Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

Greater love than this hath no man, that a man lay down his life for his friend, John 15.13. The passion of Christ was the greatest evidence of his affection. The laying down of life did abundantly proclaim his love. His love before was like wine in a cask, hardly seen; but O how did it sparkle and cast its colour in the glass of his sufferings! This Diamond before hid in the shell, doth shine radiantly in the ring of his death: If his tears did so much speak his love to Lazarus, that the Jews who saw him weeping, cried out, Lo how he loved him! surely his heart-blood doth far more demonstrate his love to his members. They that beheld him bleeding in the garden, had far more reason to say, Look, lo how he loved his!

Greater love than this hath no man, that a man lay down his life for his friend, John 15.13. The passion of Christ was the greatest evidence of his affection. The laying down of life did abundantly proclaim his love. His love before was like wine in a cask, hardly seen; but O how did it sparkle and cast its colour in the glass of his sufferings! This Diamond before hid in the shell, doth shine radiantly in the ring of his death: If his tears did so much speak his love to Lazarus, that the Jews who saw him weeeping, cryed out, Lo how he loved him! surely his heart-blood doth far more demonstrate his love to his members. They that beheld him bleeding in the garden, had far more reason to say, Look, lo how he loved his!

What love is that which did all this for such a worm as thou art? such a sinner, such ⟨p. 161⟩a rebel; what would God lose, if thou wert eternally lost? the least tittle of his happiness would not be diminished; this Sun is no loser, when men shut their eyes, and will not behold its light: what gaineth God, if he gain thee to himself, to his service? thou canst not add the least cubit to the stature of his perfections; the refreshment is to men, not to the Spring when the weary passengers drink of it. He doth not command thee to repent from any need he hath of thee, but from the pity he hath to thee. He entreateth thee to return, not that he may be blessed and happy, but that he may be bountiful & liberal in bestowing on thee those blessings which accompany salvation. Methinks the apprehension of Gods great love and goodness should have such an impression on thee as to make thee little and low in thine own thoughts. Is it not a wonder, that God should vouchsafe a gracious look upon such a clod of earth, a piece of clay as thou art? but what admiration can answer this love and condescension, that God should wait and entreat to lift thee up, who wouldst cast him down! That an Emperor should sue to a traitor; that Majesty should thus stoop