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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10921	A treatise of love. Written by Iohn Rogers, ministers of Gods word in Dedham in Essex	Rogers, John, 1572?-1636.	1629 (1629)	STC 21191; ESTC S105965	73,128	253

fellow-brethren as the rich which may comfort them which are ready to be discouraged and thinke they are vnhappy and haue nothing to shew any loue in Yes you may be as plentifull in brotherly affections as any other Now for brotherly actions they must bee adioyned to shew the truth of the affections they be counterfeit if not thus approued as 1 Iohn 3. 17. like those speeches Iames 2. 15 16. Brotherly actions be to the soule and body as need is To the bodily necessities of our fellow-brethren in ordinary wants wee must giue of our superfluity in extraordinary calamities of our maine substance And to thinke it honour enough that God makes vs giuers to them that be as deare to him as our selues and shall be inheritors of the same glory with vs though we abound now and they bee suffered to want So to the soule in admonition exhortation consolation and prayer which are the principall and most profitable fruits of our loue one to another And all these ought to bee performed purely feruently and constantly as wee heard in handling the properties of Loue. But Beloued if wee come to looke for these things among Christians they will all be found very much wanting both brotherly affections and brotherly actions and those that be oft not pure but with looking at our selues not feruent but faint and few nor constant but short and brittle broken off by affliction especially if it continue when yet there is most need for a brother is borne for aduersitie Many Christians will be kinde to another in the beginning of their affliction and for a little while but if it hold long then most faile him and their loue is spent as it were Or otherwise their loue is broken off by some vnkindnesse and not readily sodered againe so strong as it was afore There is much strangenesse between Christians they care not one for another almost they see each other at Church but not all the weeke after Peace hath made Christians proud and carelesse euery man can subsist by himselfe and hath no neede of his brother We may iustly feare God will send vs troubles to make vs glad one of another But there is vse enough one of another euen now if we had eies to see it to helpe encourage comfort and confirme each other in our holy profession and Christian course against the manifold discouragements and temptations we are subiect to meet with and to whet on and set an edge one vpon another that grow so dull to lay our brands together that wee may catch some heate from one another to minde one another of such changes as may come and so of our last end to prepare for them in time Stronger Christians and of better gifts looke so houerly on the weake so the rich vpon the poore Fie vpon it are they not your brethren do you not know them because of their russet or leather coate he hath as much grace may be more than you and shall haue it may be a better place in Heauen than you and doe you esteeme so meanly of him It s counted pride when any will not know their poore kinred know Iesus Christ and the grace of God in them and disdaine not their company though your inferiours seeing as you may comfort and refresh them by your loue so you may receiue much benefit from them againe Christians should meet together not to feasting onely but sometimes to build vp one another by holy conference and this will encrease loue greatly for when wee see the grace of God one in another and get good one by another our loue is hereby greatly furthered Another fault too much among many Christians is as want of bowels of tender compassion towards our brethren in distresse so there is not that forwardnesse and freenesse to relieue their necessities First for their bodily wants there is too much straitnesse oft-times whereas if we did consider that they are not onely our owne flesh as the common sort are but our fellow-members fellow-brethren and such as whom God might haue made vs takers from them and them giuers to vs it would enlarge our heart and our hand towards them Well what we doe for them is not to fellow-members and fellow-brethren onely but to Christ Iesus himselfe and it shall be so counted for at the last and great day It s not so much theirs to whom we giue it as it s our owne and furthers our reckoning As the seed is not the grounds so much as the owners that sowes it and for his benefit It will be all reckoned ours at the great payment day euen to a cup of cold water and wee shall see he hath not forgotten any worke of our loue but hath kept iust bookes and true accounts and will then say to vs Come ye blessed of my Father inherit c. For I was oft in my members in a poore condition and ye ministred vnto mee now receiue a thousand fold euen that Kingdome that was prepared for you from the beginning of the world And for relieuing their spirituall wants there is oft too much want of compassion and care How farre may a Christian goe out of his way ere another with the spirit of meeknesse will step in by a wholsome admonition to stop him in his course The heauie not comforted with a word in season nor the fainting encouraged but euery man minding his owne matters as though we were strangers and God had giuen vs no charge one of another Nay there is yet a greater fault to bee found among many Christians than these two that I haue spoken of and that is this That sundry of them can take leaue to fall out and contend with each other and that very deeply sometimes for words sometimes for small matters of the world yea and some when they be out cannot finde the way in againe nor are they ashamed of that they haue done but can lye and continue in it month after month Is this the behauiour of fellow-members thinke we our Head Christ will endure or beare it to haue his body thus rent one member from another nay one would thinke is this possible What doe you thinke of your selfe that you are a true member of Christ by Faith Well and what doe you thinke of him that you are thus rent and diuided from I dare not but thinke you will say but he belongs to God And doe you thinke then that the member of Christ should eyther thus deale or thus be dealt withall and that by his fellow member He that should see one member in a mans naturall body offering hurt and violence to another would hee not thinke the man were mad What shall wee say then when Christians can so eagerly pursue each other in words and deedes as too oft is seen shall wee say they be in their right minde but rather that the spirit of pride or couetoushesse or some such humour hath intoxicated their braines This will cost them deare or