274 or-Relieving strangers before _Kindred P Adverfaries objedions, they are frivolous. The meaning of the Apoilles words, [that we know no man after the flefh] 1 have: toldyou before : The words of Chriff to his Mother, Joh. 2.4.. [Woman, what have Ito do with thee ?] which they alledge are nothing for their wicked caufe ; they being no more but Chrifis due Reprehenfion of his Mothers miftake, who would- prefcribe him the time and manner of doing Miracles, and' havehim do them in a way of oftentation, which things did not belong to her, but to the- Spirit of God, and the Lord himfelf. And whereas they alledge that Text Luke 14.26. thatfather, mother, brother, filters, &c.. are to be hated, for Chrifl ; I anAver, Even as our own lives are to be . hated, which are alforiumbreci with them : tha -is, They must be all forfaken rather then Chrift should be forfaken and therefore loved lets thenhe,and but for his fake. if therefore this Text require younot at all to cut your own throats,or fome way kill your felves, then it doth not require you to withdraw your; due affeCIions fromNatural or CntradedRelations.. I Inuit - crave the Readers pardon thn I trouble hitt with confuting fuch unnatural opilaions, and defire him to believe that it is,- not before I amurged to it by the arguments of force deluded fouls that are not unlikely to dohurt by them with fame. CHAP. L V I. Q or Relieving Strangers before Kindred Qzeft,6, Haber felf denial require that we fhould relieve godly fl rangers,beforeour natural Kindred,efpecially Tat areungodly? Or that we love them better ? erfnfw. 1. Where our Natural Kindred are as holy and as needy as others, there is a double obligation onus, both na- tural and fpiritual, to love and relieve them. 2. Where they they are as Holy as others,but left needy there may lie a double obligation: onus , to it, ve lbeini andyet Rot to give to them. 3.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=