S. 14.
God, being all goodnesse, can love nothing but himself; he loves us
but for that part which is, as it were, himselfe, and the traduction
of his Holy Spirit.
This recalls a sublime thought of Spinosa. Every true virtue is a part of that love, with which God loveth himself.
{Footnote 1: Communicated by Mr. Wordsworth.—Ed.}
{Footnote 2: A mistake as to Ænesidemus, who lived in the age of Augustus—Ed.}