Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

He is altogether lo~e[y, - ~ 385 Againe,ifwewould eftecme highly ofChrifi: I SEit.XVli that he'may be lovely to us, l~t us jo~ne with .' 3. '. . company that highly eficeme of Chrtft, and firohJ9Jine wtth r. h d d u& &ompony M fuch as are better then our 1elves. W .at ea s highry efleeme the affettions fo much as carnall, wor·ldly cornofChrift. pany, who have nothing in them but civility, by converfe with them who have difcourfe of noth~ng but the world : Ifa man have heavenly affeltions, he fhall quickly dull them, and be in danger to lofe them : they may be converied with in civill things; but when we would fet to be heavenly, 'and holy miflded, let us converfe with thofe that are of an heavenly bent ; as we fee here, The daugMers of Ierufolem are won to Jove Chrifi ~ by what ! By converfing with the Church, upon the difcourfe that the Church makes of his excellencies in particular, they begin to aske when~ is Chrill ~ as in the next C~apter, and fo are all brought to the IoveofChrtfi. C.c THE I

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