Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

1 To an unfeigned love of God, who out of his free grace, and rich mercy, did send his dearly beloved Son out of his own bosom into the world, to take our Nature upon him, and therein to dye a bitter cursed death for mans redemption. Who can sufficiently admire the riches of Gods love to man therein? How may we with David cry out, and say, Lord, what is ma• that thou art mindful of him? especially that thou shouldest be so mindful of him, as to give the Son of thy love to suffer a cursed death upon the Cross, to make us, who were children of Wrath, and bondslaves of Satan, Sons of God, and Heirs of eternal life and salvation. And how should this incomprehensible love of God, fire and inflame our cold and frozen hearts with a fervent love unto him again?

1 To an unfeigned love of God, who out of his free grace, and rich mercy, did send his dearly beloved Son out of his own bosome into the world, to take our Nature upon him, and therein to dye a bitter cursed death for mans redemption. Who can sufficiently admire the riches of Gods love to man therein? How may we with David cry out, and say, Lord, what is ma• that thou art mindful of him? especially that thou shouldest be so mindful of him, as to give the Son of thy love to suffer a cursed death upon the Cross, to make us, who were children of Wrath, and bondslaves of Sathan, Sons of God, and Heirs of eternal life and salvation. And how should this incomprehensible love of God, fire and inflame our cold and frozen hearts with a fervent love unto him again?

2 The remembrance of Christs death should work up our hearts to an ardent love of Christ, for that wonderful love of his, in giving himself for us, his Body to be crucified, his Blood to be shed, and his Soul to bear the intolerable burden of his Fathers Wrath due to our Sins, which made him sweat drops of blood in the Garden, and to cry out on the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Oh how should this ravish our souls with admiration of so great love? and inflame our hearts with love again unto him, who did, and suffered so much for us? How should the meditation of the manifold sufferings of Christ, especially of his bitter Death and Passion, work in us an holy passion of love?