culum_, they much delight in one another's company, [4493]_Formicae
grata est formica, cicada cicadae_, and birds of a feather will gather
together. Fourthly, for custom, use, and familiarity, as if a dog be
trained up with a lion and a bear, contrary to their natures, they will
love each other. Hawks, dogs, horses, love their masters and keepers: many
stories I could relate in this kind, but see Gillius _de hist. anim. lib.
3. cap. 14._ those two Epistles of Lipsius, of dogs and horses, Agellius,
&c. Fifthly, for bringing up, as if a bitch bring up a kid, a hen
ducklings, a hedge-sparrow a cuckoo, &c.

The third kind is _Amor cognitionis_, as Leon calls it, rational love,
_Intellectivus amor_, and is proper to men, on which I must insist. This
appears in God, angels, men. God is love itself, the fountain of love, the
disciple of love, as Plato styles him; the servant of peace, the God of
love and peace; have peace with all men and God is with you.

[4494] ------"Quisquis veneratur Olympum,
Ipse sibi mundum subjicit atque Deum."

[4495]"By this love" (saith Gerson) "we purchase heaven," and buy the
kingdom of God. This [4496]love is either in the Trinity itself (for the
Holy Ghost is the love of the Father and the Son, &c. John iii. 35, and v.
20, and xiv. 31), or towards us his creatures, as in making the world.
_Amor mundum fecit_, love built cities, _mundi anima_, invented arts,
sciences, and all [4497]good things, incites us to virtue and humanity,
combines and quickens; keeps peace on earth, quietness by sea, mirth in the
winds and elements, expels all fear, anger, and rusticity; _Circulus a bono
in bonum_, a round circle still from good to good; for love is the beginner
and end of all our actions, the efficient and instrumental cause, as our
poets in their symbols, impresses, [4498]emblems of rings, squares, &c.,
shadow unto us,

"Si rerum quaeris fuerit quis finis et ortus,
Desine; nam causa est unica solus amor."

"If first and last of anything you wit,
Cease; love's the sole and only cause of it."

Love, saith [4499]Leo, made the world, and afterwards in redeeming of it,
"God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son for it," John
iii. 16. "Behold what love the Father hath showed on us, that we should be
called the sons of God," 1 John iii. 1. Or by His sweet Providence, in
protecting of it; either all in general, or His saints elect and church in
partic