Heart-Treajure.· ~~§ e'nd of the World : 0 how freely do a Io.; ving Saviour, and loving foul open their hearts to each other ! like indre an anciepc Friends meeting ttbat let out themfelves in ample evidences ) and reciprocal aas of Love : Sohere, thepure flameof aSaints . · · love mounts up to Chrift, and there meeting ·with that beavenlyElement of pedeB: Love~ brings more ·down into the Soul , and fiill · chefe continued {allies of love to Cod,· bring in fucceffive incomes and encrea(esof grace/: ,every a& of Love ~xhales fome corr_upt va– pours, and dilates the foulesJa~ulties, that it may be fit for the-reception of more' grace ; . Yea, Love fees the foul on edge for more, and · makes it as unratiable as it is unwearied in I painful endeavours: Faith work..ethby lfJve,i.e. ' as bY. its hand to aCl: for God, an9 inde(d love, in a lort, worketb byfaith, as its hand to fetch all from God, Faith fets Love .on to crave, and Lbve ingageth Faith eo derivemoregrace from ®od : Love is Faiths Stomach,andFaith -is Loves purveyer : And as Love belps the Soul to a trea{ure of graces , fo of truths ; love to Truths ~akes the foul look upon them as a precious Depcfitum, to think much of them, .and fo rivet them 'andclench them · fafi: in the heart bymeditation; Love makes a , ~an. conte~:d for the f"ith by difputing anddy- . 1ng, 1£ <Sod call him to it• Hence it is, that I ( : .. Love- is one of thofe hands that hflld jllft the form of,,found r~ords, 2 Tim. 1• 13. Butke that · receives not the truth in l9ve, will,never make·it 2 Thefa~!- , aTrea{ure1 but wil fell it for aluft, and em- 10~ . ... · , . - · ' ...-·: brac~ ' ~ I '
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