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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

without which nothing The fourth generall part of this Doctrine are the motiues that should perswade vs to loue God among which I shall commend these foure which follow First the obiect it selfe euen God if we consider him in his essence and attributes should be the most sufficient enducement to loue him In his essence he is eternall without beginning without ending hee is infinite not comprehensible in no place circumscriptiuely in all places repletiuely In his attributes he is most beautifull naturally wee loue beauty God is the perfection of beauty he is the Sunne of righteousnes to whom al things are transparent and manifest his glory is so great that the very Seraphims are not able to behold it but standing before the throne are dazeled and are faine to couer their faces with their wings Dost thou loue wisedome God is omniscient his knowledge is infinite things past and things to come are present with him Admirable must needs his knowledge be who knew before the foundations of the world were laide what would be all the thoughts words and workes of all men and Angels that euer should existe Dost thou loue holinesse The holinesse of God doth as infinitly surpasse the holines of the Angels as the Creator doth the creature holines in the creature is a quality● in God it is his essence God is holy à seipso essentialiter the creature à Deo participatiue Gods holinesse is originally and fundamentally in himselfe the creatures onely by participation God communicating his holinesse to the creature Doest thou loue Iustice God is most iust Hence called the righteous Iudge He is Iustice it selfe yea the rule and perfection of Iustice. Doest thou loue mercy See in God the mirrour of mercy He loueth them that hate him hee causeth the Sunne to shine vpon the iust and vniust he giueth vs many good things and forgiueth vs many euill offences yea he gaue his deare and onely Sonne for vs wretched and miserable ●inners The Lord is so infinite that we cannot know him as he is let vs labour therefore to loue him as wee may The second motiue that should induce vs to loue God is the excellency of the grace of loue it is that which makes vs like vnto God for God is loue It is that which maketh vs acceptable to him for God loueth those that loue him it is that which doth assure vs of the loue of God toward vs for if we loue him he loued vs first A man by beholding a Sunne-dyall may know the motion of the Sunne in the firmament so beholding the dyall of thy loue toward God thou mayest quickly be perswaded of Gods loue toward thee Hatred is darknesse loue is light● which will bring thee to light Loue is the Summe of the Law Loue is the bond of perfection There are three Theologicall vertues Faith Hope and Loue of these three Loue is most permanent and when Faith and Hope shall cea●e because they enioy what they beleeued and hoped for yet loue shall be eternall because God is eternall The third motiue to perswade vs to loue God is Gods loue towards vs. Amari non amare inhumanum est To be loued and not to loue againe is inhumane God loued vs before we were he elected vs of his free pleasure he created vs of his meere goodnesse he redeemed vs of his infinite mercy hee preserued vs by his wonderfull power he conuerted vs of heauenly compassion and will glorifie vs by his grace He brought vs home when wee wandred in the wildernesse of wickednesse as he did the lost sheepe He hath nourished vs with foode both naturall and spirituall he hath cancelled the hand-writing which was against vs he hath set vs at liberty to serue him he hath freed vs from the cup of fornication of the Babylonian hostesse I meane Romes beast In a word he hath been our God from generation to generation deliuering vs admirably and strangely from many wonderfull dangers witnesse Eighty-eight and the Powder-treason deliuerances neuer to be forgotten so long as England stands Let vs not therefore be so vngratefull so vnthankefull as not to loue our God who hath thus loued vs. The fourth and last inducement to loue God is the reward which is laid vp for them that loue him Paul tels vs there is a crowne of righteousnesse laid vp for them that loue his appearing no man can loue the appearing of God but he that loues God himselfe Iames tels vs that God hath promised a crowne of life to them that loue him He then that would liue in heauen like a king must first loue God here as a subiect he that would haue the glory there to raigne with him must first haue the grace here to loue him Men loue the ioyes and pleasures of this world because they seeme delectable but in the presence of God there is fulnesse of ioy and at his right hand are pleasures for euermore There is plenitude of ioy and perpetuity of heauenly pleasure And againe Saint Paul comforts vs saying That the eye hath not seene the eare hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that loue him There shall be life without death continuance without weaknes light without darknes ioy without sadnes a kingdome without change happines without interruption in a word there we shal enioy God himselfe who is more excellent then all the world beside the enioying of whose presence the Fathers call The beatificall vision which alone is able perfectly to make vs happy Thus if we seeke loue and ensue it it will at length bring vs to the heauenly citie the new Ierusalem where we shall dwell for euer The last generall part of this doctrine are the meanes to attaine this loue of God The olde Greeke prouerbe is true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Difficilia quae pulchra Good things are hard to come by Loue being so excellent a grace is the more difficult to be attained wherfore our industry must worke out the difficulty that by vsing these good helpes we may at length purchase this vnualuable iewell The first helpe to purchase this loue of God is Prayer Prayer it is the key wherewith we vnlocke heauen and moue God to power down blessings in aboundance like the raine which Eliah prayed for vpon the earth Prayer it is the life of all our labours without it it is impossible to get any grace it must bee the first and the last of all our workes it must be a key to open the morning and shut vp the euening When Elias prayed there came downe fire from heauen and consumed the Captaines with their fifties so by prayer thou shalt bring downe from God the fire of diuine loue which will consume thy Captaine sinnes and destroy thy strong corrupt desires When good king Asa fought against the Ethiopians the