The true Christians love of the unseen Christ, or, A discourse chiefly tending to…

1. The strength and activity of Christs Love to you, doth show it self in what Christ hath done for you; I shall briefly name some particulars. 1. It was the strong Love of Christ which brought him down from heaven for you, to assume your Nature, what manner of love was this that God should become man! that Spirit should become flesh, that he who made the world should be born of a mean Virgin, and all for your sakes! 2. It was the love of Christ which made him to fulfil all righteousness for you; He yielded perfect obedience to the Law both Moral and Ceremonial, that you might have the benefit of ⟨p. 77⟩it. It was the Love of Christ which made him submit himself to the temptations of the Devil for you, that he, suffering being tempted, might be able to succour you when you are tempted. 4. It was the Love of Christ which made him endure the contradictions of sinners for you; he bore many affronts, contumelies, envyings and blasphemies of wicked men, that he might give you an example how to carry your selves under the like circumstances. 5. It was the Love of Christ which made him lay down his Life for you, Joh. 15. 13, 14. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend: ye are my friends. That such a person as Christ, so excellent, so innocent, should undergo death, and such a death as that of the Cross, so disgraceful, so painful; that he should submit to such Ignominy, and endure such Agony, such tearings in his flesh, such pressures in his spirit, and that with such resolution and willingness, with such submission and patience, and that for such as you, although now his friends, yet whilst in a state of Nature strangers and enemies; here was Love stronger than death! Oh the height! Oh the depth of this Love! There are such dimensions in this love of Christ, as ⟨p. 80⟩the longest line of your most extended thoughts and imaginations can never be able to reach and measure. 6. It was the Love of Christ which raised him again from the dead for you, Rom. 4. 25. Who was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification. 7. It was the Love of Christ which carried him up from earth to heaven, where he was before for you,