the latter, emotions, which accompany hope in Christ. (7) To begin with the chara&ers of true love to God. In patientiam Chrifti. i. e. fui, nomen repetit loco pronominis, per hebraifmum nempe in eam patientiam, cujus caufa eft Chriftus; vel propter Chriftum, ut fit ellipfis τὸ ἕνεκα. Grot. Patience of Chrift. Too v To X9158.-—Rev. i. 9 Ka υπομονη Ιησε Χρισε. (7) Emotions, which accompany hope, that is to fay, the concomitants of hope. Concomitants are not caufative, or confequential: but collateral; they are conjoined with another thing. Thefe, in the compofition of a fermon, refemble accompanyments in mufick, and our divines throw them into their compofitions in a great variety of methods. Sometimes they treat of concomitants profefedly, as Mr. Claude does above; more frequently, efpecially among our old divines, concomitants compofe the application; of this latter method two examples fhall fuffice. "Acts vii. 22. Mofes was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds." After difcuffing the fubject, human literature, and fhewing the great advantages of it in the exercife of the miniftry, the preacher makes an application of his fubject by shewing 1. The what ought to accompany human learning in the ministers of religion." 1. Ufe it not unnecessarily. 2. Use it not vain-gloriously. 3. Ufe it not proudly. 4. Ufe it not heretically. 5. Ufe it not profanely.-But ufe it with bumility-deration-sobriety-as an handmaid to Chrift, &c. Funeral Sermon for Langley, Mafter of St. Paul's School, by Dr. Reynolds. 1657. Joshua i. 2. Mofes my fervant is dead.... The fervant of Chrift, whofe funeral we are now folemnizing, like Mofes, was faithful in executing all the parts of his office; and his fidelity was accompanied with..1.Dif intereftedness -2. Plainnefs and openness of heart-3. Courage-4. Candour-5. Concife good fenfe-6. Diligence, &c. &c. Sam. Facombe's Serm. at Bright's funeral. 1656. In modern practice concomitants are usually interwoven with the subject, and serve to explain, illuftrate, and prove it, conveying innumerable graces into a difcourfe, and freeing it from the stiffness of scholaftick pedantry. Various methods, however, are proper on various occafions, and preachers muft ufe their own skill in felecting. 1. The feat of it is the heart, which it penetrates, and poffeffes. This diftinguishes it from the feigned love of hypocrites, which is only in word, or in external actions, while their hearts are full of finful felf-love, fo that it may be faid of them as God once faid of the Ifraelites, this people bonours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 2. It is a love, that poffeffes the whole heart, without allowing a partition among different objects. Thus it is diftinguished from that partial love, which almoft-chriftians have, who have fometimes good defires toward zeal and repentance: but they are tranfient only, and never come to perfection, because the foul is divided, and occupied with various worldly objects, and because the love of God, from which true repentance and zeal proceed, is not rooted in the heart: it is for this reafon, that scripture commands us to love God with all our hearts, or, as David fpeaks, to love him with a cordial affection. (8) (8.) David Jays, we muft love God cordially. I fall fuppofe, Mr. Claude alludes to Pfal. xviii. 2d. in the Heb. the ift verfe.-I will love thee, O Lord. X ex intimis vifceribus diligam te. dilexit, proprie ex intimis vifceribus quafi deductum a nomine uterus, qui tenerrimo affectu fætum complectitur. Buxtorf. The verb, as one obferves, is in Kal. and fignifies to be affected, move or yearn as the bowels do in tender affection, as in love or pity. To love intimately, tenderly, intenfely. 3. The 3. The love of God is not indeed alone in the heart of a good man, he may also love creatures; a father loves his children, a friend his friend, a master his servant, a king his subjects, a wife her husband; of a writer more fully. Moft flesh-luft-lufts of the flesh words expreffive of the opera-corruptions of the hearttions of Spirit were originally bowels of mercy- -a dear retaken from the material in- deemer-fighting for Godftrument, by which these in- purging from fin-a naked vifible operations expreffed finner things of God themselves. Hand for power-- breafts of ordinances-womb heart for fenfibility-bowels of converfion-rottennefs of for love and a thousand heart-putrifying fores, &c. more might be mentioned, &c. I will not fay what one and a natural account might faid of men abounding with be given of them. But, thefe phrafes, they are a great waiving an exact difcuffion nothing in a juggling-box: but of this fubject, it may not I must fay, their fermons be improper to obferve, that are difagreeable fomethings, a divine should avoid indeli- which produce bad effects. cacy of ftyle, and feek to find A young clergyman of my out acceptable words. Eccl. acquaintance, hearing a mixii. 10. I fay nothing of nifter preaching on the types, fome indelicate tranflations and expounding the fat, that of whole paffages of fcrip- covereth the inwards, and the ture, fuch as I Kings xxi. two kidnies, and the fat, which 21. Ezek. xvi. 4. 6. 25. is by the flanks, and the caul Matt. ix. 20. 1 John iii. 9. above the liver, Lev. iii. 3, v. 18. but I may venture to 4. became fo heart-fick, that, fay, that many fingle words, had he not left the affembly, and even many phrases, not and fled into the pure open improper in our prefent air, the doctrine would have tranflation, become very im- inftantly operated as an emeproper in fermons by an in- tic too powerful for all his judicious and promifcuous refolution to refift. Let a ufe of them. Were a ftudent young preacher imagine himto make an index expurgato- ielf expounding a whole conrius, probably he might fee gregation into fuch fenfareafon to expunge feveral of tions, by an indiscreet ufe of thefe, and also many popu- obfolete language, and let lar phrafes and terms of our him turn a deaf ear to the old divines. For example, above hints if he can. husband; but the character of divine love in us is, on the one hand to fufer no love contrary to itself in the heart, for no man can serve two masters, and the love of the world is enmity against God; and on the other hand, love of God does not suffer any of the objects, the love of which is compatible with itself, to hold the chief place in the heart. This chief place is for God, to put him in a fecond place is to treat him opprobriously. Even to equal another object with him is to infult him, wherever he is, he muft fill the throne himself, and, if a holy heart be an image of heaven, as it is in effect, God must reign there, and all must be submiffive to him. 4. The emotions and acts of this love must be infinite, without meafure as well as without fubordination; without bounds as well as without partition. The reason is, our love must resemble its object, and its object is infinite, and this is one fense of this command Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy foul (9). But how, say you, can (9.) Love must refemble its bject. A great critick fays, that many motions have some resemblance to their caufes is a truth, that can be made clear by induction-fluggish motion for example, caufeth a languid unpleafant feeling; flow uniform mo. tion a feeling calm and plea fant; and brifk motion, a lively feeling that roufes the fpirits and promotes activity. A found in a low key, brings down the mind; fuch a found in a full tone, hath a certain folemnity which it VOL. II. we, communicates to the feeling produced by it.-A wall or pillar that declines from the perpendicular, produceth a painful feeling, as of a tottering and falling within the mind. This is ftill more remarkable in emotions raised by human actions: any fignal inftance of gratitude, belides procuring efteem for the author, raifeth in the spectator a vague emotion of gratitude, which difpofeth him to be grateful; and this vague emotion hath a strong refemblance to its cause, viz. the paffion we, who are finite creatures perform infinite acts? I answer, the acts of the creature are in a manner infinite. (1) This infinity confifts in my opinion. paffion that produced the grateful action. In fhort with refpect to all virtuous actions, it will be found by induction, that they lead us to imitation, by infpiring emotions refembling the paf fions that produced thefe actions.' Paffions indeed are afcribed to the divinity only figuratively in fcripture: but is there any harm in purfuing the thought of this admirable critick, and applying it to christian love excited by the mighty acts of the invifible God, who not only opened inexhaustible treafures of temporal favours: but fo loved the world as to give his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him fhould not perish but have eternal life? in exhauftible and incomprehenfible, for when we call them infinite, we have no other idea of this infinity, but what carries with it fome reflection on, and intimations of, that number or extent of the acts or objects of God's power, wisdom, and goodness, which can never be fuppofed fo great, or fo many which these attributes will not always exceed, let us multiply them in our thoughts, as far as we can, with all the infinity of endless number!" Essay b. ii. c. 17. f. 1. Our tranflators feem to ufe the word infinite in the fame fenfe, Pfal. cxlvii. 5. He telleth the number of the ftars: be calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power, his understanding is infinite. 70 N, non numerus. The emanations of his wif dom, and the acts of his power are beyond all our computations. - Nahum iii. 9. Ethiopia and Egipt were ber (No Ammon's) ftrength (1) Infinite. Mr. Locke on this fubject fays, "the great God of whom, and from whom are all things, is incomprehenfibly infinite. But yet when we apply to that firit and fupreme being, our idea of infinite, in our weak and narrow thoughts, we do it primarily in refpect of and it was infinite. his duration and ubiquity: Bendes all the natural advanand I think more figuratively tages, which No-Ammon had to his power, witdom, and from her fituation, verfe 8, goedinefs, and other attri- there was no end of the fucbutes, which are properly in- cours, which the received from Ethiopia, |