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The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…
The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianism ... / by Giles Firmin ...The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianisme ... / by Giles Firmin ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1670
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.
Secondly, Self love is a principle implanted by God in nature: Self-love I know sounds ill, but self love regulated-may be, yea, must be; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, is the rule for, or sum of the second Table. I must love my Neighbour, I am bound to that, you say: But how must I love him? As thy self; as thou lovest and should love thy self, so love thy Neighbour: Then surely I am bound to love my self, as well as I am bound to love my Neighbour, for my self-love is the example, or rule, to inform me how I must love my Neighbour; when I see my Neighbour about to commit sin, or that lives in sin, I ⟨p. 296⟩[…] ⟨p. 297⟩[…] ⟨p. 298⟩may lawfully dehort him from sin, from this Argument of hell, the wrath of God; as he loves his own Soul, take heed of this course, for it will bring the wrath of God upon him, and lay him in hell; this is but rational, who can say the contrary, to move him from self-love: Surely the same may I apply to my self, from that love which I owe my self: I sin if I do not love my self.
Secondly, Self love is a principle implanted by God in nature: Self-love I know sounds ill, but self love regulated-may be, yea, must be; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, is the rule for, or sum of the second Table. I must love my Neighbour, I am bound to that, you say: But how must I love him? As thy self; as thou lovest and should love thy self, so love thy Neighbour: Then surely I am bound to love my self, as well as I am bound to love my Neighbour, for my self-love is the example, or rule, to inform me how I must love my Neighbour; when I see my Neighbour about to commit sin, or that lives in sin, I ⟨p. 296⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 297⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 298⟩may lawfully dehort him from sin, from this Argument of hell, the wrath of God; as he loves his own Soul, take heed of this course, for it will bring the wrath of God upon him, and lay him in hell; this is but rational, who can say the contrary, to move him from self-love: Surely the same may I apply to my self, from that love which I owe my self: I sin if I do not love my self.