10.4.5 Believing Jesus to bee the Christ and the truth of Gods report concerning Christ and his love in giving him and his promises to him and all believing in him Ioh. 4.10 12. and 8 24. and 20.31 Inward a probation of Jesus Christ and that discovered in him and done and to bee done by him with rest and quietnesse of hart therein as in that which is enough Phill. 3.3.8 and Psal 16.6.7 Harkening to Christ in attending to his sayings and waiting for and yeilding to his teachings Psal 85 8. and 119.33 Looking to him for the beginning and finishing of all that belongs to life and Godlinesse Isa 8.16.17 Mich. 7.7 Inward and harty love to the Lord Jesus Christ and to God in him Isa 6.4 With 1 Cor. 2.9 1 Pet. 1.8 Which love springing from the love of God shead abroad in the hart doth encline the hart with childlike affectiones to God 1 Ioh. 4.14 Ier. 3.19 Psal 116. 1. And with unfeined delight in and love of brethren 1 Pet. 1.22 And love of compassion and mercy to men 2 Cor. 5.14 And soe hath Christ put in the hart of the believer the love of our brother 1 Ioh. 4.21 Which is his second commandment and like the first in that as the first receiveth soe this worketh forth all righteousnesse So as I. This faith and love doth quallify the hart faith working by love Gall. 5.6 And so make the hart of the believer sit for all inclinationes labours and services of love in that it makes it strong to endure and go through all the sufferings of it Cant. 8.6.7 Patient to endure that which is to be undergone and for gone for it 1 Cor. 13.4.8 Sinceere in seeking none of a mans owne ends but only the beloved and so preserves from stumbling Phill. 1.9.10.11 Fervent to accomplish that wherein it may testify love to the beloved Psal 116.12 Constant in all things that love leadeth too orthrough 1 Ioh. 2.10 Yea and likewise II. This love through or by which faith worketh doth move and spring up freely in the hart inclinationes and motiones to as much as the law of works of it were in its force could compell or enjoyne too as to have God for our God for ever Zach. 13.9 To worship him in Spirit and truth Psal 95.6 To glorify his great name Phill. 1.20 To delight in keeping sabboth with him and his Psal 27.1.4 To give our neighbour that preheminence God hath given him in our service and care and so to seeke to preserve his life dignity chastity estate and name and to fly the lust of having any thing from him that is his Rom. 12.10 and 13 8 9 10. Yea farther III. This love flowing in this faith doth move and leade to things higher and more excellent then the law could have led too as namely To long after and delight and have all our well-pleasednesse in Iesus Christ in whom God hath his and so to be beholding his glory and drinking in of the fulnesse that is in him Psal 73.25 26 and 84 1 2 and 27 1 4. Cant. 1 2 3 and 2 3 5. To love our bretheren as Christ hath loved us 1 Ioh. 3.16 and 5.1 And in this faith and love to glorify Christ and the word of his grace Phill. 1.17 20 21 27. To edify our brethren in faith and love 1 Cor. 8.1 and 13 to the end To hold forth the word of life Eph. 6.19 And all in faithfulnesse without loving our lives unto death Rev. 12.11.17 Yea and to say farther IIII. This love by which faith worketh stirreth and worketh effectually in these motions for fulfilling the same in yeelding up ones self to the Lord as his and al the members as his servants to walk in and according to this love Psal 119.125 and 106 9 10 19. And this also in love of longing and waiting for the appearing and comming of our Lord Iesus Christ 1 Tim. 4.8 Rev. 22.17.20 And thus in scripture it appeares that all particular precepts are found and performed in believing in Christ and loving one another and so how Christ hath put with the Gospell his commands in the hart of believers and though the degree or measure heerof be different and in some very small yet in some degree or other may every believer that hath attained to walk in faith and love seale this truth by experience Ioh. 7.37 38 39 and 3.33 Rom. 8.1 2. 1 Ioh. 2.8 And yet that there be no mistake the next expression is to be added III. That the commandements of Christ to his disciples are such as do naturally and aptly spring up in the beliefe of the Gospell Ioh. 6.28 29 40 47 and 5 37 38. Eph. 1.19 1 Thess 2.13 The Gospell declares Iesus Christ to be the son of God and saviour of the world the head husband high-priest Prophet and King of his church Act 2. 37. and 8 37 and 9 22. Ioh. 4.42 Eph. 5.25 Heb. 5. and 7. Rom. 1.3.4 And that he hath come in the flesh and died for our sins and rose for our justification and so wrought reconciliation and saluation for mankind with God Rom. 4.25 1 Cor. 15.3.4 2 Cor. 5.19 1. Tim. 2.4.6 And that he is exalted at Gods right hand and filled with grace powre authority and Spirit to offer salvation to men Act. 5.31 32. 