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The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in…
The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in some of the last sermons of Mr. Joseph Caryl ; with an epistle prefixed by John Owen ...
London : Printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock, senior and junior ..., 1673
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Secondly, what is the end of the Commandment, the end of the Commandment is charity. [Greek or Hebrew] end, may be taken in a threefold notion.
Secondly, what is the end of the Commandment, the end of the Commandment is charity. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 end, may be taken in a threefold notion.
First, The end, it notes the conclusion, and Period of a thing, the conclusion of all things; so the Apostle Peter in his 1 Epist. 4. 7. The ⟨p. 8⟩end of all things is at hand, and it's well for us to Remember that, If the end of all things were at hand in the Apostles time, how near is the end now, the end, the Period of all this visible world, it is at hand, Be ye therefore watchful, and sober.
Secondly, End, notes as much as the Aim, design, plot, scope of any Action, what it is that we drive at; and in that sense 'tis well said, That the desire of the end is endless, that is, men 1will never end their desirings till they have attained their desired end, namely, that which is the scope, and Aim, which they have set up to themselves in any undertaking: the end of a thing is the Aim, or the scope of it.
- 1Appetitus finis est infinitus.