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A66441	Philanthrōpia, or, The transcendency of Christs love towards the children of men Laid down by the apostle St. Paul, in Ephes. 3. 19. A treatise formerly preached, but now enlarged and published for common benefit. By Peter Williams, preacher of the Gospel.	Williams, Peter, preacher of the Gospel.	1665 (1665)	Wing W2750A; ESTC R220006	194,887	304

his counsells and at last receive you to glory Psalm 73.23 24. 5. Is it your Afflictions you meet with that trouble you yet in Christs love you may have peace and comfort enough to chear you amidst all your Tribulations John 16.33 There is Favour enough in his love to answer all the frowns and displeasures of men Honour enough to answer all your abasements Riches enough to answer all your poverty Liberty enough to answer all your outward restraints Here is love enough to be your ease in pain your health in sickness your gain in losses your peace in war your joy in sorrow your life in death In a word here is love enough to keep you here and to crown you hereafter love enough for this and another world even for all Eternity Onely look to it by Meditation lay hold of it for your present subsistence by Faith plead it by Prayer and take heed of abusing it by making it an occasion to sin n Cùm gratia Dei sit mellen nè comedas eam totam If the grace of God be as Honey for sweetnesse do not make a prey of it and devour it all together by any ungodly practice take heed of turning it into wantonnesse Jude 4. by continuing in sinne that grace may abound Romans 6.1 for that will be bitterness in The END The Authors cited in this Treatise AVgustin Ambrose Anselm Aretius Ainsworth Is Ambros Melch. Adamus Arrowsmith Anon. The Glory of the times Alciat Aristotle Assembl Annot. Beza Bellarmine Bodius Bernard Bede Beverovicius Baldwin Boetius Bonaventure Brentius Brightman Baxter Brinsley Buxtorph Baine Basil Calvin Isid Clarius Camero Chrysostome Th. Cartwright Ch. Cartwright Clark Crashaw Cyprian Chemnitius Caryl Cotton Culverwel Calixtus Casaubon Dionys Carth. Davenant Durantus Damascen Despaigne Downham Erasmus Estius Eusebius Fagius Fulgosus Forbesius Fergusson Fulgentius Ferus Franzius Grotius Gerhardus Gouge Glanvil Goodwin Glassius Godwin Gilbertus in Cant. Greenham Gregorius A. Gellius Gurnal Heinsius Hammond Hall Hondorsius Herbert Hemingus Hardy Hildersham Hierom Holdsworth Hopkins Harmar Junius Trem. Idiota Jenkins Just Mart. Ignatius Isidor Jackson Jeanes Kempis A Lapide Edw. Leigh Luther Lessius Lyranus W. Leigh Lond. Min. Lorinus Lukin Lactantius Ludolphus Marlorat Maldonat P. Martyr Mart Martinius Mason Marc. Marula Manton Montanus Mercer Macarius Mede Musculus Marton Melancton Mat. Martinius Nieremberg Nicols Owen Pearson Plutarch Prosper Pink Pagnin Piscator Preston Perkins Pierce Patrick Parisiensis Pliny Rivet Rolloc Reynolds Ravanel Robotham Fr. Roberts Alex. Roberts Robinson Ribera Sibs Scapula Sulpitius Severus Spanhemius Salmeron Sixt. Senensis Staughton Scharpius Salvian Schrevelius Tertullian Tirinus Theophylact Trap Tollet Bp. Jer. Taylor D.T. Taylor Fra. Taylor Vorstius Vatablus Valerius Maximus Vsher Watson Ward Wall White Whitaker Zanchy Books Printed and are to be sold by Nathanael Webb at the Royal Oak in St. Paul's Church-yard and William Grantham at the Black Bear near the little North-door 1665. 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to the tuition of Angels Love him by whom thou art so much beloved mind him who mindeth thee seek him that seeketh thee love thy Love by whom thou art loved who hath prevented thee with his love and is the cause of thy love But because we cannot so much as love him without his influence let us go to him as he doth b O ignis qui semper ardes nunquam extingueris O amor qui semper ferves nunquā tepescis accende me accendor totus a te ut totus diligam te Minus eenim te amat qui tecum aliquid amat quod non propter te amat Diligam te Domine quoniam tu prior dilexisti me Aug. Solil p. 164. O fire which alway burnest and art never extinguished O love which art alway hot and never coolest kindle me let me be wholly enflamed by thee that I may wholly love thee for he loves thee too little who loves any thing with thee which he doth not love for thee Lord let me love yea with thine help I will love thee because thou hast first loved me Let Anselme conclude this matter who thus breaths after a loving Saviour c Certe Domine quia fecisti me debeo amori tuo meipsum totum quia me red●misti debeo meipsum totum quia tantum promittis debeo meipsum imo tantum debeo amori tuo plus quam m●ipsum quantum tu es major me pro quo dedisti teipsum cui promittis teipsum Fac precor Domine me gustare per amorem quod gusto per cognitionem sentiam per affectum quod sentio per intellectum Plus debeo quam meipsum totum sed nec plus habeo nec hoc ipsum possum per me reddere totum Trahe me Domine in amorem tuum hoc ipsum totum Totum quod sum tuum est conditione fac totum tuum dilectione Ansel Medit. de Gen. Hum. cap. 7. mihi p. 269. 