Sermons preached

3. That our Love to God may be more fervent. If God had saved us some other way, the Salvation had been something less; for according to the degrees of the Gift, so is our Obligation. Now God would oblige us at the highest rate, and therefore he gave his only begotten Son to die for us. It is said, He spared not his own Son, Rom. 8. 32. There is a twofold not sparing, either in a way of impartial Justice, or in a way of transcendent Bounty; the last is chiefly intended in that place, though the other not altogether excluded. He delivered him up to die for our sakes. Now surely this should gain much upon us, when God thought nothing too good to part with for our Salvation.

4. It makes our Obedience more ready, for Jesus Christ came to live by the same Law that we were bound to. Gal. 4. 4. When the Fullness of Time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under the Law. Yea to obey God at the dearest Rates. Heb. 5. 8, 9. Though he were a Son, yet learned he Obedience by the Things which he suffered: And being made perfect, he became the Author of Eternal Salvation unto all them that obey him. He submitted unto and performed the whole Law, his Obedience cost him dear, since an ignominious and shameful Death was a part of it.

4. It makes our Obedience more ready, for Jesus Christ came to live by the same Law that we were bound to. Gal. 4. 4. When the Fulness of Time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under the Law. Yea to obey God at the dearest Rates. Heb. 5. 8, 9. Though he were a Sen, yet learned he Obedience by the Things which he suffered: And being made perfect, he became the Author of Eternal Salvation unto all them that obey him. He submitted unto and performed the whole Law, his Obedience cost him dear, since an ignominious and shameful Death was a part of it.