Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66104	Love's pedigree, or, A discourse shewing the grace of love in a believer to be of a divine original delivered in a sermon preached at a lecture in Boston, Febr. 29 1699/1700 / by S. Willard ...	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.	1700 (1700)	Wing W2283; ESTC R39758	12,825	30

gracious principle is wrought in us we must ultimately determine it hither we are made to partake in this Grace because God hath appointed us to it and the reason why we were so appointed was because it so pleased God Mat. 11. 25. 26. Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to babes even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight God therefore tells Israel that he loved them because he loved them Deut. 7. 7 8. The Lord did not set his love upon you because ye were more in number c. but because the Lord loved you In timating that the motive of this love was no● where to be sought out of himself and on this account God assigns our effectual calling to a love of his own that never had any beginning Jer. 31. 3. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee and needs must it be so for he is the first cause and last end of all things Rom. 11. ult Of him and through him and to him are all things Nor could his Grace be otherwise absolutely free and soveraign as the Gospel every where assures us that it is 8. All the engagements by which our love is excited to act upon him are from his first loving of us As there is the planting of saving grace in us in our Renovation by which a principle is infused into us enabling and disposing of us to love him so there are the attractives by which this principle is drawn forth into act which are so many motives to stir up this love in us for our love of God is not a brui●ish passion but it is acted with the highest reason and all the reasons of it are found in his love to us he therefore thus draws us in order to our following of him Cant. 1. 14. Draw me we will run after thee and the way in which he allures us is by his love Hos 11. 4. I drew thee with the cords of a man with the bands of love Now there are principally such things as these the consideration and belief whereof attract the love of our Souls to God 1. It was this love that appointed us to be the heirs of Salvation The Word of God doth frequently express our Salvation under the consideration of an Inheritance and so all the claims that we can make to i● must be in way of Heirship and we are not born heirs to it by a natural birth but are introduced into it by a voluntary Adoption we had in our selves no more of right to it than the Devils nor could we make out a better claim to it than the rest of Apostate mankind we were common heirs with them of the same destruction Eph. 2 3. Being children of wrath by nature even as others We therefore come to have a right thereto according to appointment 1 Thes 5. 9. God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain Salvation by Jesus Christ. Nor can there be a greater obligation upon us to love God than the consideration of this eternal design to think that God had such a thought of good will for us when he proposed no such favour for millions as good and as well deserving as we and this is owing to his love 1 Joh. 3. 1. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God And sure this love must be more ancient than ours to him who but the other day hated him and were his Enemies 2. This love provided Christ to purchase Salvation for us Such was our unhappy condition by the Fall that there could be no salvation for us but by a satisfaction made to offended Justice which Attribute must not in the least vail its glory in this affair or so much as stoop to mercy in it If God will save us he must provide a Jesus for us one that can save us from our sins The Law must have a reparation made for the violation of it our contracted Guilt must be expiated we cannot do this for our selves thousands of rams and ten thousand rivers of oyl will not do it there must a Surety interpose to undertake this none could do it but the Son of God he must be made Sin and a Curse for us he must have all our Iniquities laid upon him and by his stripes we must be healed the case was reduced to this exigence either God must destroy us everlastingly for our sins or do the execution upon his own Son in our stead nothing else would have done Certainly then here was love unparallel'd Christ himself expresseth it as that which exceeds all comparison Joh. 3. 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son And the Apostle thought it to be an argument which could not be over strained in the exercise of our faith for the obtaining of al● the good that is laid up in the promise Rom 8 32. He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things and the consideration of it will be further amplified by observing that this was done for us before we had any love for him not only was it agreed upon in the eternal compact that Christ should in fulness of time come and work out salvation for us but the thing it self was accomplished on ou● account during our being his enemies Rom. 5. 8 10. God commends his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son 3. This love hath revealed Christ to us as an Object suitable for us to trust in for salvation As it exceeded the reach of any created understanding to find out the way of salvation by Christ the thing it self being a mystery of Infinite wisdom so the Revelation or declaration of him to sinful men is of God alone It is his Gospel in which Christ is published there it is that we are acquainted with his Person and Offices his undertaking and accomplishment his Incarnation subjection to the Law and making satisfaction to it for us how acceptable his Redemption was to his father how sufficient it was for us to procure peace and life for us there it is that we are acquainted how and assured that he is able to save all those to the uttermost that come unto God by him Heb. 7. 25. How many nations are there in the world that hear nothing of him and thereupon they perish unavoidably for lack of vision Certainly this good news is a token of Gods good will it is he who sends it unto us and treats with us in it They that bring these glad tidings are his Ambassadors 2 Cor. 5. 20. We are Ambassadors for Christ as if God did beseech you by us It is a treaty of peace and reconciliation which is opened