220 Doe. Gods love the caufe ofpity toUs. Yfe rï Rom.i. x o. Iohn 13.1. Mal.;. 7. Yfe i. x,roh.4.t9. z.Cor.5.n4. x.Iohn4.is. VER: 5. 2. .alp_477eyea: i{<arria. Epheftans, Chap.2. V E R. 5, felfe , untili Chrift made Interceffion, is fuch an affcrrion as is not found. For Chrift made Interceffron, called; or uncalled : Ifcalled , there was great Love in the Father calling him to undertake that office for us : Ifwee fay uncalled, it is contrary toScripture, in which nothing is more evident then the calling , anointing, and fendingof theSon by the Father. Well then, from the order we fee what it is, which is the principali procuring carafe of Pity towards usin our muferies , it is Love ofGod. So that if we would feeevidences of Love to our neighbour, we may ga. ther them hence,by feeingwhat mercies are withus, and bowels year- ning in their miferies; no Compaffion, no Love. Againe, that there is agreat love in God, even when he is angry with us , fuch aLove as makes himgive his Son to death. This then may ferve to confirme us in affurance ofGods favour to- ward us ; Ifwhen wee nett enemies, we were reonnciled to Godby the death of hit Sou, much morefhall w$ be famed by his life. If a man ourof love have fought the friendfhipof his enemy, and ufed meanes to berecon. ciled to him, is it not likely that he will be confiant in his love tohim ro the end t But howfoever it fall out with man, moft lure it is that God will not change : for whom he once loveth, heloveth to the end. 1 the Lordchange net, thereforeyet fops of lecob arenot confamed. Itteachethus ourduty ro God and Man; He bath loveduaferfl,there- foremull we love bim againe, his love mull conffraineea ; and our love is a reflexionofhis tous: wind if God fo lovedus, we ought alfo to love one another. VE x. 5. Evenwhenwe weredeadby fins bath quickened us together in Chrifl,bywhofegraceye are Paved. I have fpokenof this death before, of the kind of ir, of the Symp- tomes, or tokens of ir, and ufes of the doôtrine upon the firft verfe. Now Iwill adde fome things which this Context clothadmonifh, and I then omitted. Firft, how wee can bee faid to bee [ dead ] when there is Come fp,rksof divine knowledge in us. Secondly, What this word [trcfpaffe] meaneth,and how it differeth from the word[sinnes]being joyned with it. To the firft, the light ofknowledge in us is fuchas doeth not give life, but is imperfeil, tending to leave us without excufe. Again, it may be doubted whether we are borne with this light,as the feedes of it, or whether afterward by the bookeof the Creature and Scripture it comes to be manifefted to us. It is not knowledge that life ftandeth in, for the devils then could not be without a fpirt. tuall life ; But it is the kind ofknowledge, even that which is fpi- rituali and heavenly, and this isnot in any by nature in any meafure. For the word[trefpaffe]itfrgnifieth properly an errour ofignorance. The other word [firm] fignifieth an aberration from the law, without thisrefpcéi. [,sickened]
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