3. Christ. Love is a great thing, which alone maketh every burden light, and beareth all the vicissitudes of life.
*For it carrieth a burden without a burden, and maketh every thing that is bitter, sweet and savoury.
The love of Jesus impelleth to do great things, and stirreth up continually to desire greater perfection.
Love will be aloft, and not kept down with any earthly thing.
Love will be free and loose from all worldly affection, lest its inward sight be hindered, lest it be entangled by any temporal prosperity, or subdued by adversity.
*Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing is stronger, nothing higher, nothing more large, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven or in earth.
Because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all creatures.
4. He that loveth, flieth, runneth and rejoiceth; he is free and not bound.
*He giveth all for all, and hath all in all; for he resteth in the supreme One, from whom all good proceedeth.
He respecteth not the gifts, but turneth himself above all goods unto the Giver.