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A06060	The mirrour or miracle of Gods loue vnto the world of his elect Preached on the third of Iohn, verse the sixteenth: wherein the said scripture is very learnedly expounded, and the rich treasures of Gods grace in Christ are accurately opened. By that faithfull seruant of Christ, and preacher of his Gospell, Mr. Paul Baine.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1619 (1619)	STC 1646; ESTC S101581	52,320	82

not thereby made worthy of our loue As nothing doth more become a sort of beggers children whom some rich and noble person should so loue as to adopt them his sonnes and fellow-heires then to loue dearely and intirely among themselues so is it a most seemely thing that we should follow God in this loue and imbrace them with true and feruent loue whom he hath made fellow-heires with vs yea and in our loue we must keepe the same order which the Lord obserueth Be yee mercifull as your Father is mercifull Our loue ought to resemble Gods for kinde and order Luke 6.36 saith our Sauiour As the same mercy is to be shewed by vs not for measure degree but for kinde which God sheweth so must wee tread the same steps for order wherein our heauenly Father doth goe before vs. There is no creature specially of those that are seruiceable to vs but we must be louing and kinde thereto Shewing kindnesse to beasts more to men most 〈◊〉 the godly A righteous man doth regard the life of his beast Prou. 12.10 Next all men must be loued but as God doth embrace his elect with a singular loue aboue other men so must wee be more especially affectioned toward the godly as Paul doth direct vs Gal. 6.10 Doe good to all men but especially vnto them which are of the hous-hold of faith 2 Our loue to God a●● our 〈◊〉 neighbour ●p● get●●rom Gods loue to vs. Secondly this point touching Gods loue toward vs doth shew whence it is that our loue to God our neighbour is engendred euen hence doth it proceed from Gods louing of vs. Saint Iohn 1. Iohn 4.12.16 doth proue and conclude that wee are in God and haue the knowledge and faith of Gods loue to vs euen from our loue to God and our Brethren For God is loue yea that maine and vast sea of loue from whom all those streames and riuelets of loue that are in men do issue and flowe If vvater bee vvarme and doe heate We are this way key cold vnlesse God warme vs. it is not of it selfe for it is an extreame cold element but by vertue of fire in some sort dwelling in it which the Philosopher cals the excesse of heate So the holy loue of God and our brethren cannot kindle of it selfe in our hearts which are most auerse there from but must come from God who is loue himselfe dwelling and residing in vs and our taste of this infinit fauour vnto vs. As Saint Iohn saith plainely 1. Ioh. 4.19 that we loue God and so our neighbours because he loued vs first The cold and frozen earth cannot cherish the trees and plants with any kindly heate and iuice except it first bee thawed and warmed with the aspect of the sunne shining on it and approaching to it And so the loue of God looking out vpon vs in Iesus Christ must first melt our frozen and warme our cold hearts before we can shew and put forth any affection or worke of loue to God and our brethren Nor is this point needlesse to be knowne A point needfull to bee knowne For if we know it not we shall neither giue praise to God vvhen this affection sparkleth in vs nor know when it is frozen whither to repaire that it may bee reuiued and inflamed in vs. 3. The folly of the world which hateth most whom God loueth Thirdly from this loue of God to his we may take notice of the folly of the world For they hate there most where the Lord loueth most I saith our Sauiour Iohn 17.14 haue giuen them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world c. The more loue God doth manifest vnto any in giuing them his word and grace to obey and imbrace it the more the hatred of the world doth boyle and breake out against them Water for the contrarietie that it hath with fire A note of their comitie against God and the godly doth hisse spet and sputter not onely vvhen fire falleth into it but if any thing throughly heated with the fire catch it And whence is this in worldly men but from their aduerse disposition to and hatred of God that they hate the dearest people of the Lord and those in whom his grace is most apparant In Princes Courts are not they rebellious spirits and foolish men And the next way that professe open and mortall hatred to the greatest Fauorites of the King Doe they not take the right way to ruinate themselues and their estates Such as are politiquely wise and intend to rise to any matters or estate in the Court will rather obserue the Kings speciall fauourites loue them and insinuate into their acquaintance So is it a most sottish folly in men of the world to hate the Lords holy and deare children For be they sure that the Lord vvill hold them as they are enemies to him to k●ep th mselues from all blessings that they sha●l want many a ble●sing from the King of Heauen which the prayers of the godly vvould obtaine for them Yea N●y to ruinate themselues many plagues will light vpon them in this respect If they will be wise for their soules and bodies too it is their best vvay to loue and embrace with all kindnesse the people of God which God vvould take as a token of loue to himselfe and they should haue the benefit of their prayers vvhich can obtaine great things from God It followeth that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne Doct. 3. Gods dearest loue is manifest not in outward things but in Christ giuen vs. OBserue heere wherein the speciall loue of God consisteth not in health wealth honours countenance libertie and such like but in the gift of Christ As his loue towards his was exceeding great yea infinite so hee had no better way to euidence this loue but by the gift of his Sonne By this therefore doth the word of God in sundry places commend to vs the loue of God God setteth out his loue vnto vs saith Paul Rom. 5.8 that while we were sinners Christ died for vs. So 1. Iohn 4.9 In this appeared the loue of God toward vs because God sent his onely begotten Son into the world c. God did manifest and magnifie his loue in nothing so as in the gift of his Sonne vnto vs All his other loue in distributing vnto vs wealth No other loue at he last comfortable without it libertie honour and pleasures is more then we are worthy of but it h●d beene poore and cold loue in respect of any good and comfort to vs-ward without Christ giuen vs. Wherin therfore doth Paul place Ephes 2.7 the exceeding riches of Gods grace and kindnesse but in Iesus Christ that is in this that he hath giuen vs Christ without whom notwithstanding all the worlds good and glory B●● we most miserable there is no brute beast nay there is

