§. Love to God in us, works Patience, or Faith by Love, a• I showed out of v. 12. Love to God makes us cleave to God, and so to follow him through all weathers and endurances. That ⟨p. 67⟩great Convert (in whom at his Conversion, Faith and Love were so abundant, as 1 Tim. 1. 14.) his Heart through Love to the Name of Christ, caused him, in the highest passion, to utter, What mean you to weep and break my heart? for I am not ready to be [BOUND] only, but also [to DYE] at Jerusalem, for the Name of the Lord Jesus, Acts 21. v. 13. It was Love to that Name that fired him; yea his Love was wrought up to such an intense degree, as he could have wished to have been accurst from Christ for Gods Glory, in the conversion of his brethren, Rom. 9. I wonder how he would have done for Patience under that curse, if in Hell: But that Love which wished that curse, would have wrought it; and so thought he, or he would never have wished this. Upon the like account of Love to this Name, Those two Apostles ⟨p. 68⟩rejoiced to suffer shame for his Name, as Acts 5. 41. Love makes the Glorifying of God, and Christ, and the will of God, which is always for his Glory, dearer then all things to us. Yea, that God should have his Will, for his own Glory, (if it be the will of God) says the Apostle, of our Sufferings, abundantly stills the heart in all. Tis true, I may be punish• in my afflictions for my Sin, and I humble my self for that: But beyond that, it is the good pleasure of God so to have it, and I rejoice in [that] says Love, That his Will is done. As truly that 'tis done upon me, as that by me. And, Good is the word of God, in both; and Hallowed be his Name▪ In that Rom. 8. where (as you heard) We are more then Conquerors in all these things, [through him that loved us] that love of His, to us, is alone indeed, openly or expressly mentioned, ⟨p. 69⟩yet withal it is our love to him, that, tacitly, is insinuated to be a concurrent cause therewith; you must take that in, too: For the intent of those very words is, that the Soul apprehending his Love (Who is THAT LOVER (as that word imports) 1out of a reciprocated Love to him again, doth hearten us in the conflict, unto this Conquest. And yet there is one small word, put in, that further argues this, 'tis in v. 26. [For thy sake] we are killed all the day long. Our lives being in jeopardy every hour, and we are counted as sheep for the slaughter;
§. LOve to God in us, works Patience, or Faith by Love, a• I shewed out of v. 12. Love to God makes us cleave to God, and so to follow him through all weathers and endurances. That ⟨p. 67⟩great Convert (in whom at his Conversion, Faith and Love were so abundant, as 1 Tim. 1. 14.) his Heart through Love to the Name of Christ, caused him, in the highest passion, to utter, What mean you to weep and break my heart? for I am not ready to be [BOƲND] only, but also [to DYE] at Jerusalem, for the Name of the Lord Jesus, Acts 21. v. 13. It was Love to that Name that fired him; yea his Love was wrought up to such an intense degree, as he could have wisht to have been accurst from Christ for Gods Glory, in the conversion of his brethren, Rom. 9. I wonder how he would have done for Patience under that curse, if in Hell: But that Love which wisht that curse, would have wrought it; and so thought he, or he would never have wisht this. Upon the like account of Love to this Name, Those two Apostles ⟨p. 68⟩rejoyced to suffer shame for his Name, as Acts 5. 41. Love makes the Glorifying of God, and Christ, and the will of God, which is alwayes for his Glory, dearer then all things to us. Yea, that God should have his Will, for his own Glory, (if it be the will of God) says the Apostle, of our Sufferings, abundantly stils the heart in all. Tis true, I may be punish• in my afflictions for my Sin, and I humble my self for that: But beyond that, it is the good pleasure of God so to have it, and I rejoyce in [that] says Love, That his Will is done. As truly that 'tis done upon me, as that by me. And, Good is the word of God, in both; and Hallowed be his Name▪ In that Rom. 8. where (as you heard) We are more then Conquerours in all these things, [through him that loved us] that love of His, to us, is alone indeed, openly or expresly mentitioned, ⟨p. 69⟩yet withall it is our love to him, that, tacitly, is insinuated to be a concurrent cause therewith; you must take that in, too: For the intent of those very words is, that the Soul apprehending his Love (Who is THAT LOVER (as that word imports)
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