Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

II. Prop. There is a sufficiency of the Love of Christ to us that may be known.

The Love of Christ to sinners may be considered either in the cause, or as in the effects; in the Spring and Fountain, or in the streams that flow from thence into Souls: Love as it was in the heart of Christ is unmeasurable; the Spring, the original cause and reason of it, was his own unaccountable Love, and can only be measured by the Love of the Father to his Son, which is equally unmeasurable, John 15.9. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you: But Christs Love in the effects, that it has been pleased to produce in, and upon our Souls, may be understood, and in some good measure apprehended: If we cannot fix our eyes immediately upon the body of the Sun in its meridian glory, yet we may comfortably refresh our selves with its beams, and feel the healing warmth of the Sun of righteousness arising and shining upon our Souls; If we cannot measure Christs Love when it dealt with God, in making his Soul an offering for sin; nor what that Love was wherewith he loved us, and gave himself for us, Gal. 2.20. yet we may know that Love wherewith he loved us, and washed us from our sins, Rev. 1.5. The Love of Satisfaction passes knowledge, the Love of Sanctification may be known: As that poor Man, John 9.15. tho' he could not give a Philosophical account to the Scribes and Pharisees, how Clay and Spittle should contribute to the opening his Eyes, yet could say, This one thing, I know, that whereas I was born blind I now see. So may a renewed Soul say, Tho' I know not from what unmeasurable Fountain this Grace and Mercy did proceed; tho' I am ignorant of the manner of its working, yet this one thing I can say, Whereas I ⟨p. 205⟩was a lover of sin, I now hate it; and whereas I have been a despiser of Christ, I now prize, and love him as the chiefest of Ten thousand. I can say, That that vanity, that corruption which sometime had a mighty power over me, is now subdued and conquered. More particularly,