Chap. 12.
Sect. I.
The different fruits of the two chief loves, the love of God, and self.
THat which is finally expected and desired by man, from other creatur's, is fruit. Every kind of fruit has its proper seed; and every seed brings forth its peculiar fruit, distinct from others. The will of man is a kind of spiritual field, where∣in two chief loves, as two very different seeds, are sown; self love, and the love of God. Let us now enquire after the final fruit producible from these two seeds or roots, which being contrary to each other, the fruits must needs be so too.
Endless joy and endless sorrow wilbe the two final fruits, springing up in the field of man's will, from the love of God, or self. Man seek's for joy in all he does; hates and flee's sorrow. True joy springs up only from the love of God; true sorrow, from self-love.
God only is that infinite, invariable, al-suffi∣cient good, which when man firmly loves and en∣joys, he hath joy enough; and that such, as none