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Doe.
Gods
love
the
caufe
of
pity
to
Us.
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
:
If
called
,
there
was great Love
in
the Father
calling him
to
undertake
that
office for
us
:
If
wee
fay
uncalled, it
is
contrary to
Scripture,
in
which
nothing
is
more evident then
the
calling , anointing, and fending
of
the
Son
by
the Father.
Well
then, from the order we
fee what
it
is, which
is
the principali
procuring
carafe
of
Pity towards
us
in
our
mu
feries
,
it
is
Love
of
God.
So
that
if
we
would
fee
evidences
of
Love to our neighbour,
we
may ga.
ther them hence,by
feeing
what
mercies are
with
us, and bowels
year-
ning
in
their miferies; no Compaffion,
no Love. Againe,
that
there
is
a
great love
in
God,
even when he
is
angry with
us ,
fuch
a
Love
as
makes himgive
his
Son
to death.
This then may
ferve
to confirme
us in
affurance
of
Gods
favour
to-
ward
us
;
If
when
wee
nett
enemies,
we were
reonnciled
to God
by
the
death
of
hit
Sou, much morefhall
w$ be
famed
by
his
life.
If
a man our
of
love
have fought
the
friendfhip
of
his
enemy,
and ufed meanes
to
be
recon.
ciled
to
him,
is
it
not
likely
that
he will be
confiant
in
his
love to
him
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
Lord
change
net,
therefore
yet
fops
of
lecob
are
not
con
famed.
Itteacheth
us
our
duty
ro
God
and
Man;
He
bath loved
ua
ferfl,there-
fore
mull
we
love bim
againe, his
love mull conffraineea ;
and our
love
is
a
reflexion
of
his
to
us:
wind
if
God
fo loved
us,
we
ought
alfo
to love
one
another.
V
E
x.
5.
Even
when
we
were
dead
by
fins bath
quickened
us
together
in
Chrifl,by
who
fegrace
ye
are Paved.
I
have fpoken
of
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
cloth
admonifh,
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
of
knowledge
in us
is
fuch
as
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 booke
of
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
of
knowledge,
even
that
which
is fpi-
rituali and heavenly, and
this
is
not
in
any
by nature
in
any meafure.
For the word[trefpaffe]it
frgnifieth
properly an errour
of
ignorance.
The
other word
[
firm]
fignifieth an aberration
from the
law,
without this
refpcéi.
[,sickened
]