Epi file ofS. Pahl to Tittti. CHAP.3. 2 vino all the duties ofthe fecond table,as faith principally to the duties of the former;and moll fitly ioined with faith, as being the infeparable có- panion of it, ar.d fuch a marke as frecth is from imputation of deadneffe or vnfoundnes.Which vertue is inioyned euery Chriflian olde or young; both becaufe it is them:w: commandement of Chrífí: as allo a note of a Chri(lian and truedifci ,leofChrilî, Iob. z 3.35. and is beiides the bond of vprìght dealing in humane focietie, without which men were little bertcrthen woluesorwild bcafls. But it is here rather commended to elder men, who in this venue, as in the former, and following graces, mull bernoreat thelat , then st thefirft: and in whom this grace of loue mull be proportionable voto their faith: for this may not be an infant, if the formerbc ofriper age; but according to the proportion andgrowth offaith, mull Into abound. And it tau(t be obfcrued, that our Apoflle re- quireth not the verve (imply, or in remiffc degree, or finali meafure; but fenndnegi in lone, in loch a degree and meafure as that age fecmeth ofit Celle ro calf for. Now ifwe would knowe wherein the foundneffe of loue conf(leth: it is then found when it hath foundneffe, z. in the ground : a. order : 3. feare: 4. worke: 5. durance ofit. Fieli, the true groundof all the roue ofthecreature, is the loueof the Creator : all the loue of manmull ifíue from the loue of God, and all duties of the fecond tablemull be performed in the fir(! : neither ought anycreature ro be loucd Co farre as it is an enemie and hateful! co God the Creator ; Pfal.139. Moe the wicked,that is,fo farre as wicked,narrse- ly their prat-fifes, not their perlons. Secondly, it mull be found in theorder: which will appeare in two rules : I. it muff be in the greatcll meafure where is mot} grace,and (hew it felfe moll friendly and loving to them that loue, and are the friends of God. It muff doegood voto sll, hit efpectaily the hoaafhold offaith. The A- po(île commending the loue of theEphefams, which for the foundneffe of it he (awe waspraife- worthy, he hence approoueth it, that it was to- wardsAli Saints : and hence the Apoflle John gathered; anote that we are tranflated from death to life, ifwe loue the brethren. And herein we haue God hiurfelfegoing b1orevs inexample) who refpec`ledthe poocewi- dow ofSarepts abone all Ifrael. Nowwe (hall defcend fitly to this dude by chete ftaires. it. by louing God (imply for himfelfe.z.Chriflas man,the bcloued of God,&the head of his Church. 3. the Church it (elfe, the bodie of Chri(î receiuingofhis fulnes grace for grace : and 4. the particular members mull rife vp high- er in our affeElions , as the Lord hath highlier honoured them with grace, and more expreffely renewedhis image vpon them. Z a The; 355 roh 11.i4. a .Ioli.3.2.3 iteu.z.r9, Soundoesof loue aandeth in ç, things t. The ground, t. The order.
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