CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

1. That he should put himself in such a suffering condition, as to be for a while without the sense and enjoyment of his Fathers love to him; He that was in the Bosom of the Father, an Expression to show the intimate, close, and secret delight and love he had from the Father; How unspeakable is it that he should deprive himself of the sense of it? To put himself as it were out of Heaven into an Hell, this is deeper love then ever we can imagine or conceive: No wonder the Apostle calls it [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], the unsearchable Riches of Grace, We are never able to go to the bottom of it, but still there is more love and grace behind: Did the Queen of Sheba faint to see the temporal Stateliness and magnificence of Solomon? How should the Believer at the sight of this Heavenly Glory be even ravished with Admiration: No wonder if the Church cry out, She is sick of Love, for this may do it: It was more for Christ to be one moment without the feeling of his Fathers Love, then to endure all those bodily Torments he did endure, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? In the Original it is, My strong One, He giveth unto God that peculiar and proper Title, because he was then so weak and infirm, and dejected in himself.

1. That he should put himself in such a suffering condition, as to be for a while without the sense and enjoyment of his Fathers love to him; He that was in the Bosome of the Father, an Expression to shew the intimate, close, and secret delight and love he had from the Father; How unspeakable is it that he should deprive himself of the sense of it? To put himself as it were out of Heaven into an Hell, this is deeper love then ever we can imagine or conceive: No wonder the Apostle cals it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the unsearc••ble Riches of Grace, We are never able to go to the bottome of it, but still there is more love and grace behinde: Did the Queen of Sheba faint to see the temporall Statelinesse and magnificence of Solomon? How should the Believer at the sight of this Heavenly Glory be even ravished with Admiration: No wonder if the Church cry out, She is sick of Love, for this may do it: It was more for Christ to be one moment without the feeling of his Fathers Love, then to endure all those bodily Torments he did endure, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? In the Originall it is, My strong One, He giveth unto God that peculiar and proper Title, because he was then so weak and infirm, and dejected in himself.