A25470:869
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Wherein lies that exact Righteousness, which is required between man and man.
Wherein lies that exact Righteousnesse, which is required between man and man.
MATTH. 7.12. Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
MATTH. 7.12. Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do unto you, do yee even so to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
These words being brought in by way of Inference from something said before, we must look back a little to find out the relation of them to the former verses. At the 7th. verse. Christ commands to ask of God those things which we want, to encourage us to ask, he promises we shall receive, to induce us to believe this promise, he puts a temporal case; Our earthly Fathers which are evil, give us good things when we ask them, how much more easily may we believe this of a good God, of infinite goodness. Now as we desire God should give us those things we ask, so we should do to others, and not only so, but universally in all other things, what we would that men should do to us, that we should do to others. That men should do unto you; though the persons be expressed, yet we may take it impersonally, by an usual Hebraism, as if it had been said, what-ever you would should be done unto you, leaving the person to be supplied in the largest sense; thus, what ever you would should be done unto you by God or men. This is the Law and the Prophets, i. e. This is the sum of the Old Testament, so far as concerns our duty to our neighbour.