Cordial":
"The nature of love to God. Love is an expansion of soul, or the inflaming of the affections, by which a Christian breathes after God as the supreme and sovereign good. Love is to the soul as the weights to the clock, it sets the soul a going towards God, as the wings by which we fly to heaven. By love we cleave to God, as the needle to the loadstone.
"The ground of love to God; that is, knowledge. We cannot love that which we do not know. That our love may be drawn forth to God, we must know these three things in Him:
"(i.) A fullness (Col. 1:19). He has a fullness of grace to cleanse us, and of glory to crown us; a fullness not only of sufficiency, but of redundancy. He is a sea of goodness without bottom and banks.
"(ii.) A freeness. God has an innate propensity to dispense mercy and grace; He drops as the honeycomb. 'Whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely,' (Rev. 22:17). God does not require that we should bring money with us, only appetite.
"(iii.) A propriety, or property. We must know that this fullness in God is ours. 'This God is our God,' (Psa. 48:14). Here is the ground of love
--His Deity, and the interest we have in Him."
