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A08402	The sinne against the Holy Ghost discouered and other Christian doctrines deliuered: in twelue sermons vpon part of the tenth chapter of the epistle to the Hebrewes. By Sebastian Benefield ...	Benefield, Sebastian, 1559-1630.	1615 (1615)	STC 1872; ESTC S101615	138,488	190

loue one God and the three persons of the Trinitie For the second we haue a more speciall charge 1. Cor. 16.22 There S. Paule saith If any man loue not the Lord Iesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha let him bee had in execration let him be excommunicate vnto death Which is also signified by Christ himselfe telling vs Mat. 10.37 that wee cannot bee worthy of him if we loue father mother wife children brethren sisters yea our owne liues aboue before or more then him The second branch of Christian charitie is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 brotherly loue peculiar belonging only to the sonnes of God The rule for this part is laid before vs Ioh. 13.34 Christ there hath given vs a new commandemēt that we loue one another as he hath loued vs that even so we loue one another Wee must loue one another that is wee must loue the whole Church and every member thereof all that are our brethren in the Lord the sonnes of God even the whole number of Gods holy ones and the blessed Angels which are in Heaven Al these must wee loue evē as Christ hath loved vs. But how hath Christ loved vs Consider we these fiue things and it will be manifest See my second sermō on Iames 4. p. 80. 1 Looke we vnto the cause which moued Christ to loue vs he loved vs because we were elected because wee were chosen in him by God the Father to bee his members and to bee saued by him For this cause hath hee loued vs with a peculiar loue aboue other men with such a loue wherewith hee loued S. Paule Gal. 2.20 for that we might liue vnto God we are crucified with Christ and so we liue yet not we now but Christ liveth in vs and in that that wee now liue in the flesh wee liue by faith in the Sonne of God who hath loved vs and giuen himselfe for vs. So peculiarly hath Christ loued vs. Therefore must wee also peculiarly loue our brethren in the Lord for that very cause because for ought wee can discerne and how can wee discerne spiritually being but flesh they are the elect and chosen of God the Father in Christ from before the foundations of this world to be saved by Christ 2 Thinke we of the time when Christ loued vs. Wee shall find that he loued vs first 1. Ioh. 4.19 he staied not for our loue we loue him because he loued vs first He loued vs first therfore must we also prevent one another in loue wee must not looke that our brethren first loue vs. For if wee bee friendly to them only who are friendly to vs what singular thing doe we Doe not even the heathen likewise Mat. 5.46 47. If we loue them onely which loue vs what reward shall we haue Doe not Infidels even the same We Christians must loue our brethren first 3 Let vs respect the qualitie of the persons whom Christ hath loued He hath loued vs Ioh. 15.9 Vs that is all all the elect Gentiles as well as Iewes Barbarians as well as Grecians bond as well as free women as well as men the base the poore as well as the noble and the rich For all the elect for all these for all vs he died when as yet we were his enimies when as yet we were sinners Rom. 5.8 Therefore must we also loue al men be they sinners or seem they righteous seem they our friends or be they our foes be they of what estate or cōdition soever so it bee not evident that they are adiudged to bee partakers with the Divell and his Angels in the ever burning lake 4 Regard we the end why Christ loued vs hee loued vs for no profit of his own but for our soules health Therefore must we also loue others not for our own gaine but for their good So did Moses who prayed to haue his name rased out of Gods booke rather then that the sinnes of the people vnder his government should not be forgiuen Exod. 32.32 So did David who made his supplications to God for to lay the pestilence vpon him and his fathers house and to spare the people committed to his charge 2. Sam. 24.17 So did S. Paul who wished his own damnation to redeeme the reiection of the Iewes Rom. 9.3 Christ loued vs for our soules health not for any profit of his own therefore must we also loue one another for the good of others not for any our owne gaine 5 Consider we the measure of the loue wherewith Christ hath loved vs. It is a true loue for Christ is truth it selfe Iohn 14.6 It is a burning loue for Christ laid downe his life Christ shed his blood for his sheep Ioh. 10.15 It is an everlasting loue for Christ loues his owne vnto the ende Iohn 13.1 Therefore must our loue also to all the faithfull be true it must be earnest it must be constant Ioh. 13.34 Christs commandement is that we loue one another as he hath loved vs even so that we loue one another The third branch of Christian charitie is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the loue of our neighbours The rule for this part is laid before vs Levit. 19. ver 11 13 15.16 acknowledged by the scribe Mark 12.33 and proclaimed by Christ himselfe to bee like that great commandement Mat. 19.19 c. This is the rule Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Thou shalt loue thy neighbour that is every man for so Christ expounds it vnto the lawyer shewing him by the example of the Samaritane who is his neighbour Luk. 10.30 Thou shalt loue thy neighbour not onely such as fancie thee or are thy friendes but thy enimies too Thou shalt blesse them that curse thee doe good to them that hate thee pray for them that hurt thee Thou shalt loue thine enimies Thy enimies I say not Gods enimies for Gods enimies thou must hate with a perfect hatred David is thy warrant Psal 139.22 Thou must not receaue th●m into house or bid them God speed such was S. Iohns counsaile to the elect Ladies childrē 2. Ioh. vers 10. who also in his first and generall Epistle chap. 5. vers 16. speaking of a sinne vnto death reigning in the enimies of God forbids vs to pray for it Whom God hateth we may not loue In him and for him wee must loue every man If we can knowe any to be of the number of the reprobate to whom God wil not pardon their transgressions we may not in our prayers desire forgiuenesse for their sinnes we may not pray for their salvation Rom. 11.34 But who knoweth the minde of the Lord Or who hath beene his counsellor He alone separateth the Goates from his Sheepe he alone knoweth who are his And this rule simply bindeth vs who cannot discerne betweene the reprobate and the elect to loue every man vnderstood here by the name of neighbour Thou shalt loue thy neighbour But how It followeth in the rule as thy selfe