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A29033 Some motives and incentives to the love of God pathetically discours'd of, in a letter to a friend / by the Hon[ora]ble R.B., Esq. Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 1659 (1659) Wing B4032; ESTC R11830 73,891 200

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in which I have made too many Experiments not to be by you allow'd to make some Comparisons to it For first it never forsakes its Inclinations for the Steel next being united to it it retains so constantly its Attractive qualities that it gives not the Needle any Motive of deserting it and thirdly it doth never rightly touch the amorous Steel without leaving an Impression which ever after disposes it to a Conversion to that Magnetick Posture which best fits it to receive fresh Influences To which let me add this other resemblance betwixt God's work on Us and the Load-stone's on the Iron that the Kind Stone attracts a Needle to it not to Advantage it self by that Union but to Impart its Virtue to what it draws Besides Absence and Rivalls those frequent Ruiners of other Lovers happinesse can threaten nothing of formidable to yours For Absence which so divorces us from that which animates us that Lovers do not so improperly style it Death if Death be but the Separation of Soul and Body by God's Ubiquity we are secured from He is ever present With us or rather In us You that not long since so highly valu'd the Opportunities of conversing with your Mistriss for some few Moments shall here find your Priviledges improv'd to a Permission nay an Invitation of entertaining the Object of your Love at all times no hour renders your visits Unseasonable nor no length Tedious he is rather welcomest to God that comes to him Oftenest and stays with him Longest What favours were vouchsaf'd to that antient Prophetesse who was likewise one of the first Evangelists who for many years departed not from the Temple but served God with Fastings and Prayers Luk 2.37 c. Night and Day the beginning of St. Luke's Gospell may inform you The midnight-Hymns of Paul and Silas did not only not disturb or Offend him they prais'd Act. 16.25 26 c. but procur'd the visit of an Angell to bring them miraculous and unexpected Liberty as a proofe of the Acceptablenesse of their not-Canonicall Devotions Gen. 5. 22 23 24. When Enoch had walked with God as many years as the year has dayes God was so farre from being Importun'd or Tir'd by that lasting assiduity that vouchsafing him an unexampled exampled Exemption from death he was pleas'd by a new and nearer Cut to Heaven to admit him to a yet Closer more Immediate and more Undistracted Communion with himself And when Moses had spent no lesse than forty dayes and forty nights in conversing if I may use so Familiar a term with God in the Mount Exod. 34.30 he brought down thence instead of a Pennance for his Importunity so signall and radiant a Testimony of Gods peculiar Favour that his dazl'd Country-men were as much Disabled as Invited to gaze on an Object of so much wonder And then How proud doe we see many Lovers of their Sufferings when she but Knows of them for whom they are endured But in Seraphick Love there is not the least good Wish or privatest Suffering nay not a whispering Sigh or closer Thought that silently Groans or Aspires in the Amorous Soul but He both sees and heares that Puts his Servant's teares into his Bottle Ps 36.8 sweetning and recompencing the greatest Misfortunes that his Love occasions with such Support and Joyes as hinder us to feel them and make them deserve a contrary name Each amorous Soul may say to God with David Thou knowest my down-sitting Ps 139.2 3. and my up-rising thou understandest my thoughts afar off thou compassest my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my wayes And Christ also himself has so attentive an Eye upon the Amorous Soul that he is held forth in the Apocalypse as telling the Ruler of the Church of Smyrna Revel 2.8 9. I know thy works and tribulation and poverty And saying to the Angell of the Church of Pergamus Revel 2.12.13 I know thy works and where thou dwellest even where Satans seat is and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my Faith even in those dayes wherein Antipas was my Faithfull Martyr who was slain among you where Satan dwelleth So that no endearing Circumstance of our Love scapes unobserv'd by Him who has done and suffered so much to engage us to it God remembers not our Endeavours to serve Him the lesse for Our having forgotten them Matth. 25.37 c. When saw we thee any way distressed and relieved thee will be the Question of those to whom Heaven it self will be at the last Day awarded as having ministred to their Redeemer Those that in Degenerate times such as ours Lindamor did like Lot in Sodom mourn for their Sins that mourned not for their own and condol'd among themselves the Spreading Wickednesse of the times they liv'd in though probably the dangers threatned them by the very Sinfulnesse they deplor'd made them affect such Privacyes in their Conferen●s as freed them from the Thoughts of being over-heard yet the Scripture informs us and 't is a Comfortable as well as Memorable Passage that the Lord hearkened Mal 3.16 17. and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name Then shall he return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not I know says Christ not only to the Angell of Smyrna but to each true sufferer for Him thy works Rev. 2.9 10. and tribulation and poverty Fear none of these things that thou shalt suffer Be thou faithfull unto death and I will give thee a Crown of Life God is often pleas'd to accept those good thoughts and Intentions of his Servants which never arrive at actuall Performances Though David built not the Temple he design'd yet his Son that did it informs us that God said unto him 2 Chron. 6.8 Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my Name Thou didst well in that it was in thine heart c. And 't is the Epithet our Saviour gives God Mat. 6.6 Your Father which seeth in secret c. Nor need we fear our Rivalls should supplant us since we can have none in Devotion whose Prayer and Endeavour it is not that God would love us more For his Love to you being as the chiefest Merit the strongest Motive and Title unto theirs they cannot but Wish him well whom God doth Love so and cannot Wish him better then by imploring for him fresh Additions both of that Love of God and gratefull Dispositions to return it Our Saviours assures us that there is Joy in the Presence of the Angels of God over one Sinner Luk. 15.7 10. that repenteth And the sole Hymne except a visionary one I find recorded of the Coelestiall Quire Luk. 2.13 14. was sung for a Blessing to mankind wherein for ought I know their Love and Sympathy