"Love, as attributed unto God, is not a quality; as it is in man, but an effect of free grace, and it is either more generall or more speciall: Of the more generall Love of God towards man, we read in Mar. 10.21. where it is said, of the young man that came to Christ; That Jesus beholding him, loved him. Of the more speciall Love of God towards some, we read Jerem. 31.3 2 Thes. 2.16. John 13.1.Edmund Calamy, Evidence for Heaven (London: Printed for Simon Millerat the Star in Pauls Church-yard toward the West end, 1657), 163-164.
The more generall, or common Love of God, is manifested in, and by his common gifts and dispensations, such as the young man that came to Christ was indued with (to wit) great place in the World, great possessions, morall righteousnesse, desire of, and indeavour after eternall life, with the injoyment of temporall felicity, and predominate corruption.
But the more speciall Love of God towards man, is manifested in, and by his Fatherly chastisements and scourgings, as this Text tells us, Whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth, &c, whom the Lord loveth after a speciall manner, he sooner, or later certaily chastiseth; He scourgeth every sonne whom he receiveth unto glory."
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