ebc Poo? anz famflp Zook. S. What Love is it thatyou mean ? P. The Love of God, the love of your felf, and the Love ofyour Neigébour, is the futnm of all your duty. S. This is but Reaffonable duty, which no man can deny orBeak againfl. 1Andone part of it I Pall eafdÿ keep, which is, to LovemySelf. P. Alas poor man : Have you kept it hitherto ? What enemy have you had in all the world compara- ble to (r) your Pelf? All that your enemies could do againff you is but as a flea-biting. What if they flan- der you, opprefs you, imprifon you, or otherwifc abufe you ? Wrong not your fell, and all this cannot hinder your falvation, nor make God love you ever the lefs, nor make death ever the more terrible ; not; will it ever be your forrow in Heaven to think of ir. All your enemies in the world, cannot force you to commit one fin, nor make you a jot difpleafing unto God. But youyour Pelf have committed thoufands of fins, and madeyour Pelfan enemy toGod. O the folly of ungodly men ! They can hardly forgive another if he do but bear them, or flander them, or impoverifhh them : Andyet they can go on to abufe, undo and de- ftroy their fouls, and run towards Hell, and eafily for- give themfelves all this ; yea (f) take it for their be.. nefir, and will not be reftrained , CO nor perfwaded to forbear, nor (hew any mercy to their own miferable fouls. I tell you, though the Devil hate you, yet all tieDevils in the world have not done fo much againff you as you have done againft your fell. The Devils (r) Hof. r 3.9.Prov,29.24. & 8.364if)Ttt.3.2, 3,4, 5. (t) 2,Gor.5.i9,2o. F z did
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