The division to which reference is here made will be
found on page 56. The figure [2.] should have been inserted at the head of
this chapter, to correspond with [1.] on that page. The insertion of it,
however, would have required great changes, and rendered the subsequent
numeration very obscure. — Ed.The communion begun, as before
declared, between Christ and the soul, is in the next place carried on by
suitable consequential affections, —
affections suiting such a relation. Christ having given himself to the
soul, loves the soul; and the soul having given itself unto Christ, loveth
him also. Christ loves his own, yea, “loves them to the end,” John xiii. 1; and the saints they
love Christ, they “love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity,” Eph. vi. 24.