4thly. Rom. ix.
12. “Omnia diligit Deus, quæ
fecit; et inter ea magnis diligit creaturas rationales, et de illis eas
amplius quæ sunt membra unigeniti sui. Et multo magis ipsum
unigenitum.” — August.Distinguishing. He
hath not thus loved all the world: “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated.” Why should he fix his love on us, and pass by millions
from whom we differ not by Eph. ii.
3. nature, — that he should make us sharers in that,
and all the fruits of it, which most of the great and Matt. xi. 25, 26; 1 Cor. i. 20. wise men of
the world are excluded from? I name but the heads of things. Let them
enlarge whose hearts are touched.