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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	hate_v	love_v	persecute_v	3,099	5	9.6553	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46725	Peace and love, recommended and perswaded in two sermons, preached at Bristol, January the 31, 1674/5 / by Tho. Jekyll ...	Jekyll, Thomas, 1646-1698.	1675 (1675)	Wing J533; ESTC R1429	32,018	39

and jovial Company and our other Graces stamp'd with Lukewarmness and Formality and withall how we may be as bad deceiv'd in others how we have thought that to be a sullen Moroseness which has only been a Retir'dness for Meditation that to be Pride and Haughtiness which has been a brave Generosity and Nobleness of Spirit that to be folly which has been the greatest Wisdome All which and many others may convince us of our weakness and want of skill in judging unless like God we could search the Heart and prie unto the secret Recesses of the Soul and may also inform us of the mischief we hereby do unto our Profession and Christian Love by our Ignorant indiscretion and ill-nature But 3. Another hindrance of our Christian Love is confining of our Love only to some particular Persons Love is of a Diffusive and spreading nature and extends it self like the influence of Heaven both far and wide and therefore when it teacheth us to be kind unto our Brethren it also makes every man our Brother nay and brings our very Enemies too into that Relation since it commands us to do good to them that hate us and Persecute us and therefore the Brother that the New Testament says we must Love is every man in the World as appears from that Parable of the man that fell among Thieves Luke 10. Indeed we may and might sometimes to put a difference between one Brother and another in the measures and degrees of our Love according to the different degrees of their deserts and the nearness of their Relation unto us but yet we must look upon all as Brethren and must not to give one a Benjamins Portion Rob all the rest of their's Thus David loved Jonathan as his own Soul and our Saviour shew'd more affection unto John then to any of the rest of his Disciples and there 's no Reasonable Man will deny but that we may shew more Kindness to our Kindred and Country-men than to meer Strangers more to just and good men then to the Profane and Wicked Gal. 6.10 for though we must do Good to all yet there 's an Especially added to those that are of the Houshold of Faith But now here is that Partiality that we must take heed of when we confine and limit our Love to these only and shew it to none but those that are of the same Society with us in the Church who think as we do and are of the same Profession with our selves when we will not be Civil and Courteous to those that differ from us in Opinion nor Relieve those Poor let their Necessitys be never so great that are not of the same Faith as we are This indeed has been the very Bane of the Churches Unity and Peace and has been the Cause of those many Divisions under which we groan at this very day insomuch that there cannot be a greater stumbling block to the Conversion of the Gentiles than this when it will be a harder task to perswade them what kind of Christians to be then to be Christians at all nay for my own part had I not something greater than the Examples of Christians yea even of those who pretend to be the best amongst us I would this very moment Renounce my Christianity for I am sure that this kind of Love can never come from God for he makes his Sun to shine upon the Evil and upon the Good Math. 5.45 and causeth his Rain to fall upon the Just and Vnjust So far is he who has greater Reason to distinguish then thou hast from making any difference and then I wonder who made thee a Judg If the Master will have the Wheat and the Tares both grow together and receive the same common influence of Sun and Rain I wonder who set thee to work before the Harvest begin Sure I am had Christ himself taken this course I know not how we had come by our Christianity Had he come only as well as first and chiefly to the lost Sheep of the House of Israel I know not how we Gentiles had come in no its true he came first unto his own People the Jews but yet he never Rejected any Gentiles that believed on him and therefore the Commission which he gave unto his Apostles was to Teach all Nations and to that end after his Assention to confirm their Commission he bestowed upon them the Gift of Tongues by which he poured out his Spirit upon all Flesh Math. 28.19 So that now a Turk or a Heathen as he is a Man has a Right to Justice and Charitable Offices as well as a Christian nay and more Right too than those that deny them since every denyal makes a forfeiture because that what every man has was bestowed on him with this Condition that as he did freely Receive so he should freely Give And again our Saviour tells us that this Universal Love is the only sign that we belong to him By this shall all Men know Joh. 13.35 that you are my Disciples not if you love this or that Person or Society but if in General you Love one another Math. 5.46 for if you Love them that Love you what Reward have you Do not even the Publicans the same But 3. I come in the next place to shew how we ought to Love our Brethren And here the Love that we must bear them must not be of an ordinary or common Nature for our Saviour tells us we ought to Love our Neighbour and sure then much more a Brother as our selves Thou shalt Love thy Neighbour as thy self Math. 22. 39. and then we may soon see how we ought to Love our Brother since every man knows how he Loves himself But yet our Saviour do's not mean there a Love of the same Equality with that which we have for our selves which would sometime or other reduce a man to a Natural Absurdity as in case of Famine and the greatest danger where without doubt I am to prefer my self first No he means only such a Love which has the nearest resemblance and likeness to that which we have for our selves which is in short To Love others as we would have others to Love us And indeed this Golden Rule of Justice in doing as we would be done by has a natural influence upon the whole life of a Christian and will fully direct him in the whole course of his Duty towards his Neighbour for there are many things in which I cannot so fully tell how I ought to do by others yet I can resolve them all by considering how I would have others deal by me And therefore here as you would not have others to raise and spread evil Reports concerning you so do not you do so by them as you would not have others to censure your Actions so do not you censure theirs And as you would be fed and cloath'd when you are Hungry and Naked so do you do the