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12. IT is the nature of every Grace to put on the Soul to diligence and speed.* 1.1 If you Loved God, you would make haste, and not delay or trifle; you would think nothing too much that you could possibly do: you would be ambitious to serve him, and please him still more: Love is quick, and impatient; it is active,
and observant.* 1.2 If you Loved Christ, you would keep his Command∣ments, and not accuse them of too much strictness. So also, if you had Faith, it would quicken and encourage you: If you had the Hope of Glory, it would, as the spring in the watch, set all the wheels of your Souls agoing. If you had the Fear of God, it would rouze you out of your slothfulness. If you had Zeal, it would inflame you, and eat you up. God hath put all his Graces in the Soul on purpose to be oyl to the wheels, to be life to the dead, to mind men of their duty, and dispose them to it, and to carry them to himself: So that in what degree soever thou art sanctified, in the same degree thou wilt be serious and laborious in the work of God.
§. 13.
Joh. 14.15.23.