40 - The L.ife of GOD Another thing which difl:urbs the plea– The prefence fure of love, and renders it a of the belo·- miferable and unquiet paffion is !ed perfon. abfencc and fcparation fron1 thofc we love. It is 110t without a fen– fiblc affliction that friends do part, though for f<)me little time. It is fad to be de– prived of that fociety which is_fo ddight– ful; ou~ life becomes tedious, being {pent in an impatient expeCtation of the happy l1our wherein we may n1ect again. But if death have made the feparation, as fome time or other it ._. muft, this occafions a grief fcarce to he parallelled by all the n1isfortunes of human life, and wherein we pay dear enough for the con1forts of our fricndfhip. But 0 how happy are thofe who have placed their love on hin1 \V ho can never be abfent from them ! They need but open their eyes, and they fhall every where behold the traces of his prefence and glory, and converfe with hin1 -whom their foul loveth. And this makes the darkeft prifon, or wildefi defart, not only fupportable but delightful to then1. In fine, A lover is miferable if the perThe divine love 111 akes us par– take ofan infinite happinefs. fan \\ hom he loveth be fo. They who have made an exchange of hearts 9Y love, get thereby an interefl: in one ~nother'-s -.
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