je/fe*'inriching ext~mintttion. 1-49 beft itis but abirter-fweet, and at lafi ever endseither in endleffe divorce, or in bannings and curfings ofeach other in heHfor their neerneffe ofunfanfrified love upon earth.Or ifthey be both con– ve~ted,they ever after hateTard abl:Jor their former wickeu l6veof-good·fellowfhip, and enter a new , .holy Ieague,and facre(i bond ofChrifiian love. BUt fpiriruall !ove.,betwixt two ChrifHans, is· ofamore fweet and loving difpofidon, of amore latlingand hc:aven lv nature. Their deare embracements in godlineffe ;and many kinde offic.es in'Chrifiianity, are enrerchanged and exercifed betwixt them=> be– taufe they fee and know'that they are both, I. chil– drenof one Farher; z. BrethrenofChrifr I~fus; 3· Begotten againe by the fame fpirit ; 4· Borne of tbe fame immortall feed of the Word ; 5. Nouri– fhcd with the fame fpirituall food ; 6. Of one houfholdoffaith; 1· Pilgrimes and fellow-travel– lers towards the fame everlafiing home ; 8. Soul– diers under the fame colours, called to the felfefame hope; 9· And co·heires ofthegloriousK1ng- " dome of Heaven. And thcrefQre if once true{lffection grounded upon grace' feize upon their hearts ; if once their two fi:reames of fantl:ified , love, fpringing out ofthe fountaine of theirlove cowards God, meet a.nd joyne themfelves in an ·holy~nd C~rifiian f~llowfhip~ they grow bi~ger and btgger m fincenty and ftrength, towards .a great _torrentJ unr"ll rhey,both fall atlaft) and bee , : !Wallowed up in that bottomleffe Se~ ·of end– .)efre love, and highefi: ··happineffe jn -.the world above. the Jove then of the true Chiiiliin~ is M~ onely
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