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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54342	Helps to the assurance of God's love whereby a true believer may with the help of Gods good spirit know that he had a being in the love of God before he had a being in the world : to which is added a spiritual touch-stone for the tryal of the sincerity of our love to God / by Samuel Pack.	Pack, Samuel.	1673 (1673)	Wing P150; ESTC R26175	21,542	70

that hath the Love of God shed abroad in it is insatiably desirous of more of it a David that hath tasted the sweetness of the Love of God he can in a sense thereof cry out Psal 4.6.4.51.8 Lord lift thou the light of thy countenance upon me and Lord restore unto me the Joy of thy Salvation It is reported of the Lyoness that when she hath once tasted of mans flesh she will never be satisfied without more of it when a Soul has once tasted of the sweetness of the Love of the lyon of the Tribe of Judah by feeding upon his flesh by Faith he will never be satisfied without more of it Now if God should put them to their choice as he did Solomon and ask such whether they would have the shinings in of Gods countenance or the pleasures of sin Oh say such Souls Give us the sweetness of thy love in Christ But suppose a Soul be asked whether it would have the Love of God or the pleasures and profits of the World oh saith the Soul the profits and pleasures of the world are but glistering vanities that are empty of what they promise and inticeing with what they have and God can quickly take the world from me or me from the world But if I have once the love of God I shall enjoy it for ever for neither death nor life Rom. 8 38 39 nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor highth nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Now my friends I pray see whether you have these sharp appetites after more of the love of God then it is indeed sign that you are objects of the love of God a true Believer that has tasted the sweetness of the love of God is ready to say as Rachel did in another case Give me Children Gen. 30.1 or else I dye so saith the Soul give me more of the love of God or else my life will be a burden to me Oh saith the soul I am compassed about like Jehosaphat with Moab Ammon and mount Seir sin the world the Devil the father torments my Spirit and the children my flesh and being now in this deplorable state if God will not revive my soul with the sweet cordials of his Love what comfort can I have in my life Now if thou art thus breathing after more of the love of God it is a sign thou hast it already or else thou wouldst prefer any thing before it but if on the contrary thou canst with Herod prefer an Herodias sinful pleasure before the love of God and with Saul prefer the love of the people of the world before the love of God or with Demas prefer the profits of the world before the love of God Mat. 14.9 1 Sam. 15.30 2 Tim. 4.10 it is a sign thou never yet hast had it shed abroad in thy heart 6. Wouldst thou know whether thou canst assure thy self of the love of God then see whether God doth exercise thee with Afflictions and sanctify afflictions unto thee as unsanctified Prosperity is no certain sign of the love of God so neither are unsanctified Afflictions for Ahaz was under great afflictions and yet an object of Gods hatred and God is pleased to Stigmatize him to the world 2 Chron 28.22 to be that King Ahaz In which God does as it were point with the finger saying this is that incorrigible wretch that would not be wrought upon by Afflictions But if thou art exercised with Afflictions and those thou art exercised with draw thee nearer unto God and make thee mourn that thou shouldst provoke thy loving-tender-hearted father to lay such strokes upon thy back and that if thou wert put to thy choice thou hadst rather be rid of thy Sin than of thy afflictions and not be rid of thy sins also it is a sign that thou art an object of Gods love This is cleared up from the 3 of the Revelations compared with Psal 94. 〈◊〉 In the Revelations afflictions are made a sign of Gods love those whom I love I rebuke and chasten in that 94 Psal we may see when afflictions are signs of Gods love and that is when they are teaching Afflictions when in Afflictions God teacheth us to know the evil of sin in its cursed nature which is the meritorious cause of all Afflictions In a word when Afflictions are so sanctified as to make us love God more hate Sin more and contenm the world more and to desire to lye down patiently under the hand and will of God and say with Ely it is the Lord 1 Sam. 3.18 let him do what seemeth good in his sight and with Hezekiah Good is the word of the Lord good is this affliction from the hand of my good God and that it is the grief of thy soul when thou doest find a contumacious will thwarting the will of God and this reluctancy in thy will to submit to the will of God under afflicting providences is thy burden then I say it is a good sign nay an infallible sign that God doth exercise thee with those afflictions in love to thy precious Soul Indeed it is too ordinary for Gods people yea his beloved ones to look upon Afflictions as signs of Gods anger but though it be so with some yet it is not so with all I knew a gracious woman in Cambridge was wont to say that if God should not be pleased sometimes to afflict her she should fear he had forgot her and truly I think if there were more of this gracious submissive frame of Spirit amongst Christians in making a right construction of the dealings of God towards them it would put a period to those murmurings complaints and that uncomfortable deportment that doth so much predominate even in Gods beloved ones when they are under Afflictions 7. If thou wouldst know whether thou art an object of Gods love then see if God doth give thee Communion with himself in dutys an object of Gods hatred may injoy the ordinances of God but only true Believers can injoy Communion with the God of Ordinances Can. 2.4 The Spouse tells us that when her beloved brought her into the banquetting house his banner over her was love which in the original is the house of wines and is therefore very fitly translated banquetting because wine is frequently used at banquetting and that which is comprehended in the words is mainly this that when believers are found diligently attending on the means of grace God will at one time or other in one degree or other manifest himself and his love towards them The world is compared to a sea and Gods people in the world are like the disciples on the sea tossed with the waves of afflictions and temptations and Christ apppears to them spiritually as he did to the disciples corporally but they are ready to