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death_n	brethren_n	know_v	love_v	5,050	5	7.2282	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29368	The freeness of the grace and love of God to believers discovered in reference to 1. their services and suffering, 2. their consolations, and 3. their salvation and eternal glory : together with the excellency of the fear of God, the goodness and pleasantness of brotherly love, the wisdom of hearing the voice of the rod, repentance the only way to prevent judgements / delivered in several sermons by the late reverend and faithful minister of Christ, Mr. William Bridg ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1671 (1671)	Wing B4454; ESTC R19668	79,842	192

is a Gospel of peace Let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel that you be of one spirit and of one mind So I say this holy agreement is every way suitable and therefore the more pleasant and delightful and so it ought to be unto us Secondly As it is pleasant and delightful so it is a profitable good Behold how good a thing it is it is very profitable For is it not profitable for the dew to fall upon Hermon and upon the hills of Zion to make them fruitfull Why such is the dew of holy agreement when it falls upon the hearts of men And this doth make men increase and multiply in the Church and to be fruitful in good works the Psalmist saith God commandeth his blessing and when God blesseth we shall certainly increase and multiply and this I say did increase the Church and hereby are the Saints both increased and delighted by the blessing of God on them they do increase in things that are good and profitable and this was the thing which Christ prayed for yea prayed for again and again yea as I said it is the great thing which Christ hath commanded A new command c. Is it not therefore good and profitable to love one another Again This is the mercy and the grace that is promised specially in the latter times glorious things are spoken of and promised to the last daies and this is one of those things which are promised and if so it is then certainly good and profitable Again This is the Legacy which Christ left with his disciples and people saith he Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you John 14.27 and therefore surely this agreement among brethren is very good and profitable Again Certainly it is good and profitable to walk worthy of the high calling to which Christ hath called us as the Apostle speaks Eph. 4.1 2 3. I beseech you to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long suffering forbearing one another in love endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace c. Again Is it not good and profitable that our prayers should be heard that God should hear and grant our requests and prayers Why look into the Scriptures and you will find that our love is a help to our prayers it is a help unto us whereby to have our prayers heard and answered Again Is it not good and profitable for a man to know that he is a child of God and that he hath an interest in Christ Why look into 1 John 3.14 We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren There is a day of death of natural death whereby man shall pass from life to death and there is likewise a time of spiritual life when a man passeth from death to life Now how shall I know whether I am passed from death to life Why if I love the brethren Yea saith Christ Hereby shall all know that you are my disciples if you love one another not only your selves shall know it but others shall know it also and is it not then very good and profitable For hereby you shall know that your prayers are heard and by this also you shall know that you are passed from death to life and hereby you shall not only know your selves to be Christs disciples but others shall know it also and if it be so then certainly it must be good and profitable Again This will give a relish and a savour to all your injoyments it is the salt of all your comforts Have salt in your selves and have peace one with another Although our condition be never so prosperous yet if we cannot agree among our selves if love and peace be wanting that sowrs all the rest and though the ordinances be never so sweet and our priviledges never so many yet if we be not united together in love all is made sowre this is that which sowrs all our enjoyments the want of love and agreement for that gives a relish to all our enjoyments when we have it Again This is that which will make all things easie unto you though they be never so hard in themselves whereas the contrary will make all things hard though never so easie If I am to do a work or a service for one why though the work be never so hard of it self yet love will make it easie many complain and say they cannot profit by the Ordinances why what is the reason It is for want of love to them there are jarrs and contentions between friend and friend between this man and the other man why it is for want of love Love would make all things easie for you though never so hard Now put all these things together and then you may see what a pleasant and profitable thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity to love to unite to live in unity one with another Well then if this be so why should we not all abound in it why do not we love and agree one with another if it be so good and profitable as we have heard then let us all agree together But it may be some will say we do live together in love and unity and we are united one to another But First Yet give me leave to mind you of what the Apostle saith 1 Thess 4.9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you for you your selves are taught of God to love one another and indeed ye do it towards all the brethren which are in all Macedonia but we beseech you brethren that you increase more and more Though you do it yet we beseech you to increase it more and more and so I say to you yea and Christ hath commanded it also and you must do it in obedience to his command Secondly If our love be right as it should be then we shall love others also even our neighbours and friends and brethren we shall love them as our selves The second Commandment saith our Saviour is like unto it that you love your neighbour as your self Pray for your selves do all the good you can for your selves avoid all iniquity that may come upon your selves and to prove your love to be right do all this for your neighbours also and love them as your selves Thirdly If our love be as it should be we shall then love others because they are godly let them be of this opinion or of the other opinion yet that matters not though they be not of my opinion yet if my love be right I love them because they are godly and I love him most that is most godly and as his increaseth godliness so must my love increase toward him Fourthly If your love be true and such as it ought to be then you will love one another and love your brother as Christ loved