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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 3: Wherein the love of the world is inconsistent with the love of God. Serm. III.
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.
It follows: If any man love the world. [Greek or Hebrew], If, here is causal and rational, signifying as much as, For, or Because if: and so it points out, and ushers in the main Cause or Reason, why we are not to love the world, namely, because he that Loves the world hath not the love of the Father in him. As if he had said: Alas! are not the World, and the Father perfectly opposite? Do they not both require the whole Heart, yea, the whole man, as Mat. 6.24? Is it possible then, that he who loves the world at such a rate, can love the Father? Or we may take the words thus: If any man Love the world, &c. i. e. so far as any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. And in this sense it will reach all, both Saints and Sinners. Though I take the words chiefly to be understood of predominant love to the world, which is altogether inconsistent with love to God.
It follows: If any man love the world. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, If, here is causal and rational, signifying as much as, For, or Because if: and so it points out, and ushers in the main Cause or Reason, why we are not to love the world, namely, because he that Loves the world hath not the love of the Father in him. As if he had said: Alas! are not the World, and the Father perfectly opposite? Do they not both require the whole Heart, yea, the whole man, as Mat. 6.24? Is it possible then, that he who loves the world at such a rate, can love the Father? Or we may take the words thus: If any man Love the world, &c. i. e. so far as any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. And in this sense it will reach all, both Saints and Sinners. Though I take the words chiefly to be understood of predominant love to the world, which is altogether inconsistent with love to God.
Lastly, there lies something peculiar in that phrase, The Love of the Father is not in him. (1) Here we find another Idiom, or manner of speech proper to John, who frequently makes use of Antitheses, and that both of Things, Words, and Sentences, for Illustration, and Confirmation; whereof many Instances might be given, as