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Love's pedigree. Or A discourse showing the grace of love in a believer to…Love's pedigree. Or A discourse shewing the grace of love in a believer to…
Love's pedigree. Or A discourse showing the grace of love in a believer to be of a divine original delivered in a sermon preached at the lecture in Boston, Febr. 29. 1699[/]1700. / By S. Willard, teacher of a church there. ; [Two lines from James]Love's pedigree. Or A discourse shewing the grace of love in a believer to be of a divine original delivered in a sermon preached at the lecture in Boston, Febr. 29. 1699[/]1700. / By S. Willard, teacher of a church there. ; [Two lines from James]
printed by B. Green, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. This love is a saving gift, and therefore must have God for its Author. It is one of those things which we are told do accompany Salvation, Heb. 6 9. and is therefore called a fruit of the Spirit, in the fore-cited, Gal. 5.22. This love is an effect of the New birth, whereof God is the Author, 1 John 4.7. Love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God. And indeed, it being one of the Graces of Sanctification, it must needs proceed from Gods Efficiency, for it is he that Sanctifieth us, 1 Thes. 5.23. And the wonderful change that is made in the man by it, must force us to say of it, behold the finger of God. To see one who the other day despised God, had no desire after him, had him to depart from him, chose carnal objects, lying vanities rather than him; nay, hated his counsels, and was full of all prejudices against him; now to love him, to choose him, to embrace him, to forsake all for him, ⟨p. 16⟩to submit to him, and delight in his Service▪ is a thing of which no other account can be given, but that God hath created him a new in Christ Jesus, that he hath given him another and a New heart, or otherwise it could never have been.
5. This love is a saving gift, and therefore must have God for its Author. It is one of those things which we are told do accompany Salvation, Heb. 6 9. and is therefore called a fruit of the Spirit, in the fore-cited, Gal. 5.22. This love is an effect of the New birth, whereof God is the Author, 1 John 4.7. Love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God. And indeed, it being one of the Graces of Sanctification, it must needs proceed from Gods Efficiency, for it is he that Sanctifieth us,