Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

2. To intimate the redundancy of this Love, it over-floweth to us, for Christ being beloved we are beloved also, Eph. 1. 6. he hath made us accepted in the beloved, to the praise of his glorious Grace. It is an overflowing Love, he is loved and all that have an interest in him are loved. There is a twofold love in God, the love of Benevolence and complacency; The Elect from all Eternity are loved by God with a love of Benevolence, whereby he willed good unto them, and decrees to bestow good upon them: but the love of complacency and delight, is that love whereby God accepteth us, delighteth in us, when he hath made us lovely as his own children, reconciled them by the death of Christ, renewed them by the Spirit of Christ, and furnished them with all the Graces which make us acceptable to him, and precious in his sight.

3. To show the kind and manner of the expressing of his love, to his redeemed ones. Christ prayed John 17. 23. That the World may know that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me, and ver. 26. That the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, that is by the gift of the Spirit and Everlasting ⟨p. 137⟩Glory. Though Christ was the beloved Son, yet his state was but mean, and despicable in the world; he was afflicted, a man of sorrows, pursued to the Death, even a shameful, painful, accursed Death; yet all this while he was full of the Holy Ghost, of his Graces, Comforts, and afterwards received to Glory, and so will he love us. At this rate and Tenor, his love bindeth him not to give us worldly greatness, but if we have the Spirit, and may be welcomed to Heaven at the last, we have that which is the true discovery of Gods Love. So he manifested his Love to the only begotten Son, and therefore the adopted children should be contented with this Love, if by the Spirit they may be enabled to continue with Patience in well-doing, till they receive Eternal Glory and Happiness.