228 Evangelical Repentance. Luke; 5 58, 59. 01,j0. 1 fcope of the Parable cannot be according to the tenure of this Objeecion ; for then it fhould be contrary to the for- mer Parable, of the loft cheep. Indeed , The Prodigil files he will repent, before he goes to his father : / 5vill return to my father', and I xvill py, I have finned aping Heaven, and againfi thee ; and I an not a-artily to be calle4 thy Sonne : but he never faies fo till he came to his father : after his father had fallen upon his neck , and forgiven him , and thowed mercy to Mtn , then he laid fo, and not before. And (Tales the tcY. t) when hw father far; bim a far of: Notwithitanding he had refolved to go home, yet hew as far off from mercy : li is lather taw him a far off, and had compatlion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kis't him, preventing ofhim by his grace . this makes it more prevalent. flit yet you will fay, How can thi, be ? can God love honors ? - can God let his love upon poor finners, that are Co ? What files the Apoille in Rom. 4.5. H juflifics the ungod- ly, not in their Cps, but from their fins, through Chrift. 'Ifs not in Gods love, as in our love : you love, becatiCe the thing loved is lovely : but Gods love, does make love- ly : your love finds lovely : and Gods love makes lovely. You love a perion becaufe of Ionic beauty : but hods love does make beautiful. You love a perfon becaufeof Come good you do find before you love : but Gods love brings the goodners with it,Cods love makes the perfon good that he does love. His love is the original 8 root ofall our obe- dience, and fanCtification. Though the Root lies under gi ound , all the branches are beholding to it : and the fruit have their fap,and life from it. So though Cods re- conciling love lies under ground, and ye fee it not, yet 'tis the Root of all your obedience, of all your fanEtification. Ye may obferve therefore, that in the Epinle to the Romans, to the Galatians, to t Ile Hebrews ; when the Apofile would `kir up the Fontans, Galatians, Thbrerrs to holinefs of life :. that he tales his Exhortation upon the DoEtrine of free- grace,
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