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r Over which fecond cnemic having a fecond conqudl alfo, a:nd rnumphing
orme w'
1
·ch hisEtiJ. he l!Jewerh, his love robe a love ofprobfe,
to
have
all the por:
ovcm,
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fecrionsandfignaruresofLove:
a
w 1{ are Wit mcompaue o r
IS
verfe.
Amor
(as in
schooles
we reckon them)
1
Impenjivm;
'.
Expenjivtu
;-l
ll<ten.ftvm
and
-1
Exten.
ji m
The two former mtherwo
verbs;
•
A&we,Impendam;and
1
Plffive,Impendar;
~~o~ing,
or
[pending~
Eejlowed,_
o:·
fp~nt
it felfe,
Th_e
two latter, in
the
Adverb
and
the
ConjtmEfiilrJ:
l
Intmjive,
fir:umng,tn felfeto chelughefi
def!,ree,moftgladly.:
and
+
Extenjive,
llrerchmg1r felfeto thofe that are
f~rthirlt
from
Lov~,and
Icafi
def~w~
it
Etji rninm diligar.
•
To
fPend;
>To fpend and
he
JPent;
l
To fpend and be fpenc
moll
willingly.
Ifrhe
full
point were there, it were
enou~h.
+·But, noc only
libentijJime;
(
•.
Bur,
tibentifime, Etji; moft gladly,
yea,
though the more he,the leffi they,
that 1s all
~ill
.
ih
But then,
!ell:
we mifiake ourterme.of
love
(as, eafily we may, and confound
it
wirh
l"ff)
we mufi looke to our
Pro,
in the fecond parr.
It is,
Prl) animabm
;
(oule:
love,
he meanerh all the while. Love,the
jhlit
ofthe Spirit;
Not
luft,the
weed ofthe
Gt-s...:
jiep,,
Not, of this
fldh
fifler to
wo~mes,
and
daughte~ t~
rottennef[e;
but, of the
Spirit
!
0
p,;~;~::
allied tothe Angels, and
partaker,
m
hope,
of the Dtvtne 114ture
Jt fclfe. And, not of
onton\y; butanimabm,
of
Sor•les:
more than love ofone foule; many foules, mahy·
thoufands offoules, of
a
whole State or Countrey. Them to love, and to them thus
coprov~ourlove,
is it, which Saint
Pate!
would reach; and it, which wee need
to
!came. Thefe beche two pms.
Whereof, &c.
·
T
o
enter the treatie ofthdirfiparr. We begin at the fourepoinrs,
I
Impell~
r:
.
da11J,'
Irnpendar,
l
Libentifime,
and
4
Etji.
If
Love
be an
Enjigne (as,Can.6.)
The
Lovt;·
1
the
Colo11rs;
I
fit be
a
Band(as,Hof.rr.)the twijls;
If
a
ScAle (as,Chry(oftume)
~:;('·
6
·1.-
thea(cmts
;Ifan
Art, (asBernard)
the
Brdes
ofir. Indeed, they talke much ofan
Art
·"+
ofLove,_and
Bookesof verfes have beene written ofit :but, above all verfes, is
Car–
menhocamort!.
This verfe hath more art than they
all:
and ofthis it may befaid;
Me
legat,
&
ieE!ocarmine doc1t<r erit:
Learne it,and fay you learned
Love.
To take
them as they lye, and with the firfi, firrt.
Ego vero impendam.
~
....
I
There was aworld, when one fa id,
da mihi cor
11111m,
&
(t1ficit:
Befio\v your
r
heart
on me, and I require no funher
bejlowing;
and the
bejlowing
of Love, though
Amorimp,.fl·
nothing but
love,
was (omcthing worth.
11114
'
1
mpendt~!11~
z
Such a world there was: Bur, chat world
is
worne our. All goerhn01vbjl
Impendam: Love
and all is put out to inrerefi.
The other empty-handed Love,is
long fince banifhedthc Court, the Cirieand theCoumrey.
For, long fince it is;
that
King
Sad
faw ir,aod faid it,to his Courriers,that
htwdJ nvt regarded,
but becau[e
hegave themjields,andvine-yards,
and offices
over hrmdreds ,zndtho
11
(ands.
Nor
1
Sam.u.7;
yer
Dtanain
the Citicof
Ephefru,
magnified there by the Crafrf-men, but,
~ecaufe
Altst 9
.•-l·
byher
Sdvershrmes, they h,zd thezradvant.1ge.
Nay, nor CH
R
r s
T
Hrmfdfe
nerther,
m
the Coumrey, but becaule they
ate ofthe leaves And!Vere filled.
For, many
Iohn.6.~_6;
mrracles had they feene much greater than that, yet never profeffed they fo
much,Si-
"'1
tttncexatttrati,
as when He bellowed a good meale on them•
.3
Such1s now the worlds love,
but
fpecially
at
Corinth,
where they doe
caupo~
narza':'oremindeed;
feclove to hire,andlove to fate; and at fo high
a
rate, as* fame
were IOrced to .
I
a
.
f,
l
I
d
both
toodtare,
grveovcr, e paymg or
ove,
ney might buy
repentance
toe!;
an
wh
~.
Thereis"n?tcmedy then: Saint
Paul
mull: apply himfelfe • td time and pbcej
e cm Cas
all
thmgs clfe, fo)
love
depends upon
Impendam,
r
edding
and
Paying.
,
5 Now,