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Title:  Faultes faults, and nothing else but faultes
Author: Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.
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loue, is where God is a partie, or where it hath re∣lation to things that are diuine.True loue in deede.This prescribed commaundement, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and thy neighbour as thy selfe, is it that draweth neerest vnto loue, betweene man and man, but this loue cannot be said to be terre∣striall, when it hath his originall from the Com∣maundement of God. But would you know what is true loue (indeede?) the loue of God, who lo∣ued vs vndeseruedly. And this loue was well ex∣pressed by our Sauiour in the day of his passion, when neither the torments of his bodie, nor the wickednesse of his people, could restraine him, not onely reconciling those to his grace, that were present, or alreadie passed, but to loue those, that were yet to come, and hereafter to be borne, was a loue neuer heard on before nor sithence, but in the person of our Redeemer.The loue of Christ.Our libertie and absolution dependeth vpon his condemnation. He was condemned by the sen∣tence of men, and we absolued in the iudgement of God. Here is true loue indeed, and the property of his affection doth neuer alter towards his cho∣sen: for he pitcheth his Tents about them to de∣fend them, and his eares are euer open to heare them, if they appeale to him in their aduersities, and he accompanieth them with his holie Angels, to guide and direct them, that they runne not astray.There is no doubt but there are some that doe meditate on this mercy, and that haue grace again 0