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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 the vilest and basest creature on the earth but it is in more happy state and condition then we are Vses 1 We erre to doubt of Gods loue vnder the Crosse The vse of this briefely is to take away the scandall of the Crosse and comfort vs therein For vvee when euill doth whip vs the Crosse lies heauy on vs and some bitter cup is measured out vnto vs morning by morning beginne to question Gods loue and thinke that vvee are not beloued of him But wee goe by a vvrong line and false rule For wee must looke off from these things and examine whether hee hath giuen CHRIST vnto vs or no. If wee finde this onely begotten Sonne reuealed in vs Specially if wee know haue Christ wee may then assure our selues that vvee are loued of GOD and that euen with this speciall loue Who is the sole ●●r●est of Gods loue CHRIST is the surest yea the onely pledge of Gods loue whom if wee haue bestowed on vs let other matters goe as they may wee neede not to doubt but that wee are of Gods best and dearest fauourites 2. They dream who presume on Gods loue for their worldly prosp●ritie Secondly this may serue to quell and pull downe that vaine prefidence that is in many vvho vpon the bare enioyment of outward things in great plenty presume themselues to bee most deepely in the Lords fauour and before others in that point For this is a most fond presumption and meere delusion to build our hopes of Gods loue on such sandie grounds No man can know whether GOD loue or hate him by these outward things Eccles 9.1 In ●● ir ●uffe without Christ they are but as traitours without a Pardon frolick ng it by the King● patience Were it not fond for a Traitour to presume of the Kings Mercie that hee doth let ●im in the Tower take his reuenues enioy his Lady and children ride his great Horse and vse what Lordly sports hee please Can any thing assure him of this gracious mercy of his Prince but his pardon sent vnto him vnder the Kings hand and Seale So haue thou as much of this vvorldly happinesse as thou canst wish be thou for outward things the mirrour and enuie of the vvorld yet art thou neuer the farther in the fauour of GOD. Thou standest but as a condemned Traitour before him vnlesse thou finde that hee haue giuen CHRIST vnto th●e to bee thy peace and thy attonement Onely so farre as thou hast the knowledge of of this Iust One imparted to thee as thou doest loue him and his Gospell as by faith hee is become thine so farre canst thou haue any assurance of Gods loue and mercy All other things notwithstanding No better th●● Cain without Christ giuen to thee it is no better with thee then Cain or Iudas nay then vvith the Diuell himselfe Nay then the Diuell who is the Prince of the world and hath the glory and happinesse of it aboue the greatest Monarch of the earth Doct. 3. God doth loue his before Ch i st be giuen to die for them Thirdly since God out of loue to his giues Christ for their redemption obserue that there is a loue of God to his now in misery before Christ himselfe cometh in as Mediator for them Loue though in God it is but one most simply as himselfe is most simply one Gods lo●e twofold A latter ensuing of Christs de●th M●nifest in our iust●fi●ation yet for the change that it maketh in the creature and to help our weake vnderstanding a former and a latter loue and grace may be considered For there ariseth a grace of God vnto vs from the bloud of Christ in which mercy this new testament of giuing to vs beleeuing iustification vnto life is stricken Therefore Christ is called the Mediatour of the new testament Heb. 9.15 12.24 his bloud the bloud of the newe testament Mat. 26.28 And of this grace that place in the third to the Romanes verse 24. may bee vnderstood where the Apostle saith that wee are iustified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus And reconciliation And in this respect the scripture putteth our reconciliation to God in the death of Christ 2 Cor. 5.19 Eph. 2.16 Rom. 3.25 and elsewhere But now these places must not be so vnderstood as if the Lord within himselfe before entirely hated vs but therefore these phrases are vsed because that in Christ that former loue of God springeth forth which while iustice was vnsatisfied might not bud out but lay hid and couched A former loue shewing it selfe in the gift of Christ For there was a loue to vs before Christ of which here is spoken and the effect whereof the giuing of Christ himselfe is heere affirmed A kinde-hearted father doth oft beare a secret and inward affection toward an vngratious sonne whom he hath cast out from him as Dauid toward Absalom 2 Sam. 13.39 14.1 c. though he will not suffer it to appeare till by the suit and request of som friend whom perhaps himselfe suborneth he bee reconciled to his sonne no lesse was there in God a hid loue toward vs before Christ which the Lord would not suffer to break forth to our knowledge till Christ by his death had made our peace for vs. Neither need we feare the putting of contrary wils in God by this meanes Before whom God was estra●ged from vs in regard of sin but did loue vs as foreknowne of himselfe for though as we were in a sort our owne worke through sinne in regard of iustice hee did stand separated and estranged from vs yet as wee were his worke or rather as he had of his gratious pleasure foreknowne vs he loued vs and in loue elected vs and therefore nothing hindreth but that his immutable fauor in these respects might be still continued toward vs and so it was For as his iustice for sinne held vs vnder wrath and death so his loue worketh another way taking vs out of the hand of iustice by giuing his only begotten in whom iustice and mercy doe kisse each other And to say that the Lord altogether hated vs in himselfe vntill Christ made intercession is such an assertion as we shall be easily inforced to reuerse For Christ made intercession called or vncalled if called there was great loue in the Father calling him to do such a kinde office for vs. If we say vncalled we goe against the Scriptures of the old and new testament in which nothing is more euidently taught then the calling anointing and the sending of the sonne by God the father The vse to commend Gods loue as very antient This now ought to make Gods loue the more deare and pretious vnto vs as being very antient and freely borne toward vs antient I say for we are loued of God before Christ was appointed our Mediatour who yet was ordained before the

we reioice therein Wherein we should reioice And what should wee more long and labour to enioy then this Reioice not in this saith our Sauiour to his Disciples Luke 10.20 that spirits are subdued vnto you but if you reioice in any thing reioice that your names are written in heauen and that you are appointed to liue in glory there And truely blessed Paul did so prize this hope laid vp in heauen for him that for it he neglected and forgate all things behinde and did onely looke and endeauour himselfe vnto this happinesse which hee saw before him following hard toward the marke for the price of the high calling in Christ Iesus Phil. 3.13 14. Yea the desire of it was so vehement that it made him sigh and groane longing to bee clothed with this Tabernacle which is from heauen And long to enioy it in heauen 2. Cor. 5.2 Would not a poore begger if he should vnderstand of some great and goodly liuing fallen to him in a farre countrey much reioice therein long to goe to see it and take possession of it And if any man should offer to detaine it would he not striue with all might and sue for it at the law in forma pauperis as wee say rather then goe without it Doubtlesse wee haue dead and dull hearts if wee doe not reioice in this life and glory which by faith in Christ wee obtaine if wee doe not long to take our iourney vnto heauen to haue the full fruition of it and doe not striue for it with praiers to God struggle with all our power against the world and Satan that would defeat vs of it Children for want of vnderstanding Which wee do● not or want of vnderstanding mind not those goodly possessions they are born to content if they haue a hobby-horse to ride a painted rattle or coūters to play with And is it not of a childish ignorance concerning the glory of eternall life that we so little minde it and carelesly look after it but are well contented with these painted bables of the world spend all our thoughts and strength about them It should therefore bee our continuall praier vnto God That we are to beg of God as Eph. 1.18 that the eyes of our minde may bee lightened that wee may know what is the hope of Gods calling and what is the riches of this glorious inheritance One cleare view of this glorious condition would rauish our harts with the loue of it and excite all the powers within vs to lay holde of it 2. It teacheth vs patience in worldly losses and crosses Secondly wee may learne patience and vvith the more quiet mindes to beare afflictions and worldly losses from the contemplation of this euerlasting life which we haue by faith in Christ Abraham did leaue his friends his natiue country all his earthly hopes there which were not small and came to dwell in a strange country where he susteined many grieuances by the vncircumcised and heathnish people and was exercised with sundry troubles all which hee passed ouer with singular patience by the hope and desire of eternall life and that heauenly country to which hee was called Heb. 11.8.9.10.16 So likewise Moses that man of God did quit Pharaohs court set light by all the pleasures wealth and honours of it chusing aboue these the rebuke of Christ and to suffer affliction with Gods people And what gaue him in these and all his sufferings encouragement but the large recompence of eternall life which he saw before had respect vnto Heb 11 24 25 26. Finally the faithfull Hebrewes are highly commended by the Apostle Heb. 10 32 33 34. for their great patience which they shewed in bearing afflictions enduring reproaches being partners with Gods persecuted people and suffering with ioy the spoiling of their goods of which their patience this was the ground that they knewe in themselues Since by faith we know of better things reserued for vs. how that in heauen they had a better and an enduring substance If a man of noble birth rich reuenue trauailing homeward through a forraine land should there haue base indignities offered him nay should fall into the hands of theeues and by them be stripped of his rich apparell and robbed of all his mony all this would the lesse trouble him for that he meant to stay among these churlish people no longer then needs hee must and if hee could make shift for a season till hee came to his natiue country that he knew himself there to haue friends that would honour him and golde and siluer enough to supply this losse and fully to furnish him Why then should we fret and grieue at the base intreaty which wee receiue from worldlings at the wrongs and reproaches that are offered vs at our worldly losses and generally all the miseries of this life Which will recompence worldly discomforts For haue not we an heauenly home and an eternall life by Christ prepared for vs at the which if wee once arriue wee know by faith that there we haue friends euen God his Saints and Angels who will honour vs riches and treasures inestimable to store vs ioy and glory vnspeakeable to refresh vs. Thou●h w●rldly ●●en●● such cases whine not without c●●●e wh● leesing their worldly comforts lee●● all None would thinke it strange to see a poor man that did carry al his treasure about him to whine and cry if falling into the hands of theeues hee did at once leese all for hee is cleane vndone and hath nothing left to succour him but it were extreame basenes in a wealthy man to take on for the losse of some small summes when it is well knowne that hee hath thousands at home that are safe and entire Thus for worldly men wee may well allow them to chafe and fret howle and cry at the losse of their outward peace wealth mirth honor and reputation For alas how can they doe otherwise they are become starke beggers are cleane vndone haue nothing left nor know not whence to looke for a supply but truely Gods people doe too too bad shame their profession who in outward afflictions and losses grow impatient and are out of hart whose losses are nothing to that which is left them and whose hopes which are in heauen reserued for them will abundantly recompense all the miseries of this life 3. It staieth our hart in worldly cares feares Thirdly This doth serue to establish our hearts against sundry worldly cares and feares we are in restlesse maner tossed in our selues distracted hither thither one while affecting earthly greatnes abundance another while carking for earthly necessaries and fearing the want of them But all without cause For what neede wee so admire at For we need 〈◊〉 ●●o●t●on 〈◊〉 b●●●●●●es who 〈◊〉 heauenly which are better meant vs. and aspire vnto the glory and happinesse of this life who haue an eternall