Sermons preached

That the Beginning and first Cause of our Salvation is the mere Love of God. The outward Occasion was our Misery, the inward moving Cause was God's Love.

That the Beginning and first Cause of our Salvation is the meer Love of God. The outward Occasion was our Misery, the inward moving Cause was God's Love.

1. Love is at the Bottom of all. We may give a Reason of other Things, but we cannot give a Reason of his Love. ⟨p. 294⟩God showed his Wisdom, Power, Justice, and Holiness in our Redemption by Christ. If you ask, why he made so much ado about a worthless Creature, raised out of the Dust of the Ground at first, and had now disordered himself, and could be of no use to him? We have an Answer at hand, Because he loved us. If you continue to ask, But why did he love us? We have no other Answer, but because he loved us; for beyond the first Rise of things we cannot go. And the same Reason is given by Moses, Deut. 7. 8. The Lord did not set his Love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any People, for ye were the fewest of all People; but because the Lord loved you; that is in short, He loved you, because he loved you. The same Reason is given by our Lord Jesus Christ, Mat. 11. 26. Even so Father, for so it seemed good in thy Sight. All came from his free and undeserved Mercy, higher we cannot go in seeking after the Causes of what is done for our Salvation.

1. Love is at the Bottom of all. We may give a Reason of other Things, but we cannot give a Reason of his Love. ⟨p. 294⟩God shewed his Wisdom, Power, Justice, and Holiness in our Redemption by Christ. If you ask, why he made so much ado about a worthless Creature, raised out of the Dust of the Ground at first, and had now disorder'd himself, and could be of no use to him? We have an Answer at hand, Because he loved us. If you continue to ask, But why did he love us? We have no other Answer, but because he loved us; for beyond the first Rise of things we cannot go. And the same Reason is given by Moses,