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letters to LordBacon,(d) says, &quot; The second is, a letter 

 from Dr. Maynwaring to Dr. Rawley, concerning his 

 lordship s Confession of Faith. This is that Dr. 



&quot; SIR, 



&quot; I have, at your command, surveyed this deep and devout 

 tract of your deceased lord, and send back a few notes upon it. 



&quot; In page 413, 1. 5, (of this volume) are these words: 



&quot; I believe that God is so holy, pure, and jealous, that it is 

 impossible for him to be pleased in any creature, though the work 

 of his own hands; so that neither angel, man, nor world, could 

 stand, or can stand, one moment in his eyes, without beholding 

 the same in the face of a mediator ; and therefore that before 

 him, with whom all things are present, the Lamb of God was 

 slain before all worlds; without which eternal counsel of his, 

 it was impossible for him to have descended to any work of crea 

 tion ; but he should have enjoyed the blessed and individual 

 society of three persons in Godhead only for ever. 



&quot; This point I have heard some divines question, whether 

 God,without Christ, did pour his love upon the creature ? and 

 I had sometimes a dispute with Dr. Sharp* of your university, 

 who held that the emanation of the Father s love to the creature 

 was immediate. His reason, amongst others, was taken from 

 that text, So God loved the world, that he gave his only 

 begotten Son. Something of that point I have written amongst 

 my papers, which on the sudden I cannot light upon. But I 

 remember that I held the point in the negative, and that St. 

 Austin, in his comment on the fifth chapter to the Romans, 

 gathered by Beda, is strong that way. 



&quot; In page 413, line penult, are these words : 

 &quot; God, by the reconcilement of the Mediator, turning his 

 countenance towards his creatures, (though not in equal light 



(d) Baconiana, 103. 



* The same, I think, who was committed to the Tower, having taught 

 Hoskins his allusion to the Sicilian Vespers. See Reliqu. Wotton, p. 434. 

 Dr. Tenison. 





