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* 1.1AS sorrowfulnesse is the death of the body and the grief of the soul, so joy is the life of both. For where there is no joy, there is no life; and where there is all sadness, there is no∣thing but death. For as the Soul's life consisteth in joy, so the death thereof in sor∣row: So that he which hath true joy hath life; but he which loveth his God in heart unfainedly, hath true joy. And seeing this joy doth arise from the love of God onely and from
none other; therefore it followeth that to have all our love, all our good, all our content, and all our delight, yea, and all of life is to have the love of God. And seeing the love of God. (I mean, our love to God) is within man, that is in his will, heart, and affection, it followeth therefore, that to seek all our love, all our life, and all out content∣ment, we need not to go out of our selves.
O gracious God, teach me to have this treasure within me, namely, to love thee with all my heart,d 1.2 with all my soul, and with all my strength; and be∣cause,
sweet Father, I can∣not love theee 1.3 whom I have not seen, except I love my brother whom I see day∣ly. I beseech thee, that If 1.4 may love my neighbour as my self, and that I may love thee above my self, that nei∣ther tribulation,g 1.5 nor anguish, nor famine, nor nak••dnesse, nor life, nor death may be able to sepa∣rate me from the love that I have unto thee in Christ Jesus; That I may forsakeb 1.6 Father and Mother, Wife and Children, and leave all and follow thee.
Sorrow's Antidote, or Salve.
Deut. 6.
1 John 4.20.
Levit. 19.
Rom. 8.
Mat. 10.81.