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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 2: How ought we to love our Neighbours as our selves? Serm. II.
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.
Doct. It is the duty of every man to love his Neighbour as himself.
When God says, Thou shalt; he intends thee and me, and every man else of what rank, state, or condition soever he be.
Before we propound the Query it will be requisite, 1. That we show who is our Neighbour. 2. That we speak something of the lawfulness of a mans loving himself. 3. That we lay down some conclusions, which are to be taken along with us, as a thread that must run through the whole contexture of our ensuing discourse.
Before we propound the Quaery it will be requisite, 1. That we shew who is our Neighbour. 2. That we speak something of the lawfulness of a mans loving himself. 3. That we lay down some conclusions, which are to be taken along with us, as a thread that must run through the whole contexture of our ensuing discourse.
1. Who is our Neighbour? Our Neighbour is, not only he who lives near to our habitation, in the same street, or City; nor he only that is of the same Country, or nation that we are of; but every man, of what place, or