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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42553	Philadelphia, or, a treatise of brotherly-love Shewing, that we must love all men: love the wicked in general: love our enemies: that the godly must especially love another: and the reasons of each particular love. The manner of our mutual love; the dignity, necessity, excellenc, and usefulness of brotherly-love. That the want of love, where love is due, is hatred, shewed in divers particulars. The greatness of the sin of malice and hatred; with the reasons why wicked men hate the saints: together with cautions against those sins that break the bond of love. Many weighty questions discussed, and divers cases cleared. By William Gearing, minister of the word.	Gearing, William.	1670 (1670)	Wing G436C; ESTC R223669	92,727	215

God may be likely to endanger our Lives we must not shrink back to save our Lives SECT VIII THe Reasons hereof are these R. 1. Because the Salvation of the Brethren must b● preferred above all our outward things whatsoever their Souls must be preferred above our own Bodies therefore if our suffering loss of Liberty and Life be any way advantagious for their Salvation we are to endure the worst in this Life that they might gain Life eternal Our Saviour laid down his Life for their Salvation we must do so also St. Paul gladly endured any thing for the Elects sake he could wish himself to be an Anathema a Curse for the Jews his Brethren and Moses would be blotted out of the Book of Life that the Israelites might live in the presence of God A miserable wretch St. Paul was for Christs sake and for the Salvatioh of the Corinthians 1 Cor. 4.10 We are fools weak despised naked hungry buffeted persecuted made the off-scouring of the world God makes the like Covenant with us as Moses did with the two Tribes and half which dwelt on the other side Jordan that they should go in before their Brethren and fight for them to expell the Canaanites and when they had placed their Brethren in Canaan then they were to return and enjoy their Inheritances Thus must we hazard our Lives to bring others to Heaven if called unto it and neglect our own Lives that others might enjoy the heavenly Canaan together with us 2. Because this will wonderfully confirm the Brethren in the truth delivered to them and protessed by them otherwise our Cowardice and Apostacy may cause them to waver and draw them off from the ways of G●d and be a means to destroy them for whom Christ died It is an old and a true saying Sanguis Martyrum semen Eccl●siae That the Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church the Martyrs Blood made the Church fruitful the Christians did wax more bold through Paul's Bonds Curtius feared not to die for Rome Mencotheus for Thebes And shall not we suffer that for Christ his Saints which Pagans suffered for their Countrey Christ was the more boldly professed by the new Converts by how much St. Paul was more constant and cheerful in his sufferings for Christ and his Gospel St. Basil tells us how forty Martyrs did encourage one another to dye for Christ and his Gospel We see how prodigal Soldiers are of their Lives to shew their fidelity to their King and Countrey and shall not Christians much more be prodigal of theirs for God and his Church Let all then that would be acknowledged for Gods Children labour for so much power of Christian Love as may dispose their hearts to be content to resign up their Lives for the Glory of God and the good of others It is the want of Faith and Love that makes this seem hard and grievous to us for if these Graces were in us and did abound they would sw●eten the bitterness of death it self and of the most grievous sufferings and enable us to overcome death and the world and to break all those cords and tyes which fasten us to this present world and the things of this life and make us so unwilling to lay down our Lives for Christ and his Church If the arms of the inner man were strengthened in the power of these two Graces all those Cords which I spake of would break asunder like those that Sampson was bound with when the Philistines came upon him Are we not Members of the same Body with the people of God and doth not one Member adventure it self to save another so should it be among the Members of the mystical Body of Christ CHAP. XVI Sect. I. THere is one great Office of Love which we must perform one to another even those that are not called to lay down their Lives for the Brethren must do this that is to bear one anothers Burdens Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ Gal. 6.2 This duty is mutually to be performed to one another Thou must bear thy Brothers Burdens and he must bear thine He that expects others should ease and help him let him be willing to ease others Christians in their journey to Heaven must do like loving Travellers who have a Burthen to carry sometimes one carrieth it sometimes the other in so doing both will go on with the greater cheerfulness and with ease perform their journey To this course of Travellers as Estius conceiveth the Apostle alludeth Estius in Galat. 6.2 when he saith Bear ye one anothers burdens Calvin saith That Christians must shew their Humanity one to another which teacheth men to afford mutual help in their necessities by bearing one anothers burdens This duty concerneth every Christian it is not only the duty of strong Christians to bear the burdens of the weak but also the weak may and must bear the Burdens of the stronger Both have their Burdens the strong hath his the weak hath his both need help and ease both are subject to faint under their Burdens therefore we must bear one anothers burdens even that which lieth heavy and presseth down our Souls and Bodies There are outward Burdens and inward Burdens As to outward Burdens those that have ability must be merciful to their Brethren who are in want St. Paul biddeth Timothy to charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high-minded c. that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate 1 Tim. 6.17.18 Do then the rich bear the Burdens of the poor when they are rich and plentiful in giving to those that are in need To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased Heb. 13.16 It is given in charge as a thing especially to be remembred and by no means to be forgotten And St. John sheweth that those who are able and relieve not their poor Brethren are void of the Love of God 1 Joh. 4.20.21 If a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a lyar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen And this Commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also Where ye see that the profession of Love to God without Love and Compassion towards others cannot stand with truth And the same Law of Love that commandeth us to love requireth us to love our Brethren and Neighbours also But with what kind of Love that the Apostle sheweth in 1 Joh. 3.18 not a Love made up of words or rooted in the tongue but a Love that is Love indeed and Love in truth a Love seated in the heart and bringing sorth the fruits of Love Quest But here it may be demanded if the want of a compassionate heart and hand towards the needy in those that are