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SEAM.
II./
INWARD WITNESS TO
CiiRISTIAAÑIT.
`ZI
and
leaves
not
himself
without
witness
of
his
divinity,
by
filling
the hearts
of
men
with
food
And
gladness
;
sed
Mat.
v.
45.
Actsxiv.
17.
He
shews his
love to
ene-
mies and rebels, in
forgiving millions
of
offences,
and
.
pardoning
crimes
of
the largest
size
and
deepest_aggra-
vations, and he loves his saints with
peculiar
tender-
ness.
Our Lord Jesus
Christ,
who also
is
the
true
God
and
eternal
life,
came down from
heaven
to exemplify
his
divine
love.
It
was his
lóve
to
mankind
that
per-
suaded
him to
put
on
flesh
and blood,
and prevailed
with
him
to suffer pains,
agonies,
and
death,
that
his
enemies might obtain
salvation and
life.
O glorious
ex=
ample
of
love
!
Now
this
is
in
some
measure wrought
into
the make
of
every
true
christian, and imitated
iri
the
practice
of
every
true believer: He
is
obliged, bÿ
one
of
the
chief
rules
of
his
religion, to
love
his
neigh-
bour
as
himself;
that
is,
to do
that
to others, which he
thinks
just
and reasonable
that
they should
do to him
Mat.
xxii.
39. Luke
vi.
31.
He
is
bound
to forgive
freely those
that
offend him, as he
hopes for forgiveness
of
his
offences
against God,
Mat.
vi.
14,
15.
He re-
joices
in
the
welfare
of
his fellow-
creatures, without
re-
pining: He loves
his enemies, does good to them
that
hate
him, blesses
those
that
curse
him,
and
prays for
hi4
persecutors and
spiteful foes;
Luke
vi.
27.
He
pities
all
that
are
miserable,
but
takes a
peculiar delight
in
his
fellow
christians; (the
christians must
be
known
by this,
that
they love one
another).
He
does
good to
all,
but
especially
to
the
houshold
of
faith
;
Gal.
vi.
10.
Other
religions know
nothing
of
so
generous and
dif-
fusive
a
love
;
the
men
óf
heathenism were
hateful,
and
hating
one
another, and
spent
their life
in malice
and
envy
;
Tit.
iii. 3.
They
did
not
so
much
as
aspire
to
so
divine a
virtue
as
the
love
of
enemies
;
this
is
the
noble
singularity
of
our
gospel.
The
heathen professions
en-
couraged
revenge,
and made
it
one
ingredient of
a
hero
:
But
envy
and
malice,
wrath and revenge, must
be
ba-
nished from
the
heart
and practice
of
a christian,
to
whom
the kindness and
love
of God our
Saviour
has
ap-
peared
;
these
vices
must stand aloof
from the saint,
and
thus bear a testimony to the
truth
and
divinity
of
the
doctrine
of
Christ.