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Thus privatively, now positively. This brotherly kindness is showed in reprehending those we love. Non minima pars dilectionis, reprehendere delictum. ^rThou shalt rebuke thy brother, and not suffer sin upon him; thou shalt not hate him in thine heart. So that not to rebuke him, is to hate him. Non fratri irascitur, qui peccato fratris irascitur, Aug. He is not angry with his brother, that is angry with the sin of his brother. Hate not virum but vitium. The best brotherly love is to the soul: love to his body is but the body of love: the soul of love is the love of his soul. Why did David so mourn for Absalom, wishing to have died for him; but in love to his soul? Now much of this love stands in a mild reproof: so let us live brothers on earth, that we may for ever live together brothers in heaven; and be so kind as to help forward one another's salvation. There are many other offices of this brotherly love, but they are no strangers to you; it is enough to have named them. Such as helping their poor estates: for^s the love of God is not in him, that hath, and refuseth to give to him that hath not. All are for the brother-hood, but few for their brothers good. Praying for them; this the very first words of the LORDS prayer teacheth us; Our Father; not my father, but our: we desire others should fare as well as our selves. Some only pray for themselves and their families; as the Athenians offered sacrifice for none but themselves, and their neighbours of Chios. But we have all one father; and therefore he that speaks must plead the cause of the rest of his brethren. I pray not for these alone, saith Christ, but for all them, &c. Joh. 17.20. Pray we for others, others for us, as Christ doth pray for us all.

Thus privatively, now positively. This brotherly kindnesse is shewed in reprehending those we love. Non minima pars dilectionis, reprehendere delictum. ^rThou shalt rebuke thy brother, and not suffer sinne upon him; thou shalt not hate him in thine heart. So that not to rebuke him, is to hate him. Non fratri irascitur, qui peccato fratris irascitur, Aug. He is not angry with his brother, that is angry with the sinne of his brother. Hate not virum but vitium. The best brotherly love is to the soule: love to his body is but the body of love: the soule of love is the love of his soule. Why did David so mourne for Absalom, wishing to have died for him; but in love to his soule? Now much of this love stands in a mild reproofe: so let us live brothers on earth, that wee may for ever live together brothers in heaven; and bee so kind as to helpe forward one anothers salvation. There are many other offices of this brotherly love, but they are no strangers to you; it is enough to have named them. Such as helping their poore estates: for