Chapter 5
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CHAP. V.
The Glory of Christ in his Love.
IN the Susception and Discharge of the Mediatory Office by the Son of God, the Scripture doth most eminently represent his Love, as the sole impelling and leading cause thereof, Gal. 2. 20. 1 Joh. 3. 16. Rev. 1. 5.
HEREIN is he glorious, in a way and manner incomprehensible: For in the Glory of Divine Love, the chief Brightness of Glory doth consist. There is nothing of Dread or Terror accompanying it, nothing but what is amiable and infinitely refreshing. Now that we may take a view of the Glory of Christ herein by Faith, the Nature of it must be enquired into.
1. THE Eternal Disposing Cause of the whole work wherein the Lord Christ was engaged by the Susception of this Office, for the Redemption and Salvation of the Church, is the Love of the Father. Hereunto it is constantly ascribed in the Scripture. And this Love of the Father acted it self in his Eternal Decrees, before the foundation of the world, Eph. 1. 4. and afterwards in the sending of his Son to render it effectual,