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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
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2. IT is styled Love, because it was free and undeserved, as unto any thing on our part. For whatever good is done unto any altogether undeserved, if it be with a design of their Profit and Advantage, it is in an Act of Love, and can have no other cause. So is it with us in respect of Eternal Election. There was nothing in us, nothing foreseen, as that which from our selves would be in us, that should any way move the Will of God unto this Election: For whatever is good in the best of men is an effect of it, Ephes. 1. 4. Whereas therefore it tends unto our eternal Good, the spring of it must be Love. And,
2. IT is stiled Love, because it was free and undeserved, as unto any thing on our part. For whatever good is done unto any altogether undeserved, if it be with a design of their Profit and Advantage, it is in an Act of Love, and can have no other cause. So is it with us in respect of Eternal Election. There was nothing in us, nothing foreseen, as that which from our selves would be in us, that should any way move the Will of God unto this Election: For whatever is good in the best of men is an effect of it, Ephes. 1. 4. Whereas therefore it tends unto our eternal Good, the spring of it must be Love. And,
3. THE Fruits or Effects of it are inconceivable Acts of Love. It is by multiplied Acts of Love, that it is made effectual, John 3. 16. Jerem. 31. 5. Eph. 1. 3, 4, 5, 6. 1 John 4. 8, 9, 16.