CHAPTER XVI.

DUTIES TOWARDS MANKIND.

I. LOVE. Lev. xix. 18. Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.-Ver. 34. The stranger that dwelleth with you shall be as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself.

Matt. v. 44, 45. Love your enemies; bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Ver. 46, 47. For if you love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same? And if you salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans the same? -Ver. 48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

xxii. 37, 38. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.-Ver. 39, 40. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Rom. xiii. 9. James ii. 8.

John xiii. 34. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another: as I have loved you, that ye love one another. (Ch. xv. 12.) Ver. 35. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Rom. xii. 9. Let love be without dissimulation.

xiii. 8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the law.-Ver. 10. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Gal. v. 14. All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ver. 15.

Eph. v. 2. Walk in love, as Christ hath loved us, and hath given himself for us.

Phil. i. 9. I pray that your love may abound more and more.

Heb. x. 24. Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and to good works.

xiii. 1. Let brotherly love continue. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Love as brethren.

Pet. i. 22. See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.

ii. 17. Honour all men; love the brotherhood.

1 John ii. 10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

iii. 11. This is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, That we should love one another.

Ver. 14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.-Ver. 18. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Ver. 23. This is God's commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ; and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

iv. 10. God loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.-Ver. 11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Ver. 20, 21. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; 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 God, That he who loveth God, love his brother also.

2 John 5. This commandment we have from the beginning, That we love one another.

II. Of the cause of love, and how it is produced. Prov. xvii. 9. He that covereth a transgression seeketh love.

xviii. 24. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Heb. x. 24. Let us provoke one another to love and to good works.

Gal. v. 6. Faith worketh by love.-Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, &c.

1 Thess. iv. 9. Ye are taught of God to love one another.

1 John iv. 7, 8. Let us love one another; for love is of God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.

Ver. 12. If we love one another, God dwell

eth in us.-Ver. 16. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

v. 2. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Ver. 13. Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. xiv. 1. Follow after charity; and desire spi ritual gifts.

xvi. 14. Let all your things be done with charity.

Col. iii. 14. Above all these things put or charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

III. Prayers and thanks to God for Christian love, as being his gift. 1 Thess. iii. 12. The Lord make you to increase and abound in is love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you. Col. ii. 2.

Eph. i. 15, 16. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.

IV. The influence and effects of love upon the temper and behaviour of Christians one toward another; or how love is evidenced. Rom. xii. 10. Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love.

1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the commandment

charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.

ii. 15. The woman shall be saved in child

bearing, if they continue in faith and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.

iv. 12. Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts; but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Tit. ii. 1, 2. Speak the things that become xiii. 10. Love worketh no ill to his neigh-sound doctrine; that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

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Gal. v. 13. By love serve one another. Eph. iv. 2. Forbearing one another in love. -Ver. 15. Speaking the truth in love.-Ver. 16. Edifying in love.

Phil. ii. 2. Be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Philem. 9. For love's sake, I beseech thee. 1 John iii. 18. Let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, &c. See duties of husbands and wives, ministers and people, Commandment Fifth.

CHARITY.

V. Charity, with other graces, enjoined. 1 Cor. viii. 1. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

xiii. 1-3. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Ver. 4-7. Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.- Ver. 8. Charity never faileth.

1 Pet. iv. 8. Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall

cover the multitude of sins. Prov. x. 12.

v. 14. Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity.

2 Pet. i. 5-7. Add to your faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly-kindness, charity.

Jude 12. Feasts of charity.

VI. Approved examples of charity, and other graces. 2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet; because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth. 1 Thess.

iii. 6.

2 Tim. iii. 10. Thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflictions, &c.

Rev. ii. 18, 19. To the angel of the church of Thyatira write, These things saith the Son of God: I know thy works and charity, and See ver. 3. service, and faith, and patience. 2 John 6.

See instances of charitable conduct toward others, 1 Cor. viii. 9. 12, 13.

HATRED.

VII. Hatred; threatenings against it. Lev. xix. 17, Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart.

Ps. xxxiv. 21. Evil shall slay the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Prov. xxix. 10. The bloodthirsty hate the | Job viii. 22. They that hate thee shall be upright. clothed with shame.

Ezek. xxxv. 5, 6. Because thou [mount Seir] hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel; therefore, as I live, saith the Lord, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee. Amos v. 10. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate; they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Mic. iii. 2. Who hate the good, and love the evil.

Matt. x. 22. Jesus said, Ye shall be hated of all men, for my name's sake. Ch. xxiv. 9. xxiv. 10. They shall betray one another, an shall hate one another.

John vii. 7. The world hateth me, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. xv. 18, 19. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Ver. 20.

Ps. xviii. 17. God hath delivered me from them that hated me.

xxxiv. 21. They that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

xliv. 7. Thou hast put them to shame that hated us.

lxxxix. 23. I will plague them that hate

him.

cvi. 10. He saved his people from the hand of him that hated them.

cxviii. 7. The Lord taketh my part, therefore I shall see my desire on them that hate me.

