[ 1921] The difference betwixt true and feyned Love unto Christ.
VVhat Alexander said of his two Friends Hephestion and Craterus is made good in the practice of too too many in these daies;* 1.1 Hephestion,* 1.2 saies he,* 1.3 loves me as I am Alexander, but Crat••rus loves me as I am King Alex∣ander, so that the one loved him for his Person the other for the benefits he recei∣ved by him: Thus some Nathaniels there be that love Christ for his Person, for his personall excellencies, for his personal, beauty, for his personall glory, they see those perfections of grace and holin••sse in Christ, that would render him very lovely and desireable in their eyes, though they should never get a King∣dome, or a Crown by him;* 1.4 But so it is that most of those (which is to be la∣mented) do it onely in respect of the benefit they receive by him, scarce any loves Christ but for his Rewards, some few there are that follow him for love, but many for the loaves; few for his inward excellencies, many for his outward advantages, and few that they may be good by him, but many that they may be made great by him.