Seventh place: Don't despair for all this: God is in Christ reconciling the World to himself: As in that 2 Cor. chap. 5. v. 19. that sin might not be imputed: He is in Christ to reconcile you to win Hearts, to captivate Souls to the love of God: For what else is Reconciliation on our part? He is in Christ to reconcile, to conquer Enmity, to subdue disaffected Hearts, to make such Souls call and cry, My Lord, and my God! I have been a stranger to thee: I will through thy grace be so no longer, therefore don't despair: Despair that ever you should do well without loving of God: But don't despair you shall ever be brought to love him by no means: You have to do with him that is the Element of Love, the God of Love, the Fountain of Love, the great Source of Love, the Fountain at once both of Loveliness and Love, whose Nature is Love, and is with his name in his Son, who was manifested in the Flesh full of Grace and Truth, i. e. sincerest love. He was incarnate Love, Love pointed at us, and is upon these terms able to transform all the World into Love; the Nature of God is all Love, 1 John 4.16. and in Christ, he is Emanuel, God with us, so the Divine Love hath a direct aspect upon us: Why then apply your selves to him: Turn your selves towards him, open your Souls to him; say to him, Lord, flow in with all the mighty Powers of thine own Love upon my Soul, thou that […] ⟨p. 12⟩the true genuine Sons of Abraham, and there can be no such Children, without Love: Oh dissolve this stone, this stone in my Breast, mollify this obdurate Heart, turn it into Love! How soon may it be done upon due application! He can quickly do it, draw thee into a Love-Union with himself, so as that thou shouldest come to dwell in Love: And dwell in God, who is Love: And he in thee: Then the Foundations are surely laid, for all thy future Duty, and for all thy future Felicity: Then how pleasantly wilt thou obey, and how blessedly wilt thou enjoy God for ever! But such application must be made through Christ, and for the Spirit: Which Spirit is the Spirit of Love, and of Power, and of a sound Mind, as you have it in that first of the second to Tim. v. 7. But these things I can't now further insist upon.
Seventh place: Don't despair for all this: God is in Christ reconciling the World to himself: As in that 2 Cor. chap. 5. v. 19. that sin might not be imputed: He is in Christ to reconcile you to win Hearts, to captivate Souls to the love of God: For what else is Reconciliation on our part? He is in Christ to reconcile, to conquer Enmity, to subdue disaffected Hearts, to make such Souls call and cry, My Lord, and my God! I have been a stranger to thee: I will through thy grace be so no longer, therefore don't despair: Despair that ever you should do well without loving of God: But don't despair you shall ever be brought to love him by no means: You have to do with him that is the Element of Love, the God of Love, the Fountain of Love, the great Source of Love, the Fountain at once both of Loveliness and Love, whose Nature is Love, and is with his name in his Son, who was manifested in the Flesh full of Grace and Truth, i. e. sincerest love. He was incarnate Love, Love pointed at us, and is upon these terms able to transform all the World into Love; the Nature of God is all Love, 1 John 4.16. and in Christ, he is Emanuel, God with us, so the Divine Love hath a direct aspect upon us: Why then apply your selves to him: Turn your selves towards him, open your Souls to him; say to him, Lord, flow in with all the mighty Powers of thine own Love upon my Soul, thou that 〈…〉 ⟨p. 12⟩the true genuine Sons of Abraham, and there can be no such Children, without Love: Oh dissolve this stone, this stone in my Breast, mollifie this obdurate Heart, turn it into Love! How soon may it be done upon due application! He can quickly do it, draw thee into a Love-Union with himself, so as that thou shouldest come to dwell in Love: And dwell in God, who is Love: And he in thee: Then the Foundations are surely laid, for all thy future Duty, and for all thy future Felicity: Then how pleasantly wilt thou obey, and how blessedly wilt thou enjoy God for ever! But such application must be made through Christ, and for the Spirit: Which Spirit is the Spirit of Love, and of Power, and of a sound Mind, as you have it in that first of the second to Tim. v. 7. But these things I can't now further insist upon.
