. 1:. ..`.,, Do 4116y Love. 37I Thirdly, And why; are you not much more troubled at the (tate of all thole who are not con- verted or edified by you, though they do not flight you or forfake yo 1. How many be there that feemto love and nonour you, andyet ,do not love and honour God ? but defpife religion and their own Salvation? If it b; for their fakes and not your own that you are offended , you will grieve moft for them that are moat ungodly though they honour you never fo much and yot will be glad for them that are faithful and God- ly, whofe Miniftery foever it be that they ma efkeem. Fourthly, But fuppofe them yet fò foolifh and faulty, as to run from you to their own per-, dition ; The queflion is , That i6 the way to cm-4 them? Is Love caufed by hard words, or ft ripes ? Will you fay to them, Leveme, or you f tall befi fled or imprif ,ned ? Chriil clothnot teach you) tt ufe fuch arguments when you (peak for him, but to hefeech men in his name and ¡ead tobé reconciled to Clod, 2 Cor. 5. 19, 20. But yourown workwiUU be done in your own way. O.bj. Bast Chrift threatneth Hell to the impenitetst '; and Paul pronouncetbhim 4nathematix4 that loveth not the Lord 7efiu and he talk th to his hearers of coming with a rod. e4nfw. Nodoubt but the corrupted mind of flan, bath, need not only . of Love to draw there home to God, and work the cure, but ofThreat- flings todrive them and to help, on the care g And though it be Love that canfeth Love , which i their, Holinti , yet Fear removethmany impedi- meats But LW l remember that it js,Lvve which
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