ineontribing an' cbcm ate n. $ 2. A Conformity inDifpofition bath a mighty force Ch. M. to beget Love. Refemblance is thecommon Principle j-s,-<j of Union. in Nature : Social Plants thrive bell when near together: senfitive Creatures affociate with thole of their kind. And Love, which is an affe `tionate Union, and voluntaryBand, proceeds from a fimilitude of wills and inclinations. The Harmony of Tempers is the ftrongeft and fweetefi tye of Friend(hip: 3. Love is an innocent and powerful charm to pro- Tibimonßra. duce Love: 'tis of univerfal virtue, and known by all boamarorium the World. None are of fuch an unnatural Hardnefs fineMedica- mcnro, line but they are foftned and receive impreffion from it. Herb's, fine Now there are none of there inducements to encline `llins"eneecæ Carmine, Si God to love Man. vis amari ama, i. He was utterly deftitute of moral goodnefs : Sent. as the exa ± temperament of the body,fo the orderand beautyof theSoul,was fpoil'd bySin. Nothing remain'd but deformityand defilements. The Love ofGodmakes us amiable, but did not findus fo. Redemption is a free Favour, not excited by the worth of him that receives it, but the grace of him that difpenfes it; Herein God ikons, s.. commended his Love to us, that while- we were'Sinners Chrili died for us. Our goodnefs was not theMotiveof hisLove, but his Love the original of our goodnefs. 2. There is a fixed Contrariety in the corruptedna- ture of Man to the Holy Nature and Will of God For which he is not only unworthy 'of his Love, but worthyof his wrath. We are oppofite toHim in our Minds, Affeëtions and Actions : A ttrong Antipathy is feated in all our Faculties. How unqualified were we' for hisLove ? There is infiniteHolinefs in Him, where- by He is eternally oppofite to all Sin, yet He expreft. infiniteLove to Sinners in Paving them from Mifery. 3. Therewas not the leaft fpark of Love in Man to- God: Notwithftanding his infinite Beauty and Bounty 5. Y ®'-, to
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