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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.
Ans. There is a twofold hatred, Odium simplex, & Odium redundans in personam, as the Schools speak; a simple hatred, and a hatred redounding to the person: A simple hatred, which is of the Sin of any man, is our duty;1 ye that love the Lord hate evil; but to hate the Person of the sinner would be our sin: as we are to abhor that which is evil, 2so we must cleave to that which is good.
Ans. There is a twofold hatred, Odium simplex, & Odium redundans in personam, as the Schooles speak; a simple hatred, and a hatred redounding to the person: A simple hatred, which is of the Sin of any man, is our duty;1 ye that love the Lord hate evil; but to hate the Person of the sinner would be our sin: as we are to abhor that which is evil, 2so we must cleave to that which is good.
David, who was a man after Gods own heart, knew how to distinguish between the sin, and the person; See how he expresseth himself elsewhere: I hate the work of them that turn aside; not them, but the work of them; 1he hated their sin; saying, it shall not cleave to me.
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