil; vainefor him; for herewardeth meevill(orgood : !io.tnd fodoe Gogtp ... : me, if he be aliv~ to morro111 by this time. >Markc it in him; and in others infinite; ~a<i you fhall fee, whom Selfe-lovecouldnor,unkindnejfehath overeomc :al)d who palfed well along the other three, at minas diligar their Lovehatb Wracked, ;mo;! from kin_d, /ove,beene turned rodeadly bate. · . , But neithercan this lppall the Apoflle., or dif.lodge his love : but thorowall t~e reft,~nd thorow this too, he breaketh with his Etji, and lhcweth,he will hold hin~folutton maugre lll unkindnelfe. Mink< diligar lhall not doe it; f/nkindnejfe mijfl; yee\d,Lovewill nor• . And now we arecometothe highefi, and never till now: but,now we arc ;rhsr !urrherwe cannot goe. The very highell: pitch of well-doina,the Heathen 1han faw S<n<u; ~~Pttt : for, he coul~fay, ~eneftcirl'!' dare & perdere; ro bcd'ow Love, and lofe it,is , a ~\done : but, that 1s not 1t. Thts tS tt.; llenejiciumperdere,& dare, ro lofe thdirfi, n yet be!tow the fecond; Etfi, yea, though the firl'i were loft. · . Yea,the Love ofLoves,CHa x s·-r·s owne love wli•t was it' MAioremh!icckd- Ioh.•r.rl rttatem n h b ' . ' ~ · ., · • • 0 neth <mo a et, quam 111 vtta_m_qttupo~atpro amici>. \VheretO~nt so:nard~e- ~y lvell, Ttl m~Jorem hab~tijlt Domme, quia ttt vit&m po{uifli ettdmpro tJJtmtm: rcater ove than th1s ha(h no man, tob~frow his life for his friends : Y~t L o .. o F f 2 (faith
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