Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

3. Because our Love to God should put us upon loving his People, and making them our Intimates; for Religion influenceth all things, our Relations, common Employments, Friendship and Converse, 1 Joh. 5. 1. Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him. The New Nature inclineth to both, there is an inward Propension and Inclination, needing no outward Provocation and Allurements, 1 Thes. 4. 9. As touching brotherly ⟨p. 16⟩love ye need not that I write unto you, for you your selves are taught of God to love one another. Gods Teaching is by effectual Impression or Inclining the Heart. It is a smart Question that of the Prophet, 2 Chro. 19. 2. Shouldst thou hate the Godly, and love those that hate the Lord? Surely a Gracious Heart cannot take them into his Bosom, he loveth all with a Love of Good will as seeking their Good, but not with a Love of Complacency as delighting in them. Our Neighbour must be loved as our selves, our natural or carnal Neighbour as our natural self, with a love of Benevolence; and our spiritual Neighbour as our spiritual self, with a love of Complacency. We have hated our sinful Neighbour as we hate our selves, much more as to love of Benevolence, we must neither hate our selves, our Neighbour, nor our Enemy. But it is Complacency we are speaking of, and so the wicked is an Abomination to the Righteous, Prov. 29. 26. The Hatred of Displicency is opposite to the Love of Complacency, as the Hatred of Enmity to the Love of Benevolence, we cannot enter into a Confederacy and intimate Kindness with them.

3. Because our Love to God should put us upon loving his People, and making them our Intimates; for Religion influenceth all things, our Relations, common Imployments, Friendship and Converse, 1 Ioh. 5. 1. Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him. The New Nature inclineth to both, there is an inward Propension and Inclination, needing no outward Provocation and Allurements,