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Title:  Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soule-suffering, his lovelynesse in his death, and the efficacie thereof in which some cases of soule-trouble in weeke beleevers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ... / by Samuel Rutherford.
Author: Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.
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taketh it on its will, and fathers disobedience on the will. 1. Sam. 8.19. Nay, but we shall, or we will have a King, Jer. 44.16. The people avow their will and peremptory resolution is, we will not hearken to thee.6. But for the ground,Free grace the strong and on∣ly cause why men are drawn reason and cause on Christs part of drawing, it is free grace, and only free grace, which are hol∣den forth in these Positions.Pos. 1. As there is no merit, good deserving, worke, or hire in the miserable sinner dying in his bloud, dead in sinnes, out of his wit, and disobedient, deceived, and serving divers Lusts, Ezech. 16.4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Ephes. 2.1, 2, 3, 4. Tit. 3.3, 4. So there is as much love, mankind∣nesse and free grace in heaven, in the breast of Christ, as would save all in hell, or out of hell. I speake this in regard, not of the Lords intention, as if he did beare all and every one of mankind, a good will, purposing to save them. But because their lyes and flowes such a Sea, and Ocean of infinite love a∣bout the heart, and in the bowels of Jesus Christ, as would over-save, and out-love infinite worlds of sinners; (so all could come and draw, and drinke, and suck the breasts of overflow∣ings of Christs free grace) in regard of the intrinsecall weight and magnitude of this love,Christs love can over-save and out-live the world. that if you appoint banks to chan∣nell, or marches to bound this free love, God should not bee God, nor the Redeemer the Redeemer.Pos. 2. Could any created eye of Men or Angels, reach or compasse the thousand thousand part of this love,The magni∣tude of free grace. with one look; such an act of adoration and admiration must follow there∣upon, as should breake the soule and breast of this creature, in a thousand pieces; but Christ in heaven and out of heaven is hid. Infinitenesse is a secret that Angels, or Men never did, never shall comprehensively know, there is a secret of love seene in heaven, but never seene; how little of the Sea doe our naturall eyes behold? Onely the superfice. We see but a little part of the skinne, or hide of the visible heavens with our bodily eyes, but so much as is seene is of exceeding beauty. No eye bodily can see the bottome of the Seas, or the large in-fields in the visible heavens. If the infinite lumpe of the boundlesse love of Christ were seene at once, what a heavens wonder, what a worlds miracle would Christ appeare to bee? But as much of Christ is seene as vessels of glory, though wide 0