16. Inter opera Tom. 3. mihi p. 199. Fol. Surely O Lord because thou hast made me I owe my whole self to thy love because thou hast redeemed me I owe thee my whole self because thou promisest so much I owe thee my whole self yea I owe to thy love as much more than my self as thou art greater than me for whom thou hast given thy self and to whom thou promisest thy self Cause me O Lord I beseech thee to taste that by love which I taste by knowledge let me feel by affection that which I feel by understanding I owe thee more than my whole self but I neither have more nor can I give thee this wholly of my self Lord draw me and that wholly into thy love All that I am is thine by condition make me all thine by love and affection Thus he And now lay these things together His loveliness in himself his love towards you surely it will strongly conclude that he deserves your love which should be a strong incentive to you to love him Give me leave to add one motive more and I have done Sect. 4. The fourth Reason 4. ALL true believers who have a saving knowledge of Christ and experienced his love towards themselves do and cannot but love him The Church testifies this saying to him in her conference with him Cant. 1.3 4. The Virgins love thee The Vpright love thee The Virgins that is d Ainsworth on the place those chosen called and faithful ones who with chaste and pure minds serve the Lord only and worship him in spirit and truth and stand with Christ on Mount Sion whom you find described Rev. 14.3 4. These love the Lord for the odour of his good ointments which they perceive by his Word and Spirit they love him because he first loved them and hath shed abroad his love in their hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to them It is said of the Israelites Numb 33.29 e Trap on the place That they removed their Tent from Mithcah which signifies Sweetness to Hashmonah which signifies Swiftness to teach us saith one that the Saints have no sooner tasted of Christs sweetness but they are carried after him with incredible swiftness For as f Amor Dei amorem animae parit cam intendere sibi facit Aug. Man p. 236. Austin observes The love of God doth breed and bring forth the love of the soul and makes it to be intent upon himself The Upright that is g Ainsworth those who have upright hearts and righteous conversations These upon the remembrance of the love of Christ manifested by his Sufferings Death Resurrection Ascension and the graces and benefits flowing from them to his Church do love him that is are confirmed and encreased in love to him more and more h Robotham on Cant. p. 80. As fire is encreased by adding of fuel unto it so is our love to Christ upon fresh and new manifestations of his great love towards us That the Church her self did love Christ is clear from the whole Book of Canticles i Watsons Christs loveliness p. 435. which is nothing else but a Divine Epithalamium or Marriage-Song in which are all the strains of holy love set forth in the purest Allegories and Metaphors such as do represent that dear affection and union which is betwixt Christ and his Church She calls him her Beloved Cap. 2.3 nor did she love him from the teeth outward as we say but with a love fetch'd as deep as the bottome of her heart O thou whom my soul loveth sayes she Cap. 1.7 k Jeanes Scholast pract Divin Part 1. on Col. 1.19 p. 221. The remembrance of his love to her had such an impression upon her heart as to make her sick of love Cant. 2.5 l Sibs Bowels open'd p. 305. A sickness not unto death but unto life a sickness that never ends but in comfort and satisfaction It wrought in her a love of a most powerful and unconquerable influence a love as strong as death Cant. 8.6 a love as forcible and irresistible as death trampling upon and breaking through all difficulties that occurre in performance of duties unto or undergoing of sufferings for Christ A love inflamed into jealousie and this jealousie as cruel or hard as the Grave as it there follows that is as inexorable unto all the enemies of Christ unto her most profitable and pleasant sins her darling and most indulged lusts A love of the same nature with fire the coales thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame ibid. For 1. As Fire is the hottest of Elements so her love of Christ was more solidly intense than her love of any creature whatsoever She was as it were all of a fire with the love of him 2. As the motion of fire is upwards towards Heaven so the Churches love of Christ was as a fiery Chariot whereby she was carried up into Heaven 3. As fire burns all things combustible so