patois faitIN the People. Only this Love for want of Super- natural reftitude fquints at Vain -glory or moves upon fctne other feltîth Principles ; or at bell rifes up out of a fimpathy of the corn - mon nature. True Love towards our Neigh- bour, fuch as i fill es out of Faith unfeigned, x Tim. r.5, is propter Deum, for Gods fake: And as the School -men fay, There it but one root or habit of Love, whereby we love God and our Neighbour, becaufe God a he is fupream Good - nef is the formal reafon of Love to our Neigh- bour ; He only being to be loved for himfeif, and others but the material Obje6ts of Love to be loved for him ; hence alfo damned or irrational Creàtures are not properly the Ob- jeas of Love, becaufe not capable of Union with God in blifs. Unto this true Love Faith preífes by fome fuch Divine motives as thefe; is not Love a Command ? nay, the fum of the fecond Table, and muff it not be obeyed ? Can we wait for Promifes, and not obferve Com- mands ? Or may we have the Love of the firth Table without that of the fecond ? Hath not God loved us in an incomparable unparalleld way,and (hall we not love our Brother ? Shall infinite bowels open, and finite ones befhut ? If any thut them, hoar dwelled) the love of God in him ? faith the Apoftle, t 701).3.17. A touch, a fenfe of his Love let in by Faith will -make ours flow out towards our Neighbour. Such a fweet,preffure of it was on Mr. Fox, That he never denied any that asked for 'term fake. A Believer ailing as a Believer cannot be hard to
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