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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