A65285:2175
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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8. That Christ should love us with such an entire transcendent Love. The Apostle calls it a Love which passeth knowledge, Eph. 3.19. That he should love us more than the Angels: He loves them as his Friends, Believers as his Spouse. He loves them with such a kind of Love as God the Father bears to him, John 15.9. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you. O what an Hyperbole of Love doth Christ show in redeeming us!
8. That Christ should love us with such an entire transcendent Love. The Apostle calls it a Love which passeth knowledge, Eph. 3.19. That he should love us more than the Angels: He loves them as his Friends, Believers as his Spouse. He loves them with such a kind of Love as God the Father bears to him, Iohn 15.9. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you. O what an Hyperbole of Love doth Christ show in redeeming us!
9. That Christ's Love in our Redemption should be everlasting, John 13.1. Having loved his own, he loved them, [Greek or Hebrew], to the end. As Christ's Love is matchless, so endless: The Flower of Christ's Love is sweet, and that which makes it sweeter, it never dies. Christ's Love is Eternized, Jer. 31.3. He will never divorce his Elect Spouse: The Failings of his People cannot quite take off his Love: They may eclipse his Love, not wholly remove it; their Failings may make Christ angry with them, but not hate them. Every Failing doth not break the Marriage-knot. Christ's Love is not like the Saints Love; sometimes they have strong Affections towards Christ, at other times the hot Fit is off, and they can find little or no Love stirring in them. But it is not so with Christ's Love to the Saints, it is a Love of Eternity. When the Sun-shine of Christ's Electing Love hath once risen upon the Soul, it never sets finally. Death may take away our Life from us, but not Christ's Love. Behold here a rare Subject on a Sabbath-morning to meditate upon. The Meditation of Christ's wonderful Love in Redeeming us, would work in us a Sabbath-Frame of Heart.