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270 Appendix A [31] The third Consideration is concerning the exercise of this love, which is twofold, inward or outward, the outward hath been handled in the former preface of this discourse, for unfolding the other we must take in our way the maxim of philosophy, simile simli gaudet or like will to like; for as it is things which are carved26 with disaffection to each other, the ground of it is from a dissimilitude or [blank] arising from the contrary or different nature of things themselves, so the ground of love is an apprehension of some resemblance in the things loved to that which affects it, this is the cause why the Lord loves the Creature, so far as it hath any of his Image in it, he loves his elect because they are like himself, he beholds them in his beloved son: so a mother loves her child, because she thoroughly conceives a resemblance of herself in it. Thus it is between the members of Christ, each discerns by the work of the spirit his own image and resemblance in another, and therefore cannot but love him as he loves himself: Now when the soul which is of sociable nature finds any thing like to itself, it is like Adam when Eve was brought to him, she must have it one with herself this is flesh of my flesh (saith she) and bone of my bone she conceives a great delight in it, therefore she desires nearness and familiarity with it: she hath a greater propensity to do it good and receives such content in it, as fearing in the miscarriage of her beloved she bestows it in the inmost closet of her heart, she will not endure that it shall want any good which she can give it, if by occasion she be withdrawn from the Company of it, she is still looking towards the place where she left her beloved, if she hear it groan she is with it presently, if she find it sad and disconsolate she sighs and mourns with it, she hath no joy, as to see her beloved merry and thriving, if she see it wronged, she cannot bear it without passion, she sets not bounds of her affections, nor hath any thought of reward, she finds recompense enough in the exercise of her love towards it, we may see this Acted to life in Jonathan and David. Jonathan a valiant man endued with the spirit of Christ, so soon as he Discovers the same spirit in David had presently his heart knit to him by this ligament of love, so that it is said he loved him as his own soul, he takes so great pleasure in him that he strips himself to adorn his beloved, his father’s kingdom was not so precious to him as his beloved David, David shall have it with all his heart, himself desires no more but that he may be near him to rejoice in his good he chooseth to converse with him in the wilderness even to the hazard of his own life, rather than with the great Courtiers in his father’s Palace; when he sees danger towards him, he spares neither care pains, A Model of Christian Charity 271 nor peril to divert it, when Injury was offered his beloved David, he could not bear it, though from his own father, and when they must part for a Season only, they thought their hearts would have broke for sorrow, had not their affections found vent by abundance of Tears: other instances might be brought to show the nature of this affection as of Ruth and Naomi and many others, but this truth is clear enough. If any shall object that it is not possible that love should be bred or upheld without help of requital, it is granted but that is not our cause, for this love is always under reward it never gives, but it always receives with advantage: first, in regard that among members of the same body, love and affection are reciprocal in a most equal and sweet kind of Commerce. 2ly [3ly], in regard of the pleasure and content that the exercise of love carries with it as we may see in the natural body the mouth is all the pains to receive, and mince the food which serves for the nourishment of all the other parts of the body, yet it hath no cause to complain...

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