uS8 SEa. VI. {j)u r1 &:-... ::/>•. Anfw. My Lo'Ve. But what cannot Chrifl: fee matter of weak. n.effe, finfulneffe, hatred, and dillike in the Church~ Ohyes, to pitty, help, and heale it, but not at all ro diminifh his love_, but to manifefi it fo much rhe more. His love is a tender love,fenfi~ ble of all things wherewith we difpleafe him, yet it is fo invin~ible and unconquerable, that it overcomes alL Againe, he fees ill indeed in us? but he fees in us fome good of his owne alfo, which moves him more to love, then that th:lt is ill in us,moves him to hate i for what he fees of ours, he fees with a purpofe.to ,vanquin1, morti– fic·,an.a eat it out ; theSpirit is as fire t~ confutne it ; He is as water to wafh it,but what he fees of his owne, he fees with a purpofe to increat~ it more and more, and to perfect it, therefore he– fayes my Love, notwithftanding that the church wasajleep. · This therefore ferves greatly for our comfort, to fearch what good Chrift by his Spirit hath wrought in our hearts, w1ut faith, what love, what fanet:ified judgement, what fire of holy affections to him, af1d to the bel_t things ~ 0 let us value our felves by that that is good, that Chrifi hath in us.Weare Chrifis love notwith– fi:andingwe are fleepy~ ifwe bedifplea fed with this our fbte, that as .Ciuifl: diflikes rr:, fo if we by the Spirit diflikeit, the mltter is not what fin we·have in us,but howweare affected to it.Hwe we that ill in us, ,,which is trufy rhe. griefe of our hearts and fmtl::-5, Whrch Js C1rLt di'fli kes, fo we.
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