612 Chap. 34. An Expofttion tapon the Book, of J p B. Verf.i7, them that love me, andkeep myCommandments. Hating. of God, and lovingof God, divide the whole world ; they that donot love God, hate him ; there is no middle of participation between there two, between the love and hatred of God fo there is a hatred of Juflice or Right in him who loves it not ; thougha man do nor make profeflìon againfi ir, yet if he bath not an affeêlion to it, he will at laftbe found amongfl that moll; hateful company,. the haters of righteoufnefs not to hate evil, is to love it,and not to love good, is to hate ir in God's account. Many fland as neu- ters in the dayes of this world, but in that great day of the end of the world, there willbe no neuters feen : allahall fland in two . parts, eitheramong the Cheep or goats ; and among all the fheep there.will not beone found, who hashnot been a lover of good- nefs and righteoufnefs ; nor one among all the goats, who hall not been. (in the. judgement and efleemof God ) a hater of them.. Thirdly, Theymay be faid (iì1 a degree) to hateright, who .. though they have force, love to ir, yet love it in a lets degree them they fhould, or lets then they ought ; a lower or lefer degree of love, is akinde of hatred in Scripture language : TheLawof Mo- fes faith (Deut.21. 1 S, 16, 17.) Ifa man have two -- wives,one belo- ved, and'anotherhated, and they havebornhim children ; both the belovedand the hated, and if thefirj7 bornfen behers thatt was ha- - zed ; then it(hall be when he makethhis fon inherit thatwhich he bath, that he may not make the fon of the beloved fir/-born before thefon ofthe hated, &c. But.what doth he mean by the wife that ishated ? Surely the wife that is not fo much loved ; though he lovedboth truly, yet not loving both in the fame degree, he is faid to hate oneof them : fo I conceive that Scripture is tobe un derftood (Luke 14. 26.)where Chrifl gives the rule concerning Difciple-thip ; If any man come tome, andhate not hisfather,and mother, andwife,and children,and brethren, wafflers, yeaandhis own lifeal fo, he cannot be myDi fciple : - When Chrifl layeth this charge upon his Difciples, to hate wife, and children, &c. would he have his Difciples mrn their hatred upon thofe relations ? the rule of the Word forbids that : So then his meaningds only this, if in cafe of following me, a man finde any (lop or hindrance by there, he mull not let out his love fo to wife, and children,&c. as tphinder hiscoming CO , or followingof me, Every niatijttufltake off.
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