persons that I have had to deal with, every condition of life that I have passed through, all my imployments, and all my relations, every change that hath befaln me, all tell me, That the Fountain is Overflowing Goodness.—Lord, what a summ of love am I in∣debted to thee? and how doth my debt continually increase? how should I love again for so much love? But what? shall I dare to think of making thee requital? or of recompencing all thy love with mine! will my mite requite thee for thy golden Mines? my seldom wishes for thy constant bounty? or mine which is nothing or not mine, for thine which is infinite and thine own? shall I dare to contend in love with thee? or set my borrowed languid spark, against the Element and Sun of Love! Can I love as high, as deep, as broad, as long as Love it self? as much as he that made me? and that made me love? that gave me all that little which I have▪ both the heart, the hearth where it is kindled, the bellows, the fire, the fuel, and all were his: As I cannot match thee in the works of thy Power, nor make, nor preserve, nor guide the worlds; so why should I think any moreof matching thee in Love? No, Lord, I yield, I am unable, I am overcome; O blessed conquest! Go on victoriously, and still prevail, and triumph in thy love: The Cap∣tive of Love, shall proclaim thy victory; when thou leadest me in triumph from Earth to Heaven, from Death to Life, from the Tri∣bunal to the Throne, my self, and all that see it, shall acknowledg that thou hast prevailed, and all shall say, Behold how he loved him. — Yet let me love thee in subjection to thy Love, as thy redeemed Captive, though not thy Peer; shall I not love at all be∣cause I cannot reach thy measure? or at least, let me heartily wish to love thee. O that I were able! O that I could feelingly say, I love thee! even as I feel I love my friend, and my self! Lord, that I could do it! but alas, I cannot, fain I would, but alas, I cannot. Would I not love thee, if I were but able? Though I cannot say as thy Apostle, Thou knowest that I Love thee, yet can I say, Lord, thou knowest that I would love thee; but I speak not this to excuse my fault, it is a crime that admits of no excuse, and it is my own, it dwelleth as neer me as my very heart; if my heart be my own, this sin is my own, yea and more my own then my heart is. —Lord, what shall this sinner do? the fault is my own,