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A50394	Love to the life, or, Some meditations upon loving, and washing in the blood of Christ together, with a tast of gospel-promises, as the churches stock, or, believers patrimony. By R.M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house.	Mayhew, R. (Richard)	1674 (1674)	Wing M1440; ESTC R217769	43,513	159

out-vies all other Loves and that in a manifold Respect Suffer me to give you who have tasted that the Lord is gracious a Tast of the Incomparableness of Christs Love In respect of the freeness of it Wine and Milk yea Grace and Glory may be had Psa 84 11. with out Money and without price He giveth Grace and Glory Beloved You have and that to the Life the Portraiture of a person in his Naturals Ezeck 16 6 When I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own Blood or according to the Margent troden under Foot in thine own Blood is not this a sad state for a man to be troden under Foot for a man to be tumbling and wallowing in his own Blood But what then Did Christ leave the Man as he found him No I said unto thee when thou wast in thy Blood live Yea I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live There was no Merit here nor Motive here there was nothing but free-grace here meer Mercy here Now was the time of the Creatures greatest defilement Ezeck 16.8 and deformity and yet this was the time of Christs Love Now when I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold thy time was the time of Love and I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness Yea I swear unto thee and entred into a Covenant with thee saith Jehovah God and thou becammest Mine Is not this a peculiar Love In respect of the firstness of it Christ is first in Love Christ loves before he is loved 1 Jo. 4.19 We love him why because he first loved us Christs Love is primary Ours secundary His the cause Ours but the effect Had not Christ fired our hearts with Love we had never bestowed a spark of spiritual Affection upon him Had not Christ first loved us we lived and dyed without loving him Christ loveth before loved is not this then peculiar Love In respect of the Sameness of it Christ and those that are Christs have the same Love Jo. 17.26 I have declared unto them thy name and I will declare it that the love where with thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them Is not this now peculiar Love In respect of the Sureness of it As it is the same Love so it is a sure Love Isa 55.3 Incline your ears and come unto me hear and your Souls shall live but what then and I will make an even lasting Covenant with you even the sure mercies of David Thou mayst loose thy Wifeloose thy Child loose thy Estate yea loose thy Life but thou canst not loose this Love Is it not then a peculiar Love In respect of the Goodness of it Psal 30.5 This Love is Life In thy Favour is Life Yea Sirs this Love is better then Life better then Lifes Psa 63.3 so the Hebrew Because thy loving kindness is better then Lifes Mechajim my lips shall praise Thee Christs Love is better then Life then Lives that is 't is better then Life it self and all sorts of Life whatsoever 'T is better then Life and all the concerns of Life 't is better then many better then all Lives bundled together bound up together Is natural Life nothing Is not life the best Monosyllabe in the World but this is a spiritual Life yea this is an eternal Life And is not this then a peculiar Love In respect of the Greatness of it All Love may be reduced to three Heads Carnal Moral Spiritual And yet Christs Love out-bids any of these out-vies all these But to these distinctly Carnal Now this Carnal Love may fall under three heads the World Self and Sin The World Souls Christs Love to Thee if thou beest Christs is greater then thy Love to the World have been The love of the World is a great Sin and looks like a Sin inconsistent with the truth of Grace 1 Jo 2.15 If any Man any one so the Greek Man or Woman love the World the Love of the Father is not in him or her Tim. 6.10 The love of Money is called the root of all evil But now Christs love to Thee is greater then thy love have been to the world so say my Text Who loved us and washed us Here 's washing as well as loving yea washing the Effect and Consequent of loving Is not this then a peculiar Love Self Christs love to Thee if thou beest Christs is greater then thy love have been to thy Self Self-Love is a great Sin for a Man is to deny himself not to love himself Mat. 16.24 If any Man will come after Me let him deny himself But now Christs Love to Thee is greater then thy Love hath been to thy Self witness my Text Who loved us and washed us Here is loving and washing out of Love 't is now a peculiar Love Sin Christs love to Thee if thou beest Christs is greater then thy love have been to Sin Thy love and my love to sin have been great greatly great Lovers of pleasure 2 Tim. 3.4 more then Lovers of God Thou hast served diverse lusts and pleasures thy Soul have been a Vessel of Sin and a Vassal unto Satan but now Christs love to Thee is greater then thy love have been to Sin witness the Text Who loved us and washed us but from what From our Sins in his own Blood Is not this then a peculiar Love Moral As Christs Love is greater then carnal so then Moral Christs Love is greater then the Love of the Master to the Servant For 1. The Centurions Love was great to his Servant 't is expresly said that he had a Servant who was dear unto him but he was sick and ready to dye Now hearing of Jesus Luke 7.2 3. he sent unto him the Elders of the Jews beseeching him that he would come and heal his Servant The Masters Love was great desiring his Servant might be healed but Christs was greater Luke 7.10 for he healed the Servant They found the Servant whole Christs Love is greater then the Love of the Father to the Child Jacob Love to Benjamin was great the Fathers life was bound up in the Lads life Davids love to Absalom was great 2 Sam. 18.33 if not too great That I had ayed for thee oh Absalom my Son my Son But Christs is greater When my Father and my Mother forsake me then Jehovah will gather me Psa 27.10 When my Father cast me out of his Arms and my Mother cast me off her knees then Jehovah will gather me into the Arms of beginningless and endless Mercy Christs Love is greater then the Love of the Mother to the Child The Mothers Love is a great Love if not the greatest Love Isa 49.15 Can a Woman forget her sucking child from having compassion on the child of her womb Is there such a Women among Women Yea they may forget yet will I not forget Thee Christs Love is

