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True Christian Love
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| Anone our Joy perfect ſhall be, | |
| anone our Marriage-feaſt: | |
| For as thou dy'd for me, for me | John 16. 23. |
| ſo alſo didſt thou riſe: | Rom. 5. 25. |
| And reigns as God, and ſhall me fetch, | 1 Theſſ. 4. |
| ſo makes thy Word me wiſe. | |
| Fond Lovers, tell me now if you | Cant. 5. 10 |
| have any Love like this; | and 5. 16. |
| Come take a ſhare with me, my Love | |
| wholly ſpiritual is. | |
| Come, change your Loves, and Love with me, | |
| or elſe you periſh ſhall: | |
| Go charge your Loves to do the ſame | |
| or periſh ſhall you all. | |
| Gods curſe on him that loveth not | 2 Cor. 16. |
| my Love Lord JESUS CHRIST: | |
| Or loves not them that do love him, | Eph. 22. |
| this curſe with Death keeps tryſt. | |
| Behold, this is my Lore, yet it | Acts 2. 24. |
| he could like your Love die, | 4 |
| All theſe Excellencies of his | Rev. 2. 18. |
| ſhould work my Miſerie. | |
| Or yet if I by Death could be, | 2 Cor. 5. 7. |
| depriv'd of this my Love: | |
| All that is ſaid, or can ye more, | |
| were nought to my Behove. | |
| But now my Love ſhall never die | |
| his Days ſhall never end: | |
| His Life ſhall eternize his Love, | Rev. 1. 18. |
| his Life to Love doth tend. | Heb. 1. 12 |
| And I by Death ſhall have no loſs | 2 Cor, 13 |
| my Love ſhall then be more | 14. |
| Both mine to him, and his to me, | |
| bleſſed be God therefore: |
