A57963:65
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
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Thirdly, Heaven is not only a transcendent Jewel, dear in it self, but our Father would propine Rebels with a Sonship §3and a Kingdom, which is dear in our legal esteem. What standeth my Crown to God? Why it could not possibly be dearer; The soul of God was weighed for it: that not only freedom, but the dearest of prices might commend and cry up, above all heaven's, Christs love.
Thirdly, Heaven is not onely a transcendent Jewel, deare in it selfe, but our Father would propine Rebels with a Sonship §3and a Kingdome, which is deare in our legall esteeme. What standeth my Crowne to God? Why it could not possibly be dearer; The soule of God was weighed for it: that not onely freedome, but the dearest of prices might commend and cry up, above all heaven's, Christs love.
Fourthly, If my soul, or your souls, O redeemed of the §4Lord, could be valued every one of them worth ten thousand millions of souls, and as many heavens, they could not over-weigh the soul of God; the soul that lodges in a glorious union with God: and the loss of heaven to the troubled soul of this noble, and high and lofty one, though but for a time, was more, and infinitely greater then my loss of heaven, and the loss of all the elect for eternity.
Fourthly, If my soule, or your soules, O redeemed of the §4Lord, could be valued every one of them worth ten thousand millions of soules, and as many heavens, they could not over-weigh the soule of God; the soule that lodges in a glorious union with God: and the losse of heaven to the troubled soule of this noble, and high and lofty one, though but for a time, was more, and infinitely greater then my losse of heaven, and the losse of all the elect for eternity.