134 Spiritual Per feEtion. ment and infinitely unworthy of him: To content our felves with a lefs Af, fe&ion, is not only far diftant from Per- feation, but from the firft difpofition of a Saint. The tendereft and ftrongeft A:f= feaions in Nature muff be regulated and fubordinate to the Love of Chrift. Our Love to him muff beSingular and Su- preme. Briefly, his Love to us is Benefi- cent, ours is Obedient. He values no Love without Obedience, and no Obedience without Love. 2. Love mutt defcend from God to our Neighbour. ThisDuty is fo often Commandedand "Commended in the Gofpel, that wemay from thence underhand its Excellency. The beloved Difciple that lay in the ,Boforn . of Chrift, from that Spring of Love derived' the Streams that flow in his Writings:. He declares that God is Love, and he that loves, dwells in God, and God in him: if oh. 4. a . He makes it anEvidence That we are born- of God, loh<4. 7 of our renewed:fate, and that ive arepaf 'corpz death to =life. Our Saviour injoyns it with a note of Eminency, as his new Command, as the:diflinttive CharalTter of his. Difcpies,, _sthe fecialaliicatian of, theft ë at his right hand , in the Day. of yudgment, to recommend it to our Love and Obedience. He, tells us that tca.
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