The nature and principles of love, as the end of the commandment declared in…

Thirdly, The charity here intended, or the Love, is not a lazy habit, for one to say, I have a love for God, I and there it lies and doth nothing: I say, the charity here intended, is not a lazy habit; but 'tis that which is put forth by vigorous and lively actings, and so some expound this Text; Charity is to be taken Metonymically, Charity, for all the offices and duties of charity, which we owe one to another.

Thirdly, The charity here intended, or the Love, is not a lazy habit, for one to say, I have a love for God, I and there it lyes and doth nothing: I say, the charity here intended, is not a lazy habit; but 'tis that which is put forth by vigorous and lively actings, and so some expound this Text; Charity is to be taken Metonymically, Charity, for all the offices and duties of charity, which we owe one to another.

4 Lastly, As 'tis an Acting, and an active charity, which is here spoken of, so it is not every kind of charity, how vigorously soever acted, which is the end of the Commandment; but 'tis the charity that flows out from, and is fed by those three springs spoken of in the close of the Verse: Namely, 'tis a charity flowing out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and faith unfeigned.

I cannot stay now to discover those springs to you; for that would take up too much of the time. Indeed it may ⟨p. 15⟩take up all the time, to make a little discovery of those springs: All that I shall say at present, is only this, That the charity which issues out of these springs: that's the charity in the Text; and that's the charity, which is the fulfilling of the Commandment. So that here we have the Genealogy (as I may call it) the Pedigree, the Parentage of Gospel charity. Or to keep to the former Metaphor, here we have the spring of that blessed River called charity, the streams whereof (like the streams of the River spoken of, in