Love-Mef4n&holy. Mcmb.r.Subl.2; -;;;;-f4rmt iuflice, andaDgodly offices ;j_u_d:-y -Phc-y-l,-•[i.,..op-.,h:-1-,&-c.-t7 he-,-,h-er-b-,-fe-•ml --"-- thoughh•d,ytt to be-rej}etfed;f•r ilipttdbotl,are good in their o,.n na:ures: procreation ofchildren iJ tU nuej4ry!" thatjnding out oftruth,lmttherefm c.Oed bad,beca"{e it iJ •bufod, and ,.bi<h drawes ourfoule from the j}eculation- . •f that oth", tovilerobietfs; Sqfarre Ficin/14, S.Auninlih.rs.duiv•.Dei ~.~::::~::~ & fi•p.Pfol.64• bath dcl!vered as much in dfeCl. P Every creature iJ good, fli, Cl' btn• andmar beloved well or tll:And q Twticlltm-malce two loves,- Ierufolem& ~~mari}ot•JI Babylon,_rhe love ofGod the one, the love of t~e w~rld the ot~er, ofthefetwl ~'b-;;:;:·.;.;. citties we are all Cittizens, Mby exar,ination of Burjilves ..emayfoone {i11de, ' '"' Ju~ f•· •nd ofwhich: The <;me love is the root ofall mifchicfe,the other ofall good. """'f"'!7• So in his 15 .cap.lib deamor. Eccteji.., he will have thofe foure cardinall !;;'t:,~'fn.f: venues to be naught elfe,but love rightly compofed,in his r5.book deciv. Bab~l•n~ .. DeitAp.n. hecallsvcrruetheorderof Lo_ve, whom ThomM following •mo~(•Jd'fi r.part.>·'J""Jf.5 5 . .rt.r. &qu4J1.56·3·'f'uft.6>.4Yt.2.confirmcsas much, ;::"/:~.,in· and amplifies in many words. • Lucian to the fame purpole bath a divifion !"''l"• Cl' of his own, One love WM bornein the fia, which i4 MvariotM and raging in j;~~~~~Z~ unJt young mms breaffs .u the fi• it felft.• andcaufuh burning lr~H: th~ other iJ rAlrerm.ui thAt g_olden cham whtchwM Jet downfrom heaven, a11d Wtth a dwme Fury '""'·t;.•;·. ravijheth DUr Joules, m•tie totheimageo{God,andJlirres m up to comtrehend ::;:~~~" '' " theinn•te and incorruptible beauty ,to which we were onc-e creat1d, BcYialdm '"•""m -:•· bath CXJ.lrelfed all this in an Epigram ofhis.- :;;:!~~~;; , Dogmatt~divin; memQrant fi vera PltttDniJ, aurea &aten4 . Sunt gemin.£ ve11eres, & geminatm Amor, ~~~:~[.f.." Cu:lejlu YelltM tj1 nullogenerata pare nu, rtm mtntibUs !l.!!_£ CAJlO /t~~tl/os nelfit AfJ'JOYt vir(}! • , mittens, &•. Alter.t (ed Yenuuft totnmvulgat,a per orbem, fl!!"' divt.m mentes •lligat,atcj, bomin,.m, Improba,[eduCJrix ,petulant,&c. Ifdivine Plato'sTcnents they be ~rue, Two Yeneres, two Loves there be-, The one from heaven, unbegotten Rill, Which knits ourfoulcsin \lDitie, The other famous over all the·world, Binding the hearts ofGod and men, . Dilhonefi,wanton,and feducinglhe, ~~- Rules whom lhe will,bothwhere and wbeo. This twofold divifionof Love, Origen Jikewife foilowes in his Cem- - mentonthe·canticles, one from God, the other fromthe Divell, ashe ~;;·:,.'!'~'J holds, (underfian~ing it in t~e worfer _le_nfe) w~icb many others repeat & nobi• ieoe •el imitate, Both whtch (to omtt allfubdtvtfions) mexcclfe or defed,as they ..,re po}/unt, areabufed, or degenerate, caufe melancholy in aparticular kinde, ·as lhall -;:::,''!:.~~;.; be lhewed in his place. .Aujlin in another TraCl,makes a threefold divilion veu~ fo/'7•., ofthis love,which we m a~ ufewellorill: • God, 111r neighbour, and the · ;::~;:::~;::.'world: G·odabove "'• 1ur netghbour next us,theworJd be»e~th 114,/n the coor(e fr• "" mu•· ofo•r defires, Godhaththree thmgs,theworld one, our nttgh~osr t ..o. our ""'· Tri4Ve· dejire to God, u eitf;er fr~m God, with God, or to God, and~rdinArilyforuns. :,;.;*:~:,:- From G1d, whm it receives frgm him, whence, and for which it Jhosld love ~··ha· him: with God, when it &WtYAdifls hil wiiJin nothing: to G1d, when itJetks Nl,(6'6'c . 11
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