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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89889	The true character tending to love. Or, A short treatise wherein is shewed how Christians ought to love their Christian brethren, in their affections, words and deeds. By a lover of charity, B.N. Very usefull and necessary for Christians that are willing to live in love, unity, and peace in these distracted times, wherein so many divisions abound. Viewed and approved by divers worthy men of the City of London.	B. N.	1647 (1647)	Wing N4; Thomason E378_26; ESTC R201392	9,358	18

would have us regard our brethren that we should not be any occasion whereby hurt or dammage may grow unto them for thus did David 1 Chron. 11. 19. from whence we may observe thus much that them that delay suits in Law or blow tales into ●uens heads and so give occasion of bloud or them that rashly venture mens lives for their profit or pleasure are highly guilty of the want of love Thus far of our love to their bodies declared in our affections words and deeds but yet we must not thinke our selves discharged towards our brethrens persons when we have performed this for the chiefest thing is yet behinde which is love to their souls which is the very life of Christian love even as Saint Paul expresses his desire for Israel through the love he did bear to their souls was that they might be saved Rom. 10. 1. 1 We must expresse our love to their souls in our mourning and sorrowing for their sins even as Christ wept over Jerusalem so must we weepe over the souls of our brethren even as the Prophet Jeremiah sayth with a heavie heart to the people If you will not beare it my soule shall weep in secret places c. Jer. 13. 17. 2 We must expresse our love to our brethren in praying for them that the Lord would forgive them and fill their hearts with the riches of his grace even as Saint James advises us to pray one for another Jam. 5. 16. But now it may be doubted whether one mans prayer can get pardon for another mans sin truly it may as plainly appears 1 John 5. 16. where it is sayd If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death hee shall aske and he shall give them life for them that sin not unto death c. From whence we may cleerly observe that they that see other men drowned in sin and yet are not oft upon their knees to intreat the Lord heartily and earnestly for them as highly guilty of the neglect of this duty of love towards them But yet not withstanding we shall not obtein a blessing without the saith of him whom we pray for for it is impossible to please God without faith Heb. 11. 6. 3 We must expresse our love to them in labouring to draw them to Christ even as one candle lights another so one man must bring another to God as Peter being converted must convert his brethren so we being turned must turn others to the faith even as Zach. 8. 21. Where it is written that the inhabitants of one City shall goe to another and say come let us goe speedily and pray before the Lord and seeke the Lord of Hosts c. 4 We must expresse our love to the souls of our bretheren in incouraging them and lead them forward in the wayes of God even as a man plyes a lampe with oyle so we must nourish and feed good things in them that they goe not out as in Heb. 10. 24 25. Where he saith let us consider to provoke unto love and to good workes not forsaking our course c. As some doe but exhorting one another c. This is further declared by a similitude for as in a great family where are many children the elder help to carry and tend the younger so in the family and household of God the ancienter and elder Christians must help support and bring forward those that are the weaker and come lately to the saith as Acts 18. 27. where it is said that hee helped them much which had beleeved through grace 5 And lastly we must expresse our love to their soules in admonishing them of their faults for he that rebuketh not his brother of his sinnes hateth him in his heart and therefore the Lord hath commanded saying thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart but he saith withall thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him and truely this not rebuking appeares to be a deadly hatred because we know the Lord will punish his sins and bring it to light and therefore if we dissemble and admonish him not to leave it what doe we else but desire the Lord to blaze him and to shame him for it Object But yet here one may object and say O but men will be angry with us if we tell them their faults Ans God will be angry if wee tell them not and therefore I say it is better to lose mens favour then Gods favour and to have our neighbours displeasure then Gods displeasure and yet often times that fals out that Solomon speaks of Prov. 23. 23. When he saith that he that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour then he that slatereth with the tongus These three things are to be regarded in reproving 1. That we doe it mildly and lovingly that we set not too eagerly and too hardly on them for Saint Paul moveth us to deale mildly with a brother that hath slipped in Gal. 6. 1. Where he saith Brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault ye that are spirituall restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse c. 2 That we doe it mildly and with power not only making them see their sin but even all the shame of it to bring them to a further hatred and lothing of it as the Prophet Micah declareth that he was full of power by the spirit of the Lord to shew unto Jacob his transgression and to Israel it is sinne Micah 3. 8. 3 That we doe it discreetly not casting of precious seed upon every ground but having some hope of the party that it shall doe good for what saith Solomon reprove not ascorner least he hate thee but rebuke a wiseman and he will love thee Prov. 9. 8. as also in Mat. 7. 6. where Christ for bids to cast holy things before dogs But again every profane man is not to be given over in his sin for we must have great care that we judge not men past physick till their disease be very desperate the 〈◊〉 for though a man have been a scorner before yet we known nor whether now he may leave it and though he have been very impatient of reproofe at other mens hands yet wek● 〈◊〉 not how he may take it at ours and therefore as long as there is any sparke of hope we must not cease mildly to admonish them of their faults as in that parable of the Vineyard that we let out to unthankfull husbandmen in Mar. 12 3 4 5 6. And thus 〈◊〉 of our leve to their persons the second point is to 〈◊〉 in their goods for love not only regards the person of our neighbour but also dealeth tenderly and lovingly with all those things that belong unto them so that if any thing of his 〈◊〉 all not finde honest and trusty dealing at our hands there shall be just cause to arrest and indict us of the want of love for the Lord requires that our love should