a spark from heaven, though kindled under greenwood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last. Love once kindled is strong as death, much water cannot quench it, and therefore it is called a vehement flame, or flame of God (Cant. 8:6), kindled in the heart by the Holy Ghost; that little that is in us is fed with an everlasting spring. As the fire that came down from heaven in Elias’ time (1 Kgs. 18:38), licked up all the water, to show that it came from God, so will this fire spend all our corruption; no affliction without, or corruption within, shall quench it. In the morning we
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