The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Now those whom God hath intended for so great purposes, as these are, which are the greatest Purposes that ever came upon his heart, his heart must needs be taken withal. You know the more glorious and excellent the End to which any thing serves, the more precious is that thing in our eyes. Now we serve for no other End, but the expression of his Mercy, the advancement of the Glory of his Free-Grace, which are Ends as high as himself, Purposes as great as himself.

Now those whom God hath intended for so great purposes, as these are, which are the greatest Purposes that ever came upon his heart, his heart must needs bee taken withall. You know the more glorious and excellent the End to which any thing serves, the more precious is that thing in our eyes. Now wee serve for no other End, but the expression of his Mercy, the advancement of the Glory of his Free-Grace, which are Ends as high as himself, Purposes as great as himself.

And therefore God is not only taken with the expression of it, but with the persons upon whom he doth express it. Therefore I say is the Heart of God so exceedingly taken with his Church.

And therefore God is not only taken with the expression of it, but with the persons upon whom hee doth expresse it. Therefore I say is the Heart of God so exceedingly taken with his Church.

Indeed God may single out some men for the purposes of expressing the glory of his Power and Justice, the advancement of them; and yet God hate the men, as you see it plain in Pharaoh, who for this cause was set up to advance his Power. But God never singled out any to be the subjects on whom he doth intend to advance the Riches of his Grace and Mercy; but his Heart is exceedingly taken with them.