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SEAM.
VII.]
FALLING
SHORT
OF
HEAVEN.
121
them,
as
a
soldier, and
a
king,
because they
appeared
publicly against
God;
for he adds, I
am
grieved
at
those
that
rise up
against
thee,
I
count
them mine enemies.
Besides, these
persons
were
of
so
abandoned
a
cha-
racter,
that
they
seem to
have nothing good
in
them
and
he
might
justly
hate them, considered merely as
sinners, in
the same sense
that
we
must
hate ourselves,
so
far
as
we
are
sinful.
I
might
add to all this,
that
they were
cruel and bloody
with
regard
to
`men,
and
they spoke wickedly
against God, and
were
God's
pr-o=
fessed
enemies,
ver.
19,
and W. After
all,
it
was
much more
allowable
in
David the
Jew
in
the
heat
of
his
zeal,
to
talk
thus,
than
it
can
be
for
us,
christians;
while
we
read the
words
of
our
Saviour,
plat.
v.
43,
44, 45.
We
have
heard
that it
kith
been
said,
Thou
shalt
love
thy
neighbour,
and hate
thine
enemy:
But
I
say
unto
you,
love
your
enemies, bless
them
that
curse
you,
do
good
to
them
that
hate
you,
and
pray
for
them
which
despitefully
use you,
and persecute
you
:
that
ye
may
be
the children
of
your
Father
which is
in
heaven;
for
he
maketh his
sun
to
rise
on
the
evil
and
on
the
good,
and
sendeth
rain
on
the
just
and
on
the
unjust:
While
we
consider
also in
what a
divine
manner our Lord
Jesus
has exemplified
his own
precept, and
has loved many
of
his enemies,
so as
to die for them
;
and manifested
so
much
natural
affection, even
for the young
sinner
in
my
text,
because
there
were some good
qualities found
in
him.
I
will
not
say
therefore
within myself
concerning
any
man,
"
I hate
him
utterly, and
abhor
him
in
all
respects,
because
he
has
not
true
holiness
:"
but
I
will
look
upon
him,
and consider whether there
may
not
be
some
ac-'
complishment
in him,
some
moral virtue,
some
valua
-.
ble
talent,
some
natural
or
acquired
excellency
;
and
I
will
not neglect
to pay
due
esteem to every
deserving
quality, wheresoever I
find it.
It
is
a
piece
of
honour
due
to
God
our Creator,
to observe
the various signa-
tures
of
his wisdom,
that
he has impressed
upon
his
creatures, and the
overflowing
treasures of
his
good-
ness,
which
he has
distributed
among
the-works
of
his
hands.
Thus
I
may very
justly
love
a man, for
whom, in
the'
vulgar
sense,
I
have no
charity;
that
is,
such
a
one
as