~04 "'he Confoience ofCh4ritie. Cap. I 4• Chrifl:ians lhould· we fee if thefc duties and _ _ Graces were fiudied ! This would keep Eph·4·3· . Vnitie ofJPirit in the Bo1,1d of Peace. · The outward and civil Love we fpake of is the blelling ofFamilies, Beautie of Cities, and the fl:rength ofComtnOn-wealths : But this, if it were to be feen, is farre niore ex- ' cellent and tranicendent, it is the Street of gold in the holy Citie, the rich pavement ofthe heavenly Jer•{.iltm. It wouldbe the Crown of the ChurchMilitant, for it is the Glol'ie of the Church Triumphant ; It wouldbe tl~e · Cement of the 'R'all1 ; It would bee the G(lttl and Bars of the Tower of Sion; It would r ender theChurch fair 111 the Moan, glo.rioitJ rH the Sun, terribleaJ an armie with lianmrJ. This · Love is the Mantle, and Seamlt(J Garment which Chrifr left to his Church , that_it fhould not be divided, or rent. What a re– proch is it to us, that the barba_rous foul– diers fhould deal more civilly wjth his Gar– ment, and wi~h his Bodie when .lead,(. they did ·not divide the one, nor break a bone of the other) then we? when we divide and rent beth Garment and Bodie, beating and fh·iking our fellow ferv~nts,bitingand back._– bitinf!. o11eanother, tit 111e be devoured one of an· otber, Gal.). I). Oh what En~omium1 are put- upon this G race of Charitie in the Scripture! It is the Qg,cen of E:Jeavenly Graces,preferredin fome fenCe to Faith and H,1pe, 1 Cor.IJ-ult. tTint·I•S· 1 It is the End of the Law, the adorning of the '
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