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VirginiaHuguenot · #2 (**permalink**) 12-29-2007, 08:31 PM

John Wing, The Crown Conjugal, pp. 55-56:

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Secondly, consider the nature of this love [a husband's love to his wife], it must be the most dear, intimate, precious and entire that heart can have toward a creature; none but the love of GOD above is above it; none but the love of ourselves is fellow to it; all the love of others is inferior to it, even of our Father and Mother who begot and bare us, and of whose blood we are. The Fountain of love will have the current run stronger to the Wife than to any, or to all other; yea, all they shall dry up before this may fail. It must be the love of one member to another, of all members to the head, of the head to them again, and (in a word) the whole love of a creature to himself. Nay, what speak we of natural love (which is so much, too little shadow of this); nothing can sufficiently signify it unto us but the supernatural love of Christ to his spiritual spouse, which is such love as no man has, surpassing the same in all excellent respects whatsoever. Thus is the nature of this love.