greater then the Love of the Husband to the Wife Conjug●l Love is at least ought to be great Love The Love of Abraham to Sarah was great of Isaac to Rebecca was great of Jacob to Rackel was great of Elkanah to Hannah was great of Augustus to his Livia was great who dyed in the Embraceme is of her with these words Livia nostri Conjugii memoresto vive vale which may thus be Englished Livia remember we were one live and farewell Man and Wife are one flesh and if both be living one Spirit so that this Love must needs be great but Christs is greater Husbands Eph. 5.25 love your Wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it Where is there a Husband that gives himself for his Wife that gives himself to death for his Wife Or if he should what would it signifie She could never say with the Text who loved me and washed me from my Sins in his Blood This must not be said of any blood but Christs is not this then a peculiar Love Spiritual Christs Love is greater then the Spiritual Love of Christians Jonathans love to David was great and Davids love to Jonathan was great but Christs is greater what 's a spark to the Furnace a drop to the Ocean Such is the Love of Man to the Love of Christ God manifest in the flesh 'T is true David speaks very honourably of Jonathans Love 2 Sam. 1.26 Thy Love to me have been wonderfull passing the Love of Women But Christs Love is greater Christs Love is greatest Jo. 14.13 Greater Love hath no Man then this that a Man lay down his life for his Friend Christ laid down his life for Enemies as Enemies when and while Enemies Is not this now a peculiar Love What use may be made of this Lastly that Christ hath a peculiar Love for his peculiar People Hath Christ a peculiar Love for his peculiar People USE This then may be useful by way of Caution by way of Comfort by way of Councel Is Christs Love a peculiar Love By way of Caution take heed then of turning Love into Lust and loving kindness into lasciviousness To do evil that good may come and to be sinful because God is merciful and to be lustful because Christ is Love-ful is the Sophistry of the Prince of Darkness Dost argue from Grace to Sin from Love to Lust from Mercy to Iniquity from Immunity unto Impiety this is the Dialect of Hell and the Sophistry of the Prince of Darkness Rom. 3.8 Oh how do the Apostle thunder against such we are slanderously reported and some affirm that we say Let us do evil that good may come whose damnation is just Art loved be joyous Soul thou art more then a Conquerour through him that loveth By way of Comfort Oh you that have the Love of Christ shed abroad in your hearts by the Spirit of Christ this Text as a Cordial under your fainting Fits Who loved us Art tempted or troubled pained or panged distressed or disserted yet loved Me Duce vinces Rom. 8.37 who loved us Nay in all these things we are more then Conquerors but how through him that loved us Not only Conquerors but more then Conquerors It is a compound word and signifies more then simply to overcome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we greatly overcome we over and above overcome we overcome above measure or exceeding gloriously we do more then overcome we do Over-overcome as the Greek seem to read it It may well be read thus But in all these things we Over-overcome through him that loved us In all these things but what things were these These things ye may run and read Rom. 8.35 What shall separate us from the Love of God shall Tribulation or Distress or Persecution or Famine or Nakedness or Peril or Sword Here are seven bitter Dishes and shall these No In all these things we do Over-overcome Is not any one of these Dishes enough for any pallate in the World yet not one of these not any of these yea not all these shall separate from the Love of God But in all these things we do Over-overcome but how through him that loved us Now that thy Cup may be filled with Joy and Peace like the water pots of Galilee up to the very Brim suffer me to tell thee that Christs Love is the most sutable and soveraign Cordial Christs Love is the most sutable Cordial Those Cordials are most efficacious that are most natural and most suiting the Spirits Gal. 2.20 Christs Love is the Christians Life I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Christs Love falls in with the Life of a Christian and therefore most sutable Christs Love is the most soveraign Cordial As Gods Love when he gave Christ is put for all Causes Jo. 3.16 So God loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son So Christs Love when Christians get comfort is put for all Cordials Is not that a lofty as well as a lovely Expression of the great Doctor of the Gentiles Rom. 8.38 39. For I am perswaded that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers Nor things present nor things to come Nor Height nor Depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Soul Christs Love contain in it the sum of the Gospel Christ being the sum of the Gospel and Love the sum of Christ God so loved the World that he gave Christ and Christ so loved the World that he gave himself contain in it the Pith and Marrow of all the Gospel This little word Love written in the golden letters of free-Grace in the blood of Jesus Christ is an Epitomy of the Gospel The Life of Christ was a perfect Mirror of his Love every action of it was full of Love and if we put all the Actions of his life together we may conclude that he was not born so much to Live as to Love Was there a word that dropped from his Lips but was sull of Love And as for his works they all speak Love so loud that the deafest ear may hear it Should we begin at the Temple where Christ disputed with the Doctors and ●low him to the Mount where 〈◊〉 was crucified by the Soul●ers we should see all the way ●ewed with Love-Reses Now 〈◊〉 loved then this Christ is ●hy Christ and this Love ●hy Love and is not this ●●tter of Joy Go away then ●●d be filled with Joy and ●ace through Believing Oh but there are Achans with●● Object 1 Sauls within the Sons of ●erviab within Oh there are ●any Blots in my Scutcheon ●any Weeds in my Garden ●uch Rubbish in my House ●any Holes in my Coat much ●e●ven in my Heart Oh no ●eart like unto Mine Soul Solut. Christs Lo●● is greater ●en thy Lust and his Mercy ●en thine Iniquity If the Sun ●e