This is Christian. Do it therefore, and say, "Why should any thing
have my heart but God, but Christ? He loves me with love that
passeth knowledge. He loves me, and he shall have me; he loves me,
and I will love him; his love stripped him of all for my sake; Lord,
let my love strip me of all for thy sake. I am a son of love, an
object of love, a monument of love, of free love, of distinguishing
love, of peculiar love, and of love that passeth knowledge; and why
should not I walk in love? in love to God, in love to men, in holy
love, in love unfeigned?"
This is the way to improve the love of God for thy advantage, for
the subduing of thy passions, and for sanctifying of thy nature.
It is an odious thing to hear men of base lives talking of the love
of God, of the death of Christ, and of the glorious grace that is
presented unto sinners by the word of the truth of the gospel.
Praise is comely for the upright, not for the profane.
Therefore let him speak of love that is taken with love, that is
captivated with love, that is carried away with love. If this man
speaks of it, his speaking signifies something; the powers and bands
of love are upon him, and he shows to all that he knows what he is
speaking of. But the very mentioning of love is, in the mouth of the
profane, like a parable in the mouth of fools.
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