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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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of Kindness and Surprizing Forgivenesses and Pardons while he was meditating a second Mischief and a repeated though unprovok'd Evil takes a better Heart and a nobler Mind and is melted into Love and forc'd into a Friend By Love we not only bear our Trials but rejoice in them as the Proofs of our Love and our further Endearment to the Beloved as Arguments of our Sincerity and Opportunity to shew how much we Love and how violently and how much we are in Earnest and how much we would Endure rather than be divorced from him who came down from Heaven and from all his Glory to love us to Death By Love we die daily to this World and seek after the more perfect Love of the other that our Breasts may burn like Angels and the Apostles while the Prince of Love expounded the Scriptures that we may arrive at his Sight who is the Fairest among ten thousand that we may dwell on perfect Beauty for ever and feignt with unmeasurable Love and endless flaming Vows to the Beloved of our Souls who draws us by all the strongest Charms of Beauty and of Love to live and die for him to act and suffer every Thing to seek nothing but the pleasing him in whom our Love lives moves and has its Being and is restless till the Bars of Nature are broke and the shining Way is laid open that leads to the Fountain of Love and Beauty to the Rapture of our Souls and to unspeakable Bliss and Charms that are violent as Storms and soft as Peace and Musick and Sleep and last as long as the new Heavens 'T is Love that makes all the Peace that is in the World and cements Friendship and makes them stronger than Blood and to act like Religion and has produced Men greater than Heroes and all the fleated Histories of Antients that delighted to abuse themselves and us with Fables unworthy to be told and heard by Men. Love does Things that desire no Histories and are greater than all History and are well known in Heaven and observed by Angels though unknown on Earth and concealed from Men It tries and discovers and exposes the Hypocrite but renowns the Sincere and gives them Strength and Perseverance and inflames them with the brightest Passions and Charms to the noblest Actions and strengthens them to the greatest Sufferings fixing their Hope and confirming their F●ith and making it bright and flaming as the Mansions which no Eye has seen but that of Faith and pushes them on to the noblest Undertaking to attempt Things above Poetry and beyond the Force of human Power And such the Martyrs often did and such the glorious Confessors who raging with Love and transported with the most violent and dearest Affections to the Father Son and Spirit sought their beatifick Vision through Racks and Fire and mounted on Flames to Heaven 'T is Love that furnishes Arguments to support our Spirits when broken and disperst by a hard and unkind World that has always treated Vertue hard and the Righteous with the Portion of Sinners their Love guilds the Storm and pierces the Cloud with light and speaking like our Saviour rebukes the Wind and bids the Sea be still and suffers not the Righteous to be as the Wicked but distinguishes 'em in the Calamity and snatches 'em out of the Fire in which the Wicked are consumed to Ashes But Love preserves its Martyrs and its Confessors and if they die they live for ever and are crown'd for all their Sufferings and the exceeding great Reward drowns the Labour and covers the Martyrs with Psalms and he is lost in Glory and in Crowns and shines forth for ever like the Sun in the Kingdom of the Father and dies no more but is equal to the Angels being born of the Resurrection By Love we become easy to our selves and others too and the harshness of our Natures is worn off and our very Blood is sweetned as well as our Spirits by it we dismiss our Humours and our Pride and all the Contentions that ensue from thence the Arrogance and Contempt the great Opinion of our selves and the little Value for others the haughty Melancholy and unsociable Meen and Carriage that expects to be pleased in every Thing and complies in nothing But Love is humble and quiet as the Grave and undisturbed as the upper Region of the Air that 's never torn nor driven by Storms and Tempests but is Smooth and Even as the Face of Heaven it receives the Injury in Peace and revenges it with Kindness its Contentions are those of rival Friendship and an ambitious Generosity and as it receives every Injury with Patience so is careful to offer none it has no Designs but to promote the Good of its Neighbour which it always studies as its own 't is gentle 't is useful 't is pitiful 't is helpful rejoices not in Iniquity but rejoices in the Truth bears with all Men loves all Men forgives all Men obliges All. By Love we bind the Furies of our Neighbour and chain his Violence and he is spent in Vain like an angry Wave against a Rock and his Passion becomes as insignificant as the airy Flame that floats upon the Face of the Waters and he only rages against his own Wisdom and Glory and for a Time prefers that Rage of a Beast to the Order and Beauty of a Man to the Glory and Empire of Reason and to the Peace of God that dwells with the peaceful Soul By Love we delight in our Duty towards God and towards Man By Love every Thing is made easy but nothing more so than our Duty because nothing is more capable for in it is all our Interest and our Happiness and all our Hopes in it embark all our Labours and our Sweat and Treasure and therefore nothing can be dearer to us than our Duty and our Sufferings and our Confessions for his Name in whom we trust who in all our Sorrows will feed us with his Love and inrich us with his Favour and inable us with Crowns He who bids us fight will teach us to fight and shew us how to conquer and if we die in his Favour there is Life and at his Right-hand there are unutterable Pleasures for evermore Joys as violent as our Sufferings and rending Transports and over-powring Consolations that require an Enlargement of our Souls to endure them which else would burst with Torments of Delight and Agonies of Pleasure and surious Bliss By Love we understand what in every Circumstance and at all Times is most pleasing to the Beloved of our Souls for nothing is more knowing than Love that knows all Things by communication with the Beloved and informs the humble Lover who rejoices in every intimation of the Divine Will and desires to perform it with Ardor Love will direct beyond all the Learning in the World which is never to be compared to Love the brightest and highest Ornament of the Soul 't is Paradise on Earth 't