Light andLove- are, DIRECT. XII. 367 _._.-------- %ememberthat the Pailoral Govertsmentis a Welk o f LIGHT and ¡,OVE : and what cannot be done by t4'efe is not at all to be done by you s t..ind therefore you mull make it your great fludy andemployment, firfl to Know more than thepeople, and to Lope themmore than they Loveyou or one another ; and then to convince then, by un- refiliable evidence of truth, and to cattle the warmth ofyour Love to be felt by theme in every word andall ofyour çMiniflra- tien ; tils the milk is wa, rn by the natu- ral heat of the mother, andfo is fittedfor the nourilhment of the child. A S the GofpeI is the revelation of the Love of God, and it is a meffage of Love which we have to bring and a work of Love which we cooperate to effet; fo it is a fpirit of Love which mutt be our principle,and it is án office and work cf Love which we are called to ; and the marner muff be anfwerable to the work. Faith is the Head, and Love is the Heart of the new Crew tars : And as there is noLight in our office and work, if there be noFaith and evidence of Truth, fo there is no Life in it, if there be no Love. God him reff in the great work of our Redemption , a( Ctrilt in his Incarnation,life and fuffering,hath. tauzht
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