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A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If it be asked then, How differeth love to the godly from common love? Answ. That there is a difference, is clear from the forec stead Scriptures, Psal. 16.3. 1 Pet. 2.17. and from 2 Pet. 1.7. where brotherly kindness is distinguished from charity: In a word then, it differeth 1. In it's acquiescing complacency, though there may be some sort of complacency comparatively in others, yet simply and properly it is to be exercised toward the godly. 2. It is on another account as is said, to wit, as they are loved of God, love to them runneth in another channel, and hath another spring and rise, Matth. 10. ult. 3. It should be in a more high and intense degree, as to its exercise, because God is more concerned in them; and though good should be done to all, yet especially to this household of Faith. And the manifestation of our love even towards the godly may be less or more, according as less or more of God appeareth in them, or in their way.
If it be asked then, How differeth love to the godly from common love? Answ. That there is a difference, is clear from the forec •ted Scriptures, Psal. 16.3. 1 Pet. 2.17. and from 2 Pet. 1.7. where brotherly kindness is distinguished from charity: In a word then, it differeth 1. In it's acquiescing complacencie, though there may be some sort of complacencie comparatively in others, yet simply and properly it is to be exercised toward the godly. 2. It is on another account as is said, to wit, as they are loved of God, love to them runneth in another channel, and hath another spring and rise, Matth. 10. ult. 3. It should be in a more high and intense degree, as to its exercise, because God is more concerned in them; and though good should be done to all, yet especially to this houshold of Faith. And the manifestation of our love even towards the godly may be less or more, according as less or more of God appeareth in them, or in their way.