foundation of the world 1 Pet. 1.20 Wherefore Gods loue hath been toward vs from all eternity Now loue as wine doth receiue the greater prayse by the age of it old wine is the best and antient loue is the most approued How much doe we esteeme of such a friend as hath borne vs good will for some twenty or fourty yeares together The more reckoning should we make of Gods loue which hath been eternall Then also it is most free And most f●ee for before Christ wee were enemies to God there was nothing to be seene in vs but sinne and misery nor any thing to draw Gods affection toward vs but his own free and good pleasure now that loue which we haue deserued we the lesse esteeme but such loue as is freely conferred on vs we do make more store of And this is the excellency of Gods loue vnto vs that it is most free and gratious no way procured by our selues who were children of wrath no nor by Christ himselfe in the first motion of it but it did giue Christ as a pledge thereof and a meane to make way more plen●ifully to poure out it selfe vpon vs. Fourthly 4. Doct. Our redemption by Christ doth best of all manifest Gods loue Whereas God louing vs giueth Christ vnto vs wee are to obserue that this course of redeeming vs by Christ is most answerable agreeable with the loue and grace of God True it is if Gods absolute power be considered and the freedome wherewith hee inclined to all which from eternity he decreed we may say Another way was possible but this most fit hee could haue taken another course for our redemption But if a way be considered wherein his iustice e●pecially his loue might be made manifest this is of all most fit and expedient For it followeth as he●re you see on Gods loue as if loue it selfe had designed it and he hath chosen this way who as hee is most powerfull so is not his wisdome any whit inferiour to his power And that this point may bee the more cleared as also that we may see that when Paul falleth into the argument of Gods loue hee doth not without cause speak so loftily we will sift these words somewhat more narrowly Setting ou● Gods loue in foure circumstance● Wherein foure circumstances are to be noted whereby the loue of God is much amplified First the partie louing Secondly those that are loued Thirdly the thing giuen Fourthly the manner of giuing First in this that God loueth 1. In ●o● who first sought loue when wee gaue the ●●●st offence his exceeding grace is not a little commended For when two men are at variance if the partie wrongfully offended do seeke him who gaue him the offence how is his meekenesse and gentlenesse thereby declared Euen thus the case standeth twixt God and vs we had prouoked his displeasure he procureth our reconciliation and attonement And for this cause our righteousnesse and Redemption is said to be made of God to vs. 1. Cor. 1.30 Saint Iohn also expending and weighing this thing doth from it magnifie the loue of God 1. Iohn 4.10 In this is loue not that wee loued God but that he loued vs. Secondly 2. In the persons loued v●z our selues being sinners his enemies to consider the persons loued is no lesse argument whereby this loue may be extolled For whō loued God Vs saith Iohn Being now like the world no better then the Reprobates when our deeds words and wisest thoughts were enmitie against him then I say did God regard vs. From hence Paul bringeth in the loue of God most gloriously cloathed saying that it was great loue and rich mercy in God that he did then quicken vs when we were dead in sinnes and trespasses Ephes 2.4.5 And Romanes 5.7 from hence also doth hee extoll it In this God setteth out his loue vnto vs that when we were his enemies Christ died for vs. The third circumstance is the thing giuen 3. In the thing giuen viz the onely begotten Sonne of God that is in this word the only begotten which is a vvord putting a difference betwixt this person and any other Euery where in Scripture excellent priuiledges are bestowed on Gods children but so that Christ hath still the preheminence Wee call God Father as Christ teacheth vs Mat. 6.9 and this Abba Father is the voice of the Spirit which is in vs. Gal. 4 6. Yea so did the Church when this spirit of adoption was not so plentifully powred out Isay 63.16 Thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of vs and Israel know vs not But Christ calleth God as the Iewes rightly gather Iohn 5.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is his owne his proper father Vnto whom God is a proper father in such a sort as no man else did or could otherwise they would not so haue stormed at him So wee by nature are the sonnes of wrath yet by faith we haue this priuiledge to be the sonnes of God Iohn 1.12 But Christ is called his owne proper Sonne He is Gods proper Sonne Rom. 8.32 who spared not his owne Sonne So we are begotten not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh Iohn 1.13 but God of his owne will by the word of trueth hath begotten vs. Iam. 1.18 And one●y begotten Not because of the strange framing of his humane nature As Seruetus falsely But Christ is the only begotten euen from the Father Ioh. 1.14 Where by the way we may not vnfitly consider Seruetus his exposition who saith that Christ is said the onely begotten of God onely in regard that his humane nature was framed in a sort proper to himselfe But this is but a fiction For first consider what it is to beget and Christ cannot in regard of the humane nature be said begotten To beget is ex substantia gignentis proferre simile secundum substantiam that is Out of the substance of the begetter to bring forth a like thing according to its substance But now the humane nature and diuine essence are wholly different Secondly he should rather in this respect be the onely begotten of the holy Ghost For that person immediately and determinatiue did frame of the substance of the Virgin that immaculate masse and vnite it to the diuine nature Thirdly Adam and Eue might thus as well be said the onely begotten of God who were after a proper manner made of God Fourthly Christ as man hath alwaies beene held as without father and ergo vnbegotten For these two stand in relation one to the other Fiftly the Scripture auoideth this phrase saying of Christ Iohn 1.14 that he was made flesh and Rom. 1.3 made of the seede of Dauid and Galathians 4.4 made of a woman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is sometime vsed but it signifieth nothing but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be borne Mat. 2.1 and so Ialad is vsed answerably with the Hebrew If this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