4.12 Spiritual Perfec ion, have faved us from perifhing for ever. He dyed not only to fatisfie his Father's Juftice, but his own Love to us. 'Tis faid by the Prophet, He fhall fee of the travel of his Soul, and be fatisfied The travel of his Soul implies his Affeaion and Affliaion, the ftrength of his Love, and his immenfe Sorrows. Now nothing is more repugnant to the Principle fo deeply engraven in Humane Nature, than not to return Love for Love. Our Sa- viour, by the deareft titles, deferves our Love ; not only for his high Perfe&ions, but his deep Sufferings. He was without Form and Comelinefs in the Eyes of the Carnal I7Vorld , when disfigured by his Sufferings. But can he be_ lets lovely in his Sufferings , wherein he declar'd his deareft Love ? Aftonifhing Love appear- ed in his dying Countenance, flam'd in his quenched Eyes, flowed from his pier- ced . Side. To a fpiritual Eye, he is as amiable with his Crown of Thorns, as with his Crown of Glory. Our Love to Chrift, like Fire out of its fphere, mull~ be preferved by renew- ing its Fewel, or it will decline. Now there is nothing more proper to feed it than Chrift's Love to us , and in this Ordinance the facred Fire is maintained : The Eye affeas the Heart. The mourn- ings, the longings and delights of Love are
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