638 / 772
Thefecond
reafon, taken
from
Gods
benefits.
Ephel. a.4.
61
z
Pref
eruatiues
to
keepe
vs
from
the
infeEtion
s
fFnn,
e.
not
his louirig friends or faithfüll feruants,bu.t oppofed ene-
tnies and rebellious
traytors,who
had renounced
his
feruice.
and ycelded our
feaues as
flaues
to
Satan
rcadie
to
doe his
will.
Seeing therefore our
good
God
bath
fo
dearely
loucd
vs,
who
were
altogether vnworthie
his
loue, and moti wor-
-_
thie ofhis anger
and heauie
iudgemcnts,
O
why fliould
not
this
flame
ofhis
loue towards vs,kindle
fotne
fparkles
efloue
towards him againe,
who
is
in
himfelfe
the
chiefe
goodnes,
and to
vs
moil kinde
and
gratious?Iffor
our fakes,who were
his
abiea
enemies, hee
hath
not
fparcd
his ovine fonne
but
gaue him
to
die
for
vs;
fhould
we
not.
for
his
fake,
,who
is
our.chiefefl
friend,
be
as
willing to
part
with
our finnes,and
to
kill and
crucifie all,
our
carnali
corruptions
?
Neither
cati
wee
by
any
other
meanes
fo
cleerely
Phew
our loue
to
God,
as
by hating
finne,
which aboue
all
things
in
the world is
anon haeful and
odious
.vnto-
hitn,and
the
onely
caufe
which
rnaketh him abhorre
euen his excellent creatures,
fo
that
though
he
loued them
as
being
his ovine
workes, yet he de-
tef+ed
them
being
defiled
with
the
filthie (pots
of
finne; yea
fo
odious
is
finite
vnto our righteous
Cod,
that
he could
not
chufe
but
punifh it
in his dearely
beloucd fonne,
who bare
our tranfgreilions,and
fuflained our perlons; and
when
there
was no
other
way
to
fubdue
the power
of
finne, he
gaue it
a
mortali wound,
euen
through
the bodie
ofour
blefl'ed
Saui-
our,
and delivered
him
to
be crucified,
that by this
meanes
he
might
alto kill and
crucifie
our corruptions.
Seeing there..
fore
finne
is mot}
odious anddeteflable
in the
eyes
of
God,
we cannot
better
Phew
our
loue towards him,which his
loue
towards
vs
hath
fo
well deferued, than by
hating
and flying
that
which
he
fo
much
abhorreth.
Secondly,
let
vs call
to
our remembrance
his
innumerable
benefits,.
which
are
the vndoubted
figies
of
his
loue
to-
wards
vs.Firf} bee
hath
ele&ed
vs
vnto eternall
life
that
wee
.
Mould be holy.Seeing therfore he hath made
fpeciall
choice
of
vs
amongf many
who
are
reie6ted, therefore let vs
ex-
ceed others in
a
holy
careofferuing him,andauoiding thole
things
which
are
difpleafng
in his
fight;
hee alto
hath
"crea-
ted
vs
to
the end we fhould
worthip
and
ferne
him
our
Lord
and
.: