---------------------~~------------------------- Chap. 2 .Secr.9 Looking ur.Jto 1ef1!4, Book II· wifdome andmight are hi.r. Chriil:ians ! if you feel grace in your hearts,! befeech you acknowledge it to Chrifl: .He does all,he fulldues lufl:s,heales wounds,ftaies inward iifues, fets broken bones , and makes them to rejoyce; and therefore let him have the glory ofall; do you acknowledge grace in it's latitude to the God ofall grace. 4 God and Chrift counfelled about our falvation ; there was a great conflid: in the attributes ofGod ; jufl:ice and mercy could not be reconciled, till the wifdome of God found out that glorious and wonderful expedient , the Lord Jefus Chri~, fo let us counfell about our falvation : the fldh and the fpirit whereofwe are compounded , draw feveral wayes; the fiefh drawes hellward, and the fpirit heaven-ward ; come then , call we in heavenly and fpiritual w.ifdome to decide this contraverfie; you may hear it's language in Job 2.8.28. Behold the fear of the Lord,that J b 8 g is wifdome; and to depart frow evil is underftanding· If we would 0 l . l • . draw heaven-ward , and fave our foules, come then, in usE 1 r. 1 het~re the condujion of the whole matter , feare qod, and k,rep his cc e ' 11 ' 1 31 Comm11ndment.r , for thi.r 'i.r the whole duty ef m1114. Keep his Commandments in an Evangelical fenfe (i.) look at the expedient,Jefus Chrift , who hath kept theril for us, and in ·whom , and through whom our imperfect obedience is accepted with God. 5. God and Chrift loved us with an everlafting love ; So mutt: we love him who hath firft loved us : this it the nature of fpirituallove, that is runnesinto it's own Ocean, 0 love the LordPC.p.13; all ye his Saints ! who hath more caufe to love him then you have? who hath been loved fo much ? or who hath fo much come under the power oflove as you have ? hath not Chrift toyed you, not onely with a love of well-wi£hing, which is from cverlafting ( forne call it the love ofEiection , the fountainlove, the well-head of falvation) but alfo with a love ofcomplacency ? hath not Chrift £bed abroad his love into your hearts, . and £hall he lofe by it? will not thefe coards of love draw up your hearts to love him againe? Sure it's but reafon to love him, who hath firft loved you, yea, and toyed you when you were !lnlovely,andhad nothing in you worthy of love. Chriftians! then tt was that Chrift loved you in rags . it is meet therefore that you '1hould love him in robes. ' R .z. 6. God .•
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