436 Cant:B. 7. e Atrios.Ll6. dPfal.I19.f0. e Rom. ;. S. Cx 9 P. 5. din Expolition von thefirfl VII x.7,8, The fccond parr of the Brat-plate, is Loue of God and of our Ncighbour. The nature of this gracious of feEtion is bra knowne by fenfe, Thus yet concciue ade- fcription of it by effeeis ; firfi, wel- wifhing; fecondly, adhering; thirc41y,dcfire of vnion with the perlon loued. The kindes of it they make two: finii, Concupifcentie; whore maine fcope in louing, is the good of the louer : fecondly, Amiciti,e ;when we loue, whom we loue, for his own fake, without refpe& to our owne private. Of this fort is that we owe to God and men. It fleada vs in the Spirituall Conflicî; flrfl, as an Eui- dence; fecondly, by its Operation. As an Euidcnce; the very prefenceofirisamarkeof our adoption, and atran. flztianfrom death to life : fo, that if Burr the Confcience be rifted about the maine, whether wee be in the ¡late of grace, or not; this gracious affeC1ion prefents it felfe to the cye of Confcience,to flay it from doubting. Sccondly,by the Operation ; which ye may thus con - ceiue: it caufeth vs to cleaue clofe to what we loue, and l to fosch a price thercon,brhat nothing toil (wife vs to part with it. Suppole the ter/Trader be, to forfak e the Truth of Religion ; perhaps vpon fuch allurements, as Demas was mitre -led withal' ; thus Loue reacherh to reafon. The truth ofGods Word I haue found to be Gods a power to my cenuerfion; the fame hath been d mycomfort in trosble ; fweetnetfe I haue found in it, fuch as the Honey.consbe cannot afford. How ¡hall I forfake this Truth ? &c. The Helmet is Hope; that is, the firrrne expetìation of the good things God bath promifed, and not yet ex- hibited : themaine whereof, is the end cf. our Fàith, the /alssation of our Soule!. It is of two forts; firft, the hope of the Hypocrite, which is, as lob faith, as the Spiders 've6, with euery blafi of temptation beaten downe, in as much as it hath no lure foundation n,m. cuidence to yell on ; fecondly, the hope of the Righteous, that e svelter makes afhanted, The
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