to the EPHESIAN S, 151 ----------------------------~----- ~· And as he bath loved you from eternity, that is the firfl: thing confiderable in it, fo let me add in the fecond place, which this [bath loved J doth alfo evidently import, comparing it with verf. 7· That in Ages to come, and here [ batb, J that is, from everlafl:ing to everlall:ing. He bath continued for to love his Children with a reiterated Love. .That aCl: of Love which he bath firfl: pitch'd, he bath every moment renewed actually in his own Mind. He doth but think over and over ·again, thoughts of love to thee, amongfl: the refl: of his Elect, unto eternity. Saith the Pfalmifl:, and it is Chrifl: that fpeaks that Pfalm, who knew the love of his Father, and knew his heart, Pfal. 40. 5· How many are thy thoughts towards us, 0 God! Many indeed for they have been from everlalling, therefore they cannot be numbred. 'And not only that firfl: act, that firfl: thought he had, but the whole lump of that Love, it is frill renewed every moment, and !hall be unto Eternity. I could give you a multitude of places. He is therefore faid, to have'" in his eye, and to write 111 upon the Palms of his Hands, .&c. And lafl:ly, It is to everlafring, which tho it be not in this Verfe, yet we meet with it in v. 7. Tb.t in Ages to come. As he loved us from everlafling, from the be– ginning, (as it is in that 2 The/f. 2. 13. fo he loveth us unto the end, John 13. r. SE R J\!L
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