• t·._ ~~4 ... S.eart-Trell[ure~ can .a man ha.ve a bettet Treafure than God ~ · ·.. himfelf? Now if you love~od,hewil1 come / in u,nto you, and m~k..e hu abode with you, John 14; ~3- and can y,ouwith a better trea(ure? Love makes room iLl the heart for more grace, ' he that loveth much, be,au[e much is fotgir ven him, fhal have more given ~n: indeed th~t exprdlion iu ~ Cor. s, 14. fe-ems .to deqqte the contratling nature of Love, the;love of ()~[!, · utna?: pof- _cor;flr~in~th m . [ ()UV.(<~€1] /frnit_eneth., keeps, u.s ' fint noT« . in; ·_but tl:l~t ·is fr~m othe~ tpii1as~/ t~at the [ol!l · ~elle ex- may 'have ,freer (cope for God; thts.Ls.ve dl– ~~:ma. pro vercs the affeCtions from running in,any other l~r~fo~ per- channel., buc toward~ Iefus ~ljritl:; !t capd• gtti. Arec:. vates the foul for Chnfi, and ,forc~th lt to do, · is locum.. an? endure any: thing for h~1:11 whom tQefoul loveth. The gra~e of Love widens the arms to ·embrace Ieh,J~ .C!uifi, .inlarg~~h theheart tq entertain him, and fpir'iteth the hands to aGl: for -.him : Chrifi ~efus rides.in aglorious tri· _ump_hant Chariot, ·whether it meaL1his perfo~ S:e Ainfrtai; or myfi:ical Body, his 'flefli.'andhuma.ne 'A'artb on nature.; or hisChurch, whiCh h~ lils. with his th~ place: Prefence, I diCpute Qdt; ,. but Cure I am , the · Brtgbtman. midfr thereof is paved with L/ve; Cant. 3. I o. ) Cercainly,a foul be(ec with the f.parkling gen1s of love is the fittdr receptacle for Idusthrifi: , He that is Lc;>ve it felf ·doth t:nofl lre~ly cam. mit the1argefi treafure to a loving Difciple, . ]oh.l!P-6. as he bequeathed his dear Mother to John, ' when we was breathing oqt h~s laft~,upon the Rev· x. 1 · bitter Cro{s., and after his death ." f!ntrufied · ~ · himwith the, ReTJeldti~n' yea, nim"' only with a defcription ·of the ·fiate of the Church to the · · ~ .-.. /.:. · end .. .....
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