V E R.4. ephefians,Chap.2. J 219 remained to manifeft this Love, then according to mercy he faved us. Grace, and Mercy, and his giving Chrift, all is from hence. Hefo lo. ved the World, John 3.16. For had the Lord hated us , he would have tobn 3.16. glorified himfelfe in our deferved mifery. Mercy fhall triumphagainft judgment, ofthofewhom hee loveth. And experience fheweth , that the ftraitefl conjunEtion is greateft love, breedeth themoft tender compaffions in miferies. But here is a difficulty robe cleared. In the verse before, he faith, OG>el . we are the childrenof Gods wrath, here he fayth , we are fuch whom God did fo greatly love, that hetookc pity onour mifery and healed us in Chrift. But the anfwer is eafie, By confidering, that love, and wrath might Eland together; For the Anfw Parent may be throughly angry with the child whom he tenderly lo- Love may verh ; and foit was with God, who knew how to love,with that eter- nand [oped,er: nail love, and yet how to he angry with us : Hatred and love expel! eachother, but anger and love may Rand together. But this doeth not feernecleare to me (may fome fay ) becaufe the objet. Scripture doth makeGods goodwill to be towards us through Chrift, He hash madeus beloved in him, we are reconciled se him in Chrift, fo every where. ForAnfwer, There isa doublelove : the one Internal! with God : G love the other external! manifefted in the creature. Email and cx- Now this internall love is everlafting,it was the foundationofiner- [ernaU. cy,ofthe givingofChrift inmercy. But that external!, manifefled in the creature, is nothing but a flreamc fwimming outofthis,beforeheld downe by Juftice, and this cometh through Chrift. So faith Saint lobs , Herein was the Love ofGod mainfefled, that he dent his Son, &c. [.iotïn 4 9. And all our Salvation is by mercy , as Paul toTitus calleth it it is the Titus 3. q. Epiphany of the Lords kindne/fe,and eternall love to mankind. Titus 1.11. God then ( wee fee) doeth love his, before Chrift be given to them as a Mediator for them : Though in God this love is but one molt (im- ply, ashimfelfe is molt (imply one; yet for the change that it maketh in the creature, and to helpeour weake underflanding , a former and a latter love may be confidered ; for there arifeth a graceof God unto as from the blood of Chrift,ofJuflification unto life;thus Chrift is called the Lerrediatour of the New Teflameno, and in this refpeet the Scripture Hcbr.ç., S. puttethour reconciliation to God, inthe death of Chrijl: Thefe and the 1 co ' s [9. like places muff not be fo underftood, as if the Lord himfelfe before Rom. 3. 14. entirely hated us ; but becaufe that in Chrift that former love of God fpringeth forth, which while juflice was unfatisfied layhid. For there was alove tous before Chrift ; and the givingofChrift was the effc6t ofit, as John 3. 16. It is good for a child fometime, not to know how well his Father loves him: And a kind-hearted Father doeth often beare a teeter inward affedtion toward an ungracious Tonne whom. he bath call out from him, though he will not fuller it to appeare, till by mediation and humble requeft of fome,$iend he make it appeare to his Son: And thus to fay, that the Lord altogether hated us in him - felfe,
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