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R.115,
Ephelian,r,Chap.
1.
153
to the
Scripture,
that
there
can
be no true faith without love, nor love
without true faith, for
the
firul is
but
a dead carkaffe,
this latter
is
but
blind
devotion,neither
is
pleating
to
God:Indeed
we teach
that
faith
ju-
flifieth
us
alone
without other'graces,not
in
regard
of
their prefence,but
in regard
oftheir
co-working
with
faith
to this
effect
of
our juflification.
It
is
one
thing to
fay
the
eye
is in
the
head
without other fenfes,
and
another thing
to
fay
the eye
doth
fee
alone, no
other
fenfe feeing
with
it.
This mutt
make
us
trie
the truth
ofour
faith
;
for
if
our hearts have
fie.
z;
not beene kindled
with love
to God, they
never truly beleeved
his
love
in
Chrift
:
We
may earlier
carry coales
in
our
bofome without burning,
then
by faith apprehend truly this
loveof
our
God,
without
finding our
hearts burne
in
love
to
him
anfwerably.
We
fee
that
love is
an
erred
following faith,
even
love to
God
him-
yfe
3;
felfe
:
They
make
the tree to
beare
the roote, who
will have
love
give
being
to faith;
but this
is
but
a
confequent
of
Lombards
errour, who
did
hold love
to
be no
other
thing
then the holy
Ghoul himfelfe.
Obferve laítly, who
are
the
perlons on
whom
the love
of
true be- Do/7.4.
leevers
is
fet,viz.the
Saints,
yea,
all
Saints.
True Chriftian love, next
to
God
and
our owne
foules,
maketh
us
affect
thofe
who
are
fanF,tified,
who
expreffe
the vertues
in
their
life
of
our heavenly
Father, by whom
we are called
from
darkneffe to light. Hence
it
is
that the
Saints,
the
houfhold
of
faith, the brethren,
are
commended
as
perfons
whom
we
muftark&
and
doe good to, before
all
other
:Thus
our
God
loveth, Pfal.
t47.
to.
not
theflrength
ofhorfe
nor legs
of
man.
boo.
thofe
that
fearthim,
are
his
delight
:
Thus
Chrift
loved,
Who
is
my
fatherand
mother
?
&c.
he
that
heareth andobeyeth:
Thus Paul and
David loved;
We
love
none
accor-
ding
to
the
feJhh;all
my
delight
is
in
the
Saints, in
them
who excels
in vertue.
Every creature loveth and
liketh
to
be
with
thole who
are united
with
it
in
communication
of
the
fame
nature
;
So fandified Chriftians
can-
not but love and
like
to be molt with
them
who have
received
the
like
divine nature,in
which themfelves
are
partakers;yea,it loveth
all
Saints;
not
fuch
who
have
other
parts pleating and contentfull, but
it
loveth
e-
very
one
in
whom
it
can
fee
the image
of
God
fhining
:
for
it
cannot
be
but
that
love which
truly loveth
one
perfon
as
he
is
holy,
Ihould
love
e-
very one,
fo
far
forth
as
he
is
holy
;
yea,
though
we
are ro
efleeme and
inwardly
affefk
men,
as
we
fee
them
holy, we
are
not bound to
thew
them the outward effefts
of
our love anfwerably.
The
neerer perlons
are
tyed
to
us
in natural! and civili
bonds, the
morematt
our providence
he
for
them,
and love fhewed
them
in
outward things,
unleffe
their foo-
lifh
lewdneffe difpriviledge them this
way
;
for then the proverbe ta-
keth place,
Amife
fervent
may
be
preferred
before a
fool:Jh
child.
This
then doth reprove
many, who indeed hate, and would thew it,
yf
r.
were
it
policie,
thofe who endeavour to
live
holily,
traduce the name
of
Saints, nickname
them
as
Puritans, fuch who cannot be themfelves
butwhen they
are
in
company with Swearers,Gamefters, good fellows,
fuch
who will feeme
to.
rein
Come
odde
perfons
who
are indeede
truly