Plecfouo fait!), As touching our Love to Chrift, it is a6tuated in the fame manner. A meer notion of Christ raifes,up force Love towards him; as we fee in thole Temporaries, who receive the word n ith joy, Mat. 13. 20, which though it be but fru- us hararius, hints out a kind of Love. Such a flory as that of Codruc the Athenian King's dying for his Country cculd not but affeCc his Subjects ; much more mull the Biflory of Chrift dying for a World do fo. Only this Love to Christ raifed up by meer Evangelical notion, as the Love to God railed up by natu- ral, is not right, nor elevated to a Divine pitch, till Faith come and Phew him forth by a light more congruous than all literal know - ledg ; and then there is, as the Church after an elegant defcription concludes, Titus defideria, all loves or defirer, Cant. 5. 16. Every thing in him is attraEtive ; What a person is the E- ternal Word, the brightnefs of the Fathers glo- ry? What an Union, Immanuel, God and Man in one ? Heaven and Earth admirably blended together, as a pledg that God would be at one with us ? What a robe is his Righteoufnefs made as broad as the Law, and woven all of Love from the top to the bottom ? What a La- ver his Blood able to expiate a world of Sins, and fave a world of Sinners ? what a treafure is his Fulnefs, where the Spirit is in over - meafure, and all its Graces in redundance run- ning over into the veffels of Faith, and filling all its capacities ? Who,that hath eyes of Faith, Ivould not love him ? To ask why we should love 294
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