Chap.22. according to St MAT T x a v v. of order,quantity*and dignity. The fecond table is fulfilled in the fill}, andLuther is bold to fay, Primo pracepto reliquorum omni- rim obfervantia precipitt r, In the fir[l Commandment iscom- manded the keeping of all the reft. We rightly love our very felves no further then we loveGod : And for others, we are bound to love our friends in him, our foes for him. Verfe 39. And the fecond is like unto it] For it hath, r. The fameauthor. God fpake allthefe words. 2. Thefame tye. 3. The fame fàn&tión and punifhment of the violation. 4. 1trequires the fame kinde of loveand fervice : for the loveofour neighbour is the fervice ofGod. Love thy neighbour as thy felf]. Now, thou loveft thy fell truly, really, fervently, freely, cenitantly, hiding thineown de- fees and deformities as much as may be. Thou wouldit have o- thers rejoyce with thee andcondole with thee, as occafion ferves. Go thou now, and do likewife to others. Howbeit our Saviour Perains us up a peg higher, Ioh.13.34. His new commandment of the Gofpel is, that we love one another, not onlyas we love our felves, but as he loved us. This forme bath fomething in it that is more expreffe (in which refpeft partly it is calleda new commandment,) and for the incomparable fufficiency of the prefident is macchlefie, and more full of incitation to fire affo%on. Verte40. Hangall the Law and Prophets] Yeaand the Go& pel too : for love is both the complement of the Law, and the fupplement of the Gofpel, Rom. t 3.10. loh. r 3.34. It is thefil. ling up ofthe Law (as the word fignifieth,) for that it clotheth the duties of the Law with the glory of a due manner, and featech themupon their due fubjefts, with unwearied labours of conftant well-doing. The Prophets alfo hang upon the fame nail oflove with the Law, fo fome frame theMetaphor hereufed : As fome others rather think, that our Saviour, in this exprefíion alludeth to theJewifh Phylaaeries, Heb. Totaphoth, which were fcroules of parchment, having the Commandments written in them, which the Pharifèes ware about their heads and arms, to miede themofobedience to the Law. Verfe41. While the Pharifees weregathered] i.e. Before the formermeeting was diffolved. We fhould watch for, and catch at all opportunities of working upon the worft. Dr Taylour preached every tilne he could get his people together, holy-day -or elfe. Nl m Verfe
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