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Fourthly, they have skill in affability, and courteousness; Religion does not teach men to be sour, ¹but as courteousness and affability is a moral virtue, so it is to be carried in a higher way in Christians then in others. Many men who have no grace, seem to carry themselves like Christians; what a shame then is it for Christians, who have grace, not to carry themselves like men?

Fourthly, they have skill in affability, and courteousness; Religion does not teach men to be sowre, ¹but as courteousness and affability is a moral vertue, so it is to be carried in a higher way in Christians then in others. Many men who have no grace, seem to carry themselves like Christians; what a shame then is it for Christians, who have grace, not to carry themselves like men?

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Fifthly, the men of the world have skill in love, and therefore be eminent in that, that they may see your ¹love towards one another, bearing one another's burdens. As the curtains of the Tabernacle were joined together by loops, so should the members of the Church be joined one to another by love. In the Primitive times we find the Heathens, and enemies of the Church, did acknowledge there were no people in the world did love one another so as Christians did. The Church of Philadelphia is blamed for nothing; Philadelphia signifies brotherly love; when brotherly love rules in Churches, they grow to a blameless conversation before God and man.

Fifthly, the men of the world have skill in love, and therefore be eminent in that, that they may see your ¹