2 Cor. 5.20 And to work it in such as believe Ioh. 1.12.16 And to condemne such as refuse and rebell against him Rom. 14.9.11 And in this declaration the Gospell also declareth the intence love of God to mankind in the gift of his son to be the saviour of the world that whosoever believeth in him might not perish but have everlasting life 1 Ioh. 4.14 Ioh. 3.16.17 The well-pleasednesse God hath taken in and with his son and that he hath done is and doth Mat. 3.17 and 17.5 The propitiation hee is for the sins of the world and the advocation he maketh for believers Ioh. 1.29 1 Ioh. 2.1.2 Heb. 9.24 The peculiar love of God to Christ and to all those that believe in Christ Ioh. 5.20 Psal 33.13.19 And what Christ is to and for them and what he will work in them and bestow on them 1 Cor. 1.30 Ioh. 1.12 16 and 6 27. And all this is in the Gospell and by the ministers thereof and by the Spirit set forth as the foundation and ground of the heavenly call enviting to Christ Isa 55.1.6 And whosoever is by the Holy Spirit enlightened to understand and enabled to believe al this with his hart being convinced and drawne thereby to Christ Joh. 3.37 42 and 6 44 45. Pro. 1.23 Isa 61.1.2.3 The Spirit doth farther enter the hart sheading abroad this so great and rich love of God therein so as there doth from this grace naturally and aptly spring up in the thus believing hart from this grace believed A beliefe and dependance on Jesus Christ for eternall life and all that appertaines thereto Rom. 5.1 5 6 10 11. 1 Ioh. 2.24.25 And
In which is one-nesse Eph. 2.19.22 And that of a body hee the head and the believers the members united to him al filled with and knit together and led by one Spirit of life in him the head immeasureably in them according to the measure of his dispensation flowing from him into and through each member by which they grow up in him and are compact together and soe among them one Spirit and one body Eph. 4.15.16.4 and 5.30 And soe of a green olive-tree c. And thus heere of the true vine and the branches which ar but one tree and so they were and all unfeyned believers are one in and with Christ by a devine faith begot by a deviue testimony in their hart fastening in Christ and by the operation of his devine love in their hart springing up spiritual and devine love closeing with and cleaveing to him and by the operation of his inspired word of life which they having received are by it subdued to his teachings leading into fellowship with him and such union and one-nesse have they as is before shewne in which they are one Spirit with the Lordâ— one body of the Lord one Temple or house for the Lord to dwell in one tree or vine-tree hee the roote and mayne Body they the bowes and branches and soe not only in him but still entering into farther union and growth for farther fruitfulnesse Heb. 4.3 Not only in confidence in him love to him and receite of teaching from him but both in al this and through this into farther one-nesse with him and soe with God the Father in and through him into I. One-nesse with God in his great desighne of glorifying Iesus Christ and shewning forth all his goodnesse in and through him the great designe purpose and businesse of almighty God is hath beene and wil be to glorify himselfe in glorifying his Son that himselfe may be glorified in and through his Son Ioh. 12.28 Pro. 8.22.31 Ioh. 5.20.23 The maine designe of Christ is the same in all the glory he receiveth from the Father Ioh. 17.1.6 and 7.18 And the beleevers abiding in him grow into union with him in this desighne to glorefy Christ that God may be glorified in and by him Phill 1.20 II. One-nesse with God in spiritual habitation in delightfull love and well-pleasednesse his delightfull love and well-pleasednesse being in his son and through him in al those made one with and sons in his son Mat. 3.17 and 17.5 Pro. 8.31 Psal 132.13.17 and 148.14 and 149.4 And so their delight and well-pleasednesse in Christ and through him in all that by grace ar made one in him Phill. 3.3.8.9.10 and 4.4 Psal 73.25 and 16.2 III. One-nesse with God in his will and love of compassion towards them that are yet ignorant and through ignorance unbeleeving willing their preservation repentance waiteing with patience for them and useing meanes towards them that they might repent and come to life 1. Tim. 2.4 Psal 145.8.9.2 Pet. 3.9 Mat. 5.44.45 Tit. 3.2 Act. 26.18 IIII. One-nesse with Christ in yeilding the flesh or old man to be crucified to have the new revived and soe to live in the Spirit to God Rom. 6.3.6 Eph. 4.21.24 1. Pet. 3.18 and 4.1.2 And soe one-nesse with Christ in all his interests and privillidges next mensioned II. These sayings you in mee I in you I the Vine yea the Branches as also the other simmilies of one-nesse betweene husband and wife in marriage foundation and building in a temple or house head and members in a body doe set forth their interest and right to participation and spirituall participation in a first fruites now and fulnesse in the harvest of all the interests privillidges and riches of Iesus Christ Ioh. 1.12 1. Cor. 3.22.23 Soe that verily His Father is their Father Ioh. 20.17 Psal 89.26 Rom. 8.15 His Spirit is their Spirit to dwell in and comfort and lead them Gall. 4.6.7 His Brethren their Brethron Ioh. 20.17 Mat. 23.8 His Promises their Promises That God hath made stable in him for them 2. Cor. 1.20.21 2. Pet. 1.4 And not only his death is their death and his resurrection their resurrection but his wisedom righteousnes holinesse redemption and life is their wisedom righteousnes holinesse redemption and life 1. Cor. â— 30 Ioh. 14.19 Rom. 8.2 Yea his people is their people his inheritance their inheritance Gall 3.29 Rom. 8.17 And soe his kingdome and glorie their kingdome and glory Luk. 12.32 and 22.29 Coll. 3.4 Yea in a word his servants for attendance and service be their servants for attendance and service Heb. 1.6.7.14 Yea not only such but his servants for use and advantage besides their wil are so their servants also 1. Cor. 3.22 Soe are they interessed in all the privillidges of this True Vine in the glorious husbandman the living sap the vineyard and the fruites III. This sayeing you in mee I in you I the Vine yea the Branches doth set forth a great deale of honour that God doth put upon them according to that Ioh. 12.26 and 5.23 with 1. Sam. 2.30 In that as he doth all things by Christ and sheweth forth his righteousnesse through Christ who is the righteousnesse of God in whom God dwells and through whom the devine nature shewes forth its vertues and opperationes Ioh. 1. Heb. 1. Ioh. 5.1 Tim. 3.16 Soe now as Christ is the fuitefull vine even soe the grapes his vertues shall be brought forth through them 1. Pet. 2.9 He not only cloathes them with his son for their righteousnesse Phill. 3.8.9 But also makes them the righteousnesse of God in him 2. Cor. 5.21 Soe as even his devine power in Christ for convencement alureing to Christ comforting edifying by Spirit shall be effected in their ministration by word and conversation Ioh. 16.7.15.1 Cor. 3.5.2 Cor. 13.1.2.3.1 Thes 1.8 Yea his love and mercies shall apeare through their love and mercy 2. Cor. 5.14.19.20 Yea his righteousnesse shall apeare through them and they shall be his witnesses Psal 92.15 Isa 43.10.12 Soe now in a measure and after in fulnesse wil he be seen and admired in them c. A great honour 2. Thes 1.10 Psal 149.4.9 IV. This their being Branches in Christ doth father import that al their life comfort and fruitfulnesse dependeth not on the first Adam themselves or any wisdome strength industrie or creature at all but him and on him onelie soe that being and abiding in him they receive life from him who is full of powre love and faithfulnesse and none can overturn him In whom all fulnesse dwells and flowes Ioh. 1.14.16 Coll 1.19 Ioh. 11.25.26 and 14.19 And as he instructed them about himselfe and themselves so he instructed them likewise about his father the great Almighty God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him the father of al that by faith are one him Vers 1. As he saith And my father is the Husband-man which holds forth I. That he hath made and prepared this vine as his owne
be adorned and filled with such praise honour riches friends powre and good report as the Lord often filleth his enemies withall and they that have their portion in this life glory in Iob. 21. Psal 17.14 And if the Lord do give you a fulnesse in such outward things beware you do not set your hart upon them nor glory of them or be delighted with them Psal 62.10 Iob. 31.24.25 Least they turne to be a snare to you and so damp your delight in good and intangle and unfit you for the service of the Lord and so deprive you of better riches Deut. 8.10.20 1 Tim. 6.9.10.11 But in jealousie of your selves and in considence in him pray him to be mercifull to you in fitting you for all he giveth you and to blesse his mercies to you in framing your hart by his grace to the acknowledgment of his goodnesse and faithfulnesse in good use making of all the things he giveth into your stewardship and that the light of his countenance may shine upon you Pro. 30.7.8.9 Psal 67.1.2 That you may take occasion more abundantly thereby to hold forth the word of life Phill. 2.16 To shew compassion and do good to all men and be ready for every good worke Tit. 3.2.8 Gall. 6.10 To testify love in the services thereof more abundantly to the houshold of faith in fathering the ministration of the Gospell reliefe of the needy bowels of the saints use of hospitallitie and so to be rich in good works Gall. 6.6.9.10 Philem. 7. Heb. 13.1.2 1 Tim. 6.18 And so shall all your outward fulnesse be no hinderance but profitable to you and others Ecclez .. 7.11 Againe if the Lord deprive you of such fulnesse and keepe you low and excercise you with tribulation in that respect so as you are poore and destitute of same riches friends liberty c. among men bee not offended neither murmur at his dealing with you seeing you are deprived of nothing but what Jesus Christ was deprived of in this life hee was the chiefe beloved yet hee was more emptied and afflicted heere then you are yea have not resisted against sin holding forth the faith to the bloud it is enough for the disciple to have as good use heere as his master but you are not yet brought so low Job 2.10 Mich. 7.9 Heb. 12.3.4 Joh. 13.16 and 15 19 20. Do not murmur therefore but in patience possesse your soules Luk. 21.19 Yea and the rather seeing the want of these outward things and afflictions about them is no argument of want or hinderance of having the most peculiar love Pro. 3.12 Isa 43.1 2 3. Yea when they are occasioned by the profession of the Gospell and suffered for the Gospell sake they are great testimonies of peculiar love Act. 9.15.16 Rev. 7.14 Mat. 5.11.12 Wherefore let neither fulnesse nor emptinesse withdraw thee but let they hart be one and thy desires towards such love as in which Christ Jesus is beloved and seeke to be setled and stablished therem seeing it appertaines to thee Vse V. This likewise may be an exhortation to all that believe in Jesus Christ and love him rightly to prize and estimate this peculiar love of Christ to them Soe as I. To rejoyce in the Lord evermore and let the portion you have received of him and that you have in him be well-pleasing to you and seeke and receive and take up all your satisfying content and glorious rejoycing therein Phill. 4.4 Rom. 5.11 Psal 16.5 6. If you have fulnesse of outward things and bee soe kept and carried in the use thereof that the world cannot but commend you and that many are beholding to you yet doe not you rejoyce in this Iob. 31.35 Hose 14.3 Psal 20.7 But rejoyce in the Lord that hee is your portion and hath forgiven you your sins accepted you to favour and is become your wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption and hath given you his promise that hee will bee with you your strength guide and salvation Ier. 9.23.24 1 Cor. 1.30 If the Lord hath enlarged you with many vissits and usefull spirituall gifts and great successe therein that much is done by you and you therein preferred before many others yet in this rejoyce not that you are so enlarged and preferred before others but rejoyce in the Lord that is become your portion and hath writ your names in Heaven and set his delight on you 1 Cor. 4.6 7. Luk. 10.20 If the Lord exercise you with wants in outward things many tribulationes yet be not discouraged but rejoyce in the Lord that hee is your portion and that you have in him all fullnesse of spirituall blessings and treasure that cannot be wasted and that hee hath set his love on you and giveth you all things pertaining to life and Godlinesse and will cause all things to work for the best to you and after a little tryall possesse you with the crowne of life let the beliefe heereof cause you to endure as seeing him who is invisible and suffer not temporary asslictiones to hinder your rejoycing in him Lam. 3.19.24 Psal 119.55 57. Eph. 1.3 2 Pet. 1.3 4. 2 Tim. 4.8 Heb. 11.26.27 Psal 66.6 Who will in due season fill you with joy If the Lord try you with some darknesse hidings of his face though that bee the forest of all tryals yet let not your hart sinck into discouragement nor count it a strange thing as if it could not stand with peculiar love or might not befall beloved sons but in the depth of humilliation and abasing of your selves yet rejoyce in the Lord that is yours and hath appeared to you and because he loved you with everlasting love hath drawne you with loving kindnesse and though he hide his face from you both still even now love you and is your light and protexion in him is noe change and in due season he will return againe to you and bring you forth to the light and you shall see his righteousnesse Ier. 31.3.20 Lam. 3.31 Mich. 7.7 8 9 10. Therefore rejoyce in him If divers temptationes assaults you rejoyce not in sight of many outward and sencible helps and props but rejoyce in the Lord and in the powre of his might Eph. 6.10 c. In a word when you a proach his courts and use his ordinances yea and at all times rejoyce in the Lord because of this his great and peculiar love and loveninesse Cant. 1.4 Psal 27.4 II. To be meeke and patient in all the tryals we meete withall for the profession of the Gospell and for walking in faith and love and the services thereof and to bee constant therein notwithstanding all tryalls wee must meete with for the same seeing hee loves us with such speciall and peculiar love Heb. 10.36 Rev. 2.10 and 12.11 And that also seeing It is agreable to the having of his choyse love to goe through many sufferings in the services of love Act. 9.15 16. It is from the hand of our well-beloved
3.7.8 Jsa 40.7.8 In mortifying all the affections and lusts of the flesh and lustes after any thing besides this love of Christ and the fruites thereof Coll. 3.1.4 Gall. 5 23. In carrying us forth to the acknowledgment of our owne nothingnesse and confession of the great love of God and seeking the enjoyment of it more and more abundantly Psal 103. Rom. 1 16. Cant. 1.2.3.4 In enflaming our desires and commanding all our powres for all services of love through all labours and sufferings laid before us Rom. 12.12 Phill. 2.1.2.6 Rev. 12.11 2 Cor. 5.14 And this is to yeild up too and to eate and drink in and digest his love Ioh. 4.32.34 VI. To exercise our selves and walke in this love of his with this remembrance and estimate of and considence in and yeelding to the opperation of this his love and to do all wee have to do in performances or sufferings in and through this remembrance beliefe and acknowledgment of the love of Christ which is to walke in his love 1 Cor. 13 1 13 and 16 14. VII To rejoyce evermore in the Lord and in this his love and to give him thanks waighting for the enjoyment of the fulnesse thereof Phill. 4.4 1 Thess 5.18 1 Joh. 3.1 2 And thus also we shall be cloathed with his love All these particulars joyned together are encluded in continuing in his love soe that the sence whether briefly propounded or largly set forth with explication meete in one to continue in his love in performance of which abideing in his love what freedome from sinne in respect of accusation or tirannicall commands what freedom from the bondage of the law and from terrors and feares of wrath and death What enjoyment of peace and joye What heavenly operationes in purifying the hart and silling with childlike love desires and sweet content What experiments of strength and goodnesse is found none know but those that experiment it Rom. 5.1 5. 1 Cor. 2.14 But al they that continue thus in his love doe both know and experiment it such and soe good that is better then life 1 Ioh. 3.1 2 3. Psal 63.1 2 3. And they have their experiments for the proofe and can set their scale to the same witnessing him to be true Rom. 8.1 2. Ioh. 7.37.38.39 3.33 And from this gracious charge and invitation of our Saviour to his disciples to continue in his love arise two observationes clearly Obs I. The insinit love and good will of Jesus Christ to those that believe in him and love him farther shewing it selfe in this that he is not content only to love them and so peculiarly to love them yea and to make known such love to them also but that hee would have them also alwayes to continue and abide in this his peculiar love and receive al refreshing and satisfying in it and to be ever with him and before him eateing and drincking loves in his presence Psal 36.8 and 65.4 Cant. 5.1 A favour greater then that of David to Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 9.7 Even as much as that desired by the church Cant. 8 6. Well may his love be said to passe knowledge for height breadth depth length Eph. 3.18 19. Obs II. The infinit obligation in which believers are to Jesus Christ and soc their duty and way that is safe and seemly for them and well-pleasing to him namely To continue and abide in this his love Allwayes to remember and prize it to rest on and yeild too it to dwell and walke in it as is before-shewne Eph 5.1 2. and 4.1 7 20 24. Psal 23. to the end To which his great love obligeth and his charge from both which there are good grounds and strong motives of much usefulnesse to us as to instance a little It serveth I. To reprove such believers and professors of the Gospel of much faultinesse and ingratitude as having made some beginnings in the Spirit and in receite of some