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L
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Government, that his very enemies could no way exc.ept to,
~n
his old dayes was re-
·red with
Fac nobi4 Regem
;only upon a humour ofmnovatton. What
then~
Grew , sam.s.r.
~:difcoment~
No:
'l{gn o6pante,for
all
theiringratitude(Good man) this he profef-
feth: Goo
forbid(Caith
he)
I jhouldfin
m
uajingtopray for yo"; yea, Iwelljhewyou the
.....
1 :
oodandright
WAJ
ofthe
Lo~d,
for allthat.
That mar fcrve,
to
match thts, out of the
bld Telbmenr. For,here mhkefort,
we
have
Paul s Mtmu
dtltgar,beforeour eyes;
and we fee he is at his
Libentifime, Etfi,
for all that. You learnc then; as,that
Minus
diligar
may cof!le; fo, in cafe it doe come, what :o doe; even
to
conf~mmate
your
Love
with
a
mumph
ovewnkmdnejfe.
Learne thts, and allts learned . Learne dus,
and the whole
Art
is had.
.
.
.
.
And we have, in this verfe,and
m
the very firft word oftt, that, wtll enter us tnto
this Lelfon.
Firll:, from
Egovero:
from hisandfr?rn our
O>~ne
perfons, we may beginneto
1
raife this duty. When wee were deepe mour
Mmus dtl,gar,
and fmally
reg~rded
CH RI
s
T;
Nay,
Ctnninimici effemm(to
~ake
as we lhould) when we wese hts
ene-
Rom.p!:
mies,
of
His
over.abundant kindnelfe it pleafed him to call us f:om the
blindne;fe
of
emr,
to the
knowledge
~f
Hu tmth:
and from a deepe confumpnon of ourfoules by
lin to the flare of health'and grace. And, if St.
Paul
were loved,when
hce raged,and
Ails
9 ,, :
hr:aehedbla.ffhemie againfl
CH " I
s
T
and Hu 1'{.ame,is
it much,if for
C
H R
r s
T
s
- ·
fake hee
f
wallow fome unkindnelfe at the
CorintiJians
hands
~
Is it much, if wee let
fall~
duty upon them, upon whom Goo the
Father
droppeth His raine, and G o
o
the
Son
dropps,yea lhedds His bloud,
~ <?:!-t'~",;
"""t'''
upon
evil/andrmthalfkefull
Lok.f.lf,
menl
·
Surely,if
Love
,or well doing,or any good mull:
pe~il11
C
whieh is the fecond
Mo:
;~:
tive)and_beloft throug.h fome bodtes default(where
tthg~tcth~muc.h
better !t is,that
it perilh in the
Corinthia11s
hands,than
m
~auls
;.
by thcm,m thetr ev1ll recelV!ng,than
by him in his not
beftowing;
through thetr
tmkmdneffe,
than through our
ahruptnef!e.
For,fo:the fin !hallbe theirs,and we and ourfoules innocent before Goo.
lmpend~t~
Iterper nos: Pereatper illos.
Bur, peri!h it !hall not(whichis the third point) though, forthem it may. For
howfoever,of them it may be truly faid;
ThemoreweJove,the leffe,
they: Of
chrijl,
it never can, nor ever !hallbe [aid. For, St. Paul,forrhe littlelovc at their hands,
found the.greater at His. Though the
more he loved, theleffe they loved him;
yet
tht
lej[ethey loved, the
more
chrift lovedhim.
Of whom to beloved,even in theleaft de–
gree, is worth
~u
thelove of
Corinth,and
all
A(haia
too. So that, here we find (that
we miffed all this while)atamen for our
Etji: Though
not
they, yet Chrift.
Which
ta.·
men
maketh amends for all.
Et vigilanti verho tljm efl Apoflolm
;
that Sr.
Paul
fpoke
not at adventure,but was well advifed when he ufed the word
Impendam.
For, it is
Ir._pendam
indeed,not
Perdam;
Not loft,l;mt
laydout;
Not
(aft a1vay,
but imployed,on
Htm,for
whofe love,none ever hath or !hall
heJ1ow
oughr,but he !hall receive a
fuper–
zmpendar
of an hundred-fold. And indeed, all other loves, of the fle!h,or world, or
whatfoever dfe,lhall perilh and come to nothing;
and
of this,and this only,we may
fay
Imfendam,
truly.
. So that (to make an end) thoughtrueit be, that St.
Bernard
faith,
Perfe8m 4mor
vms non fumit de
jje,
Perfect
love
receives no manner ftrength from hope; yet, for
that our
Love
is not without his imperfections,all under one view
l
wemay with one
e~e
behold
Chrifl~
Magi; diligam,
when we were fcarce in our
M
;,.us
,nay fcarce loved
himat
all
:and wtth the other,look upontmendam;that,what we doe herein,though
~t ~ens
hands we finde no returne, at
Chri
swe !hall,and it !hall be the
be~
bcflowfd
ervtce,that ever we bell:owed, that we
be ow
in this kind.
fow,would
God,
the fame
Spirit,
which here wrote this verfe would write it in
0
ffi
edrtthatthofcrhings are thus;That fuch a
Rependam
there
th~Il
be,and 1ve well
~.ur1
°
tt,M
&
ms converterem11rinamorem,
that we might becrransformed into
~
tschovijle.
Wluchbleffing, Almighty Goo beftowontharwhichhath.beene fayd,
•or
n
;,&c.
Printed
hy
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