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A87447 The Jews catechism Which was lately translated out of Hebrew into Latine. By the eminently learned Ludovicus de Compeigne de Veil. Jagel, Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi, 16th/17th cent.; Compiègne de Veil, Louis de. 1680 (1680) Wing J122C; ESTC R223607 27,058 95

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for I the Lord your God am holy Mast Is any other thing necessary for the obtaining of the Sovereign Good or true Happiness besides this twofold Love of which thou hast spoken viz. towards God and towards Men Sch. On these two depends the whole Law for that Deut. 6.5 Thou shalt Love the LORD thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul and with all thy Strength contains all those Precepts commanding and forbidding which declare what is the Duty of Man towards God And this Lev. 19.18 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self in like manner comprises all those Precepts which pertain to the Duty of every Man towards all other Men concerning their lawful Commerce or Commutation of their Goods and the avoiding of all Deceits Capital Judgments the Right of Marriage and Inheritance which things the Divine Law contains as it hath respect to Human Society There 's nothing therefore which brings us into the favour of our Almighty LORD and Master but the observance of those two Precepts on which depend the Six hundred and thirteen Mast Is it necessary that we should imploy all our Heart and all our Mind and all our Strength in the Exercise of our Love towards Men which is contained in these words Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self in like manner as we ought to do in the Exercise of our Love towards the Immortal God Sch. Those two Loves being as it were two Pillars to support the Law the Exercise of them must needs be of equal necessity but our Love towards God does without all doubt require the whole Heart and Mind and Strength which is the same as if thou shouldst say That to this end that we might rightly observe the Commandments of God that we may reject and cast out of our minds all vain Thoughts and false Conceits it is necessary that our Heart be enflam'd with the Fire of Divine Love and that it be affected with a certain kind of Fear and Reverence so that rather than we would be disobedient to the Admonitions and Precepts of God we would choose to have our Lives taken from us so far should we be from doing any thing contrary to the Divine Law for fear of the Loss of our Estate In a word that if we be in danger to be deprived of our Lives our Fortunes and all things which in this Life are most dear unto us this our Love towards God should restrain us from doing any thing contrary to the Commandmets of our LORD and Governour Therefore our Love towards Men also requires our Heart and Mind and Strength Mast Thou must needs give some light to those thy last words and expound to me how far those three Heart Mind and Strength are requir'd for the due performance of our Love towards Men. 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As for the Heart it is requir'd that we do not conceive the least hatred in our Heart against any Man of which the Law speaketh expresly Lev. 19.17 Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thine Heart For that Hatred which is laid up in the depths of the Heart for the most part proceeds from Envy which Hatred carries in it far greater Bitterness than that which hath its rise from an injury received from any Wrangling or Contention or any other thing of the like nature For the cause of this kind of Hatred being remov'd that Hot Freth is presently taken away also and so there is a remedy for it But there can no remedy be found out for that Hatred which proceeds from Envy that is always stirring up of Strife and loathsom Brawlings and Contentions that destroyed the second Temple which was not as the first defiled with Idolatry Whoredom Adultery Incest and Murder that hath expell'd the Remnant of the Jews from their own Borders and those Israelites which are yet in the World it keeps even to this day in Captivity and Exile Moreover this was it which caus'd the Expulsion of our People from so many places this was the cause of all the Calamities Miseries and Distresses which we have suffer'd from the beginning of that most grievous Captivity to this very day and this still breaths forth a Smoke so thick and so loathsom that it threatens an Universal Destruction And that Hatred fix'd in the Heart is called Hatred without consideration Odium Temerarium for it seizes on a Mans Heart from no other cause but mere Envy but this is the most grievous and abominable of all the several kinds of Hatred because in it there is double Iniquity Propense Malice which urges to destroy a man and Malignity or Ill Will whereby the Heart is infected or poyson'd Therefore these words are included in the Commandment with all thine heart for that is not onely a Mans Duty to be free from the guilt of all such Inhumanity but also to love every man truly and heartily to have a perfect abhorrence from all kind of Envy Strife and Contention This is to Love with all thine Heart There is another kind of Hatred when one man has in his mind an Aversion to another not from Envy or any private Grudge but upon account of the cross Manners and ill Disposition of that man to whom he has an Aversion for the Likeness in Manners does of it self beget a mutual Affection between men so on the contrary the Disagreement in manners and natural inclinations begets Hatred which is not so bitter as that Hatred which we have already spoken of but yet it is no easie matter to root it out therefore we are admonish'd that we keep our selves far from it For that with all thy Mind implies this sence If any ones manners do not agree with thy Genius however thou oughtest to bear with him and to love him for God surely is worthy for whose sake thou shouldst do this The third kind of Hatred is that which proceeds from the immoderate desire of Riches and to this are those words to be referr'd and with all thy Strength Under this kind of Hatred is comprehended that which Workmen especially if they are of the same Trade are apt to conceive one against another For Artificers for the most part hate those that addict themselves to the same Art which we are forbidden to do And indeed if any Artificer think with himself that all gifts or endowments riches and honours come from the ONE True God nor can that be the portion of one which he hath decreed to bestow on another he will be so far from hating those of his own Profession that he will rather love them the more as those that are like him in their course of life If it so happen that any difference or contention do arise between two men they may go to Law and plead their Cause and when the Judge after a full hearing hath determined the Controversie they should each of them lay aside the person of an Adversary For the whole Company of the Israelites are like the Body of one and