The fort-royal of the Scriptures, or, The vade-mecum concordance presenting unto the world an hundred heads of Scripture, most of them common-placed for publique use : wherein all (especially the weaker sort of Christians) may suddenly command most of all the rarities in the book of God / by an admirer of the word.

XXVIII. Love of GOD.

Generals.

IF any man love God the same is known of him, 1 Cor. 6.3,

We love him because he loved us first, 1 Joh 4.19.

The eye hath not seen, the eare heard, neither hath it entred into the heart of man, &c. 1 Cor. 1, 2.

God is love, and hee that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him, 1 Joh. 4.16.

Whom God loves, he loves unto the end, Joh. 13.1.

Gods love to us ought to make us to love the brethren, 1 John 4.11

Gods love to us is such, that nothing past, present or to come, can separate us from the love of God in Iesus Christ, Rom. 8.29.

He loveth the stran∣ger in giving him food and raiment, Deu. 10.8

God hath bestowed such love upon us, that we should be called the sonnes of God, 1 Joh. 2.1.

Trials.

Whom the Lord lo∣veth he chastiseth, and scourgeth every sonne whom he receiveth, Heb. 12.6.

Who so keepeth Christs word in him, verily is the love of God perfected, and hereby we know that we are in him, 1 Iohn 2.5.

Gods love appeareth in that Christ laid down his life for us, 1 Iohn 3.16.

His love dwels not in such who have not compassion of their poor brethren, 1 Iohn 3.17.

Herein Gods love appeared, not that we loved him, but that he loved us, and gave Christ to be a propitia∣tion for our sins, 1 Iohn 4.10.

Whom God loves he rebukes, that they may be zealous and amend, Rev. 3.19.

He that hath much love to God, it argues much forgivenes from God, Luke 7.47.

God loves us when we love Christ, and be∣lieve that he came out from God, Iohn 16.27

Who so keeps his word, in him is the love of God perfited, hereby we know that we are in him, 1 Iohn 2.5

Christ hath loved us, even as the father hath loved him, &c. Iohn 15.9

It is Christs Com∣mandement to love one another even as he hath loved us, Ioh. 15.12

So he loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son for it, to bring us to everlasting life, Iohn 3.16.

Hereby the love of God is known to us, because he laid down his life for us, 1 Iohn 3.16.

The manifestation of his love to us is seen,

because that he hath sent his only begotten Sonne into the world, that wee might live through him, 1 Ioh. 4.9

He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and he in him, 1 Iohn 4.16.

This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, which are not grievous, 1 Ioh. 4.20.

Nature.

It is a free love and a healing love, Hos. 14.4

It is an everlasting love causing him with mercy to draw us, Ier. 31.3.

It is a constant love continuing unto the end, Iohn 13.1.

It is such a love which made him to wash a∣way our sinnes in his own blood, Rev. 1.15.

Cause.

His own free love without any deserving on our part, Deut. 7.7.

Attaining.

By Gods quickning of us, when we were dead in sins, together with Christ, Eph. 2.4, 5

The Fathers love in calling us the sons of God, 1 Iohn 1.3.

Gods circumcising of the heart to love him with all our heart and soul that we might live, Deut. 30.6.

By shedding his love abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost, Rom. 5.5.

Keeping.

By keeping his com∣mandements we shall abide therein, even as Christ hath kept his Fa∣thers commandments, and abideth in his love, Iohn 15.10.

By being built up in our most holy faith and praying in the Holy Ghost, Jude 20, 21.

By Christs constant declaration and mani∣festation of his Name unto us, &c. John 17.26.