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A40095 A sermon preach'd at the meeting of the sons of the clergy in S. Mary-le-Bow Church, on Tuesday the sixth of December, 1692 by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester. Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714. 1692 (1692) Wing F1722; ESTC R10616 15,317 36

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and Waspish People are no Company for one another and much less for those who are of contrary Qualities Similitude being the Foundation of all Love of Complacency Tho' where there is Similitude there may be no such Love viz. when it lyeth in unlovely and troublesome Qualities yet wheresoever there is such a Love there must be more or less Similitude And according to the degree of Similitude will be the degree of Complacential Love Again if such a Person be sensible that such a one Hates him and watcheth all Occasions to do him Mischief he cannot have this kind of Love for him Now when I say that some we can take no Complacency in I suppose that therefore we are not obliged to it Nemo tenetur ad impossibile Nor is it agreeable to the Divine Goodness to impose unnatural things on Men. There are again Others whom we may not Love with this Love of Delight though we could Namely Prophane or Debauched People those who tho' they may have the Form of Godliness deny in their Practice the Power thereof The Apostle admonisheth his Son Timothy to withdraw himself from such as these To be pleased with the Conversations of such People is to express a liking of their Ways at least it argues a very Luke-warm Temper and a great Unconcernedness for the Honour of God and the Interest of Religion But no Man can be of so Unlovely a Temper or so wicked a Wretch as that it should not be our Duty to love him in the Second Sense of the Word viz. to wish well to him and endeavour as we have Opportunity his Welfare and Happiness Which supposeth I need not say a Change of his Nature without which he cannot be capable of Happiness And therefore this Change of his Nature is in the first place to be desired and endeavoured Secondly As to the Necessity of Loving each other there is no Duty more plainly enjoyned or more vigorously urged in the Holy Scriptures Especially by our Blessed Saviour and his Holy Apostles And therefore those who are better acquainted with the Christian Religion than with the Spirits and Behaviour of those who profess it may think it needless to spend any time upon this Argument But because the Religion of too too many who are called Christians and that Religion which our Saviour brought into the World are very unlike it will not be amiss to give a short Account what this is in reference to the Point before us As our Blessed Lord calls it His New Commandment That we Love one another as He hath Loved us so in the Words following he makes this the distinguishing Character of his Disciples By this saith he shall all men know that you are my Disciples if ye have Love one to another And so desirous was he that they should not be defective in Love that above all the excellent Petitions he puts up for them Iohn 17. this of Love is the only Grace he particularly prays for in their behalf viz. ver 21. That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they may be united in Love have one Heart and one Soul And the Reason for which he thus prayeth doth mightily Commend this Grace viz. That the World may believe that thou hast sen● me Which is as much as to say that Christian ex 〈…〉 ing in the Grace of Love will be a great Conviction to the World of the Execllency and therefore of the Truth of the Christian Religion And again Verse the last I have declared saith he to them thy Name and will declare it that the Love wherewith thou hast Loved me may be in them And his Beloved Disciple S. Iohn thought he could never enough extol this Grace He makes Love the very Essence of the Deity 1 Ep. 4. 16. God is Love and adds that he who dwelleth ●n Love dwelleth in God and God in him And v. 7. he saith that Love is of God and every one that Loveth is born of God and knoweth God Knoweth him practically and experimentally And Ch. 3. 14. We know saith he that we have passed from Death to Life because we love the Brethren We know that we are Regenerate Christians by our Love and Charity He that loveth not his Brother abideth in Death He is certainly an Unregenerate Man a wicked Creature And ver 15. Whosoever hateth his Brother is a Murtherer and ye know that no Murther hath Eternal Life abiding in him Nor is S. Paul wanting in Recommending and pressing this Duty Owe saith he no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the Law Or this is the Christian Perfection of the Law as it relates to our Neighbour And in what follows he sheweth that the whole second Table is herein implyed And in short this great Apostle preferreth Charity before all other Endowments and Accomplishments Before the speaking with the Tongues of Men or Angels before 〈…〉 all Mysteries before all Kn●●●●●● and 〈◊〉 all Faith too even the Faith of Miracles nay before the greatest Zeal nay such a zeal as will make men give their Bodies to be burnt 1 Cor. 13 chapter He there tells us that Charity is so much above all these that they are none of them worth any thing without Charity Much more may be said to sh●w what a mighty Figure this Duty of Loving each other makes in the Religion of our Saviour Thirdly I come to shew how far this duty of loving one another is to extend or what we are to understand by one another in the Text. In a word it takes in all Men whatsoever Not only our Friends and Acquaintance Not only our own Party and those that say as we say and think as we think Not only those that oblige us and do us good turns but all the World all that partake of the same common Nature with our selves be they who or what they will 1. This is apparent from the Text. A new Commandment I give unto you That you love one another as I have loved you Now the Love of Christ was Vnlimited He dyed for all mankind S. Iohn saith that He is the Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World S. Paul calls him The Saviour of all Men That is so their Saviour as to exclude none from Salvation who will comply with the Terms on which He offereth it He hath shut out none from having benefit by what he did and suffered in the behalf of Sinners nor ever will he any who shall not reject the Counsel of God against themselves And lest we should think that by the World and the whole World and all Men we are only to understand some of all sorts this same Apostle assures us that this Phrase all Men is to be taken in the same Latitude in referrence to the Remedy brought by Christ that 't is to be taken in in reference to the Mischief done by Adam Therefore as by