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

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.

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 bee the subjects on whom hee doth intend to advance the Riches of his Grace and Mercy; but his Heart is exceedingly taken with them.

Those, who serve to such high purposes as these, and are designed to such high ends as these; The advancement of the Glory of his Grace and Free-Mercy (which is the most precious attribute of God, and which some think is called his Glory, Exod. 33.18. Let me see thy Glory,) and if the 19. verse may interpret it, that Glory was his Mercy, and his Mercy his Glory; and therefore such must needs be precious in his esteem.