USE. III. O Love Jesus Christ. Believers have infinite Cause to love Him. Should there not be Love between Kindred and near Relations? Christ is our Kinsman (as but now was shown) our elder Brother, our Father, our Husband. And He is an Object worthy to be loved. He is altogether lovely. If thou can•t set thine heart upon a more amiable Object, or a more lovely person, never think of loving him more: But that can't be. And He deserveth all our Love, by what he hath done for us. He has loved us, and that with an everlasting Love. Before the world began he took pleasure in thinking of us, and ⟨p. 91⟩in the Communion which he should forever enjoy with his Redeemed Ones. Wherefore he faith, I was from everlasting, rejoicing in the habitable part of the earth, and my Delights were with the sons of men. Prov. 8. 23, 31. And therefore was he willing to to be made flesh. His Love moved him to that infinite Condescension. That the blessed Son of God who •umbleth him self to behold the things in Heaven should condescend to assume our Nature into personal Union, that he should be willing to be clothed with Flesh! What wonderful Love was that! And he does continue to love his saints throughout the days of Eternity. Joh. 13. 1. Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them to the end. That fire of Love which is in the heart of the Son of God towards believers, it was kindled before the world began, and will burn world without end. The choicest blessings that ever we did, or shall, or can partake of, we are beholding to Jesus Christ the Son of God for them all. It is in Christ that God does bless us with all spiritual blessings, Eph. 1. 3. And if it had not been for Christ, we had never had any spiritual blessing. He is our Righteousness, he is our Life, he is our All. O then let us love him. Never any one did for us as ⟨p. 92⟩Christ has done. Nay, no one in heaven […] earth would or could have done so much so us as Christ has done. He dyed for us […] suffered the most bitter death that ever […] known. Ignatius was wont to say, my […] is crucified. Has Christ been crucified to […] us from being broken for ever in the place of Dr• gons, and that we might not be covered with the shadow of eternal death! and shall we […] lo•• Him! We cannot exceed bounds in our Love to Christ; as we may in our love to the world and the things thereof:
USE. III. O Love Jesus Christ. Believers have infinite Cause to love Him. Should there not be Love between Kindred and near Relations? Christ is our Kinsman (as but now was •hewn) our elder Brother, our Father, our Husband. And He is an Obeject worthy to be loved. He is altogether lovely. If thou can•t set thine heart upon a more amiable Object, or a more lovely person, never think of loving him more: But that can't be. And He deserveth all our Love, by what he hath done for us. He has loved us, and that with an everlasting Love. Before the world began he took pleasure in thinking of us, and ⟨p. 91⟩in the Communion which he should forever enjoy with his Redeemed Ones. Wherefore he faith, I was from everlasting, rejoicing in the ha••table part of the earth, and my Delights were with the sons of men. Prov. 8. 23, 31. And therefore was he willing to to be made flesh. His Love moved him to that infinite Conde•cention. That the blessed Son of God who •umbleth him self to behold the things in Heaven should condescend to assume our Nature into personal Union, that he should be willing to be clothed with Flesh! What wonderful Love was that! And he does continue to love his saints throughout the dayes of Eternity. Joh. 13. 1. Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them to the end. That fire of Love which is in the heart of the Son of God towards believers, it was kindled before the world began, and will burn world without end. The choicest blessings that ever we did, or shall, or can partake of, we are beholding to Jesus Christ the Son of God for them all. It is in Christ that God does bless us with all spiritual blessings, Eph. 1. 3. And if it had not been for Christ, we had never had any spiritual blessing. He is our Righteousness, he is our Life, he is our All. O then let us love him. Never any one did for us as ⟨p. 92⟩Christ has done. Nay, no one in heaven 〈…〉 earth would or could have done so much so us as Christ has done. He dyed for us 〈…〉 suffered the most bitter death that ever 〈…〉 known. Ignatius was wont to say, my is crucified. Has Christ been crucified to us from being broken for ever in the place of Dr gons, and that we might not be covered with the shadow of eternal death! and shall we lo Him! We cannot exceed bounds in our Love to Christ; as we may in our love to the world and the things thereof:
