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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

but in and by Christ who is called the Consolation of Israel Luke 2.25 and wherein stands this Consolation by him but in being our Peace-maker making peace and accord betwixt God and man betwixt a man and himself and betwixt Man and Man Here lyes the Spring of all your Comfort and if you have drawn Waters of Consolation hence with joy and would draw more be like-minded having the same love for how can you expect Comforts from Christ if you minister discomforts unto one another If any Comfort of Love If you have ever found sweetness in the love of God in the love of Christ in Brotherly love If you ever received comfort by my love to you if you desire to return any comfort back by your love to me shew the power of that love which is to unite the mind hearts souls judgments and affections of Brethren one unto another through want whereof you will deprive your selves of one of the sweetest comforts of Christianity If any fellowship of the Spirit If you know and have experi●nced what it is to have e 2 Cor. 13.14 Communion with the Spirit in his f Joh. 16.8 Convincing g 2 Thes 2.13 Sanctifying h John 14.26 Teaching i Rom. 8.14 Leading k Rom. 8.26 Strengthening l John 14.16 Comforting and m Rom. 5.5 Confirming influences as a Spirit of n Ephes 1.17 18. Wisdom and Revelation as a Spirit of o Rom. 1.4 Zech 12.10 Grace and Holiness as a Spirit of p Isa 11.2 Counsell and Knowledge as a Spirit of q John 16.13 Truth as a Spirit of r Isa 11.2 2 Tim. 1.7 Might and Power as the ſ John 14.16 Comforter as a t Rom. 8.16 Witnesse and u Ephes 1.13 Seal and x verse 14. Earnest If you have ever found the benefit of Communion of Saints and know what it is to have fellowship with them in the same Relations Principles Ends Interests Gifts Graces Ordinances Providences Priviledges Hopes of which y 1 Cor. 12 4 7 11 12 13. Ephes 4.3 4 5 6.15 16. Col. 2.19 the Spirit of Christ is both the Vinculum and Vehiculum knitting and uniting the whole Body of Saints to their Head and the Members one to another furnishing every Member with supplies and influencing with life and power for communicating of those supplies for the good of one another and of the whole If these things are so and you have any sense and experience of them it will be your great concernment to love one another because as there is nothing doth more further and strengthen your fellowship with the Spirit and by the Spirit with one another than Love doth so there is nothing doth z Ephes 4.30 31 32. Mat. 12.25 more weaken and obstruct both than divisions and dissentions If any Bowels and Mercies In Christ towards you if his tender heart have been wide open to refresh you In you towards me if you have any sympathie with a suffering Apostle with a Father in bonds In me towards you if you have ever found in me the compassions of a Father In you towards your Brethren if you will not be like Judas a Disciple without Bowels whose Bowels gushed out a Brother without Natural affections shew this tender-heartednesse in being like-minded one to another having the same love The Bowels are wrapped round as it were within one another and so should the hearts and affections of believers be Fulfill ye my joy Afflictions I have enough already you need not by your dissentions add more A Prisoner in bonds expecting the s●n●ence of Death the sword of Persecution but ●hese things trouble me not I can rej ice in Dungeons in Bonds in Deaths if it go well with the Church of Christ I prefer Jerusalem above liberty and life and my chiefest joyes This would cumulate and compleat my afflictions this would be heavier than my chain darker than my prison sharper than my sword worse than a Nero unto me if you my Children should wound my soul with your dissentions God hath used me as a means of much joy to you in using me as an Instrument to administer the Consolations of Christ the Comforts of Love the Fellowship of the Sp●rit the Bowels of Christianity unto you And God hath used you as a means of much joy to me Your fellowship in the Gospel my joy Chapter 1.4 5. Your faith in Christ your readiness to suffer for his Name my joy Your care of me and supplying my wants once and again my joy Chapter 4.10 16. These things are the beginnings of joy Would ye Compleat it would you make my soul run over with comfort Would ye Crown me with Glory and Joy O then mind the same things have the same love and then I have all I abound and am full There is no greater joy to a Minister of the Gospell than to hear that his Children walk in the Truth John 3.4 You see how the Apostle fills his mouth with arguments that the hearts of these Philippians might be filled with love one towards another And I shall resume all that hath been said into an heap of Arguments for the re-inforcing of this duty There is Consolation in Christ there is Comfort of Love there is a Fellowship of the Spirit there are Bowels and Mercies there is the joy of many faithful Ministers of the Gospell to be fulfilled there is a great Ordinance in one main end of it to be observed there is the Purchase of Christs Blood to be obtained there is his Prayer to be answered and sealed there is his Example to be imitated there is his Love to be returned there is his Commandment to be obeyed there is our Discipleship to be manifested in the truth and power of it and therefore it is but equall and reasonable nay simply necessary for all those who bear the Name of Christians to love one another and I beseech you do it yea abound and increase more and more And the Lord who is the God of Love and peace 2 Cor. 13.11 make you to increase and abound in love one towards another and towards all men To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God even our Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints 1 Thes 3.12 13. which though we ●ail of here upon earth yet this is some relief ●nd comfort that it shall be fully and com●leatly obtained in heaven where all darkness ●hall be removed from the minds of Gods ●eople and all corruption from their hearts ●he cause of present strifes and contentions and nothing but love and concord shall sway and ●ear rule for ever where Luther and Zuin●lius and all dissenting Brethren shall be ●ade friends and agree well together as a Si non amplius in his terris te visurus sum ●bi tamen conveniemus ubi Luthero cum Zuinglio optime convenit Melch. Adam in vitâ

of Christ Psalm 110.4 Behold I am alive for evermore Revel 1.18 And he lives for ever not only in his Person but to be for ever the life portion and blessedness of his people because he lives they shall live also John 14.19 9. He is the proper good of his own people He hath not onely given himself unto God for them as their Sacrifice but he hath given himself likewise unto them as their Portion He is theirs and they his Cant. 6.3 They his by a deare Purchase and he theirs by a sweet Communion They are said to have him 1 John 5.12 as a man hath his most peculiar possession his Name is The Lord our Righteousnesse Jeremiah 23.6 he is more ours than we are our own and we have infinitely more in him than in our selves defective in our selves compleat in him weak in our selves strong in him dead in our selves alive in him miserable in our selves blessed in him mutable in our selves established in him Now put all this together Christ being a present precious sufficient pure rare various victorious perpetuall proper Good to his people he is so fit an Object for their Joy and delight that it were a wondrous absurdity for any Soul who knows him and hath tasted of his love and makes profession of his Name to be drowned in sensuall and worldly delights or to set up his Rest in any thing short of Christ Sect. 3. 3. LET Trust and Fear be Attendants upon the Desires and Delights of your Love With trust and fear 1. Trust in him If you believe in God believe also in Christ John 14.1 You must take him in your way to the Father if you would trust in him aright 1 Peter 1.21 John 14.6 and he himself is an Object fit for your trust who is over all God blessed for ever Romans 9.5 1. Trust therefore in him alone whiles some trust in themselves leaning to their own understandings Proverbs 3.5 trusting in their own righteousness Ezek. 33.13 others in their Idols Psalm 115.8 others in their riches Psalm 52.7 others in Chariots and Horses Psalm 20.7 others in Man making flesh their Arm Jeremiah 17.5 let Israel let the house of Aaron let all that fear the Lord trust in him alone Psalm 115.9 10 11. It is better to trust in the Lord Jesus than to put confidence in man than to put confidence in Princes Psalm 118.8 9. in whom there is no help for their breath goeth forth they return to their earth in that very day their thoughts perish Psalm 146.3 4. But happy is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God verse 5. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him Psalm 2.12 2. Trust in him at all times Psalm 62.8 in times of prosperity so as not to be puffed up in pride and presumption In times of adversity so as not to sink down in dejection and despondency In times of prosperity so as not to forget God and lift up the heel against him In times of adversity so as not to forsake God and put forth your hands to iniquity 3. Trust in him with all your heart Proverbs 3.5 h Praecipitur ut non verbis sed animo non per hyprocrisin distractionem quandam sed rotundè sincere faciamus quod hîc toto corde faciendum dicitur Cart. in loc With your heart sincerely without dissimulation pretending to trust in him when indeed you trust in something else and with all your heart entirely without division not partly resting on him and partly leaning to your selves or the creature but give him the whole trust of your whole heart 4. Trust in him in reference to all your Concernments your souls bodies lives estates liberties callings duties burdens relations c. You may venture to do it for He is laid in Sion for a Foundation and is a tried Stone a precious Corner-stone a sure Foundation Isaiah 28.16 the Rock of Ages in whom there is everlasting strength Isaiah 26 4. able to bear the weight of that trust which is devolved on him In whom whosoever believeth shall not be confounded 1 Peter 2.6 You need not fear miscarrying when you are in the hands of him who hath thus loved you with so great so dear and costly a love and out of love hath undertaken for you especially considering how great his Truth and Faithfulness is to whatsoever he undertakes being Truth it self John 14.6 the Amen the True and faithful Witness Revelations 3.14 a merciful and faithful High-priest Hebrews 2.17 faithful to him that appointed him Heb. 3.2 and faithful to those for whom he was appointed verse the sixth And likewise how great a sufficiency of power and ability he hath commensurate to his affection being the Mighty God Isaiah 9.6 the Almighty Revelations 1 8. to accomplish all the designs of his love for your good and happiness against all contradiction and opposition whatsoever Who also is and was and is to come Revelations 1.8 everliving to see the full accomplishment of all by his Intercession whereby he is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him Hebrews 7.25 Stay your selves therefore by firm trust and dependence upon him for he will keep him in perfect peace in i Shalom Shalom Heb. peace peace as it is in the Originall whose mind is stayed upon him because he trusteth in him Isaiah 26.3 And they who know his Name will put their trust in him for he hath not forsaken those that se●k him Psalm 9.10 2. Fear least from those Remains of corruption which are within you any thing disingenious or uncomely should break forth to the distasting and displeasing of him by whom you are thus beloved He doth not belong to thee O Lord sayes k Non pertinet ad ●o Domine n●● de tuis est qui te no● diligit nec diligit te qui sci●●ter essendit Cypr. de Bapt. Christi p. 494. Cyprian n●r is he in the number of thine who doth not love thee nor doth he love thee who knowingly off●nds thee Even this Lord of life and love is to be served with fear and his most beloved and loving ones are to r●j●yce with trembling Psalm 2.11 l S●ought Magi. ●●ares Commission p. 37. We must begin all our service with fear trembling at our own infirmities and must end all again with fear blushing at our own vertues and excellencies That salvation which we hope and expect from him must be wrought out with fear and trembling and that because he is so gracious as to work in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure Phil. 2.12 13. The knowledge of our Redemption by the Blood of Christ is made an argument by the Apostle for passing the time of our sojourning here in fear 1 Peter 1.17 18 19. But here it may be Objected Sect. 4. OBject 1. That it s said in Luke 1.74 That the end of

mixture of mercy or pity with those who now despise and refuse his love c Prov. 1.26 28. He will laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh Then shall they call upon him but he will not answer they shall seek him early but they shall not find him Nor 2. shall they ever be able to escape it d Rev. 6.16 Though they call to the mountains to fall on them and the rocks to cover them that they may be hid from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb it shall not secure them Nor 3. shall they be able to abide it as it is unavoidable so it is intollerable Wicked men e P●● 2.12 perish from the way if his wrath be kindled but a little how then shall they abide it when it is throughly kindled when that f 〈◊〉 6.17 great day of his wrath is come who shall be able to stand for even of present wrath it is said g Nahum 1.6 Who can stand before his indignation and who can abide the fierceness of his anger his fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are thrown down by him And the sting of all is this 4. That there will never be any end or mitigation of it The Wrath of God is often compared to fire and this wrath to come which I am speaking of is h Mat. 3.12 unquenchable fire and the burnings of it i Isa 33.14 everlasting burnings It is wrath that shall k John 3.36 abide upon unbelievers and never be taken off to eternity Now l Ps 50.22 consider this you that forget God and slight Jesus Christ and neglect the great salvation which is offered to you lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you One would think that what hath been said should be sufficient to startle and awaken the most secure sinners And the Lord make it effectual to that end and purpose unto all such into whose hands this shall come Sect. 5. THe last Vse is by way of Consolation The Vse 3 consideration of the greatness of Christs love may administer abundance of comfort to the Saints who know it By way of Consolation to those who have a right knowledg of the love of Christ so as to have an interest in it If the love of Christ be so incomprehensible as you have heard then you need not fear to be supplied Your wants and necessities are many and great its true but there are unsearchable riches of love in Christ from whence you may have enough for your relief Notwithstanding all the communications which have been made of Christs love to the Saints in all ages and generations past he is as full as ever and will be as long as there is a Saint on this side heaven to need him he may be imparted but cannot be impaired he is the same yesterday and to day and for ever Hebrews 13.8 What is it that troubles you against which you may not find strong Consolation from the love of Christ 1. Is it Sin that troubles you so that you bewail it and mourn and grieve for it and go bowed down all the day long because of it Truly this is the only thing that can justly create trouble to a Christian but this doth it necessarily because of the evil of it nor can he claim a title to the love of Christ to whom sin is not grievous for though the Gospel tells us That where sin hath abounded there grace much more abounds Rom. 6.20 yet it is only there where the sin that hath abounded in the life in the commission of it doth abound in the heart conscience in contrition for it detestation of it But yet even here there is relief from the love of Christ so far as to keep you from dejection desperation though not from a due sense and deep humiliation for 1. Is it the Guilt of your many and great sins which affrights you Consider there is love enough in Christ to pardon them Christs love can cover a multitude of sins and will cover all the sins of penitent sinners If mans love will do this 1 Pet. 4.8 Prov. 10.12 much more Christs whose wayes are not as our wayes nor his thoughts as our thoughts for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are his wayes higher than our wayes and his thoughts than ours Isaiah 55.8 9. he means his thoughts and wayes of mercy and so sayes the Psalmist expresly Psalm 103.11 As the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy toward them that fear him She was a great sinner of whom he said Luke 7.47 Her sins which are many are forgiven her The eye of favour and love as the m Favoris oculus velut nox est ad omnem labem Arab. prov ut citat a Culv. Act of Obliv p. 34. Arabick proverb hath it is as the night to every fault to hide and conceal it that it be not seen 2. Is it the power of your corruptions which you groan under and desire deliverance from There is love enough in Christ to subdue them Mich. 7.19 and by the law of the Spirit of life to make you free from the law of sin and death Romans 8.2 love enough to sanctifie you throughout and thoroughly throughout 1 Thes 5.23 as well as to justifie you 2. Is it Temptations from Satan that trouble you There is love enough in Christ to pity you because of them He was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin and therefore is such an High-priest as is touched with the feeling of our infirmities Heb. 4.15 love enough to help and succour you in them for In that he himself suffered being tempted he is able also to succour them that are tempted Hebrews 2.18 love enough to save yout out of them for the God of Peace will bruise Satan under your feet shortly Romans 16.20 3. Is it the Snares and Dangers of this World that trouble you Know that as he had love enough to give himself for us that he might redeem us from this present evil world Gal. 1.4 so he hath still love enough to make you partakers of his victory which he hath obtained over the world John 16.33 and to make you conquerors over it by faith 1 John 5.4 and in the mean time to keep you from the evil of the world though he doth not take you out of it John 17.15 4 Is it the Duties and Difficulties of your course which trouble you not in themselves but because of your weakness and infirmity by reason whereof you cannot deal with them There is love enough in Christ to help your infirmities by his Spirit Rom. 8.6 to assist you in your duties Phil. 4.13 to support you under and carry you through all the difficulties of your pilgrimage to be continually with you and hold you by the right hand to guide you with