Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

---- What is fbJ Belo'-Ped,&c. as we feeH.imorthefonneof s;&hem, he would SBlt.XIII. endure painfull circumcifion for the lt>ve hee Gen,H.J.4· bore to Din~th. So f....Afls S. 41. it is faid they Aa a. went away rejoy'7ing after. they were. ~hipped, bccaufe they loved Chrtfi. The fpmt of love maqe them rejoyce when they were moft dif– gracefully \lfcd. Sometimes wherethis .affeGtion of heavenly love is prevalent, fo thata man is ficke of ir, the dill:empers thereof redounds to the body and re– fleCts upon that, as we fee inDavid, P(al.:,1..4• . Th~tthumoyfture became 111 the drought of (ummer; becaufe there is~ marriage and a fympathie becweeR the foule and rhe body, wherein the excdlive affections of the one redound and reflect upon the other. · ' That thil Jicft neff'e t1f Ji-ulne love workr al(o upon thebod,y. l;ial.31,3, TeUhim th4t I ~tmficke if love,here isafickneffe, but not umo death,but unto life' afickneffe that never ends but in comfort and fatisfattion, blefd h fc h d c. Matif.6. fe are t o et ,at hunger an thirft au:er Chrift:, they fhall be {atisfied, as we fball fee afcerwards 1 more at large. . .. / 1 Knowledge gives not the denomination, for we may know iU4ndhe good.andwe may kno1v good and , heevill;but iris the affection of the foule,which \ .cleaves to the things known,the trUth ofour love It u not our is that gives the denomination of a ll:ate to be knowledge rbat, good or il1· love is the weight and wing of the maker 44 gool1 r. · 1 h' 'h · · t. • h·. 'f. 11r ev1!t, brl~l tOU e, w 1C. carrtes lt Wl1ere 1[ goes, w tch 1 1[ I goodrJefi loved; carry us toearth we are bafe and earthly, if c 0 \i an.d cteawd to! heaven,heaven!y; we thould haveefpeciall ~a.re :j;•'" to (I how we fixe thts affeehop; for thereafter as It ts, \ X even · 1 ------------------~--- ,,

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