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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92488	The fulnesse of Gods love manifested: or, A treatise discovering the love of God, in giving Christ for all, and in affording meanes of grace to all : wherein also the 9. chapter of the Romans, and other places of scripture (usually urged against the universality of Gods love to mankind) are cleared, and divers objections of the like nature answered. / By L.S.	L. S.	1643 (1643)	Wing S109; Thomason E1158_1; ESTC R208679	71,123	180

many wise not many mighty not many noble are called now if God had chosen the rich mighty and wise things of the World then many rich mighty and noble men would have imbraced the truth such things being suitable to them but on the contrary God hath chosen the foolish things of the World not the foolish men of the World that comes by accident to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the World and things that are despised hath God chosen and things that are not to bring to nought things that are and this is the reason that so few wise men after the flesh so few mighty so few noble doe yeeld obedience to the Gospel And this I conceive to bee the meaning of the place Againe 1 Cor. 2.14 But the naturall man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishnesse unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned A naturall man that is one that hath received the spirit of this world vers 11 12. and judgeth all things according thereunto one that is altogether carnall and walks according to men according to the men of this world chap. 3.3 imbracing things present that are seene felt and tasted such a one receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishnesse to him that is there is an enmity between the spirit of this world which dwells in him and the spirit which is of God they are contrary one to the other what one esteemes wisdome the other accounts folly the spirit which is of God perswades us that the things wee see are vaine and therefore that wee should not looke on them not behold them not labour for them not desire to be richly possest of them not to trust in them but despise them to forsake them and to seeke those things which are above the things not seene vers 9. which are freely given to us of God vers 12. and to part with all here to be possest of those things hereafter The Spirit which is of God tells us that to strive for riches honour and esteeme in this world to set our affections on things here below to blesse our selves or to measure our happinesse according to our greatnesse in the things of this life is vaine and foolish the spirit of the world perswades us to cleave to the world to seek after the things thereof perswading us that it is a vaine thing to neglect and forsake things present which we see to seeke and embrace things which doe not appeare so that the naturall man cannot know that is cannot approve of the things of the Spirit of God for they are to be judged and discerned onely by faith by that spirit which he hath not received which dwells not in him which is contrary to him not but that a naturall man may reject and cast off the spirit of this World and so receive the things of the Spirit of God for we are all naturall untill we receive the things of the Spirit of God but he doth not receive them he cannot know them that is whilst he is naturall whilest he retaines hearkens unto and followes the dictates and suggestions of the spirit of this world The intent of the Apostle in this place is only to shew how contrary how incompatible the Spirit of God and the spirit of the World are how they cannot lodge under one roofe they are like God and Mammon hee that loves the one must hate the other he that cleaves to the one must despise the other and this I conceive is all that is intended in this place Thus have I briefly declared what I conceive to be the meaning of these hard places of Scripture To All Men IT was Pauls petition for the Ephesians that they might comprehend the large dimensions of the Love of GOD and so it should be our earnest petition and endevour to know and to make knowne the same When John describes the Divine Nature to bee Love he declares this as the most eminent manifestation thereof the giving his Sonne to death that we might live through him therefore it is of excellent use and concernment that the sonnes of men be rooted and grounded in the fulnesse of the glory of this truth of the full free universall and individuall Love of God towards them in Christ for that will fill their hearts with love to God The apprehension of his love begets love in us we love him because he loved us first and the reason why so few men love God is because so few men know him to be Love and those that have some affection and love to God if they saw more of his love would love him more and bee more establisht in his love they would not be so tossed too and fro with every wind of temptation for they might quench all the fiery darts of Sathan the grand enemy of their peace and comfort with this consideration God is Love Love affords us an excellent argument to prevail with our hearts to trust God in every strait and to cloze with him in every promise what can hee deny us that spared not his Sonne but gave him to death for us The apprehension of this love will fill us with joy and contentment in all conditions it will make us to doe and suffer with delight Love makes us one with God it quickneth and enlargeth us adding fulnesse and perfection to all our services making us fervent in Spirit serving the Lord but where there is little love there is little life in what is done for love is the soule love is the substance of Religion Knowledge puffes up Love builds up knowledge makes a man seem to bee but love makes a man to be indeed for he that is full of Love is full of God for God is Love hee is the fountaine and Father of Love love will teach us to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live righteously and holily in this present world for love will doe nothing unpleasing to the thing it loves Therefore seeing this truth is so excellent how should we labour to preserve it in its fullnesse beauty and glory it is the ground and foundation of all our hopes it is our life all our springs are in it and all our expectation from it it is the truth of God and the God of truth for God is love Now considering what excellent effects this truth would produce were it knowne and embraced among the sons of Men and withall considering what strange dark and dismall doctrines are preached and published by those which professe themselves Ministers of the gospel and grace of God in Christ yea by the most zealous of them as that God did from eternity decree the ruine and damnation of the most part of men without respect to any evil which he knew they would commit or as the more moderate that