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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20176	Grace, mercy, and peace conteining 1 Gods reconciliation to man, 2 Mans reconciliation to God. By Henry Denne an unworthy servant of the Church, ...	Denne, Henry, 1606 or 7-1660?	1645 (1645)	STC 6610; ESTC R175933	37,602	120

will stamp at this and say Doth God love us aswell before conversion as after conversion Did God love Paul with as great a love when that he persecuted the Church as when he preached the Gospell I will answer boldly yea he did And that I shall by the assistance of God prove unto you against men or de ills who shall oppose it That God loved us being dead in trespasses and sinnes you have heard proved now give mee leave to propound a question Whether this great love wherewith God loved sinners be not his infinite love like himself nay whether is it any other thing then him self God is love 1 Ioh. 4.16 If this be granted that Gods love is infinite to sinners that it is like himself yea that it is himselfe for love in God is not a quality Then it will be plaine that his love is not capable of increase or decrease but is alwayes one and the same The difference is in us whose apprehensions doe often increase and decrease Again is not the love of God to be weighed by the pledges of his love But we shall find the greatest pledges of his love to be given unto sinners even in the state of ungodlinesse What greater pledge than the gift of his Sonne In this God commendeth his love c. as before Rom. 5.8 All the mercies of God are commendations of his love but none like this All other gifts are not comparable to the gift of his Sonne He thht spared not his owne Sonne but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Rom. 8.32 If all things were laid in one ballance and the Sonne of God in the other no man doubteth but that the Sonne of God would bee iufinitely beyond all things Greater love than this hath no man that a man lay down his life for his friend John 15.13 But greater love hath God in that he laid down his life for his enemies In this was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his onely begotten Son into the world that wee might live through him Herein is love not that we loved God but that God loved us and sent his Sonne to be the propitiation for our sinnes 1 Iohn 4.9.10 Now that the Apostle saith In this was manife sted the love of God And Herein is love he doth it to this end that hee might shew unto us that Christ was the greatest manifestation of Gods love Hereby perceive we the love of God That he hath laid down his life for us 1 Iohn 3.16 These speeches are all comparative shewing us that Gods loue was manifest in nothing more or rather nothing so much as in the death of his Son Abrahams love to God appeared in many things but above all in that he denied not his Sonne For now I know thai thou fearest God seeing thou hast not with-held thy sonne thine onely sonne from me Gen 22.12 May not we iustly say with admiration unto God Now we know that thou lovest us because thou hast not with-held thy Sonne thine onely Sonne Thus you see God doth not onely love us before conversion but he loveth us with his great love yea his greatest love that ever was communicated to the creature for greater love did God never manifest to the creature than that hee should give his Sonne This may more fully appeare by severall effects of the love of God communicated unto men by God in and through his Sonne before conversion faith c. or any thing in us preconsidered He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world Eph. 1.4 Again Hee hath predestinated us unto the adoption of sonnes by Iesus Christ to himselfe according to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved in whom we have redemption through his bloud even the forgivenesse of sinnes according to the riches of his grace verses 5.6.7 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsell of his own will verse 11. How many acts of God have wee here comunicated by his grace unto the creature before repentance faith or conversion or calling We will adde to these one act of grace more communicated to the creature in the state of ungodlinesse God justifieth the ungodly Rom. 4.5 yea take wee sanctificaiion in the common acception may we not say God sanctisieth the ungodly For men are not sanctified because they are godly but godly because they are sanctified Yea one thing more even Calling it self effectual Calling I meane goes before conversion as the cause before the effect for calling is not an effect of conversion but conversion is an effect of calling It is necessary that God call before wee can heare yea that God open the heart before wee can receive If I did think that these things needed proofe I would spend time about it You see now Predestination Choosing Redemption Iustification Sanctification Calling opening of the Heart all of them gracious acts of God communicated unto the creature before the conversion of the creature to God Let us heare the Lord speaking of his own work upon the creature Esay 57.18 Hee went on frowardly in the way of his heart I have seen his wayes and will heale him I will lead him also and restore comforts to him and to his mourners Whom wilt thou heale O Lord whom wilt thou restore Even him whose wayes I have seen What are those wayes Even frowardnesse and perversnesse Hee went in frowardly in the way of his heart See againe Esay 43.25 I even I am hee that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine owne sake and will not remember thy sinnes Whose sins will the Lord blot our Looke wee back unto the 22. verse Thou hast not called upon mee O Iacoh thou hast been weary of mee O Israel Thou hast made me to serve with thy sinnes Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities verse 24. See Thou hast been wearie of me yea thou hast wearied me This is Iacohs qualisication This is Israels preparation Then followes I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions As if the Lord would say unto his people as he speaketh by the prophet Ezek. Chap. 36.22 Say unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord God I doe not this for your sake O house of Israell but for my holy names sake which ye have profaned among the Heathen whither ye went or as when Israel was neer the confines of Canaan The Lord speaketh thus unto them by Moses understand therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possosse it for thy righteousnesse for thou art a stiffnecked people Deut. 9.6 As if the Lod should say I will blot out your transgressions But I would have you know the riches of my grace It is not any thing in you that

