Ch:1p.z.SeCl: 6, Lor;kingunt6'Jtfus. Book III. of Gods love ·unto him th:tt loved zu, and w.t/b~d Ul from our fin! h . bl 'd · 11 h' d d fi · h Rer,J ~· by u own oo ; 1t con tm ear to par on our mnes, event e heart-blood ofChrift, fu_ch were the tranfaCl:ions betwixt God and Chrifi, if thou wilt take upon thee to deliver fouls from fin, (faith God to his fonne) thou muft cpme thy felf and be made a curfe fortheir finne: Well (faith Chrift) thy will be done in it; though I lofe my life,though it cofi me the heft b.loodin my heart, yet let me deliver them from Gnne: this eKceedingly heightens Chrifts love,that he {hould forefee thy fin, and that yet he {hou!d love; many times we fet our love on fo_me outward unthankful creatures,and we fay, could I but have tor~feen this untoward· neffe,they fhould never have had my love; but now the Lord did forefee all thy fins, & all thy ill requitals for love,a?d yet ir did not once hinder his love towards thee,but he puts this tn the covenant, .I will forgive their iniquitieJ,and I will remember their j1nJ no more. . 4· God in the Covenant giv,es thee holineffe and fanctification. _ I will(prinkje cleane Wflter Npon _you, and ye /hall be clean fro.m ttl! Ez~lq 6.1 r jour filthinefJe,flndfrom all JOUr idols will I c!eanfe you; this ho- · lineli:e is our excellency in the eyes of men and Angels; this is the .Crown and Diadem upon the heads of Saints l whence D:tivid calls them by the name· of excellentonn. Holineffe is ttfpirit PC 1 <6 ofglory, 1Pet.4.I4. itisthede!light of God; as nfatherde.~p~~:.:,.·J· lights himfelf in feeing his own image in his children, fo God de- ' lights himfelf in the holineffe of his Saints; God loved them before with a love of benevolence and good-will , but now he loves them with a.!oveof complacencie, the Lord taku plellfore pr. 1 147 , in thofe that feare him; the Lord ta~s plepfare in hu people. Ho- pf:l:ne 1 ~~~4 linefs isthe veryeffence ofGod, the Divine nature of God; 0 what is this, that God fhould put his own narure into thee.? you are p11rtab,srs ofthe Divine nature, 0 what a love is this that God fhould put his own life into thee? that he fhould enable thee to live the very fame life that he himfelf lives'? umember that piece ofthe covenant, I will put my Law into their inwardpartJ ~ and write it in their hearts. s. God in the covenant gives tnee the knowledge o~ ~irnfe1f ;' it may be thou knewell: him before; but 'cis another kind of knowledge that now God gives thee then thou hadfi before ; when God teaches the foul to know him , it lookes on God with anoth•eye ; it fees now another beauty inGod then ever it faw H b be-
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