Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

Consider hence his Eternal, free, unchangeable Love. Were the love of Christ unto us, but the Love of a mere man, though never §. 7 so excellent, innocent and glorious, it must have a beginning, it must have an ending, and perhaps be fruitless. The Love of Christ in his humane nature towards his, is exceeding intense, tender, precious, compassionate, abundantly heightened by a sense of our miseries, feeling of our Wants, experience of our Temptations, all flowing from that rich stock of Grace, pity and compassion, ⟨p. 68⟩which on purpose for our good and supply, was bestowed on him. But yet this Love as such, cannot be infinite, nor eternal, nor from it self absolutely unchangeable. Were it no more, though not to be paralleled, nor fathomed, yet our Saviour could not say of it, as he doth, as my Father loveth me, so have I loved you: Joh. 15. 9. His love could not be compared with, and equalled unto the divine Love of the Father, in those properties of Eternity, Fruitfulness, and Unchangeableness, which are the chief Anchors of the soul, rolling it self on the bosom of Christ, but now

Consider hence his Eternall, free, unchangeable Love. Were the love of Christ unto us, but the Love of a meere man, though never §. 7 so excellent, innocent and glorious, it must have a beginning, it must have an ending, and perhaps be fruitlesse. The Love of Christ in his humane nature towards his, is exceeding intense, tender, precious, compassionate, abundantly heightned by a sense of our miseries, feeling of our Wants, experience of our Temptations, all flowing from that rich stock of Grace, pitty and compassion, ⟨p. 68⟩which on purpose for our good and supply, was bestowed on him. But yet this Love as such, cannot be infinite, nor eternall, nor from it selfe absolutely unchangeable. Were it no more, though not to be parallelled, nor fathomed, yet our Saviour could not say of it, as he doth, as my Father loveth me, so have I loved you: Joh. 15. 9. His love could not be compared with, and equalled unto the divine Love of the Father, in those properties of Eternity, Fruitfulnesse, and Unchangeablenesse, which are the chiefe Anchors of the soule, rolling it selfe on the bosome of Christ, but now