Isa. lxvi. 5. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word, Your brethren that hated you, and cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Luke vi. 22, 23. Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for behold your reward is great in heaven. See Gen. xxiv. 60. Deut. vii. 15.-xxx. 7. Tit. iii. 3. We ourselves were sometimes-xxxiii. 11. The righteous hate only the foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers haters of God. 2 Chron. xix. 2. Ps. xxvi. 5. lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,-xxxi, 6.—lxviii. 1.—cxxxix. 21, 22.—xv. 4. hateful and hating one another.

xvii. 14. Jesus said [of his disciples,] The world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

1 John ii. 9. He that hateth his brother is

in darkness. Ver. 11.

iii. 13. Marvel not, brethren, if the world

hate you.

Ver. 14, 15. He that loveth not his brother

abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer; and we know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

iv. 20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

VIII. The duty of the righteous toward those that hate them. Exod. xxiii. 5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burthen, thou shalt surely help with him,

Matt. v. 44. Do good to them that hate you.
Rom. xii. 21. Overcome evil with good.

IX. Prayers and complaints to God, against the hatred of the wicked. Ps. ix. 13. O Lord, consider my trouble, which I suffer of them that hate me.

Ixix. 14. Let me be delivered from them that hate me. See also Ps. xxv. 19.-xxxv. 19. xxxviii. 19.—xli. 7.—lv. 3.-lxxxvi. 17.

ENVY

1 Pet. ii. 1, 2. Laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings; as new born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. See Ps. lxxiii. 3. Compare Job xxi. 7. Jer. xii. 1. Hab. i. 3. Prov. iii, 31. Isa. xi. 13.

XII. The wicked, their enry hurtful to themselves. Job v. 2. Envy slayeth the silly

one.

Prov. xiv. 30. Envy is the rottenness of the

X. Promises to those that are unjustly hated, and threatenings against their haters. bones.

XV. Malice in the wicked. Rom. i. 28, 29. A reprobate mind, filled with all unrighteous-ger, being grieved for the hardness of their ness, maliciousness.

John vii. 23. Are ye (said Christ) angry at me, because I have made a man whole on the Sabbath-day? Rev. xi. 18.

WRATH.

who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine.

xxvi. 21. As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

xxix. 9. If a wise man contend with a fool

XIX. Wrath. Ps. lxxvi. 10. The remain-ish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no

der of wrath shalt thou restrain.

Job v. 2. Wrath killeth the foolish man. Prov. xii. 16. A fool's wrath is presently known, but a prudent man covereth shame. xiv. 29. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

xix. 19. A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment.

xxi. 24. Proud and haughty scorner is his

name that dealeth in proud wrath.

xxvii. 3. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Ver. 4.

Rom. xii. 19. Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath.

Gal. v. 20. The works of the flesh are, wrath, &c.

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Hab. i. 3. There are that raise up strife and contention.

1 Cor. i. 11. It hath been declared unto me

Rom. ii. 8. Unto them that are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, God will render indignation and wrath. that there are contentions among you.-Ver. of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. 12. Every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and

xi. 16. If any man seem to be contentious, &c.

Tit. iii. 9. Avoid contentions about the law, for they are vain.

XXI. Promises against contention. Isa. xli. 12. Thou shalt not find them that contended with thee; they that war against thee

2 Cor. xii. 20. I fear lest there be among shall be as nothing. you wrath, strifes.

Eph. iv. 26. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.-Ver. 31. Let all wrath be put away, &c. Col. iii. 8.

vi. 4. Fathers, provoke not your children to

wrath.

1 Tim. ii. 8. Pray, lifting up holy hands

without wrath.

James i. 19. Let every man be slow to wrath.-Ver. 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Rev. xii. 12. The devil is come down, ing great wrath, &c.

xlix. 25. I will contend with him that contendeth with thee.

XXII. The righteous contend only against sin. Prov. xxviii. 4. Such as keep the law contend with the wicked.

Neh. xiii. 11. I contended with the rulers,

and said, Why is the house of God forsaken?

-Ver. 17. Then I contended with the nobles

of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbathhav-day-Ver. 25. I contended with them that had married strange wives, and cursed them, their hair, &c. and smote certain of them, and plucked off

Isa. xvi. 6, 7. We have heard of the pride

of Moab, and his wrath. Therefore shall Moab howl. Jer. xlviii. 30.

CONTENTION.

XX. Contention forbidden. Prov. xiii. 10. Only by pride cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.

xvii. 14. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with.

xviii. 6. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.-Ver. 19. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

xxii. 10. Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall

cease.

xxiii. 29, 30. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause?

1 Thess. ii. 2. We were bold to speak the gospel with much contention.

Jude 3. Contend for the faith delivered to the saints.

PEACE.

XXIII. Peace commanded with promises to Ps. xxxiv. 14. Do good, seek peace, and pursue it. 1 Pet. iii. 11.

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cxx. 7. I am for peace; but they are for war. Prov. xii. 20. To the counsellors of peace is joy.

Zech. viii. 19. Love peace.

Matt. v. 9. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. James iii. 18.

v. 25. Agree with thine adversary quickly. Mark ix. 50. Have peace one with another. Rom. xii. 18. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.