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~----~~~~~--~----~~~~~--~~~~~-------Libemifirne,
the good
heart,
wherewith it is bell:owed. And, will you feethe mindf
wherewith Saint
Pat1l
will doe both thefe
~
By this
adverbe
nJ';<•>
you may looke
into his very
heart. Beflow
he will, and
be bejlowedtoo;
and that, not
Vtcrmque,
in
any fort, be contented
to
come to it
~·but
willingly:
wil_lingly, Nay
readily;
lteadi.
ly,
n~y
gladly (and the
degree
is fomewhat,
>iJ'I<«)
moftgladly,
inthe very highell of
all, in the
[uperlative degm.
To
JPmd,
and [pending to make no more reckoningofit,
than of chafFe : Nay (it is more)
to
be
glad
of our lo!fe; more glad, than others
would be oftheir gaine. To
beJPent,and
in being fpenr,not
to
hold our life precibus:
Lu~.
17. 1+,
.1s,&c.
Nor fo,but to
rejoyce
init,and as if death were advantage;
In hoc
eft
charitM,
cedain.
ly.
Death
(of it felfe)is bitter,and
loffe
is not fweet: Then,fo, to altcrtheir
narures~s
to find
fweetnejfe
in
lojfe,
whereatallrepihe;
andgl•dnejfe
in
death,
which makethall
to mourne; verily,hereinis
love:
Or,ifnot here,
where~
Nay,here iris indeed;and
before now, we had it not. For,inllattermes,heavoweth (in the
X//1,
chapterbe–
fore,ofhis former
Epif/le)if
we feverthis from the other two : One may
part
wi!h,g
hi<goods tofeedthepsore, andyet have no love: Onemaytiyehis b1dy.to !fe b11rnt, andyn
have no love :
And then,_
though he
doeimpendere,_
bej~ow
all he bath; and
~hough
he
doe
impendi,be bejloovedhlm[elte,mhzl
ejl
,he
IS
nochmg,1fhe want th1s affcthon,which
is
love
indeed,the very foule oflove, and
~heot~er
but •.,.,ja,,but theskin and
bone~
and indeed nought elfe but
thecarc•Jfe,
Without lt. Therefore,tt was, char St.
Paulfee
this in thefir£1: place before the othenwo, becaufc the othertwo be.bm
ciphers,and
afterthis (the figure) fer, they be
tens
and
hrmdreds,
andhavetheirvaluation:buc
without ir,of themfelvestheybe but
ciphers,
juil: nothing. Thus much St. Paulhath
Iaid,in fayiogthcfe three words, •
lmpmdam,
~
lmpendar,
3
Libentijilf/?~
Thus·much
they amount to.
_,.
l
•.
J
And no\v mult we
paui~
a little, to fee, what will become of all ·chis,and
what
thefe three will worke in the
Corinthians.
;
We marvel! atthe
Love :
we Otall moremarvell,
whet~
we fee, what manner of
men,on ,yhom iris
beltow~d.
What his
proofesa~e,
we have heard; how largeand
how lovmg; and thlls fans he come, onely towmfwour and like mmuallloveat
their
hands,withou~eyetoany
other thing in the world. No
Vef/ra :(no )
bur
Voson–
ly. This is all. And, not this; not fo much; Nay not fo little,as this,will
come.
Which
if
it did come, what lingular thing were
it~
lince the
very Pztblicans
doethl
like ;love him, that lweththem,
Which we gather by his
Etji.
Wherein (as he may)
in
no lowd and bitter manner he cornplaineth, but
complaineth
though ; that,
feekin~·
their
love,
and nothing elfe,fo hard was his hap,he found it not
:
Not,in a
grcater,o~
asgreat a meafure, as his; but,
minus
for
magi<,
and fo he a great lofer by it. The
more, the higher, the neerer, his; the le!fe, the lower,the further off,theirs: fothar,
little likelihood of ever meeting.
This is St.
Pattls
cafe, to meet with unkindnelfe :and not only his, but
CHusr
met with
nine for one,
too. Indeed,itis common,and notto be noted, but forcom·
monr~effe.
De ingratrs etiam ingrati
qt~mmtttr,
They that are
zmkinderhemfelv~sin•
velgh
agair~il:
the
rmlcindnejfc
of others. And, as it was laid ofthem that made
Ct·
f ar
away
l
oderunt tyraJ<rlllm, non tyrannidern,
fo may it truly here :
1h:
Perfons
(that
are ,unkinde)
they hate, rather than the
vice
it fdfe. Yet, even
to
know
this, cloth no hurt, what Saint
Pa11l
met with in the
Corinthians;
and this too,thatall
·
unkinde
perfons dwell not at
Corinth.
And, as he
to
be pitied, fo they to bee blamed.
All other commodities rcturnewell from
Corinth
;
onely
Love
is no trafficke. Saint
Pard
cannotmakehU
swne
againe, but mufi·be agre:ttlofer, withall. We can·
not but pitie the
t.Ap'!flle
in this
<.Mimls
of his. Saint
t.Augzefline
faith well :
'Z{gU4
dJ
major adarnoremprovocatio, quampr£venire
~tm~tndo
: 1'{imu enimdrmu eft animm,
quiamoremetfi nolef7at impendere, nolit tamm rependert,
No more kindly
attrac1ive
1{
love,
than
it~
loving
to
prevent:
For, exceeding il:ony is that heart, which, though
it
like not to
Love
firft,
will not
Loveagaine
neither; neirhcrfirfi, nor fecond.
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Yet fo hard were theirs thacneitheroncwaynorother,
rem,
norrql'rKe, w?uld
en
he-: