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Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself
Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soul-suffering, his loveliness in his death, and the efficacy thereof in which some cases of soul-trouble in week believers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soule-suffering, his lovelynesse in his death, and the efficacie thereof in which some cases of soule-trouble in weeke beleevers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.
London: printed by J.D. for Andrew Crooke, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Our own good works cannot make our Lord love us less or more, with the love of eternal election; but they may make God love us more with the love of complacency, and a sweeter manifestation of God in the fruits and gracious effects of his love. According to that, John 14.23. Jesus said, if a man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Our owne good works cannot make our Lord love us lesse or more, with the love of eternall election; but they may make God love us more with the love of compl•cency, and a sweeter manifestation of God in the fruits and gracious effects of his love. According to that, John 14.23. Jesus said, if a man love me, he will keepe my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
The third reason is the same with the first, and proveth nothing but a Major Proposition, not denied by the disquieted sinner, which is this: Who ever is justified and chosen, cannot be condemned; whom ever the Lord once loveth to salvation, he must always love to salvation; for his love is like himself, and changeth not. But the disquieted sinner is chosen and loved to salvation. This Assumption is all the question: and the truth of a Major Proposition, can never prove the truth of the Assumption.
The third reason is the same with the first, and proveth nothing but a Major Poposition, not denied by the disquieted sinner, which is this: Who ever is justified and chosen, cannot be condemned; whom ever the Lord once loveth to salvation, he must alwaies love to salvation; for his love is like himselfe, and changeth not. But the disquieted sinner is chosen and loved to salvation. This Assumption is all the question: and the truth of a Major Proposition, can never prove the truth of the Assumption.