TO THE READER Od defires fo cordially and feeks fo ear neftly our falva-ion that He calls it his worke and his affaire by excellence; His Son 10 4 34% fayd to his Difciples I have meat you know not: Tis to do the will of my Father, and to accomplish bis worke; And to his Mother in the Temple: Knew you not that I must Labour in the affaires of my Father? And in the Vigil of his death: Father I have ac. complished the worke, you have given me to do. Becaus 'tis the worke of workes: the affaire of affaires, and the ayme, and end of other workes. He employes in it not men only, but also Angelis. All the Angelicall Spirits that are fent Heb. 1. into this world, are fent for the falvation of the Elec, fays S Paul. 14. What fay I men and Angelis? He employes in it his divine Perfections; For if He exercifeth his Power in working miracles : Wifdom in inventions to convert us : Patience in expecting us to penance: Goodness to allure us: Iuftice to frighten us Mercy in pardoning us, Providence in removing occafions of fin: 'tis for our falvation. And to the end there be nothing in Him, or of Him that is not employ'd in this great work: He fends the adorable Per fons that proceed from him. He fends his beloved Son who applyes himself to it with fo great tenderness and afection, that from thence He takes his name: with fo much fervour and Zeal, that he spends in it his fweat and blood. He fends the holy Ghoft, who shews likewife His Zeal; when our falvation is in danger, we being in the ftare of fin, what does He not to draw us out of it, and to convert us? He excites us: wakens us: threatens us: importunes us: knocks almoft incel fantly ટામેટીન |