And for the threatening, with what Heart can a Minister tell Sinners, [Christ is a Redeemer but to the Elect, yet all the rest of you shall perish for not taking him for your Redeemer, and for not resting on that Blood that was never shed for you.] And that as to the ends of preaching. 1. How will the divulging of these, glorify God? When he hath purposely designed the glorifying of Love and Mercy directly, and justice accidentally, by this great work of the Redemption of the World; and hath unhinged the Sabbath which was for Commemoration of the work of Creation, to the first day of the Week for the Commemoration of the Work of Redemption, which he will now have admired as his most glorious work, which (as Ames. in the place cited in Argument 18. saith) is to the works of Grace the same that Creation is to the works of Nature, and so is the ground of Gods New Right of Dominion and Empire, and of his governing and judging the World: And how is this glory eclipsed by the opposed Doctrine? 2. And for Mans Conversion to the Faith, I have showed how unfurnished a Minister is, rightly to endeavour it on the opposed ⟨p. 225⟩grounds. Whereto let me add this: The Soul is never closed to Christ sincerely, till it close in Love: (Love •eing, as all Divines say, at the same moment of time as Faith, produced: And as Maccovius before-cited truly saith (and so doth Chamier and many more) Love to the Redeemer the object of Faith, is of the Essence of justifying Faith it self.) Now it is Love that must cause Love, I mean objectively, and not only efficienter. He cannot close in Love with Christ that knoweth nothing of Christs Love to him, though he know it to others, (so near is Man to himself; and Christ is to be received as my Redeemer, and not only as another Mans.) Now no Man can know that Christ loveth him with a special love, before he know that he himself loveth Christ (that's past question.) And yet no Man can soundly love Christ as Redeemer, that knows not Christs love to him: What remains therefore but that it must be Christs common love in redeeming the World, and making the conditional gift of pardon and Life, and this offered to me in particular among others, that must first cause my grounded love to Christ. Let us see what Scripture saith of the ground of Ministerial duties, Math. 22. The work of the Ministers was to invite the Guests, and compel them to come in:
And for the threatening, with what Heart can a Minister tell Sinners, [Christ is a Redeemer but to the Elect, yet all the rest of you shall perish for not taking him for your Redeemer, and for not resting on that Blood that was never shed for you.] And that as to the ends of preaching. 1. How will the divulging of these, glorify God? When he hath purposely designed the glorifying of Love and Mercy directly, and justice accidentally, by this great work of the Redemption of the World; and hath unhinged the Sabbath which was for Commemoration of the work of Creation, to the first day of the Week for the Commemoration of the Work of Redemption, which he will now have admired as his most glorious work, which (as Ames. in the place cited in Argument 18. saith) is to the works of Grace the same that Creation is to the works of Nature, and so is the ground of Gods New Right of Dominion and Empire, and of his governing and judging the World: And how is this glory eclipsed by the opposed Doctrin? 2. And for Mans Convesiron to the Faith, I have shewed how unfurnished a Minister is, rightly to endeavour it on the opposed ⟨p. 225⟩grounds. Whereto let me add this: The Soul is never closed to Christ sincerely, till it close in Love: (Love •eing, as all Divines say, at the same moment of time as Faith, produced: And as Maccovius before-cited truly saith (and so doth Chamier and many more) Love to the Redeemer the object of Faith, is of the Essence of justifying Faith it self.) Now it is Love that must cause Love, I mean objectively, and not only efficienter. He cannot close in Love with Christ that knoweth nothing of Christs Love to him, though he know it to others, (so near is Man to himself; and Christ is to be received as my Redeemer, and not only as another Mans.) Now no Man can know that Christ loveth him with a special love, before he know that he himself loveth Christ (that's past question.) And yet no Man can soundly love Christ as Redeemer, that knows not Christs love to him: What remains therefore but that it must be Christs common love in redeeming the World, and making the conditional gift of pardon and Life, and this offered to me in particular among others, that must first cause my grounded love to Christ. Let us see what Scripture saith of the ground of Ministerial duties, Math. 22. The work of the Ministers was to invite the Guests, and compel them to come in: