50 arils Poverty for u . wilco us:but whenwebeleeve & become onewth Chrift,God lookes uponus with the love ofcom- placency, with the fame love wherewith he loves rob& 17. Chrift : becaufe we are in Chrift, as it is in Iohn 17. I in them; and they inme. God loves the head and memberswith the fame love: Chrift as God was freely difpofed to choole men; but Chrift as Mediator continues this favour and mercy of God, wl#én we aregrafted intohirn,toThineon us continually. It is this fecond that wemuff labour for as a fruit olthr Title. Let us labour not only to know that therewis an eternal] love of God to force that arehis : but labour by faith in Chrifi,to know that he (lines upon us in Chrift, and all o- ther graces within us, and all other gifts are from this firft grace, therefore they have the name. Whydoe we call Faith, Hope, and Love, graces, but becaufe they iffue from the mercy,and favour, and loveof God in Chrift e and (as I laid before) why doe we call anybenefit we have a grace r be- caufe it comes from grace: all good things have the terme ofgraceon them, to (hew the-Spring from whence they come. I will not enter into difpute with points of Po- pery, that ftincks now in the noftrilsofevery man that bathbut the ufe of ordinary reafon, it is fo full of folly andblafphemy. I rather fpeak ofpo- fitive truths, to fee Gods grace and favour (and bleffe God for it) inevery thing we have. How to value Doth all that we have in Chrift , come from bt`rrngs° grace, thegrace inus, and comforts, and outward things meerely from grace? Then efteeme them more
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