_98 Meditations and D~{courfes that lNe may ahvays conl;der whof'e it is, I Job. 3. I 6. Hereby we perce:'T.Je the lo'T.Ie of God, becaufe he !aitl rlo1vn his life {vr us. 2. BY what 11/rt_ys and lvfeans this wonderful Lcve of the Son of God, doth act it {eff; name~ ly~ in the Divine Nature, by Eternal Acts of \Vifdom, Goodnels and Grace proper thereunto; and in the humane by Temporary A{t:s of Pity or Compaffion, with all the fruits of them in doirg and fuffering for us, fee Ephef 3. 1 9· Heb. 2. 14, I 5'· Rev. I. 5'· 5· \\lHA T is the Freedom of it as unto any dete[t: on our parr, I Joh. 4· ro. It was hatred not lo\'e that we in our fdves deferved, which is a Confideration fuited to fill rhe foul with fe1fabafement, the beft of frames in the contemplation of the Glory of Chrift. 4· \ iVHAT is the Efficacy of it in its fruits and effects, with fundry other Confiderations of the like Nature. By a Difrinct Profpett a11d Admiration of rhefe Things, the Soul may walk in rhis Paradife of God, and gather here and .there an Heavenly Flower,conveying unto it a ftreet favour of this Love of Chrifr. See Cant. I I '. 2, ~, 4· MOREOVER, Be not contented to have right ]\htwns of the Lo\'e of Cbrift: in your minds~ unleC~ yon can attain a Gracious Ta_ft of it in your Heans; no more than you .would be to fee a Feaft or Banquet richly prepared,and partake of nothing of it unto your refrefhment. It is of that Nature chat we may have a fpiritual fenjfmon of it in our minJs; whence it is compared by rite Spoufe to .lip;les and Flagom of !Vine. We mayta/f that
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