saith the Lord God, I doe not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy Names sake.4. The Lord taketh a cause from the end of his comming,Math. 20.28. The Sonne of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransome for many. Joh. 18.37. To this end was I borne, and for this cause came into the world, that I should beare witnesse to the truth. Joh. 10.10. I am come that they might have life, and have it in aboundance.5. Some thing, yea very much of God, is in the creation; much of God in his common providence; but most of all,Much of God in the work of redemption. yea whole God in the redemption of man. God manifested in the flesh is the matter and subject of it, Grace the moving cause, most of all his attributes, working for the manifestation of the Glory of pardoning mercy, revenging justice, exact faithful∣nesse and truth, freest grace, omnipotency over hell, devils, sinne, the World; patience, longanimity to man, cooperate as the formall and finall causes, it is a peece so rationall and full of causes, that as he is happy, (Felix qui potuit rerum cognos∣cere causas,) who can know the causes of things: so Angels de∣light to be Schollers to read and study this mysterious art of free Grace, Eph. 3.10. 1 Pet. 1.12 Works without reasons and causes are foolish. The cause why we doe not submit to God, is,Afflictions are to be weighed in all the cau∣ss. 1. Who afflicts. 2. How or in what manner. 3. For what cause. be∣cause we lye under blind and fatherlesse crosses: its true, Af∣fliction springs not out of the dust, and crosses considered with∣out God, are twise crosses. Three materiall circumstances in crosses are very considerable. Quis, quare, quomodo. 1. Who, for what cause, and how doth God afflict us. Who afflicts is worthy to be known. Esai. 42.24. Who gave Jaakob for a spoile, and Israel to the robbers? The highest cause of causes did it. Did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? 1 Sam. 3.18. It is the Lord, let him doe what seemeth good to him. 2. For what end God the Lord did this, is a circum∣stance of comfort; Why led the Lord Israel through a great and terrible wildernesse, wherein were fiery Scorpions, and Ser∣pents, and drought? Deut. 8.16. That he might prove thee, to doe thee good at thy latter end. 3. And how the Lord cor∣recteth, is worthy to be known. He correcteth Jaakob in mea∣sure, Jer. 6.28. Mercy wrapped about the rod, and a cup of gall and wormewood honeyed, and oyled with free love, and a piece of Christs heart, and his stirred bowels mixed in with 0