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We say also, he that loveth not my dog, loveth not me. Nor that a man should love my dog first. But if a man loved me, the love wherewith he loveth me, would compel him to love my dog, though the dog deserved it not, yea, though the dog had done him a displeasure, yet if he loved me, the same love would refrain him from revenging himself, and cause him to refer the vengeance unto me. Such speakings find we in scripture. John in the fourth of his first epistle saith: He that saith I love ¹God, and yet bateth his brother, is a liar. For how can he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, love God whom he seeth not? This is not spoken that a man should first love his brother, and then God, but as it followeth. For this commandment have we of him, that he which loveth God, should love his brother also. To love my neighbour is the commandment, which commandment, he that loveth not, loveth not GOD, The keeping of the commandment, declareth what love I have to God. If I loved ²God purely, nothing that my neighbour could do, were able to make me either to hate him, either to take vengeance on him my self, seeing that God hath commanded me to love him, & to remit all vengeance unto him. Mark now how much I love the commandment, so much I love God, how much I love God, so much believe I that he is merciful, kind, and good, yea, and a father unto me, for Christs sake, how much I believe that God is merciful unto me, and that he will for Christs sake fulfil all his promises unto me: so much I see my sins, so much do my sins grieve me, so much do I repent, and sorrow that I sin, so much displeaseth me that poison that moveth me to sin, and so greatly desire I to be healed. So now by the natural order, first I see my sin, then I repent and sorrow, then believe I Gods promises, that he is merciful unto me, and forgiveth me, and will heal me at the last: then love I, and then I prepare my self to the commandment.³

We say also, he that loueth not my dogge, loueth not me. Nor that a mā should loue my dogge first. But if a man loued me, the loue wherewith he loueth me, would compell him to loue my dogge, though the dogge deserued it not, yea, though the dogge had done him a displeasure, yet if he loued me, the same loue would refrayne hym from reuenging himselfe, and cause him to referre the vengeaunce vnto me. Such speakinges finde we in scripture. Iohn in the fourth of hys first epistle sayth: He that saith I loue