The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…

In this text Acts 2. and marvellous example, you see the design and work of the great Reconciler: When men fall out with God, they fall out with one another: when they depart from the only Centre of Unity, they can have no true Unity among themselves: when they lose the Love of God, they lose the Love of Man as for Gods sake and interest. And he that cannot see and Love God in man, can see nothing in man that is worthy of much love: As he that loveth not a man for his soul and its operations, more than for his body, loveth him not as a man: And few have any great Love to a dead Corpse. Cicero could say, It is your soul that we speak to, and converse with: were that departed we should speak to you no more. God is more to every man, than his soul: If God were not their life and amiableness, all men would be unlovely loathsome carcasses: ⟨p. 60⟩Therefore wicked men that cannot Love God and Goodness, can Love none thoroughly but themselves and for themselves, or as Bru•es by a low or sensitive kind of love: For it is self that they are fallen to from God and Man: And yet while self is carnally and inordinately loved instead of God and Man, it is but destroyed and undone by that inordinate idolatrous love: And he that loveth Himself to his own destruction (with a Love more pernicious than another's hatred) doth love his friends but with such a kind of killing love: (as I have seen some Brutes kill their young ones with the violence of their love, that would not suffer them to let them alone.) Thus all love to man, saving a pernicious love, doth dye, where the love of God and goodness dieth: And Cain giveth the world the first specimen or instance of depraved nature, in envy and wrath, and finally in the murder of his Brother, and undoing Himself, by setting up and adhering inordinately to himself.

In this text Acts 2. and marvellous example, you see the design and work of the great Reconciler: When men fall out with God, they fall out with one another: when they depart from the only Center of Vnity, they can have no true Unity among themselves: when they lose the Love of God, they lose the Love of Man as for Gods sake and interest. And he that cannot see and Love God in man, can see nothing in man that is worthy of much love: As he that loveth not a man for his soul and its operations, more than for his body, loveth him not as a man: And few have any great Love to a dead Corpse. Cicero could say, It is your soul that we speak to, and converse with: were that departed we should speak to you no more. God is more to every man, than his soul: If God were not their life and amiableness, all men would be unlovely loathsome carkasses: