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An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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3. Because in the mutual love of the faithful divers operations ⟨p. 30⟩are exercised, to the performing whereof, their souls are in a special manner purified and sanctified, as doing good, bearing with infirmities, edification of the Church, and glorifying the name of the Lord.
3. Because in the mutuall love of the faithfull divers operations ⟨p. 30⟩are exercised, to the performing whereof, their soules are in a speciall manner purified and sanctified, as doing good, bearing with infirmities, edification of the Church, and glorifying the name of the Lord.
Use 1. This may serve to condemn those, that show themselves great enemies to godly men: they may rightly be called Cainites, for they have gone in the way of Cain, with those to whom the woe is denounced by Jude, Verse 12.
Vse 1. This may serve to condemne those, that shew themselves great enemies to godly men: they may rightly be called Cainites, for they have gone in the way of Cain, with those to whom the woe is denounced by Iude, Verse 12.
2. To exhort us by all means to endeavour to gain this brotherly love of the godly: wherein there is required, First, sincerity, that it should be without hypocrisy or simulation, so that it should not be in words or in show, as the Apostle speaks, but in heart. Secondly, that it should be not only from the heart, but from a pure heart; because there is a kind of love that is in some sort sincere, but yet it is impure, whiles that it doth either neglect the chiefest good or else useth such means to procure some good as are contrary thereunto: as if a man to deliver his brother from danger, should persuade him to deny the truth, or to dissemble. Thirdly, That it should be fervent, because the affection ought to be set in the highest degree upon those objects, where there is found to be the chiefest reason to stir it up.