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Mr. Pink's Interpretation (as I remember, for I have not his Book by me now, though I have read it long ago) is this, that when it is said, Luke 7. 47. Her sins which are many are forgiven, for she loved much: The particle for imports as much as therefore. His meaning is, that her loving much was not the cause why many sins were forgiven her; but this, that many sins were forgiven her, was the cause that she loved
much. And that this is the true and genuine meaning of the words (though there be no necessity of expounding for by therefore) appears by those which follow immediately after; But to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little, viz. in comparison of him to whom much is forgiven. So also the Parable propounded by our Saviour, v. 41. &c. doth clearly shew the import of those words objected. Mr. Pink's Interpre∣tation therefore for the substance of it, is right and good, and in effect the same with Calvin's, Caeterum hic dilectio non dici∣tur esse veniae causa, sed posterius signum, ut prius admonu••, saith he upon the place. And at v. 41. Mirum est pleros{que} in∣terpretes tam crasse hallucinatos esse, quasi haec multer ventam lachrimis, unctione, & osculis pedumpro merita sit. Nam ar∣gumentum quo ut••tur Christus, non à causa, sed ab effectu sum∣ptum est: quia & prius ordine est beneficium accipere, quam habere gratiam; & causa mutus amor••s hic not atur gratuua remissio. Vid. etiam Bezam ad locum. Et Ames. in Bellarm. Enerv. §. 1. c. 4. ad 4.