1 4t8 1~!!'1 Belo..,eds, \ S• Jt. XIX. ftre.ame ordtterne in it~but what is had from r.he t Joh.4.. 1,. fprmg;firft we love htm, becaufe he kno<:"d us firft.It was atrue fpeech of t.Augufline:,fl!!_(cquid honum,&c. Whatfoever isgood in the world or lovely, it is either God or fromGod; it iseither Chrifi or fromChrifr, he begins it : It is faid in 1 nature,love defcends, the father and the mother l love the childe before the childe can love them, I love indeed isof a fiery nature, oneIyh:re is the 1 · . diffimilitude, fire afcends, lov~ defcends, it is ll fironger defcending from the greater to the . _ leife, then afcendingup from the meaner to the I greater,and that for this, why the magAmongft other reafons, Becaufl the greater per– nanimity of the fon looks upon the lejfer M apeeceofhimfelfJeeshim– lj;~=~~tl;:ps felfin it,the father and mother fee themfelves in leffer. their childe : fo God loves us more then we can love him, becaufehe fees his Image in us ; nei– ther is there onely a priority of order, he loves us firlt, and then we love him ; but aifo of cau– falit'y, he is the caufe ofour love, not by wayof motive onely he loves us., and therefore from an ingenious fpirit wemull: love him againe; but he .Dcut 30· gives us his Spirit., circurncifeth our hearts to love him> for all the motives or morall perfwafit Thef.4 9· ons in the world without the £piriccannot make us love, we 3re taught of God to love one ano– ther,our brethren whom we fee daily(faithPaul) much more need wee .be taught to love him That in the whom we never faw,fo rhat his love kindles ours new c~vemant by way of refled:ion. . God wor~r bothpartr. In the New Covenant,God works both parts, h . \ lS ---------------------------------------------------------- \
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