The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . neither circumcifion avai-led any thing, nor uncircumcifionjmt Faithwhich Iporketh by Loye. H e laft thing that wee entred uponwas the conditions that God re-quires in pur love to him, wc wentthrough two of them the laft time,wee come now to that which re-maines. Thirdly, you (hall finde this to be anothercondition in our love to the Lord, to love himabwi Ml> that is, incomparably above all: For5my brethren, wee may love many things in theworld, wee may love our felves, wee are com-manded. J O f L O V
The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . neither circumcifion avai-led any thing, nor uncircumcifionjmt Faithwhich Iporketh by Loye. H e laft thing that wee entred uponwas the conditions that God re-quires in pur love to him, wc wentthrough two of them the laft time,wee come now to that which re-maines. Thirdly, you (hall finde this to be anothercondition in our love to the Lord, to love himabwi Ml> that is, incomparably above all: For5my brethren, wee may love many things in theworld, wee may love our felves, wee are com-manded. J O f L O V E. i*5 minded tolouc our brethenas our fclves; butthis is peculiarly required to the love of God, iit be right in us, and fuch as the Lord expc&s atour hands, tha we louc him aboue aIl,for other-wife we doe not lone him as God, wee loue himas a creature : for to fay we louc him as God, andyet not to loue him aboue all, is a contradicti-on. Befides, if wee (hould not reckon him as thechicfegood, an J ioprife him aboue all, fomething would offlr it felfe one time or another tous, and draw ouraffcftionstoic, and then wee(hould leauc the Lord, and take that: T hercfoi eI fay, it is required that we loue the Lord aboueall. For every kinde of loue is no: fufficient, aswe fee it in other things • that loue that will feruca fervant,or a common fnend,will not feruc for awife, it is another kinde of loue5 that loue thatwill feruc for one will not ferue for another: AParent, a King, and a Mafter, as they hane diffe-rent relations, fothey muft be loved with diffe-rent kindesot l
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