a HOLY LIFE. nt 



tranfcribe thence what he hath concerning 

 the Love of God; for the reft referring the 

 Reader to the Book it felf. 



And if (faith he) the Nature of this Life 

 be further examined, you will find the 

 Mind [of which he had fpoken before] is 

 not the only Faculty that ihall be gratified, 

 but the Will fhall conceive a Love as great 

 as the Knowledge of which I have dif- 

 courfed. For as God is the higheft Objeft 

 of the Underftanding, being the prime 

 Trut^ fo he is the chiefeft Objeft of the 

 Will, being the firft and beft Good. And 

 therefore as the Underftanding then fliall 

 molt clearly know him, fo the Will in like 

 manner Ihall mod ardently love him, and 

 find perfeft fatisfadion in that Love. There 

 is a neceflary connexion between thefe 

 things, and it cannot be otherwife, but 

 that from the beft Good clearly known 

 there will flow the greateft Love, drawing 

 along with it the greateit delight, and the 

 moft perfect repofe. And therefore to fee 

 God contains in its Notion both Love and 

 Delegation, with Reft, and Satisfaction, 

 Love naturally flows from thence, as from 

 its Fountain ; and the other naturally flow 

 from Love, which is the higheft Aft of 

 that Faculty which we call the Will* as 



knowing 