spirituall light in the Gospel helping them to believe have experimented not only peace in conscience in beliefe of the atonement made by Christ but also in dependance on Christ have met with some discoveries insights and tast of his peculiar love and lovelinesse and the sweet movings and operationes thereof 2 Cor. 3 3 18. Heb. 10. Gall. 3.1 2. and 4 15. Who notwithstanding are againe withdrawne and turned aside either to delight themselves with or to heape up to themselves or adorne themselves with or seeke satisfying in the glory riches and things of this world 2 Tim. 4 10. Or to please themselves or others in any idollatrous or superstitious service or to perfect themselves in becomming under the bondage of the law to help themselves with fleshly observances and performances to make up their assurance or faith Gall. 3.1 13. and 5.1 5 6. and 4. Yea or that have in any sort left their first love met with in Jesus Christ Rev. 2.4.5 To which what need more be said then Behold and remember this his so great love And what hart will it not wound to think that it should bee so bewitched after the tast therof to commit so great folly to preferre vanity to charge the all mightie with iniquity to requite him so evill that is so gracious Oh great solly Gall. 3.1 2 3 4. Ier. 2.5 6 13 41 46. Deut. 32.2.6 7. II. To admonish all that have believed in Jesus Christ and loved him to acknowledge the cause of all their weaknesse and in temptationes readinesse to start aside for gain or feare all their murmurings discontents all their follies through envy wrath or any worldly or fleshly lusts to proceed from a forgetfulnesse of this great love of Jesus Christ and of God in him and want of resting thereon and yeilding up to and walking in the motiones thereof which would have preserved them Iam. 1.12 Deut. 32.4.5.6.15 III. To exort us to love the Lord Jesus Psal 31.23 And to set forth the praises of his love Psal 145. to the end And to continue and abide in his love accepting it and yeilding to it as is before shewne the directiones whereto followeth The third thing to bee veiwed is the sweet and safe direction our Saviour giveth his disciples how to continue in his love in which direction a gracious promise is encluded If yee keep my commandments yea shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love FOR our better understanding of this direction and promise First wee have two things to bee enquired into Viz. I. What were the Fathers commandments concerning Jesus Christ which he kept II. How or in what manner Jesus Christ kept his Fathers commandments secondly wee have two things expressed to be veiwed and believed of us Viz. I. That Iesus Christ did keepe his Fathers commandments II. That in keeping them he did abide in his Fathers love Thirdly wee have our saviours assirmation containing both I. The direction how and II. The promise
him and unfeyned faith and love so measuring themselves by themselves and trusting to their own harts for their testimony which is folly 2 Cor. 10.7.12.18 and 11.3.4 13. Luk. 18.11.12 Ier. 17.5 10. Pro. 28.26 Whereas Those that in the beliefe of the Gospel are emptyed of themselves and all relyance on any righteousnesse wisedome or strength of their owne or that is humane and through the beliefe of the grace reported in the Gospell brought to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for beeing saved by his life and through that believing to love the Brethren shall in abiding in his faith and love and walking therein find the motiones to all that is contained in particular precepts in fit seasons stirring in them Ioh. 7.37.38 Hose 14.8 Gall. 5.22.23 Rom. 8.2 14. 2 Cor. 5.14 As is before shewne in the second consideration and so yeilding up theretoo and walking therein I. They serve God acceptably and in newnesse of Spirit Rom. 12 1 2 3 and 7.6 II. They are ceasing from their own works and so accepting and entring into his rest Heb. 4 3 11. 2 Pet. 1 5 11. III. They yeild forth a justification and testimony of the truth and livelynesse of their faith in Christ and love of brethren Iam. 2 to the end In which believers are not under the law but under grace and so walke after the Spirit and keepe the ommandements of Christ in Faith and love which are the commandements heere ment Gall. 5.6 16 18 23. Proofe IV. Walking in this faith and love put in the hart is before shewne in all the former considerationes to leade to the right fulfilling of all righteous affectiones and services required both in the law and the Gospell so as whosoever hath these commandements in his hart and keepeth and walketh in them both receiveth all good from God and yeeldeth forth all exceptable service to him and to brethren Ioh. 14.21.23 Rom. 5.1.5 and 12 1 3 and 13 8 9 10. So at this also evidenceth these to be the commandements heere ment Proofe V. Those that through beliefe of the grace reported in the Gospell do believe in the name of Christ and in that beliefe love their brethren and so walke in this faith and love have their faith imputed to them for righteousnesse and their love accepted as that which shall be visited with more loves and through both experiments of grace met with Rom. 4.22 25 and 5 1 5 and 8 1 2. 