choice Bed of Spices. 193 Apoftle, E b. 1.1 5. wherefore I aifo, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Iefus, and love unto all the Saints. Col. I. 4. Since we heard of your faith in C 'brig lefils 3 and of the love which ye have to all the Saints. Faith in Chrill Jefus maketh love to all the Saints ; therefore they go commonly coupled in Pauls Epiftles. It was the glory of the .Ephelians and Coleffi- ans that their faith and love reached to all the Saints ; their love was not a narrow love, a love confined to fome particu- lar Saints, but it was univerfal to all Saints, Phil. 4. 2/. Sa- bot? every Saint in Chrifl Iefas ; the mcaneft as well as the icheft, the weakeft as well as the firongeft, the low& as well as the highell, and thofe that have many infirmities as well as thofe that have fever infirmities, and thole that have but mean parts and gifts, as well as thofe that have the firong- eft parts, and the moil railed gifts. AU Saints have the fame Spirit, the fame jefus, the fame Faith, &c. they are all fel- low-members, fellow-travellers, fello,v-foldiers, fellow- Citizens, fellow-heirs, and therefore malt they all be loved with a fincere and cordial love : Love is fet upon the bro- therhood, upon the Whole fraternity of Believers, and not here and there upon one. Divine love cafts an eye of favour upon grace in rags, upon a dunghil, in a dungeon, a den, a prif,m, a fiery-furnace ; grace is as lovely in the illiterate as in the greateft Scholar, in the fervant as in the Mafter, in the maid as. in the Iviiftris, in the child As in the Father, in the fubjea asin thePrince, in the buyer as in the feller, &c.. Look, as all our delight mat} be in the Saints, fo our delight muff be in all theSaints.'Tis fad &finfal to contemn our poor brethren; and yet this was the very cafe of the Corinthians,for they in their love -falls carried it fo unequally, that one was hungry, to wit, the poor ; and another was drunken, to Nit the rich And this rhade:the Apoftleput that queftion to them ; .what ? have ye not houfis to ear and drink in? or derpire ye the Church of God, and 17,-tiw them that have not ? or put-them to I lame that have nothing ? And the Apoitle lames doth very roundly reprove and condemn that partial love that wars ge- nerally among the Jews in his,dayes, Lim 2./ -2;3,4. Attbre.4 threw, havkixorthefotth of go LofildaY:rlorill, :he Lord of glory, Cc th the faith of our Lord Jefus Chrift in refped of per- fons. They e at to love the rich, and defpire the poor, pones Z. 1. Eph.t. 2141,13 I Pet. Z. 17. PfaL 16.1. Cor. 11.21,22.
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