The Godly Man's Picture

2 Because our sweet deportment towards them, may be a means to win upon them, and make them in love with the ways of God; a morose rugged carriage, often alienates the hearts of others, and hardens them the more against holiness, whereas a loving behaviour is very obliging, and may be as a load-stone to draw them to religion.

2 Because our sweet deportment towards them, may bee a means to win upon them, and make them in love with the waies of God; a morose ruggid carriage, often alienates the hearts of others, and hardens them the more against holiness, whereas a loving behaviour is very obliging, and may bee as a load-stone to draw them to religion.

2 There is a pious and an holy love, and this a godly man doth bear chiefly to them, who are of the household of ^†faith; the other was a love of courtesy, this of complacency: Our love to the Saints (saith Austin) should be more than to our natural relations, because the bond of the spirit is nearer than^* that of blood. This love to the Saints, which evidenceth a man godly, must have seven ingredients in it.

2 There is a pious and an holy love, and this a godly man doth bear chiefly to them, who are of the houshold of ^†faith; the other was a love of courtesie, this of complacency: Our love to the Saints (saith Austin) should bee more than to our natural relations, because the bond of the spirit is nearer than^* that of blood. This love to the Saints, which evidenceth a man godly, must have seven ingredients in it.

1. †Quemadmodum ignis ea intensius caleficit quae adsita quam quae dissita sunt: ta charitatis ignis ferventius fidei domesticos diliget, quam […] qui sunt a fide extranei.