to come but also from everlasting age etnall in respect of that which is past Gods mercies are not onely without beginning but also without ending as it is so often repeated even 26 times Psal 136. his mercy endureth for ever This is it that is written by the prophet I the Lord I change not Therefore yee sonnes of Iacob are not consumed Mal. 3.6 Would you know the true reason why the sons of Iacob are nor consumed it is this I change not should the Lord change as often as we change should his love increase and decrease towards us as often as our love to him and obedience to his Maiesty ebbeth and floweth the Lord should be more variable then the wind more changeable then the Moon that the Lords love altereth not although it hath beene sufficiently proved by that which hath been spoken yet to the praise of the glory of his grace I will proceed to shew you by more restimonies that the Lord loveth all his elect with his great love even then when as they lie weltring in their sinnes transgressions Vnto this the Holy Ghost bears witnesse Rom. 5. verse 6. When we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly For whó Christ died them the Father the Son loved but Christ died for the ungodly that were without strength Therefore such were undoubtedly beloved of God Lest wee should think the first of these propositions to be weake it is confirmed verse 8. God commendeth his love to us in that while we were yet sinners Christ dyed for us And very worthy of observation is that which is spoken verse 10 When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne Here we have more proved than I have yet undertaken for my task is to prove that God was reconciled to us whilst we were enemyes This text saith not onely so but that we were recontiled to God when we were enemies But of this more shall be spoken hereafter only for the present we disire to have it granted that when we were reconciled to God he was without all doubt reconciled to us for our reconciliation to him is not the cause of his reconciliation to us but contrary his reconciliation to us is the cause of our reconciliation to him Now let us see the argument once againe For whom Christ died those he loved But Christ died for vngodly for sinners for enemies Therefore hee loved ememies sinners ungodly And with such a love as is not onely verball but reall not in word but in deed in truth as doth already appeare by his death and will yet more plainly appeare those acts of love communicated unto us even when wee were in the state of vngodlinesse in the worst estate and condition Let us consider that place so full of the glory of God which is writen Ezek. 16.2.3 verses unto the 15. verse Thou wast cast out in the open field to the loathing of thy Person in the day that thou wast born And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood I said unto thee in thy blood yea I said unto thee in thy blood ●ive Why doth the Lord use this Insemination In thy blood In thy blood 〈◊〉 it not because he knoweth how hardly we are drawne to beleeve the glory of his grace and how ready we are to rob him of the honour of his infinite mercy The Lord doth as it were say I know you will wonder at this that I should say Live before you were washed salted or swadled while you were in your blood But I remember the act of my grace which passed upon you even in blood I he Lord loved us not because we were washed and cleansed but therefore he washed and cleansed us because he loved us See the freenes of Gods love God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten sonne that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life Ioh. 3.16 This place is wel known unto you it may be here lies hid something which many of you never discovered namely that Christ given is the effect of Gods love not the cause And that the love of God goes before the gift of his son as the cause goeth before the effect He therefore gave his sonne because he loved If this seem strange that Gods love should be more ancient in order of causes then the gift of his sonne Because that in him God doth communicate all things unto us I answer that Christ is God manifested to him in the flesh 1 Tim 3.16 And that all the blessings of that love wherewith the Lord loved us eternally are manifested onely in Christ Iesus And in him they are fully manifested to have been for ever in the bosome of the Father So that for us to say or think that Christ purchased the love of the Father for us is that which I am confident the redeemer of the world will not chalenge unto himself But say as in another case it is not mine to give but it was given to them to whom it is given before the foundation of the world was laid This is all that I am able to speak unlesse it should be lawfull for me in so reverend a mystery to use a distinction and to consider in the love of God the original of his love and the continuation thereof and to say that the original of his love was before the gift of his sonne as the cause before the effect But that the continuation of love is to be referred unto the propriation of the redeemer as the effect of that sacrifice which he offered To speak plain Gods love was before the gift of his son as the cause before the effect But the continuation of that love that he should loveus for ever requires a foregoing propitiation satisfaction But when we shal say thus we fall into a depth unsearchable when we shall ask why the continuation of his love should rather require a foregoing propitiation then the originall setting of his love upon us I confesse I cannot tell what to say for to cleare this but tremble to speak of this glerious mystery And desire to refer my self to the iudgement of the spirituall who are able to iudge all things and to be instructed by them whether it be not safer to rest in that which was said before then with subtilty of distinctions to wade into the depth unsearchable We see the great love of God to us in our bloud how that he so loved us that he gave us his sonne I will now be bold to step a step higher if higher may be and to shew you that God did not onely love us in our bloud with his great love But that his love to us in our broud was as great as ever afterwards He loved us I say with as great love when we were in bloud and polltion as he did afterward when we were cleansed I know the Pharisee