Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

Is not Gods glorious Name ⟨p. 324⟩here legible, and his kind Heart and Hand, as fully, and even sensibly discernible herein? We are hereby both rendered and constrained to be his Witnesses that he is God, and the best Object of our Love. Here therefore must our Love both look and fix: Should I here speak of God-Redeemer, in all the glorious appearances, performances and dispensations of his Indwelling Deity in our Nature: Or of what the Spirit is and doth; of all the Scenes and Systems of common and special Providence; of all the Constitutions and Administrations of the upper and lower World, and of the Church Militant and Triumphant. Or should I show you Man in his natural State, as the workmanship of the God of Nature: Or in his Christian State, as in his Renovation by the God of Grace: Or in his Glorified State at last, as the Eternal Temple of the Spirit of Grace. Should I show you the Angelical State, or all the excellencies of the end, and of the orderly Means and Instruments which relate thereto; the Name, Seed, Things of God. You would see with whom and what, Love hath to do. But to sum up all; 1. God is the Object of this Love, as considered in his essential Perfections, Trinity of Persons. 2. In his Creation of the Universe of Beings. 3. In his Relations consequent upon Creation, and avouchedly assumed by him. 4. In those various Signatures and Explications of his Name, that are upon the whole, and every part of his Creation; according to the various Habitudes and States thereof. 5. And in his relative deportments towards them, and Communications to them, as they are capable of receiving them. 2. Jesus Christ in all his Mediatorial Excellencies, Dignities and Prerogatives, in his Relations, Offices, Unction, Performances and Acquests both for himself, as one exalted now to his Fathers right hand: And for us, as our exalted and engaged Head in all his Sympathies and Endearments. 3. The Holy Ghost, as God our Sanctifier in all those Counsels, Quicknings, Comforts, which he provideth for us, offereth to us, and succeedeth in us and upon us. And 4. Those that are near and dear to God, according to the various measures of their Unction, Stations, and Serviceableness unto God; and here comes in the main design both of my Text, and Case, viz.

Is not Gods glorious Name ⟨p. 324⟩here legible, and his kind Heart and Hand, as fully, and even sensibly discernible herein? We are hereby both rendred and constrained to be his Witnesses that he is God, and the best Object of our Love. Here therefore must our Love both look and fix: Should I here speak of God-Redeemer, in all the glorious appearances, performances and dispensations of his Indwelling Deity in our Nature: Or of what the Spirit is and doth; of all the Scenes and Systems of common and special Providence; of all the Constitutions and Administrations of the upper and lower World, and of the Church Militant and Triumphant. Or should I shew you Man in his natural State, as the workmanship of the God of Nature: Or in his Christian State, as in his Renovation by the God of Grace: Or in his Glorified State at last, as the Eternal Temple of the Spirit of Grace. Should I shew you the Angelical State, or all the excellencies of the end, and of the orderly Means and Instruments which relate thereto; the Name, Seed, Things of God. You would see with whom and what, Love hath to do. But to sum up all; 1. God is the Object of this Love, as considered in his essential Perfections, Trinity of Persons. 2. In his Creation of the Universe of Beings. 3. In his Relations consequent upon Creation, and avouchedly assumed by him. 4. In those various Signatures and Explications of his Name, that are upon the whole, and every part of his Creation; according to the various Habitudes and States thereof. 5. And in his relative deportments towards them, and Communications to them, as they are capable of receiving them. 2. Jesus Christ in all his Mediatorial Excellencies, Dignities and Prerogatives, in his Relations, Offices, Unction, Performances and Acquests both for himself, as one exalted now to his Fathers right hand: And for us, as our exalted and engaged Head in all his Sympathies and Endearments. 3. The Holy Ghost, as God our Sanctifier in all those Counsels, Quicknings, Comforts, which he provideth for us, offereth to us, and succeedeth in us and upon us. And 4. Those that are near and dear to God, according to the various measures of their Unction, Stations, and Serviceableness unto God; and here comes in the main design both of my Text, and Case, viz.