mit 3z8 Chrills people 4vpillingpeople. VERSE 3. perfjiicit aped toparatam fuiffe virtutem, reddet pro vir.. tute rnercedem. Nunquid Cain cum Deo mlinus offerret jamper- enurefratrem? & talonparri- cidusm mente conceptum Deus provides ante damnavit, cagitatiopra- va, pernitio- fa conceptio Deo providente pro- fi)ellaell: ita in Delfervis, s- pudquos confef- fiocogitator, martyriummen- te concipitur, a- nimus adbonum deditits,7.)es ja- dicecoronatur. marty- rio animym dew of e,alludammo defitife marry- rium--necenim fanguimm ye- ftrum querit Dews,fedfidem. Cypr, de mortal. enim infa- trigiiisquaA- bel & Cainpri- -mi obtukrunt, nstmeraarum Dew, fEdcorda intuebatur,atileploceret in munere quiplacebat in corde. idemde Orat. Domini. oarsammambsiate rableendevours toexecute that will, and reduce it into aa, fo he efleemes the deed nothingwithout the * will : Cain and Abel didboth tacrifice, it was the heart which made the difference betvveene them : let the outward converfation be what it will, yet ifaman regard iniqui- tie in his heart, Godwill not heare him. graviau eft di- ligerepeccatomyarnfacere his a worke token (faith gregary) ofan evill man to love finne, than to commit it, for it may be committed out oftemptation and infir- mitie,and fo may beeither in part the fin of another that tempteth us,or at leaa not the finnedour wholefeivet, but ofthole remainders ofcorruption which dwel with- in us. But our love isall our owns, Satan can but offer a temptation, the heart it felfe mull love it : and love is Prong as death,it worketh by the arengthof the whole man, and therefore ever (tech at the will is ( which is the feat of love) fi4ch ie the (ervice too. And the rea- fon is : Fira, becaufe the :thefirfl mover, and the mafler-wheele in fpirituall workes, that which regula- teth all the ref, and keepeth them right andconaant that which holdeth together all the faculties ofthe foule and bodie in the executionofGods will. In which fenfe, amonga others I underfiand that ofthe Apofile, That love is the bondofperfeelion, becaufe when love refideth in the heart, it will put together every facultie to doe that worke of God peifeelly which it goes about. And therefore by a like expreffion it is called Thefulfilling of the Lap,becaufe love aimes fill at the highefl,andat the bell in that thing which it loves, it is ever an enemie to defeas. He that 'laves learning will never flop, and fay I haveenough, in this likewife love is as death. And he that loves grace, will be fill "inatitious toabound in the worke of theLord, and to pre& forward unto perfe- &ion, to make up that which is wanting tohis faith, to
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