VIII. EXHORTATION.
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VIII. EXHORTATION.
Let us be reconcilable to others; not only where we offer, but to those from whom we receive an Injury. God's Reconciliation should be our Rule of dealing with others.
LEt us be reconcileable to others; not only where we offer, but to those from whom we receive an Injury. God's Reconciliation should be our Rule of dealing with others.
Hard Hearts, and uncharitable Dispositions, are unlike to God, that had a Heart full of Tenderness. Such will not part with a Grain of their Right, though God parted with his Son to work our Peace: And had he not been more forward in it than we, we had perished for ever, Luk. 6.36. God sets his own Actions, as a Pattern for ours. If we are Irreconcilable to our Brother, we do not imitate God; but reject this Blessed Pattern, and discover no sense of the Kindness of God to us.
Hard Hearts, and uncharitable Dispositions, are unlike to God, that had a Heart full of Tenderness. Such will not part with a Grain of their Right, though God parted with his Son to work our Peace: And had he not been more forward in it than we, we had perisht for ever, Luk. 6.36. God sets his own Actions, as a Pattern for ours. If we are Irreconcileable to our Brother, we do not imitate God; but reject this Blessed Pattern, and discover no sense of the Kindness of God to us.
Since God hath made Christ a Propitiation for our Sins; if God so loved us, ought not we also to love one another?