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Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…
Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part of the 14 : the second, The righteous man's refuge in the evil day, from Isaiah 26, verse 20 / by John Flavell.
London: printed by H.H. for Robert Boulter, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 The love of God to his people is a free, and altogether undeserved love; it must needs be so seeing it prevented our very being, which had it not done, yet no motives had been found in us, to allure it to us more than others, Deut. 7. 7. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, (for ye were the fewest of all people) but because the Lord loved you. So that we cannot find one stone of our own merit in the foundation of this love; for those whom it embraceth in its arms are, Immerentes, & malè merentes, ill deserving as well as undeserving, we were loved of God, before we were lovely in our selves; it is freely pitched upon us, not purchased by us, Isa. 43. 24.
2 The love of God to his people is a free, and altogether undeserved love; it must needs be so seeing it prevented our very being, which had it not done, yet no motives had been found in us, to allure it to us more than others, Deut. 7. 7. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor chuse you, because ye were more in number than any people, (for ye were the fewest of all people) but because the Lord loved you. So that we cannot find one stone of our own merit in the foundation of this love; for those whom it embraceth in its arms are, Immerentes, & malè merentes, ill deserving as well as undeserving, we were loved of God, before we were lovely in our selves; it is freely pitched upon us, not purchased by us, Isa. 43. 24.
3. The love of God to Believers is a bountiful love, streaming forth continually mercies both innumerable and invaluable to their Souls and Bodies, 2 Pet. 1. 3. Christian, it would quickly weary thine arm, yea, let me say the arm of an Angel; but to write down the thousandth part of the mercies which have already flowed out of this precious fountain to thee; though all thou hast received, or shalt receive in this world, are but the beginnings of mercy, and first-fruits of the love of God to thee; 'tis the love of God which daily loads thee with benefits, as the expression is,