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John Wycliffe 1330-1384

John Wycliffe 1330-1384. Insuperable love is a love for Jesus that surpasses all other loves and endures through any affliction. Inseparable love is a love for Jesus that we never let go of, that inflames our minds continuously.

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John Wycliffe 1330-1384

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  1. John Wycliffe 1330-1384

  2. Insuperable love is a love for Jesus that surpasses all other loves and endures through any affliction. • Inseparable love is a love for Jesus that we never let go of, that inflames our minds continuously. • Singular love refuses to be satisfied by anyone or anything else besides Jesus. John Wycliffe 1330-1384

  3. There are three degrees of love for Christ. Those who are chosen for God’s love go from one to another. The first is called insuperable, the second is inseparable, and the third is called singular. In the first degree are some, in the second but few, and in the third, scarcely any. Love is a burning desire to God, with a wonderful delight in soul. Love unites the love and the beloved. Love is the desire of the heart , ever thinking on that which it loves. Love is a stirring of the soul to love God for Himself, and all other things for God.

  4. Love is insuperable when it cannot be overcome with any other affection or love, trial or temptation. When man suffers gladly and submissively all anguish for Christ, and is not overcome with any delight or flattering—so that whether you are in ease or in anguish, in sickness or in health, you would not for all the world, anger God at any time—that is insuperable love. O Holy Ghost, who inspires where You will, come into us, draw us to You, that we may despise and set at naught in our hearts all things of this world.

  5. Love is inseparable when man’s mind is inflamed with great love and cleaves to Christ by inseparable thought. Such a man does not allow Christ to be any moment out of his mind, but he thinks upon God as though he were bound in the heart, and with great earnestness he draws his spirit from God. When man clings to Christ continuously, thinking upon Him, forgetting Him for no other occasion, then man’s love is said to be inseparable and everlasting. Most sweet Lord, from henceforward leave us not. Dwell with us in Your sweetness; for only Your presence is to us solace or comfort, and only Your absence leaves us sorrowful. Enter into the inmost recesses of our souls.

  6. The third degree of love is singular. If you seek or receive any other comfort than from your God, even though you love highly, you have not loved singularly. Singular love is when all warmth and comfort is closed out of the heart, except the love of Jesus alone. Other delights or joys fail to please, for the sweetness of Him is so comforting and lasting, His love is so burning and gladdening, that he who is in this degree may feel with joy the fire of love burning in his soul. That fire is so pleasant that no man can speak of it except that he feels it, and then not fully. Come, we beseech You, sweet and true joy; come sweetness so to be desired; come, our beloved, who is all our comfort.

  7. This degree of love comes because God gives it freely to whom He knows is able to take it, and only where there is already great grace. Therefore, let no man presume more of himself than God has called him to. But he that most withdraws his love from the world, and from unreasonable lusts, shall be most able, and most speedily increase in these degrees of love. The soul that is in this degree may boldly say, I mourn for love! I languish to come to my loved Jesus. Our beloved Jesus, the bond of your love holds us away from worthless places and amusements, till we may get You. When will You come to comfort us and bring us out of care, and give Yourself to us, that we may see You and dwell with You for evermore?

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