SceJJtfllonof Melan.pag.~~ . & SI7· 'The Saints lice, and' the cruelty and corruptiqns ot the rime the vani~y and abomination of sau/1 Court.:_Th~ flame therefore of this affeCtion was a fparke of . Heaven, never to be put e>ut or quenched, after it was once fee on fire; but of rhat lafring arid divine temper, thatit\vas to burnein theirbrefr withmu– mall zeale and fervency upon earth, and to blaze everlafiingly wirh Serap.hicall heat in the heavens ~frerward. Thedearneffeandfirengthof this holy love betweene DavidandJ()nathan, and foofChri. - fl:ian atfee!ion amongfl: godly men, appeares by · rhe deardt pangs, and paffionatemeltings .ofDa~ vidsheart, for the death of lonathan, 2 sam.1.2·6. 1Voei~ fJJe for thee, faith he, mybrothet;,fonathan .: mofo fwcet haftt/.Jott bee1te unto tJte : thy love untome Wtllf wotJ– detfttl!,"prifting theloveofwon1en. The love ofawo– man, byreafon of the tenderneffe__ ofheart, and the exceffe ofpaffion in that fex~· is moil: longing, paffionate, anafervent; yet nothing to-the love of Ionathan toDav!d, nothing to that flame of fpiri · tuall affection, kindled by the-Holy Ghofl: in the hearts ofrrue Chrifl:ians-one towards another: For all other love is earthly) naturall, finite, mixed in the me,ane time with ·many feares, difrafl:es and jealoufiesJwith machunquierne!fe~ iqterruptions) and refrldfe !ongings j fometimes k is furious, fometimes faint, fqmetimes ·Weakned and weary withthe.freeand eafie enjoyment ofthe thingbe– loved '; fomecimes it is affiietedwith defpaire, by · refifl:ance and difficulty ; fometimes ftrangeled with fl:ings of jealoufie:, left it be_defrauded and · wrongedbypartnedhip:> and·participation, at the . befr · ... •
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