The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . i;tf Of L o v e. rgpfc THE SIXTH SERMON. G A LAT. 5. (5. F$r in Jeftts Q>rifjk, neither circumctfion avalleth any thing,nor uncircumcifion^ut Faithwhich yporketh hy Love. N D before we leave this poynt,->ne thing I muft add. Tor whatreafon doe we put you vpon thisdifpofition3vponthis examinati-on j whether the love of God beiny-our ueaftsor no? The reafon is not thatyou {houldbedifcouraged, that ( you fhould beput off from comming to God5 that you fhouldbe greived with the fight of the want of your
The breast plate of faith and love ..: delivered in 18 sermons upon three severall texts . i;tf Of L o v e. rgpfc THE SIXTH SERMON. G A LAT. 5. (5. F$r in Jeftts Q>rifjk, neither circumctfion avalleth any thing,nor uncircumcifion^ut Faithwhich yporketh hy Love. N D before we leave this poynt,->ne thing I muft add. Tor whatreafon doe we put you vpon thisdifpofition3vponthis examinati-on j whether the love of God beiny-our ueaftsor no? The reafon is not thatyou {houldbedifcouraged, that ( you fhould beput off from comming to God5 that you fhouldbe greived with the fight of the want of yourlove, but the end of it is to ftirre you up to gettitj if you want it. You know > we have formerly deli-. O f L O V u. »J7 IThe knowlcjgof God, delivered fome mcancs of getting it, oncly there/is one which we will commend unto you, which I The [aft kelpewe gave a little touch on but could not handle it, | °f *hc lolcft?fand it confifts of thefc Three branches- if you! ofdmifa**would love the Lord: I chc$. Firft you muft know him, for otherwife youcannot love him. As it is in naturall loucthat isbred between man and man,you fay love arifet hfrom fight, they muft fee before they can love-fo you muft know the Lord, there muft be afight of God by faith, before you can love every man that fees him and knowes him ashe is will love him , he cannot chufe, for that isthe Lords worke to all the Saints. Ierem. 31, Tonfha/l he taught of me, and youjhall know mcefiom thegreatest to the leaji. It may be in fome manner theyknew God before, but although a man have ne-ver lb exaci knowledge of him , yet till he be aregenerate man, he never knowes him indcede,it is an other kind of knowledge that
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