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remained
to
manifeft this
Love, then according to mercy he
faved us.
Grace,
and
Mercy,
and his
giving
Chrift,
all
is
from hence.
He
fo 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
triumph
againft
judgment,
ofthofe
whom
hee
loveth.
And
experience fheweth ,
that the
ftraitefl conjunEtion
is
greateft
love, breedeth
the
moft tender compaffions
in
miferies.
But here
is
a
difficulty ro
be cleared. In the
verse
before, he faith,
OG>el
.
we are
the children
of
Gods wrath, here
he
fayth
,
we
are fuch
whom
God
did fo
greatly love,
that
hetookc
pity
on
our
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 fo
it 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!
each
other,
but anger
and love
may
Rand
together.
But
this
doeth not
feerne
cleare to me
(may
fome
fay
)
becaufe
the objet.
Scripture
doth makeGods good
will to be
towards
us
through
Chrift,
He hash made
us
beloved
in
him,
we
are reconciled
se
him
in
Chrift,
fo
every where.
For
Anfwer,
There
is
a
doublelove
:
the one
Internal!
with God
:
G
love
the other
external! manifefted
in
the creature.
and cx-
Now
this internall love
is
everlafting,it
was
the foundation
ofiner-
[ernaU.
cy,ofthe
giving
of
Chrift
in
mercy. But
that
external!, manifefled
in
the creature,
is
nothing but
a flreamc
fwimming out
ofthis,before
held
downe by Juftice,
and this
cometh through
Chrift.
So
faith
Saint
lobs ,
Herein
was
the Love
of
God
mainfefled,
that
he
dent
his Son,
&c.
[.iotïn 4
9.
And
all
our
Salvation
is by
mercy ,
as
Paul
to
Titus
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,
as
himfelfe
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
grace
of
God
unto
as
from
the blood
of
Chrift,of
Juflification unto
life;thus Chrift
is
called
the
Lerrediatour
of
the New Teflameno,
and
in
this
refpeet
the
Scripture
Hcbr.ç.,
S.
putteth
our
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
him
felfe
before
Rom.
3.
14.
entirely hated
us ;
but
becaufe
that
in
Chrift that former love
of
God
fpringeth forth, which while juflice was unfatisfied
lay
hid. For there
was
a
love
to
us
before
Chrift
;
and
the
giving
of
Chrift
was
the
effc6t
of
it,
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,