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to the Chief of
Sinners.
f39
liehold
that$
art
fair:
But at' that tin1e he made
.thefe two
wo~ds,
My
love,
his
chief and
fubjofr
'matter; frem
which,
after
he
had~
little opened
the
Text, he
obferved
thefe
feveral Conclufions :
I.
That
the Church,
~tnd
fo
.every
_(aved Soul, is Chrift's
Lo,ve,when
lo~e
lefs.
2.
Chrijf's
Love
without a caufe.
3.Chrijl's
Lcve,1vhen
hated
by
the
World.
+-
Chrift'J Love,
\
when under Ttmptat'ion ard under Defrrtion.
5·
Chrift's
Love.,
from
fi'ft
to :Jajf
~
·
9
I.
But
I
got nothing
by
what he fa
id
at
prefent;
only vihen.he
came to
the A
pplica–
tiori of
the
fourth
Particnlar ..
this
wa~
the
Word he fa
id;
If
it
be
[o,that
the
foved Soul
u
Chrijt's Love, when
under TcmptPltion
and De-
jcrtion
;
then,
poo~r ttmpt~d
Sotd, tvhtn
thou .art
t
f]~lted
and ajfliffed with
Te1npt'ations,
and
the
idings
(tf
God's Face,
yet
think
on
ti:Jefe tWQ
.
~
ords,
My
Love,
fti!l.
i.
92.
So.
a~
I
was going
hon1e,thefe
\Vords
.cla1ne
agatn
Into
my
thoughts,
and
I
weY re-–
x1Jember, as
they
came
in,
I
[aid thus in
my
~·eart,
J¥hat
j/ullllget
~y
thinking on tbefe
trvo
.Jfprds
?
This
thought
haq
no fooner paired
~to'
my
heart,
but
thefe Words
began
thus
tp)dndle in
my
Spirit,
Thou art my LovQ,thou
dritmy
DtJve,
twenty
tin1.es
together, and ftill
a;s
1
tf~ey
ran\
in
my
Mind, they
waxed
ftrongcr
'¥1~
warmer,and
began
to n1ske me look
up$
}iu~ t
being as
yet
between hope and
fear,
I
~ill
r.eplied in
·my
.heart,
llut
u
it
true,
br-tt
it
i4·ttni
l
At
~hich, ~hat
Sentence
fell'
upon
· ·
·
·
me,