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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51249	Theosplanchnistheis, or, The yernings of Christs bowels towards his languishing friends wherein the sincereity, ardency, constancy, and super-eminent excellency of the love of Jesus Christ as it workes from him towards his friends is delineated, discussed, and fitly applyed / by S.M. ...	Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.	1647 (1647)	Wing M2588; ESTC R9458	55,323	150

eyes from the things of your peace lest you discover your selves to bee lost to whom the glorious Light of the glorious Gospell is hid to whom the way of peace is unknowne for God will put resplendent glory upon his Justice in the fall of some as well as rise of others the damnation of some as well as salvation of others Thirdly doth not his wisdome and Mercy deserve to be sharers in the glory too doubtlesse his wisdome was infinitely seene in this h Sapientiae Dei quasi perdix fovet filios quos non peperit quasi gallina congregat pullas sub alis quafi Aqulla provocat ad volandum Bern. sent for who but the Lord himselfe and what but the wisdome of a God could find out such a way to satisfie his Justice and propagate his mercy that austerity and lenity should dwell together in the same brest That 's a mirrour of Miracles and are not his mercies above all his workes who dare deny it Mercy and Judgements doe proceed from God as honie and the sting come from the Bee Honie comes from the Bee naturally is not forced but comes sweetly and freely But the sting comes forth by provocation stimulation So Mercy comes from God sweetly and freely i Magnā injuri●● Deo facit qui diffidet de ejus miserecordia Aug. without forcing for who can extort from him force him k Bonitas invicti non vincitur infiniti miserecordia non finitur Fulgent 't is as naturall for God to doe good as to be good it 's as impossible for him to cease to doe as to cease to be Mercy is his delight Now acts of Justice are more strange acts to him l Tua quidem malitia mensuram habet Dei autem miserecordia mensuram non haber tua malitia circumscripta est c. Chyes hom 3. de poenitent and they are called his strange Acts in the Scriptures Judgement comes not from him till he be provok'd and incenced by us against our persons And there is this reason of Gods proceeding in this kind the motive or moving cause to his mercy is in himselfe but the motive or moving cause to acts of Justice is without himselfe within us m Deus Pater miserieordiarum sed quòd judicat condemnat nos eum quodammodo cogim us Bern. de nat Dom So that when the proper cause which is sin in us is removed then that reall product of sinne that fruit and effect of sinne which is an incurring of the Lords displeasure is no more existent Hence those sayings of the Lord to Asa The Lord is with you while yee are with him but if you forsake him hee forsakes you When wee keep up society with God and Christ he cannot be against us nor can he ever forsake us untill he be forsaken of us n Deus nifi deserentem se non deserit non nos deserit fons si nos fontem non deseramus Aug. in Johan 32. Tu me non deseris nisi prius ego te deseram Aug. in solilo c. 14. you see the cause and the effect Then who is a God like to our God that forgives iniquitie transgression and sinne and is not angrie for ever because he delights in Mercy You have seen you children of Light the fitnesse worthinesse and sufficiency of your Saviours person parts and courage to suffer for you and how truly hee hath made o're what he hath been and don even to you for your good Doth not this speake you beloved doe you not see God in the face and acts of Christ smiling upon you Consider was he thus fit to suffer for you and is hee now fit to reigne for you Then account him most fit to reigne in you and to be exalted by you But we 'l glimpse out the glory of this great worke a little more First that highest Majesty should bow it selfe to lowest indignity we are but as wormes to him o Altus est Deus humilis est Christianus si vult ut altus Deus vicinetur illi ille humilis fiat magna mysteria fratres Deus super omnia est Erigis te non illum tangis humilias te ipse ad te descendit Aug. in Psal 34. What that the glorious God should seeke for a Harmony with unglorious man fallen man man that had lost all his comelinesse man that is borne like a bruit that he who had for his associates a glorified God glorified Angels should veile his glory come downe from Heaven become flesh and be like other men yea the meanest of them even a servant Is not this glorious all glorious is not this love expressed drawne out ad vivum to the life Secondly the cohabitation of two natures in one and the same person with harmony Is it not the property of contrarieties to disagree not to exist peaceably in one and the same subject Fire ye know resists water when injected with a fiery hissing yet Christ you see hath effected and accomplish'd this naturall impossibility He made his Godhead and manhood to dwell together in one person with peace and strong was the union Herein even in this sense was that fulfilled in him which was typed out concerning him by the pillar of God the cloudy pillar there was Light and darknesse two contraries in one pillar Were not our natures darkenes it self till he joyned his Light with them in one person Thirdly in that mans rising by Christ and living the life of grace and glory should bee contrived both by Father and Sonne from all eternity even before man was and had fallen by sinne from his God Christ's bloud was effectuall before existent p Sanguis Christi profuit antequam fuit Bern. that hee should be and not be at one and the same time be in God and yet not in the wombe or world God hath chosen you in Christ saith the Apostle before the foundation of the world then certainly before you had being in the world This Christ was for the good of Christians and thus Christians were through the goodnesse of God and Christ Christians you were in Gods favour before your generation before you were begotten and conceiv'd and God discovers it unto you and that you are beloved hee speakes you beloved by Regeneration This may fitly be called a third part of the workes glimpsed glory q Qui in factis Dei rationem non videt infirmitatem suam considerans cur non videat rationem videt Greg. in Job c. 9. 4. In that there is now such a firme league of friendship betwixt God and his people as if they had never been ad oddes in a way of enmitie Christ and his people are good friends now they speake together conferre together teed together dwell together lodge together and live together r Omne bonum concordiae cognatum est Spond in homilia 2. Now saith Christ my Father is pleased all is well and wee are well pleased