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A34373 Contemplations on the love of God, &c. with a devout prayer sutable thereunto 1699 (1699) Wing C5952; ESTC R40866 7,661 24

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Contemplations ON THE LOVE OF GOD c. WITH A DEVOVT PRAYER Sutable thereunto God is Love 1 Joh. 4. 8. LONDON Printed for Sam. Keble at the Turks-head in Fleet-street 1699. Contemplations ON THE LOVE of GOD c. REligion is all Love and Love is the whole of Religion whoever loves as he should lives as he should Love is the Perfection of Angels the Happiness of Heaven the Duty and the Reward of Religion LOVE is the highest Progress that can be made in Religion its utmost Advances are Love and the Difference betwixt Heaven and Earth is only more Love Love will do and suffer all Things 't will make our Duty our Joy 't will mingle Heaven with this Life and make our Obedience choice and ravish us with Beauty and inflame us with Desires after that which is best and fairest and draw our Souls up to Heaven while our Bodies are groveling here on Earth Love can it self engrave an Heaven in the Soul here on Earth and enrich it with unspeakable Joys without Love we are dead with it we are immortal and in Heaven even before Death Love will do and sufter all Things that are pleasing to the infinitely Beloved 't will be pleas'd more with Sufferings than with Happiness and Pleasure when it believes that to be more pleasing to the Beloved and 't is the infinitely Beloved from whence this Love comes and who bestows this best of Gifts this Joy of Angels this Beauty and Glory of Heaven it self From hence is the little Peace that is to be found on Earth and those many secret Paradises in the Soul of good Men hence the Beauty and Order of the Mind hence the Agonies of a flaming and impatient Hope hence the Ardors of Faith and the Evidence of Things not seen but believed by the Lover on the Word of the Beloved hence Victory and Triumph in Misery or in Torments hence Hope against Hope hence we trust in God though he should slay us and are assured that our Redeemer lives and ceases not to make intercession for us hence Temples Altars and Vows and all the burning Solitary Loves of the Ancient Hermits and hence the holy Cities in the Desarts and the Sacred Crowds in the Wilderness hence Anthony and Paul and the Macharii Wonders hence Simeon Moses and Hillaryon to be had in everlasting Memory and much the holy St. Jerom and the more excellent Cassianus have endeavoured it From Love is all the Happiness of both the Worlds by it Death is smiling and chearful as Life and more desirable as leading to the Sight of the so much Beloved from whom Life detained if we loved much we would do and suffer any Thing for the Beloved and to prove our Love we should delight in Difficulties and court Hardships and provoke the Enemies of God our Beloved 'T is Love that conquers Sin and pursues the Heights of Vertue and the Purity of Heaven even in this Life 't is Love assisted by the dear Beloved that resists unto Death and in Tortures refuses Deliverance that it may behold the Face of the Beloved and see the Face that burnt the Heart and turned Love into Martyrdom By Love we usually believe and receive whatsoever our Religion delivers to us as knowing it to be the Voice of the Beloved who will not who cannot deceive us but is our Light as well as our Life our Way as well as our Friend who will guide us with his Love and direct us by his Kindness how to Love and what to Believe By Love we cut off all Infidelity and Distrust Obstinacy and Pride the Vanity of our own Judgment and the opposing Humility of Faith with the Arrogance of Reason and the Insolence of Discourse Love makes us suffer Chearsully whatsoever is sent for the Tryal of our Love and Rejoices at the Occasion Love is restless while it breathes on Earth and is kept from its Beloved who is all its Joy and all its Life and all its Hope and the very Shots of the other Life its greatest Pleasure and its main Support Love instructs us in every Duty and takes off the Difficulty and inhances the Reward it gives Strength and Faith Courage and Perseverance and gives us a large and charming Prospect of Heaven though at so great a Distance it delights in Labours and increases by Opposition is never Tired never Faints is never Overcome still Hopes still Rejoices and still Perseveres to the End By Love we pray with Faith and receive the Things asked for because we believe we should and 't was Love that made us believe It makes us Sincere and Constant Humble and Generous Kind and Good and without it we are Obstinate and Sullen Untractable and Conceined Dull and Confident Presumptuous and Unprofitable Unhappy to our selves as well as others Ungenerous Unmanly without Religion without Angels without a God lost to all the Comforts of this Life and the immortal Joys of that to come Bastards instead of Heirs Oppressive and Uncharitable Mean and Ambitious Base yet Proud Arrogant yet Ignoble By Love we enter upon the Life of Angels and taste the Joys of Heaven and burn in Charity with Cherubims and grow above this mortal Life and all its little Concerns and become Denizens of the new Jerusalem the everlasting City and converse with the blessed and immortal Spirits Flaming in Love like them still Praising still Adoring Triumphing with the Martyrs Rejoicing with the Confessors Loving with the Angels Panting with the Cherubims Singing with the Seraphims Adoring with the Thrones Ray'd with Love Clad with Glory Exalted by Musick Raised by Hymns now greater than Crowns and all this World earnest for the glorious Inheritance and impatient for the fulness of the Joy we have already so largely talked of 'T is Love that fills the Mind with charming Notions and the brightest Images She is the Mistress of Concord and Societies of Peace and Harmony of real Joys and lasting Satisfactions from Love are all the purest Notions of Vertue and Worship of Adoration and Obedience She is the fairest Guide and most charming Friendship and the wisest Instructor By Love the World is ruled and Violence supprest and Government maintained and Order is preserved and Kingdoms stand and Commonwealths obey'd for without Love Laws would be of little Strength and Force and Malice would turn all into Confusion and Anarchy and fill the World with Murther and Rapine Violence and Oppression Fury and Slaughter Love is the Way of the Perfect and leads through the brightest Paths to dazling Glory and inexpressible Bliss which nothing in this World so nearly resembles as Love and perhaps it 's only more Love that makes Heaven a happier Abode than this dull Earth that 's over-run with Discourse and Malice with Rage and Revenge with Folly and Violence with Darkness and Disorder By Love we conquer all the Injuries and Calamities we meet with and walk prosperously on our Way dissolving the Oppressor with Coals of Love Returns