'DireElions and Moti1Jes for Lo1Je. 171 Tit. 1. 'Direfiions for Lo1Jing or~r Neigl,bot~rs M our felws. D)relt. r. TAke heedof ]elftjbmft and Covtt,;,fnrfi, the twogrtat EnemitJ of LUfle: of .;hich I have D' e[l fpoken more at large before. Jr • 1 • Direct. 2· FaU out with no man: or If you do, be (peedily rtconci/ed: For paffions and dilfentions D' t1 are theextingui!ben of love. Jre • 2 • Dire6t. 3· Love God truly, aud you wiU eafily Loveyour Neighhsur: For you will fee Gods Image Dire{/. 3 • on him, or intercfi in him, and feel all his prc,epts and mercies obliging you hereunto. As 1 Job. 3• II, 23• & 4• 7, 12, 20, 21• Dire&. 4' 1oth~enl.ltt Cbrift be your continual ftudy. He is the full revelation of the Love of Dire[/. 4• God; the lively patr(IOof love, and the bell teacher of it rhat ever was in the world : His incarnation, life and fuffcrings, his Gofpel and Covenant, his interccllionand prepar<~.tions for our heavenly felicity, an are the great demonflrations of condefcending matchlefs love. Mark both Gods Love tO us inhim, and hULove to man ; and you will have the beft direCtive and incentive of your Love. Dirc6t. ·5· Ob[trve aU the good wbicb if i.n evtry man : Conlider of the good of Humanity in his Dire{/. 5• nature; and the goodnefs ol' all that truth which he confeff<th ; and of all that moral good which appeateth in his heart and ~if{• And let t\ot overfight, or partiality caufe you to overlook it, or make li~ht of it. For it is Goodneft which is the only attraltive of Love : And if you overlook mens goodnefs you cannot love them. Direct: 6. Abhor and bewart of a cen[oriot~~ difpofition, which magnifietb mens faults, and vilifitth Direa. 6. their viriu_es? andma~tb men [ttm wur{e tban indeed they are. for as this cometh from the want of love, fo dotli it defiroy that little which is left. · Dittd-.7. Beware of {uperftition and an erring judgement, which mak,!tb men place Religion where Dire8. 7• Godmvqplaced it. Fot when this bath t~ught you to make duties and fins of your own humour and · invention, it will quickly teach you to lf>ve or hate men accordingly as they fit or cro[s Y,.Our opinion and humqur: Thus many a Papillloy<tlinot thofe that.are not fubjdls of the Roman Monarch, and · thatfqllb'N nbt all'his irrational foppcries. Many an Anabaptifi loverh not thofe that are againfi his opi– nion~rtebaptizing: One loveth not thofe \"ho are for Liturgies, Forms ofWorfhip and Chtirch-mulick; and rtlan'f l'ove not thofe 'l(hQ are again£\ them : And fo of other things (of which more anon.) Direct~ 8. Aveid tbt, company of cen[ori11us btJckbiters andproud contemners if. their brethren : Heark$11 DireB. 8. tldt to thtm tbat.llrecsu[tle}ty Vilifying others : aggravating their faulu and extenuating their virtuet. Fot filth proud fupercilious p<rlons ( religious ot propl\ane) are but rhe meffengers of Satan, by whom he intteatcth you t9 hate ,your 1'-leigl],bour or abate yout lovi: to him. Gjnd to hear them fpeak C~il of othtrs, is but to go hear a Scrqton 'igaiOfi Chariry; which may take: 1 wich fuch hearts .as ours before we are aware. ... Direlt. 9· f\~ep jliU !bemotivtt 'nd incenliVtf of Loot Npon your mind1 : Which ll fhall here next fet Dire{i. 9• beforeyou. . T.it.·)~' The ~dfons.odvfotiws. of Low to our•Neighbour. J I '. 1 ' 'V ' . .J Mot• ;, cO'nftd!r wbll t>f the Im;ge ~Minttrell 6f God in r\an. The worfl man i{,pis Cleature, Motive 1 , " and hath his'rllturalllnag~,' ih'oJgh not hil Mora1 lll1age : And you fhould 'love the worl;, for thtworkmindake. There·is·fom'tihidg ~\ G'od upbn all .humarie nature above the' qruirs: It is intelligJtit; arld.capablc!"of kn'6lving him; (Jf ldVin~ hitn ana of ferving him: And pofiibly may be brought to do all this better than you can do it. Unduvaluc nor the noble na[,urc of man, nor OvCr· look not that of God which is upon them, nor the inu:reH which he hath in ~hem. Mot. 2· Confider well of Gods own Love toman : He hateth their fins more than any of us : and Motive 2· yet he Jovcth his workmanihip upon them: and maJtttiJ his [Hn to jhine and hi1 rain to faU, 'on tbe evil andon the good, on the jujl and on theunjuft, M1tth. 'j· f5· And what lbould more fiir us up to Love, than to be like toGod ? Mat. 3• AHdtbink,.tJ[tof tl?e Lov~ of Chrift unto ma.n~ind; yea ttJtn unto his enemies : can you ha':e 1\tlotive3· a 9ettcr eltample? a livclyer mccnuve, or a furer gUtde? , . Mor·; 4,.. :confid.er of our Vnity of Nature with all men : fuitablenefs breedeth and maintaineth Motive 4 • love. Even Birds and Beafls do love their kind: And man lhould mu!;h more have a love to men, as being of th~ famefpecifick form? , Mat. 5· Love is the principle of doing good to others. It enclincth men to beneficence. And all men MotiveS· call himgood who is inclined to do good. Mot. 6.
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