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

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.

3. To shew the kind and manner of the expressing of his love, to his redeemed ones. Christ prayed Iohn 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 Tenour, 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 onely begotten Son, and therefore the adopted children should be contented with this Love, if by the Spirit they may be inabled to continue with Patience in well-doing, till they receive Eternal Glory and Happiness.