1. If God had so great love as to send his Son to b•ar such great sufferings to purchase our salvation: then he will not fail to do what ever else is necessary for our salvation: he will not stick to do what is else to be done for the completing of our salvation: he that has done the greater will do the less; if love overcame the difficulty that was in the way of our redemption it will also overcome whatever difficulty is in the way of the application of redemption: it is unreasonable to think that God should have love enough to send his Son, to do that which can't be done without pain, and sorrow, and death, and not have love enough to do that which he can do with the speaking of a word: the great difficulty in the way of our salvation, was the purchasing of it: there was wrath to ⟨p. 83⟩be born, a curse to be endured; but love broke through that difficulty, the rest that remains is easy to God: the mortification of sin, the quickening of grace, the repelling of temptation, and giving the actual possession of glory, may be effected by God without any difficulty, and therefore he won't stick at that, Rom. 9.32. If God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall be not with him also freely give us all things: it is true that God does but by little and little carry on in us the work of sanctification: but the reason of that is not that it is any ways difficult unto him: but because that suits the design that is upon his heart: neither is it from any unwillingness to help us: but because his design is to carry on the work of sanctification, so that we shall have continually need of justification: we find it difficult to do our part in order to our salvation, but it is not difficult to God to do his part: God carries on the work without difficulty, yet so that we shall find difficulty: as a Parent with ease helps the child to go, yet so that the Child finds difficulty to go: it is no burden to God to uphold Grace: he that upholds the frame of nature with the word of his power, can easily uphold grace: what ever stands as an impediment in the way of our salvation, may be removed by God without any trouble: God puts forth thousands of acts of omnipotency to effect things that are less upon his heart, than the salvation of those that he has redeemed▪ and it is no pain nor weariness unto God to be daily carrying on the work of our salvation:
1. If God had so great love as to send his Son to b•ar such great sufferings to purchase our salvation: then he will not fail to do what ever else is necessary for our salvation: he will not stick to do what is else to be done for the compleating of our salvation: he that has done the greater will do the less; if love overcame the difficulty that was in the way of our redemption it will also overcome whatever difficulty is in the way of the application of redemption: it is unreasonable to think that God should have love enough to send his Son, to do that which can't be done without pain, and sorrow, and death, and not have love enough to do that which he can do with the speaking of a word: the great difficulty in the way of our salvation, was the purchasing of it: there was wrath to ⟨p. 83⟩be born, a curse to be endured; but love broke through that difficulty, the rest that remains is easie to God: the mortification of sin, the quickening of grace, the repelling of temptation, and giving the actual possession of glory, may be effected by God without any difficulty, and therefore he won't stick at that, Rom. 9.32. If God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall be not with him also freely give us all things: it is true that God does but by little and little carry on in us the work of sanctification: but the reason of that is not that it is any wayes difficult unto him: but because that suits the design that is upon his heart: neither is it from any unwillingness to help us: but because his design is to carry on the work of sanctification, so that we shall have continually need of justification: we find it difficult to do our part in or•er to our salvation, but it is not difficult to God to do his part: God carries on the work without difficulty, yet so that we shall find difficulty: as a Parent with ease helps the child to go, yet so that the Child finds difficulty to go: it is no burden to God to uphold Grace: he that upholds the frame of nature with the word of his power, can easily uphold grace: what ever stands as an i••ediment in the way of our salvation, may be removed by God without any trouble: God puts forth thousands of acts of omnipotency to effect things that are less upon his heart, than the salvation of those that he has redeemed▪ and it is no pain nor weariness unto God to be daily carrying on the work of our salvation:
