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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40518	Yadidyah or, The beloved disciple A sermon preached at the funerall of the Honourable Sir Robert Harley, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath; at Brampton-Brian in Hereford-shire. December 10. 1656. By Thomas Froysell, minister of the Gospell at Clun in Shropshire.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing F2249; ESTC R202027	40,790	144

and understanding loves it self and God who knows himselfe to be the Best Good cannot but love himself Best and therefore 't is said the Lord made Prov. 16. 4. All things for himselfe 1. The Creation of all things is the Birth of his love to himselfe which he made as mirrours to reflect his own Excellencies when he made those Beauteous Paires of Heaven and Earth he did it to glorifie himself being the Glasses to behold his own wisdome and all mighty Power 2. And when God destroyed the old world 't was out of love to himselfe for therein he glorified himselfe in those waters he saw the Image of his Justice They were the looking Glasse of That Attribute and therefore God is said To laugh at and Rejoyce in the destruction of a Sinner because he is pleased with the Oeconomy of his own Laws and the Excellent proportions He makes of his Judgements to their sins Thus when he destroyed Pharaoh he did it out of a supream love to himselfe and his own great Name And in very deed for this cause I raised Exod. 9. 16. thee up for to shew in thee my Power and that my Name may be declared throughout all the Earth Sinner Take heed and put a stop to thy Race in sin if thou goest on a little further it may be God cannot spare thee for his Names sake He must punish for the Honour of his Name he cannot but love himselfe and therefore cannot but punish Sinners out of Respect unto his Name He is Engaged to punish because he is Engaged to himselfe 3. So he Acts all his works of mercy chiefly out of love to himselfe He loves his people but he loves them for the love he b●ars to himselfe and delivers them for the love he bears to his own name His Name being put upon them They in themselves are not worth his deliverances and when their sins plead against their deliverance his own name intercedes for them But I had pity for my holy Ezek. 36. 21. 22 23. Name which the House of Israel had prophaned among the Heathen whither they went c. that is You are worthy no pity yet I will have pity for my holy Name That he might free his Name from Base aspersions and Imputations Secondly God hath love which flows out of him upon the creature I say God hath love for himselfe and he hath love to bestow upon the creature too for the Creature is the Work of his hands 'T is naturall to all men to love their own works and what they have curionsly form'd to spend many a pleasing fight upon it An Artist when he hath made an Excellent and comely piece is in love with it because it is the Elaborate product of his own conception and hath stampt the Image of his Rich Idaea and fancy on it and thus the Scripture brings in God viewing and feasting his eye with a delightfull Complacency upon all his works that he had made and God saw every thing that he had made and Gen. 1. 31. behold it was very good He looks and loves he loves and looks upon every thing that he had made not onely man but Every thing that he had made He looks upon man and loves his morall goodnesse that he had carved in him he looks upon every thing and loves the naturall goodnesse he had stampt upon them Gods Love two-fold This large love of God comprehends all the Creatures in it not 1. Common onely the Rationall but the Inanimate Creatures in the Bosome of it I say his love whereby he will'd their being and still preserves their being and whatever Prints and Characters of himselfe they have takes pleasure in them as an Artist doth in his Rare Composures But there is a Speciall love of God 2. Speciall his choyce love which Elevates and lifts some persons up to a supernaturall state in Jesus Christ this is that love we are speaking of God beholding the lump of fallen man as a vast Dunghill or Heap of Dirt saw no difference of Persons in it but all Equally loathsome and filthy how could it be otherwise for one piece of dung is not sweeter than another one dram of dirt is not cleaner than another I say God casting his Eye upon that Noysome and unsavoury Mixon his wise and good Pleasure thinks meet to have benign thoughts towards some he takes these up into his Divine purpose and in time takes them out of their sordid state with Curious artifice he refines them from their filth and sets up a Fragrant work of Grace in them he writes them his Sons and Daughters and gives them an Estate of Eternall Glory and all in Jesus Christ This is his speciall Love which we must distinguish into his love of Good will and his love of Complacency There is observ'd a difference between these First His love of good will precedes Amor Benevolentiae the work of Grace and goes before it This love finds us Sinners and makes us Saints This love of God is not founded upon Reasons in the Object with this love he loved us first before we being Justified by his Grace could love him This love finds nothing in us for which he ought to love us This love gives us Grace as the Apostle saith God for his great love wherewith he loved Eph. 2. 4 5. us even when we were dead hath quickned us together with Christ This love can have ro Cause but it selfe Secondly This love is free Nullis meritis nisi bonitate amantis excitatus not stirr'd up by any objective Goodnesse in us but onely the self-moving Goodnesse of him that loved us it sees no loadstone in us to draw it out nay it finds sin and sordidnesse upon us and yet he loves us He loves us without Necessity without Attractive and without Engagement nay let me say if there were any motive in us why he loved us it was because we were miserable and Vnworthy his love But the truth is nothing did encline and dispose his heart to us but his own will Of his own will begat James 1. 18. he us and the same will that begat us passed by others Gods love to himselfe is Naturall and Necessary But his love to his Creatures is not he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy It is a free love and a free mercy He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy O! wonder at God all ye his Saints and beloved ones in his mercy to you let it cast you into an high Trance of holy admiration Thirdly This Love of God The love of his good will is equall to all his Saints in many Respects 1. In respect of the act of his will as the Schoolmen say God Equally wills Good to all his Saints though he doth not will Equall Good to all his Saints He doth not more will Good to one than to another though he wills more good to some than to