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EVery beam of Light proceeding from the body of the Sun,* 1.1 is either direct, broken, or reflex; direct, when it shineth out upon the Center in a lineary motion without any obliquity; broken, when it meets with some grosser body, so that it cannot shine out-right, but is enforced to incline to one part or other, and therefore called a collaterall or broken light; reflex, when lighting upon
some more grosse body, it is beaten back, and so reflects upon its first prin∣ciple: Thus let the Sons of Men pretend never so much to the Love of God, their Love is either a broken or reflecting Love, seldome direct; broken, when it is fixed upon the things of this World; reflex, when it ayms at self-Interest; Whereas the Love of God is the onely true Love,* 1.2 a direct Love without obliquity; a sincere Love without reflexion; such a Love as breaks through all impedi∣ments, and hath nothing in Heaven but God, and desireth nothing on Earth in comparison of him; such a Love as looketh upon the World by way of subordina∣tion, but upon God by way of eminency.
Tho. Staple∣t••ni. Prompt. moral. Dom. 17 post Pente∣cost.
Illi diligune Deum qui non non aliud, &c. Aug. de vita Christi. Psal. 73. 25.