2 Cor. 3 3.18 Ioh. 14.21.23 And by the testimonie of God and Christ himself they do righteousnesse and fulfill the law and al righteousnesse 1 Ioh. 2.29 and 3 7 9. Rom. 13.8 9 10. I. They fullfill the end of the law in accepting Christ for righteousnesse and loving their brother Rom. 10.3 4. Mat. 22.39 40. II. They obey the Gospell and word and doctrine of God and Iesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6.17.18 2 Thess 1.8.10 III. They honour obey and follow God Eph. 5.1.2 Even the Father and the son Ioh. 5.23 37 46 and 14 23 and 16 27. And the Holy Ghost that commeth from the Father and the son and witnesseth of Christ and teacheth Ioh. 14.26 and 15 26. 1 Ioh. 5.6 12. Rom. 8.14 IV. They have eternall life 1 Ioh. 5.11 12. Gall. 6.8 And so keepe the commandements that they find them not grievous but delightfull 1 Ioh. 2.3 10. So that it every way appeareth that faith and love put in the hart are the commands ment II. For the second thing in this point what it is to keepe his commandements it may be answered briefly in two words namelie first to keepe or retaine them in the very hart in the mind will and affectiones Pro. 3.1 and 4.21 And Secondly to observe them in the life in giving up all the members as servants to walke according thereunto Pro. 4.25 26 27. Rom. 12.1 2. 1 Cor. 6.20 But to give a more full and ample answer it might be said the keeping his commandements is I. To retaine and hold fast the Gospell or word of grace that hee hath enlightened our harts with and so put in our harts that he hath begotten faith and love in our harts thereby let this word dwell in our harts in the beliefe and apprehention of the goodnesse of the report and of all the reproofes requirings and promises of it let it be kept in the love desire estimate wherein it was first received and there through Christ in it exalt it and tye it about thy hart and bow the neck too it and this will watch for us teach lead and counsell and be a light to us Rev. 3.3 Coll. 3.16 Pro. 4.8 9 and 6 20 21 22 23. Joh. 15 5.7 II. To hold fast and nourish in our harts that confidence in Christ for life sanctification preservation and guidance and protextion through all sufferings and services of love to the enheritance Gall. 5 5 6. Heb. 3.6 14 and 10 35. And that love member like to brethren and compassionate to the sons of men which in putting in his gracious word hee by his Spirit discovering his grace begot in our hart Heb. 13 1 Ioh. 3 18 and 4 10 12. III. To suffer the word of grace and the faith and love begot thereby to have its perfect worke in us to putt no stoppage by carnall reasonnings too it but yeild up all our members theretoo and to all the motiones of the Spirit that spring there-from and there-through and according theretoo Rom. 12.1 2 3. Phill. 2.1 2. Iam. 1 4. To the denying of all fleshly affectiones and lusts and the obeying all the fruites of the Spirit Gall. 5.16 17 18 22 25. 1 Thess 5.19 IV. To doe all wee have to doe in all the sufferings and services of love in the remembrance of and according to the word of grace and in and with the exercise of the faith and love begot thereby Psal 1 2. Heb. 11 and 12. 1 2. 1 Ioh. 4. to the end And so as is before amplyfied in opening what it is to continue in his love that and this meeting in one V. Seeing it was peculiar to Christ that in all his walking in this world hee never sinned yea if wee consider his humane nature he had no sin if we consider his life he did no sin if wee looke on the law of nature or works under which wee were borne and under which hee became for us hee kept and fulfilled it all to the ful if wee look on those commands and that worke the Father gave him to doe in respect of us he fully finished it yea one may say if wee looke on the commands of faith and love hee left for us to walke in hee also hath given us example and gone before us and walked without failing in both and if besides his nature personall conversation and example and besides his propitiation wee looke on his ministration of the Gospell and care for the continuance thereof after his departure lo he was perfectly faithful