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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76021	Unum necessarium, or, The great duty of a Christian in two tracts : the one, Of adhering to God, written in Latin, by Albertus Magnus, the other, Of the love of God, written in high- Dutch, by John Staupitz / both faithfully translated into English for the promoting of primitive Christianity.; De adhaerendo Deo. English. 1692	Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.; Johannes von Kastl, 15th cent.; Staupitz, Johann von, d. 1524.	1692 (1692)	Wing A878; ESTC R42992	62,774	183

struck and smitten him to the end that nothing but Love might flow from him and that the substantial and essential Love which is God himself which is given unto us before all gifts and graces without any merit of ours for Righteousness might through the Holy Ghost flow through and wholely penetrate our hearts From all which we may gather this Conclusion that to love God above all is a meer pure Grace and Favour above all our Arts or Abilities and above all our Works and Merits CHAP. XI To love God above all things is not vouchsaved to all Beloved ones in the same Measure or Degree TO love God above all things is to love him Savingly now forasmuch as even in Saving Love there be higher and lower greater and less degrees it will not be in vain or unprofitable to make mention of the said difference or diversity There are some in this Love of God above all things that are called Incipientes i.e. Beginners others Proficientes Proficients or goers forward and some again Perfecti that are arrived to the Perfection of it Of which three sorts the first love God least the second more the third or last most of all yet all of them Love him above all things for did they love any thing more than God or equal with him their Love would rather be Hatred of God because therein they do not render him his true and due Honour as Gods Love saith Men indeed may build Straw Hay and Wood Gold Silver and Pretious Stones upon the Rock but for all that the Foundation doth not suffer it self to be shaken or removed Christ must still be Christ and God must be beloved as God that is above all things this is the true Foundation of all Love and good Desires and this is common to all true Lovers of what rank soever But the Reason of the diversity of some loving more some less some in a higher and others in a lower degree is this because Gods kind and amiable Manifestation of himself doth not act necessarily like Nature according to its utmost Power and Ability but more or less as the Holy Ghost pleaseth and how and when he pleaseth Therefore to Love God above all things is not only Free Grace but every degree of Love is so likewise CHAP. XII How or in what manner the Beginner loves God above all things THE first degree of Love manifests it self in this manner when the Loveliness of God is so deeply imprinted on the heart that a Man begins to love God above all things then such a Love infallibly brings along with it a loathing or dislike of whatsoever is contrary to God as of all deadly Sin and more especially of Pride whereby Man takes upon him to place himself on even ground with or above God which every Man does when he loves himself as much as or more than God This Love brings along with it Humility in Honour Temperance in Lusts and holy Fear not such as Servants stand in of their Master but such as young Children have for their Father In these Beginners there is a mixture of Fear and Love and a Conjunction of Heavenly and Earthly Desires they love many things together with God Therefore the vertue or goodness of these consists only in this that the Love of God that is in them continually brings forth Heavenly Desires and that tho' they love God together with other things yet they love him above and more than them Wherefore also the Beginner falls often into many lesser Sins by the delight he takes in Temporal Profit Honour and Pleasure and into strong Fears and Apprehensions of Temporal Losses and Trouble finds also in himself strong Inclinations to Deadly Sins so that often he is ready to sin but that the Friendly and Lovely Perception of God in his heart doth hinder him Wherefore it still appears that whatsoever the Love of God above all things begets or brings forth in the Heart is nothing else but meer Grace CHAP. XIII How the Proficient Loves God above all things MOreover it oft happens that God from Heaven doth manifest himself yet more friendly and amiably to the Heart and thereby inflames the Will to that degree that now the Soul doth not only love God above all things but also make use of all other things in subordination and with reference to the Love of God in all things aiming at his Praise and Glory Such an one is more concern'd how he may please God than about Sins displeasing of him Now he to whom it is given to love God in this Degree or to speak more exact he in whom the Holy Ghost thus loves in him this Love is immediately followed by the Love of Righteousness great Strength and Courage of Mind a Liberal Heart Prudent Converse wise Purposes and Undertakings and other such like Vertues that help to raise a Man above himself I have said that Man being so highly excited and moved with the Divine Kindness and Loveliness doth love God in this manner or rather that the Holy Ghost thus loves in him to the end that no body might attribute his Proficiency or rising higher to himself but appropriate and impute it to God alone Even as Christ instructed his Disciples and in them all of us When ye shall be brought before Kings and Governors for my sake take no thought how or what ye shall speak for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak For it is not ye that speak but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you Mat. 10.18 19 20. These are the Words of Eternal Truth Now if it be true that he does not speak whom we see moving his Tongue and Lips whose Voice we hear and perceive his Breath why should not we then for the same reason appropriate and impute the Love we feel in our hearts to God alone acknowledging it to be his only The moving or motion is from the Holy Ghost but the perceiving of it is ours as when any one tickleth us the Tickling is anothers but the Sensation it produces is our own From all which it appears that the Love of Proficients together with the Vertues flowing from it are meer Grace as well as that of the Beginner CHAP. XIV How the Perfect Lover loves God above all things HE is called Perfect in Love to whom God manifests and represents himself so kind so sweet and so amiable that he becomes wholely of the mind that there is nothing lovely but God nothing kind sweet and friendly but God Such a Man as this loatheth and is burthen'd with himself hateth this Life and longs for Death that nothing might hinder him in his Love Wherefore also strange and wonderful Works proceed from such an one all which God by Love works in him He is full of Joy Peace and Rest he doth not trouble himself about either Heaven or Hell Angel or Devil Friend or Foe he hates Father and Mother Wife and