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A31660 The country's concurrence with the London united ministers in their late heads of agreement shewing the nature and advantages of a general union among Protestants : in two discourses ... / by Samuel Chandler ... Chandler, Samuel. 1691 (1691) Wing C1930; ESTC R11704 28,705 109

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same end this would engage us to mutual offices of peace and we should readily comply with the Apostle's Counsel Eph. 4. 3. Keep the unity of the Spirit in the Bond of peace Many more Directions might be added but these if well practis'd would quickly extinguish those Heats and Animosities which have made Earth so like to Hell and produce those Heavenly Fruits of peace which might create a Paradise here below make the Church which in a very sad sense is now Militant nearly resemble the Church Triumphant And now Men and Brethren what remains but that we put in practice the Duties recommended Then might we hope our Land would become a Goshen not only in respect of Spiritual Light but also of its freedom from those Locusts and Caterpillars dividing Lusts that have so long wasted and consumed us Blessed be God that he hath in so great a measure heal'd our Breaches and thus far united us together May not we hope that this is but the beginning of what God designs for us like the dawning of the Morning in order to a perfect day May not we hope that those Glorious Times are hastning when the Lord shall be one and his Name one Zach. 14. 9. and that that Promise is near its accomplishment Ier. 32. 39. I will give them one Heart and one way that they may fear me for ever for the good of them and of their Children after them May not we hope that the Philadelphian state which some expect now draws nigh when Brotherly Love shall flourish and be more enlarg'd How happy would it be if this Union were yet more extensive if the Name of Reformed Christian were only known and all those divided Names laid aside whereby we have been unhappily distinguish'd By Mutual Compliances and Condescentions this is no impossible Task And who knows but this beginning may issue in so happy a Conclusion This may well be the subject of our Wishes and earnest constant Prayers John 13. 34. A new Commandment I give unto you that ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another AMong all the advantages of the Christian Religion wherein it exceeds the defective Rules of Pagan Philosophy and obscure Institutions of Moses there is nothing wherein it more excels than in the Doctrin of Love and Charity a Duty which is urg'd in the plainest Words and pressed by the strongest Arguments and made not the high qualification of some eminent Saints but a necessary essential part of the new Creature A Duty not only necessary to some inferior uses but to all the great ends of Religion and not to be dispensed with on any pretence A Duty that is made the Badg and Character of Christ's Disciples and that which our dying Redeemer strictly charged his Followers to observe as in the Text A new Commandment I give unto you that ye love one another Our Saviour knowing the time of his Departure was near at hand in this Chapter gives his Disciples an admirable instance of his condescending Love in stooping to that servile Office of washing their Feet And this he did on purpose that they should imitate him and not think the lowest Offices of Charity for their Brethrens good too mean and base for them Afterwards having given the Sop to Iudas who went out with an intention to betray him he tells his Disciples of his speedy Separation from them and lest they should be too much cast down at hearing of his Departure he tells them that he should be Glorified and God the Father in him i. e. that he should give great discoveries of his Deity and God the Father would discover the unsearchable depths of his Wisdom inconceivable heights of his Love and infinite strictness of his Holiness and Justice by his Death and advance him straightway to the highest degrees of Glory And then being filled with an affectionate love to them he speaks as an indulgent Father to the Sons of his Love Little Children yet a little while I am with you ver 33. and as if he should have said O my Disciples whom I love with no less ardent affection than a Father doth his darling and tender Infant there remains but a small space wherein I shall make my abode with you in the Flesh therefore as I said to the Hardened Iews Whither I go ye cannot yet come One Request and Command I your dying Lord leave with you Let my Love to you be the rule and measure of your Love to one another A New Commandment I give unto you There is some difference among Expositors concerning the Sense of this Expression Some render it this renewed Commandment this Command that hath been almost obliterated by the corrupting Doctrins of the Pharisees and false Glosses of the Jewish Teachers I now by my Doctrin and Example renew unto you Some by New understand most excellent Thus we read of a New Song a most excellent Song of New Wine of the most delicious sort and kind q. d. Whatever Commands you neglect be sure to comply with this the most excellent of all Subjects take care to observe the New Commands of their Princes let your careful Obedience to this be as if it were newly promulged So others understand it A New Commandment say others because we must be still renewing it Owe no Man any thing but to love one another Rom. 13 8. Pay all your Debts but this Debt of Love you must be always paying and yet always owing I rather think it is called a New Commandment because it is expounded after a New manner directed according to a new Rule and required in higher measures and degrees than ever before for though this Duty was not wholly unknown to Mankind before yet never was it so taught or encouraged never was such an illustrious example given of it nor such weight and stress laid upon it in any former Institution and special Measures of Assistance proper to Gospel times are vouchsafed to work it in our Hearts So that it is as if our Saviour should have said Whereas it hath been said by them of old time thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self I give you a new Rule as I have loved you so love one another after a more indearing manner than the Iews that the World may see the excellency of my Doctrin above that of Moses Love bear an hearty esteem one for another and imploy your selves in mutual Offices of Kindness as acknowledging one another to be Brethren and Fellow Disciples As I have loved you though you cannot love one another to such a degree yet testify your love by such instances and to such degrees as your nature is capable of This is the meaning of the Text Christ came into the World to demonstrate and exercise his Father's Love and his own Love he came to kindle in the Souls of Men and therefore gives us this excellent Commandment The Words being thus explained the