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Of charity in reference to other mens sins
Of charity in reference to other mens sins by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1681
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.
1. With Charity it self; and so we shall consider it,
1. In its own nature, abstractly and absolutely.
2. In relation to its Original, and exemplary Cause. And shall compare this rejoicing in the sins of other men, with it both ways.
2. In relation to its Original, and exemplary Cause. And shall compare this rejoycing in the sins of other men, with it both ways.
1. Consider Charity in its own nature: And so it is the loving one another as my self, so as to desire his welfare and felicity as my own: Where we must note, that love to our selves, is the measure of the love we owe to others. But yet are also to consider, that this measure it self, is to be measured: For we are not to measure our love to others, by the love we bear to our selves, otherwise, than as that also agrees with our superior rule; which obliges us so to love our selves, as to design, and seek our own true felicity, and best good: To lay hold on eternal life, to work out our own salvation.