The Life of Faith."" and in their (eafon: As to be laving a mans life is then greater than to beexciting the mind to the aging of Divine Love or Fear : But yet it is God the greateft objcd then, which put eth thegreatnefs upon the latter duty ; both by commanding ir, and fomaking it an admore leafing to him : and becaufe that the Love ofGod is fuppofed to be the concurring fpring of that Love to man, which we thew in fecking their pre- fervation. 14 Our great duty about God our ultimate end, can never bedune too much, confidered in it f, and in refped to the foul only ; we cannot fo love God too much : And this Love fo confidestcd, hathnoextream, Mattb. 22.37. 15. But yet even this may by accident, and in the c'ircurss- fiances be too much: As r. In refped to the bodies weak- neffes; if a man should fo fear God, or to love him, as that the intcnfencfs of the ad, did fir thepallions, fo much as to bring him to diftradion, or to diforder his mind, and make it unfit for that or any other duty: 2. Or if he should beexciting the Love of God, whenhe should be quenching a fire in the Town, or relieving the poor that are ready to miff). But neither of chefe is properly called, A loving God too much. 16. The duties of the heart, are in themfelves greater and nobler than the actions of the outwardman, of themfelves ab dradedly conGdered. Becáufc the foul is more noble than thebody. 17. Yet outward duties are frequently, yea moff frequently, greater than heart duties only ; becaufe in the outward duty it is tobe fuppofed that bothparts concur (both foul and body.) And the operations of both, is more than of ene alone : and alto bccaufe the nobler ends are attained by both together more than by one only : For God islovcd,and man is benefit-_ cd by them. As when the Sun thineth upon a tree, or on the earth, it is a more noble effcd, to have a return of its influ- ences, in ripe and p'eafant fruits, than in a meet fudden re- flexion of the heat alone. x8. All outward duties mutt b:gin at the heart, and it milli animate them all ; and they are valued in the fight ofGod, no further than they come from .a 'edified will, even from the Love of God and Goodnefs : However without this, they D dal axe 393
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