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R.32.
Epbefians,
Chap.
4.
rail dot`trine,
which
we may learne
without
a
teacher,
ro have
a
fha-
dow
of
love to our friends, but true hatred
to
our enemies.
And
it
is
in
the naturali
mans
judgement
a
good
wifdomc to carry
faire wea-
ther
in
the countenance,but to
fit
on
his
skirts
whom
we brooke not.
Who
hath not
fpoken hatefully
?
Who
Math
not
had
an ill
eye at his
neighbours comming
one Who
bath not laughed
in
his fleeve,
when
fometime
he
hath
croffed one
he loves not
,
though
it coft him
the
letting on
to
compaffe
ite
But
let
us
put itaway
,
for
our
hope
of
fe-
crecie
will
faile
us
:
Hatred
covered
with lying
lips ¡ball
be
made
manifefl
in the
a/fembly:
let
us
not
care
to
be men
in
this
;
be babes
in malician/
neffe:
Ifye
be not
babes in
this regard you
(hall
not enter into the
kingdome
of
Heaven.
Now
babes
if
they be angry
and
fight toge-
ther,
they will
be
friends prefently.
The
name
of
it
fhould make it
odious,for the word
is
as
large
as raynah
with the Hebrews,which
fig
-
nifieth
the
evill
of
punifhment; all
naughtineW(e
:
But
therefore
figni-
fieth malicioufneffe,
becaufe
it
is
the chicfe
kinde
of
wickedncfle ,
as
wecall
the
Plague
bythe
name
of
the
Sickneffe,
a
name
common to
all
difeafes,becaufe this
is
the
principali kinde
of
all
other.
Now
the
quantity
followeth,if
we
fay
he
is a
malicious
man,we
fay
every thing
that naught
is.
VERSE
32. And
be
kinde
one to
another, tender hearted,
forgiving
one
another,even
u
God
for
Chrijis
take
hathforgiven
you.
Now
this dehortation
is
amplified
by
a
contrary exhortation to the
oppofite
venue,
which
is
fa
downe,
a. In
particular
in
thisverfe, and the next.
2.
In
general,
in
the
fecond verfe
of the
fift
chapter:
particular hath
r.
A Commandement.
The
P
2.
A
Reafon.
The
Precept commandeth two Chriflian
affet`tions,
¡mertefie.
Mercy.
Secondly,
a
fruit declaring
them,
forgiveneffe:
For
many will
fay
they
are
gentle,good
perlons
as
need
be, ifthey be
let
alone,
and
yet
offended
they willnot
forgive
:
now
there
are
neither gentle no mer-
ciful!. But becaufe this duty
goeth
againft
the haire,the Apoftle doth
urge it
with
reafon
:
That
which
Cirift
hath done toyou,you mutt do
to others
:
Chrift hath
done thus; therefore you.
The
fecond part
is
in
this verfe, the
concluflon
in
the
firft verfe
of
the
fifth
Chapter.
But becaufe one
might
fay,
Why
Jbould
wee
be
followers
ofGod in
all
things
a
therefore the Apoftle proverb this
:
Children
mutt imitate
their fathers
:
You
are Gods beloved
Children
;
Therefore,&c.
r.
Then
we fee
what
is
a
versa
we
muffthew
forth,
even
curtefse;
for
we
=a
Phew
this our
God
goeth before
us
in, Tit.
3.4.
Kindneffe
or
curtelie
to
fornccu
"ere
mankinde,
itis
a
verrue
that
maketh
us
carry our
(elves
amiably and
what
ú
is.
fweetly
towards others,
as
may be gathered
by the contrary
,
not
bit-
ter,
and it
may well be called the flowre
of
love , for
it
doth fwim
in
the top
of all
offices
of
love, and maketh the things
we doe
exceeding
lovely;
it
is
every where required
of
us. Col.3.
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on
(as
the
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