a HOLY LIFE. 



Moreover thofe that love God, cannot 

 but be happy, becaufe thfey that love him, 

 fhall be beloved of him, both of the- Fa- 

 ther, and of the Son, John 14. xr. Hrthat 

 loveth me, fliall be beloved of my Father ^ and 

 I will love him^ and manifefl my felf to 

 him. And again, ^.25-. If a man love me^ 

 my Father will love him y and we will come 

 to him, and make our abode with him. God 

 is the fountain of Happinefs ; whatever 

 good is in the Creature, it came from him, 

 and is but a Beam of his Light: Whatever 

 is in the Creature in a limited, reftrained, 

 imperfeft manner? is in him without limi- 

 tation, without reftriffion, without imper- 

 feftion. He both can and will make them 

 whom he loves as happy as they are capa- 

 ble of being. God is the only Objed: that 

 deferves the highefl degree of our Love, 

 and he requires it : And therefore it is as 

 well againit our Duty as our Intereil to de- 

 ny it. 



As for the Love of our Neighbour, that 

 is commanded us by God, Levit. 19. 18. 

 Thou /halt love thy neighbour as thy felf, 

 repeated Matt. xx. 9. i John 4. xi. And 

 this Commandment have we from him^ that 

 he who loveth God^ love his Brother alfo. 

 From this immediately flows the perfor- 

 mance 



