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Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the…
Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the late reverend Mr. Joseph Caryl.
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior, 1675
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Thirdly, One step farther, what is that charity which is the end of the Commandment, both the Final end, and the fulfilling end of it? What is this charity?
Charity is taken two ways in Scripture.
1. More strictly, as it consists in the relieving of those that are poor, and in the comforting of those that are sorrowful, this is charity, to relieve the poor, to comfort the sorrowful.
But secondly, charity, is taken in a more large sense, 'tis taken for Love in General, and so some translate this text, the end of the Commandment, ⟨p. 12⟩is Love. For charity is a word of a narrower sense than Love is. The end of the Commandment is Love, and the truth is, the word [Greek or Hebrew], which we rende• in the text, charity, doth Indifferently signify, and is Indifferently translated Love, or charity, all the New Testament over. I need not stay to quote places. This word [Greek or Hebrew] signifies Love to God, Love to Man.