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…

THE knowledge of our good and safe Estate, deriving from an interest in the Everlasting Love of God, is a thing which every one who hath right thoughts of the Eternity he is going to, will be very solicitous about. There is, besides the Testimony of the Spirit of God to this in us, which is necessary for our confirmation in the belief of it, the witness of our own spirit requisite, for our ordinary Assurance about it, which must be given to those things in us which are evidential of it. These Evidences are built upon the discovery of such fruits or effects of the love of God wrought in us, as are proper and distinguishing, and these are mainly the Graces of Faith and Repentance; and these are […] ⟨p. 6⟩priority of Gods love to us, as that from which we come to love him, which can be inferred from no other but the Efficient. The word is an Adjective, and not an Adverb; and that also puts force into the argument; he was the first in this love, and thence it was that our love followed after. Hence,

THE knowledge of our good and safe Estate, deriving from an interest in the Everlasting Love of God, is a thing which every one who hath right thoughts of the Eternity he is going to, will be very sollicitous about. There is, besides the Testimony of the Spirit of God to this in us, which is necessary for our confirmation in the belief of it, the witness of our own spirit requisite, for our ordinary Assurance about it, which must be given to those things in us which are evidencial of it. These Evidences are built upon the discovery of such fruits or effects of the love of God wrought in us, as are proper and distinguishing, and these are mainly the Graces of Faith and Repentance; and these are