Of charity in reference to other mens sins

Now that Principle from which we are called Gods children, must be of divine original; for it is not spoken of them casually, but as their distinguishing Character. So that, in this respect, they are said to be of God. It is their very difference from the children of another, and the worst of fathers, 1 Joh. 3. 10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; Whosoever doth not righteousness, is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Which also shows it is not universally all love, unto which this dignity belongs. Some more noble-minded Pagans that were wont to ascribe divinity unto love, have also carefully distinguished, and told ⟨p. 6⟩us of a love that was genuine, and another that was spurious; the one akin to virtue, the other to vice; and have noted it as an abusive error of the Vulgar to give the same name to God and a Disease. The corruption and degeneracy ¹of love, is indeed less than humane; but the first being, and restored rectitude of it, is of an original no less than divine.

Which also shews it is not universilly all love, unto which this dignity belongs. Some more noble-minded Pagans that were wont to ascribe divinity unto love, have also carefully distinguished, and told ⟨p. 6⟩us of a love that was genuine, and another that was spurious; the one akin to virtue, the other to vice; and have noted it as an abusive error of the Vulgar to give the same name to God and a Disease. The corruption and degeneracy ¹of love, is indeed less than humane; but the first being, and restored rectitude of it, is of an original no less than divine.