The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . 84 Of Love 6, Properry oflove, it is likefire in 4 thingsCant :i4,f« ;tJMJSi THE FOVRTH SERMON. Gall a t. 5. /» fefus Qirift, neither circumcijlon avai-led? any thing, nor uncircumcifionjbut Faithwhich Tborketh by Loye. H e laft thing that wee did was tofhew you what were the propertiesof true love 5 that by them youmight try your felves whether youlove the Lord Iefus or nor we wentthrough five in the morning, we now proccede. Another property ofloveisthis^ it is full ofheate: therefore in Can
The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . 84 Of Love 6, Properry oflove, it is likefire in 4 thingsCant :i4,f« ;tJMJSi THE FOVRTH SERMON. Gall a t. 5. /» fefus Qirift, neither circumcijlon avai-led? any thing, nor uncircumcifionjbut Faithwhich Tborketh by Loye. H e laft thing that wee did was tofhew you what were the propertiesof true love 5 that by them youmight try your felves whether youlove the Lord Iefus or nor we wentthrough five in the morning, we now proccede. Another property ofloveisthis^ it is full ofheate: therefore in Cant. 8. it is compared tocodes of juniper : and that phrafe is ufed in M* . Iniquity Jhall abounded the love of btany Jhallwaxecolde. That antithefis fhewes that love is a hot. o O V E. »5 hot thing, hot as fire. Therefore if you wouldknow whether you love the Lord Icfus or no,confidcr what heat and what fire there is in you. Now what arc the properties of fire i where-in doth love and that agree t Fire, you know, is the moft aftive of all theelements; colde benummes a man, and is thegrcatcft cnemie to a&ion: if thou love the LordIcfus, thou flialt finde thy love will have tuatproperty of fire to fet all on worke on thee; itwill fet thy tongue on fire,and thy hands on fire,and thy head and heart on fire, every tl | ig thatis within thee will be working, and doing fomcfervicc or other tc :he Lord. When a man wan-teth love% hee is as amanbenummed, as a manfro: en in his ireggs, not apt to any thing: themorcathiiigis like to fire, the more aptneflc,and the mote aftivenerte; fo the more love, themore aptnefTe and readineflc to every goodworker where there is no love, there men arereprobate to every good worke. Bcfides, love as it is very aftive, fo it is ve
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