Converse much with them that live by faith, and fetch their motives and comforts from the things unseen To converse with them that live all by sense, and shew no other desires, or joys, or sorrows, but what are fetched from fleshly sensible things, is a […]
Love is the cement of human society For where love reigneth, there will be mutual service and submission: Gal. 5:13, ‘But by love serve one another;’ Rom. 12:10, ‘Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love.’ Christians should be made up of perfect kindness Where […]
God calls all that are in Christ to an imitation of him Even to give up ourselves to their service, as Christ did; not in the same kind, so none can give himself for them, but as we are capable. “Hereby perceive we the love of […]
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” John 15:12 Now, the meaning of this is, not that we should love one another to the same degree that Christ loved us; though there ought to be a proportion, considering our […]