166 My Lo"Pe.· -------------------------------~ Sa 1\. VI. with in rhetighc ofGod, and he gave himfelfe, Ioh.6.n. that he might be the bread of life, UUy flcfh i4 meat indeed, andmy 6loud iJ drinke ;ndeed. The . guilty, the felfe-accufing foul feeds upon Chrill dying for its finnes. Againe, Rev.r.6. you have his love fet forth, He loved us, and how dorh he witnelfe it '!Hehath wafbedm withbuowne bloud, 4ndh4thmt~de us Kings t~nd Priejls,&c. the like you have,Ephef.5.Heloved m,andgavehimftlfi 4\ fweet Sacrifice to Godfor su. Whefl this world is at anend,we fhall fee what his love is ; he is nor fatisfied, till we be all in one place. What cloth he pray forto his Father,lDh.I7.Z4,Father I will r that thofe whom thoa h~tfl gi-ven me, 6e with me where I am,&c. run through all rhe whole courfe of Salvation, Election, Vocation, Iufiificarion, Glorification, you iliall fee his love in all of them.But it were an infinite argument tofolloN, tofhewthe love of Chrift,which is beyond aJI Eph.,..I6. knowledge, and it is too large for us to knowall the dimenfions ofit, to fee the height, breadth, depth, and length ofit, which we fhould ever thirike,fpeake,and meditateof,becaufe the foule is then in the moll: fir temper to ferve, love, and' ·glorifie God,when it is moft apprehenftve ofhis grear Iov~. . 'DeJaCiiom out This phrafe imports diverfe thing§, 'Tht~t there ofthe•orJ iJ ne fiwing love to ttnyout o[lheChNrch, which is LOve. his love.It is(as it w~re)confined in the Chur<:h, 1·. as ifall the beames ofhis love met in that cen. ter, as w~ fee when the beames of the Sunne m.eet in aglaffe, they burne, becau{e many are 1 . there l
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