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4. It must be fervent, not only in Truth, but in a degree of Eminency. St. Peter joins the two Qualifications; See that ye love one another with a pure Heart fervently. Our Saviour sets before us his own Pattern, as a Pillar of Fire to direct and inflame us; This is my Commandment, ¹that ye love one another as I have loved you. As I have loved you! Admirable Example! His Love was singular and superlative; a Love that saves and astonishes us at once; for he willingly gave his precious Life for our Ransom. This we ⟨p. 109⟩should endeavour to resemble, tho our highest Expressions of Love and Compassion to the Saints, are but a weak and imperfect Imitation of his Divine Perfection.

1. 1John 15. 12.

I shall add farther; This Love includes all kinds of Love.

1. The Love of Esteem correspondent to the real Worth and special Goodness of the Saints. 'Tis one Character of a Citizen of Heaven, that in his Eyes a vile Person ¹is contemned, however set off by the Glory of the World, and the Ornaments of the present State, that, as a false Mask, conceal their foul Deformity to carnal Persons; but he honours them that fear the Lord, tho disfigured by Calumnies, tho obscured and depressed by Afflictions, and made like their blessed Head, in whom there was no Form nor Comeliness in the Judgment of Fools. In our Valuation, Divine Grace