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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

some present that they were not of his sheepe That is wilsome say because they would not beleeue Ans Nay rather because they were not his sheepe they beleeued not as there appeareth And at the last iudgement we shall know that there is difference betwixt goates and sheepe Some third signification then is to be inquired which wee shall see by comparing 1. Iohn 4.14 and Mat. 1.21 to be the people of God whom hee saueth in the world and to note no more Hee is the Sauiour of the world But it noteth Gods people in the world saith Iohn and who or what is this world that he saueth All men Not so but his people as in Mathew is expounded Thou shalt call his name Iesus For he shall saue his people from their sinnes Which all are not But all are Christs people Answ If his Kingdome of power be considered it is true but not so of his kingdome of grace His people in this regard are described T it 2.14 1. Pet. 2.9 But onely the Elect. to bee a peculiar and chosen people Diuers Fa●hers call the dispensation committed to Christ Oeconomia which noteth a domesticall regiment ouer the hous-hold of faith And thus Austen often construeth the word world pro mundo seruandorum mundo redemptionis For the world of the saued ones the world of the redeemed to which is opposed mundus damnandorum et perditionis the world of the damned or lost wretches And so on the seuenteenth of Iohn verse 23. that the world may know c. Tha● is saith Camerarius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those which are saued in the world Called the world for three causes And there are three reasons why the Church of God the bodie of Christ which only belongeth to saluation is called by the name of the world 1. They haue their particular vniuersalitie For all kindes and all times haue made vp this number Secondly now the fulnesse of time approached that the Church was to become Catholique in regard of place The whole world after a sort was to goe into it not the Iew and Grecian only but euen th● Scythian and Barbarian too Thirdly in respect of their state before they are effectually called and actually made the sonnes of God For before this they walke after the course of the world Ephes 2.2 So then the true meaning of these words is this God so loued his people chosen to saluation through the world that he gaue his Sonne that they should not perish but haue life euerlasting The which vvords fitly cast themselues for matter into these three points Three points of this Scripture 1. The speciall loue of God toward his God so loued the world Secondly the effect of his loue that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne Thirdly the end that whosoeuer beleeueth in him might haue life euerlasting First I will giue the instructions which offer themselues to our consideration in the two first members Secondly I wil come and peruse the words more particularly Doct. I. God doth beare a speciall loue to his The first doctrine is intimated in the first word So. So God loued the world For heere is insinuated so much That the Lord regardeth his with an especiall fauour To vnderstand this the better wee must see how the comparison standeth God loueth all his creatures and hateth as the Wiseman speaketh nothing he hath made For to loue is nothing but to will well and to doe well to any Now the Lords goodnes is ouer all God is generally good to all creatures More specially to Man For in him we liue euerything hath life motion and being from him Act. 17.28 He doth preserue the very beast Psa 36.6 But much aboue all other creatures doth hee loue mankinde The arguments whereof are Foure signes thereof First his long sufferance toward vs Secondly his indulgent grant of the vse of his creatures whereof we haue made our selues iustly vnworthy Act. 14.17 Thirdly that Christ took not the nature of Angels but hath assumed into one person with his Godhead the seede of Abraham Fourthly that hee doth vouchsafe the Gospell of his Sonne to all mankinde But though his mercie is ouer all and aboue other creatures shewed vnto man yet the loue vvherewith these are embraced But his loue toward his elect is most entire aboue al. compared vvith that loue wherewith he hath his children accepted through Christ is called hatred and therefore CHRIST setting down this doth by this word So make a distinction of this kindnesse and loue from all other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paul who sounded deepely both our miserie in our selues and happinesse in Gods loue when hee commeth to consider this loue to his in CHRIST doth raise his stile as if no vvords were sufficient to expresse it as may bee seene Ephes 1.6 But specially Ephes 2.4 7. where this his kindnesse toward vs in Christ is called great loue rich mercie Yea and more the exceeding riches of Gods grace Most rich And speaking of Gods loue in Christ for this and the loue of Christ because God was in Christ may and doth sound all one as Rom. 8.35 The question being asked Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ The answere is nothing shall separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ verse 39. making them to bee the same speaking I say of this loue he doth wish the Ephesians might be able to know the same though indeed passing knowledge Pas●ing knowledge Ephe. 3.19 where he maketh it to be a loue incōprehensible much more vnspeakeable It is therfore compared with the loue of a Father Psa 103. Most affectionate 13. As a father hath cōpassion on his children so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him And preferred before the most tender bowels of a mother Esa 49.15 Can a woman forget her childe and not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe Though they should forget yet I will not forget thee And as it is most rich and aboundant so it is a loue no lesse sure and constant And constant for it hath for its ground onely the good pleasure of God Rom. 9.11.15 and therefore shall neuer change nor can be altered Vses 1. From gods loue to vs we must learne the loue of our brethren For the vse hereof First Gods example in morall duties is euery where made to vs a patterne of imitation Be ye holy for I am holy 1 Pet. 1.26 Wee therefore from this loue of God toward vs must learne to loue one another as Iohn doth vrge it on vs 1 Iohn 4.11 Beloued if God loued vs nay so loued vs that is with so admirable and superaboundant loue wee ought to loue one another For what are wee too good to loue there where God himselfe doth loue and that with maruellous loue aboue all creatures or doth God bestowe such singular loue on any man who is