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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05406	Ignis cœlestis: or An interchange of diuine love betweene God and his saints. By Iohn Lewis, minister of Gods word at St. Peters in the tovvne of St. Albons	Lewis, John, b. 1595 or 6.	1620 (1620)	STC 15558; ESTC S103072	37,144	136

him with his prayers When the Diuell comes to him as he did vnto Christ and sayes All these will I giue thee hee forsakes God and makes no bones of worshipping the Diuell The heate of his burning feauer cannot be slacked with a small quantitie of honour But thou that art an ambitious Haman who seekest more after thine owne honour then Gods who louest thine owne selfe more then God know that as thou climbest vp high and perillous stayres so thy fall shall be the greater because thou soughtest not God God will seeke thee and finding thee soaring so high shall cast thee downe with proud Lucifer into hell The fourth false louer of God is the Epicure the voluptuous man this mans belly is his God whom he worshippeth and his pleasure is his dietie which hee adoreth eating drinking hauking hunting pleasures and pastimes are this mans happinesse which it is too apparent he loues more then God for if hee want any of these his desires are so importunate that they will brooke no deniall if he enioy them with some interruption and discontent the honour of God must be abused and the sacred name and attributes of the most glorious Iehouah must be most damnably prophaned blasphemed But if God or his word or any thing belonging to his seruice be wanting of these things like a stone he is insensible he neither desires their presence nor grieues for their absence yet this man sees no reason why he should not be a good Theophilus a louer of God That which Bernard spake though in another sence may fitly be affirmed touching the voluptuous man Nunquā ego Ebrium putabo Chastum I will neuer beleeue chastitie can sleepe in the drunkards bed Doubtlesse that man which wallowes like a swine in voluptuousnesse and is drunken with the pleasures of the world can neuer be a chaste and constant louer of God pleasure and pietie are two opposites if thou affect the one thou must reiect the other As these foure especially so there are many more in the Church which are not of the Church carnall professours which haue a kinde of superficiall loue to God and his worship but not from the ground of the heart they ioyne in the outward seruice with Gods children but for true loue they let them goe alone Let these time-seruers and temporizing Protestants know their doome which Christ shall one day pronounce to their terrour Away from me ye wicked I know ye not Oh but we haue heard thy word and did pertake in thy Sacraments and professed thy name T is true yee heard my word but practised not ye pertooke of the signe not of the grace yee professed my name but ye lo●ed it not Away from me I know ye not The fourth and last Vse is to teach euery one that sayes he loues God to shew it by his loue to his brother for can a man loue God whom he hath not seene and hate his brother whom he hath seene No questionlesse God will be loued in his children we must loue the godly for God and God for himselfe Per amorem Dei amor proximi gignitur et per amorem proximi amor Dei nutritur The loue of our neighbour is begotten by the loue of God and the loue of God is nourished by the loue of our neighbour Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe which particle as notes the qualitie not the quantitie thou oughtest not to loue thy neighbour so much as thy selfe for that is against nature but thou must loue him as truely as thy selfe Some men loue not their neighbours at all these men sinne through defect Some loue men more then God these sinne through excesse few attaine to that golden meane to loue God aboue all and their neighbour as themselues Wherefore seeing God hath so graciously loued vs let it be our daily prayer that he would giue vs grace to loue him againe that when our sinfull dayes are ended we may raigne with him in his heauenly kingdome for euer-more Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS Psal. 39. 5. Heb. 9.27 1 Kings 21. Ester 3.5 Luke 16. 19. Luke 10.42 Quae possessa one●an● amata inquinant omissa crucian● Luke 8.37 Gen. 25.32 Virgill Matth. 6.33 Iudg. 16.18 Mal. 3.6 Cant 1. Leuit. 11.44 Ioel 2.18 Reuel 3.20 Luke 19.42 N●n quid v●●ui sed quid potui Acts 3.6 Exod. 37.9 1 Iohn 4.8 Context Parts Doctrine 1. Acts 8.21 Mal. 1.2 1 Ioh. 3.1 Ier. 31.3 The loue of God Mat. 3. 17. Note Rom. 9.11 Note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristot. Prou. 15.9 Note Exod. 3.6 Effects of Gods loue Election Rom. 8.28 Ephes. 1.4.5 Rom. 9.11 Mal. 3.6 Creation Gen. 1.26 Note Redemption Hosea 13.9 Gen. 3.10 Gal. 4.4 Rom● 5.8 Note Preseruation Psal 73.24 Gen. 6.9 Gen. 19.5 Gen. 39.8 1 King 19. 10. 1 Sam. 26.11 Dan. 3. 17. Eadem est causa procreans et conseruans Vocation Gen. 19.16 Acts 9. Luke 19.2 Luke 16.23 Iohn 6.44 Acts 16.14 2 Cor. 5.17 Psal. 51.10 Acts 9. Augustinus Luke 15. Sanctification Glorification Ester 6.8 Note Iohn 10.26 Heb 12.28 Note Exod. 34.29 Mat. 17.4 1 Pet. 2.9 Vse 1. 1 Cor 4.7 Reu. 4.10.11 Vse 2. Luk. 10.20 2. Part. Doctrine 2. Iohn 21.15 Rom. 5.5 Acts 9 2● Rom. 8.7 Rom. 1.30 Our loue to God what Rom. 5. 5. Heb. 11.6 Note Ouidius Augustin Iob 1.9 Psal. 4● 6. Psal. 73. 25.26 Markes of the loue of GOD. Ioh. 14.15 1 Ioh 5.3 Ioh. 19.3 Heb. 10. 26. Luk. 22.48 Psal. 119. 24. Phil. 3.8 Phil 1.28 Psal. 120.5 Reuel 22. 20. Gen. 28. 12. Acts 17.16 2 Kin. 18. 37. Virgilius 1 Ioh. 5.1 Chap. 4. 20. Like the oile which was powred on Aarons head and ran down to the skirts of his cloathing Psal. 133. ● Iam. 2 15. Mat. 6.12 Mat. 10. vlt. Vse Motiues to loue God Esay 6.2 2 Tim. 4.8 1. Ioh. 4.8 1 Ioh. 2.11 1 Tim. 1.5 Col. 3.14 1 Cor. 13. 13. Luk. 15.4 2 Tim. 4.8 1 Iam. 12. Psa. 16.11 1 Cor. 2.9 Mean●s to attaine the loue of God 1 Kin. 18. 2 Kin. 1.10 2 Chron. 14.11 Gen. 20. 17. Exod 14. Ios. 10.13 Mat. 12.13 Luk. 15. Rom. 10. 17. Luk. ●4 32 Vse 1. Bernard Augustine Vse 2. Acts 8.21 22. 23. Vse 3. Mammonist Iam. 4. 4. 1 Ioh. 2.15 Mat. 6. 24. 2 Kin 10● 16. Luk. 10.42 Hypocrite Iam. 4.8 2 Sam. 20. 9. Ambitious Mat. 4.9 Epicure Mat. 7.23 Vse 4● 1 Iohn 4. 20. Greg●●ie Mat. 19.19