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Ephefan.r,
ChapoS.
V
E
R.Z.
forth
as
they
are
mediating aetions are unimitable. 2. As
one
in
whom
the Godhead did dwell perfonally, he
failed
4o.
dayes, he told
the thoughts
of
mens hearts, he did miracles. 3.
The
fingular
fads
he
did
in
regard
of
time and place.Again,he
did
notfomethings
which
Chriffians
muff
doe, that
have calling
thereto,
as
he
did not draw the
fword
againftheretiques,
&c.
but
fuch things
as
he left
himfelfe
an
example in, which
is
in
gencrall,love
to
his
Father
and men,within the
compaffe
of
his calling,in this
he mutt be
followed.
Learn
of
me
I
am
lowly,
he wafhed
his
Difciples feete, leaving
an
example of
humi-
lity ,
John
r. 56.
We
therefore
muff
not looke
what
men
doe,
what
the molt
doe,
the common road
will
lcade
us
to deftruétion, but
look
what
Chrift
did.
2. Marke, that
our love mu
f
be
conformable
to
Chrifls
lover the
pro.
perties
of
Chrifts
love are
obferved;
t.
It
was free,
not
that
we
loved
him
jr(t,
t
loh.
4. When
we were enemies,
Rom.
5.
ro_
Te know
the
love
of
C
krill
when
be
was
rich,
be became
pore
for
our
fakes,
&c.
z.
The
love
of
Chrift
was
fruitful', not
in
word but
deede, he loved
us
that
he gave himfelfe for
us.
3.
It
was
confiant,
lohn 53.
t.
4.
It
was
difcreete, he
fo
drew
neere
our nature and made
himfelfc
like
to us,that
he would
not be
like
us in
finne,
which
is
commanded,
Rom.
sa.
9.
Let
love
be
without
difimulation; hating the
evill as well
as
cleaving
to that which
is
good.
This then letteth
us
fee
what
kinde
of
love we fhould beare
`one
to
another,
and this rebuketh the love
of
many which
is
a
pot-friend.
(hip, they love
them that they
can benefit themfelves
by,
them
that
will quit their curtefie,
like
the heathen, otherwife
no
penny,
no Pa-
ter
nofter
:
fo
many love
like
the
dead creatures
in
Saint
lames,
Get thee
cleathes,
and
warme thee,
be.
but they
will
not
put to their
helping
hand, good words,
court holy-water enough, no deedes of love.
Many againe whofe love
is
fwallow
-like
friendfhip, they
are not
friends
in all
times
and
fcafons. And force
through
a
kinde
of
light
-
neffc in
them,
ufe
their friends
like
nofegaies,
which longer then they
are frefh, are
in
no reckoning.
Others
alfo fo love,
that they
are
like
fhadowes, which goe when
we goe, (landwhen
we
ftand, they
are every
thing, be it
good
or
bad,
that their
friends like
of.
The
heathen may flume
fuch
doting
love,
who
would lettheir
friendfhip goe
but
to
the Altar
,
who
have
fer
downe
this the law
of
love, to
aske
nothing that
is
evil',
nor to
yeeld
to
it
though intreated.
Who
loved
us
and
gave himfelfe.]
Where
arc
q.,
circumftances
:
i.
The
Perfon offering.
z. The
thing
offered.
3.
The
Perfons for
whom.
4. The
fruire.
1.
We
fee
here, In
what the love
ofChri
fl
sloth
and,in
giving
him
-
(elfe
a
Sacrifice
for
our
(inne,
in
his
death for us.
Rom.
5. 8.
In
this
God
fetteth
out his
love
to
us,
Peeing
that
while
we
were
yet
(inners,
Chrift
dyed
for