431 / 808
V13
R.
1,rì.
Ephefrani,
Chap.
;.
41;
So
arewe unable
to
meafure it
but
as
wee
ferle,
unable
to
confider
of
thofethingsin which
this love
is
manifefled.
This therefore
doth
check
that
weakneffe
in
fome,
who think
there vie.
is
no
filch
fight
of
Gods love to
be irecovered
by them
as
fometime
?kewh°ed
;k
they have
tailed, they
have had
fuch
a
relifh
of
Gods
love
in
their
firft
that they
can
profcflions,
as
that they loòke
not to
fee
the
like againe.
Whereas
is
is
have
that love
quite
contrary, God doth
love little and
long,that
is, he
doth
thew lit-
u
ey
tailed in
de often, hut doth
continue
it
with increafe:
Why
fhould wee
thinke
firQcon-
God
loth
love
us leffe
being old friends, then he did when we were
(ion
new
? Nay
he
that bath
(hall
have
mere, as
Chrift
faith to
Nathaniel!.
Ioh.1.5
o,
Deft thou believe,
becaufe I
Paid
1
faw
thee
under the
figge tree?
thou
Atilt
fie
greater things
then
rhefe:
the
beft
is
(till
to come
;
if
we keep
not on the
bed
of
our tufts , and by
Height and
lazy
feeking
come íhort
of
it.
in
the
fruits
We
muff mark
thereby
experiments
g
ow more
&
more rooted,more confident Byrmng
&
effec4s
ofit;and
g
experiments
and bold
in
the
aflàrance
ofit,
and acknowledge it
to
his
praife, and
trite
build our
fr Ives
upon it,
as
David
againfl
Goliah,
by former
experience,
henfi°n
óé
by all the gifts, blrflings, graces
and
good things,
God
gives us, wee
cads
love.
muffmake
a
greater
game
then themfclves
are, viz.
the
love
of
God
that
gives
them, to grow
in
afrurance
and further apprehenfion
of
it,
and
not
like
beats
(wallow
down
fuch
favours and
blefngs
and ne-
ver apprehend
the
love
of the giver.
But
let
us
make every bleffing and
benefit
a
ftep and ítayre
to
mile us
up
tothe apprehenfion
of
the
love
of
Chrift,that
Sea
of
love whence there ftreames
iffue;
Collc&
and
ga-
ther
and conclude
by
all
Gods
bleflings
how
great
Gods
love is, efpe-
cially
in
giving
us
his Son
Chrift,
and his
Gofpell.
V
E
x
S.
19.
t4ndto
know
the love
of
thrift
whichpa(feth
knowledge,
V
a It 0.19.
that
ye may
be
filled withal!
fulneffe
ofGod.
Laftly,
it
is
to
be marked that
he
thin
(etteth
out
the love
ofebrift,
,es
Doff.
a
thing
incomprehenfibleinregard
of
the
full andperfell
knowledge
ofit
:
chriQs
love
i.
And becaufe
it
is a
thing that the Church
muff aiwayes
remember
,
1
prehen-
We
will remember
thy
love:
the
fpurre
of
all
Chriftian duty,
a Car .5.
34.
Ca
ntió4
the Prefident
of
all
true love,Love
one
another as I
have lovedyou:there-
fore we will a
little unfold it.
As the
Perron
of
Chrift bath
in it
two
natures,
divine
and
humane
:
So there
is a
double love
of
Chrift,
the
one
as
God,
the
fame
where-
with
his
Father loveth
us;
the other
as
Man:
Both
of
them have three
feverall
branches
to
be unfolded:
r.
His
good
will
as
God,
and
affeáion
or grace
of
love
,
as
ohriis
confide-
Man.
l
red in
ie
a.
His workes , becaufe true love ítandeth
not
in
word
and
the
works
°fit
tongue, but truth
and
deed.
and
his
melting
3.
The
imbrace and refting wherewith he doth imbrace
us
in us.
and reft
in
us,
whichisthe
nature
of
love
in
the thing belo-
ved.
Not
to fpeake
of
his
love or
good
will
as
God
; we
muff
know
that
this
,