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1. THis is it now which a man loves in our friends; and so loves it, that he must in conscience confesse himselfe guil∣ty if he should not love him that loves him againe, or not love that man againe that loves him first, expecting no other thing from him besides the pure demonstra∣tion of his love. Hence is that mourning when ever a friend dyes, yea those overcastings of sorrowes, that steeping of the
heart in teares, all sweetnesse ut∣terly turn'd into bitternesse: hence too upon the losse of the life of the dying, comes the death of the living. But blessed is the man that loves thee, and his friend in thee, and his enemy for thee. For he alone loses none that is deare unto him, to whom all are deare, in him that can never bee lost. And who is this but our God, the God that made heaven and earth, and who filleth them, because in filling them he created them? Thee, no man loses, but he that lets thee go. And he that lets, thee goe, whither goes hee, or whither runnes he, but from thee well pleased, backe to thee of∣fended? For where shall not such a one finde thy Law fulfilled in his owne punishment? And * 1.1 thy Law is truth, and Truth is thy selfe.
Ioh. 17. 17