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Direct 6. Make it the principal work of your Religion and your Lives, to inflame your hearts with the Love of God, as he is presented amiable in his wonderful Grace in Jesus Christ. Strive no further to ⟨p. 21⟩effect your hearts with Fears or Griefs, or other troubling passions, then as tendeth to the work of Love, or is a just expression of it. Go daily to promises, and mercies, and Christ, and Heaven, of purpose for fuel to kindle Love: Be much therefore in Thankfulness and Praise, which are works of Love. All goeth on sweetly, and easily, and acceptably, that is carried on by Love. That is the best soul, and likest to God, that hath most of Love to God and Godliness […] that is the best service, and likest to the work of […], that hath most of Love: Let the principal striving and pleading with your hearts be to kindle Love: and your principal complaints for the want of it.

Direct 6. Make it the principal work of your Religion and your Lives, to inflame your hearts with the Love of God, as he is presented amiable in his wonderful Grace in Jesus Christ. Strive no further to ⟨p. 21⟩effect your hearts with Fears or Griefs, or other troubling passions, then as tendeth to the work of Love, or is a just expression of it. Go daily to promises, and mercies, and Christ, and Heaven, of purpose for fewel to kindle Love: Be much therefore in Thankfulness and Praise, which are works of Love. All goeth on sweetly, and easily, and acceptably, that is carryed on by Love. That is the best soul, and likest to God, that hath most of Love to God and Godliness 〈…〉 that is the best service, and likest to the work of 〈…〉, that hath most of Love: Let the principal striving and pleading with your hearts be to kindle Love: and your principal complaints for the want of it.

Direct. 7. Keep up Charity to all, even unto enemies; and special Love to all the Godly. And therefore hate back-biting and slandering, and making the worst of other mens actions: Take them as thieves that come to rob you of your Charity: He that speaks evil of another, persuadeth you so far to hate him (unless it be in Charity, persuading you to seek his cure.) Hear the reproacher and back-biter understandingly, as if he said, in words, as he doth in sense, [I pray you hate such a man, or abate your Love to him.] As the way to cause Love is to represent the object Lovely, which doth much more then to command me to Love it: So the way to cause Hatred, is to represent the object hateful or unlovely, which is more then to bid us hate our brother. And he that hateth his brother is a man-slayer; and none such have eternal life abiding in them. Away therefore with those Volumes of Learned slanders and reproaches, begotten betwixt uncharitableness and self love, (or pride;) and take them as the Devils Books, that are written to draw thee to hate thy Brother. Frown also upon the censorious: Take heed also of divisions and parties, because they are enemies