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4. The Love of Service and Beneficence, that declares it self in all outward Offices and Acts for the Good of the Saints: And these are various; some are of a sublimer Nature, and concern their Souls; as spiritual Counsel and Instruction, ⟨p. 113⟩compassionate Admonition and Consolation, the confirming them in Good, and the fortifying them against Evil, the doing whatever may preserve and advance the Life and Vigour of the inward Man; others respect their Bodies and Temporal Condition; directing them in their Affairs, protecting them from Injuries, supplying their Wants, universally assisting them for their tolerable Passage through the World. And all these Acts are to be cheerfully performed; there is more Joy in conferring than receiving a Benefit, because Love is more exercised in the one than the other. In short, the highest Effect of Love that comprises all the rest, is to die for the Brethren; and this we ought to do when the Honour of God, and Welfare of the Church require it. Hereby perceive we the Love of God, because he laid down his Life for us; and we ought to lay down ⟨p. 114⟩our Lives for the Brethren. If Christians thus loved one another, the Church on Earth would be a lively Image of the blessed Society above.

4. The Love of Service and Beneficence, that declares it self in all outward Offices and Acts for the Good of the Saints: And these are various; some are of a sublimer Nature, and concern their Souls; as spiritual Counsel and Instruction, ⟨p. 113⟩compassionate Admonition and Consolation, the confirming them in Good, and the fortifying them against Evil, the doing whatever may preserve and advance the Life and Vigor of the inward Man; others respect their Bodies and Temporal Condition; directing them in their Affairs, protecting them from Injuries, supplying their Wants, universally assisting them for their tolerable Passage through the World. And all these Acts are to be chearfully perfomed; there is more Joy in conferring than receiving a Benefit, because Love is more exercised in the one than the other. In short, the highest Effect of Love that comprizes all the rest, is to die for the Brethren; and this we ought to do when the Honour of God, and Welfare of the Church require it. Hereby perceive we the Love of God, because he laid down his Life for us; and we ought to lay down