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<P>PHILADELPHIA OR Brotherly Love, A Sermon Preached at St. <HI>Michaels</HI> CROOKED-LANE <HI>London,</HI> at WESTMERLAND Meeting <HI>November</HI> 30. 1663.</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> J. C. <HI>Mr. of Arts,</HI>
<Q><P><GAP DESC="foreign">.</P></Q>
<Q><P><GAP DESC="foreign">, <BIBL>1 Pet. 1.17.</BIBL></P></Q>
<Q><P><GAP DESC="foreign">, <BIBL>1 Joh. 3.14.</BIBL></P></Q>
<Q><P><GAP DESC="foreign">, <BIBL>Heb. 13.1.</BIBL></P></Q></P>
<Q><L>Pro &s;e orare nece&s;sitas cogit, pro aliis autem Charitas</L>
<L>Fraternitatis hortatur, dulcior autem ante Deum</L>
<L>E&s;t Oratio: non quam nece&s;sitas tran&s;mittit, &s;ed quam</L>
<L>Charitas fraternitatis commendat. Chrys. &s;up. Matth.</L>
<L>Cunctis e&s;to benignus, nemini blandus, paucis familiaris, o~ni|bus</L>
<L>Aequus, ad iram tardus, ad mi&s;ericordiam pronus, in adver|&s;is firmus.</L>
<L>In pro&s;peris humilis. <BIBL><HI>Sen. de form. vit.</HI></BIBL></L></Q>
<P>London, Printed for and by <HI>Peter Lillicrap</HI> living in <HI>Clarken-well Clo&s;e.</HI> 1669.</P>
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<HEAD>TO The Right Wor&s;hipful Sr. <HI>Philip Mu&s;grave</HI> Knight and Baronet,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jungat Epi|&s;tola quos junnit con|cordia, imo charitas non dividat quos Chri&s;ti nectit amor, <HI>Hie|ron.</HI> in Pro|verb.</NOTE> Sr. <HI>Thomas Strickland</HI> Knight, Doctor <HI>Thomas Wharton, Richard Brathwait,</HI> and <HI>John Otway</HI> E&s;quires; Captain <HI>George VVharton,</HI> Mr. <HI>Edward Jack|&s;on</HI> Merchant, Mr. <HI>Nicolas Jack|&s;on</HI> Mercer, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> My worthy Coun|try-men of <HI>VVe&s;tmerland. Brotherly Love be multiplyed.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is the &s;aying of a wi&s;e man (right Wor&s;hipful and wor|thy Compatriots) that Preaching and Printing are excel|lent means to beget knowledge and increa&s;e faith:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dr. <HI>Hug s.</HI></NOTE> the one like a&s;hour of rain, waters for the pre&s;ent; the other like &s;now, lyes longer on the ground, and may &s;peak when the <HI>Author</HI>
<PB REF="3"> cannot. This Sermon, this Child of mine, hath laid in its Cradle dormant, dumb a long &s;pace; for the bringing forth, and making it &s;peak publickly to the world, I have been be&s;ought as long, <HI>(Si liceat magnis componere parva)</HI> as <HI>Troy</HI> was be|&s;ieged; and now at la&s;t overcome as that was.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Omnia per|ver&s;ae po&s;|&s;unt cor|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">umpere mentes <HI>O|vid.</HI></NOTE>It hath but one Father, yet &s;o many God-fathers as were pre|&s;ent at the initiation or pre&s;entation in the Church; who (I make no que&s;tion) will defend it against the fiery darts of furi|ous tongues; being it hath been their de&s;ire to bring it upon the Stage of the World, which is full of malignant cen&s;urers, and &s;i|ni&s;ter Interpreters; meeting now and then, here a <HI>Bavius,</HI> and there a <HI>Maevius,</HI><NOTE N="[a]" PLACE="marg">Virg. Bucol.</NOTE> as its elder Brother did,<NOTE N="[b]" PLACE="marg">A&s;pi|cies illic po&s;itos ex ordine fra|tres. quos &s;tudium cunctos evigelavit idem. <HI>Ovid. Tri&s;t. Eleg.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">1.</NOTE> which I lately put forth,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Yet I will &s;ay of them as <HI>Cornelia</HI> &s;aid of her <HI>Cracchi, &s;unt ornamenta mea.</HI></NOTE> but my comfort is it hath had the approbati|on of as good Schollars, as the mo&s;t critical <HI>Ari&s;tarchus</HI> among&s;t them: and will be &s;upported by the fir&s;t receivers of it, who&s;e Patronage I am &s;ure I have, being importun'd by the mo&s;t of you and them, to put in Print that which I then uttered; for the good of my ab&s;ent as well as pre&s;ent Country-men: who&s;e eager|ne&s;s in the bu&s;ine&s;s was &s;uch, that &s;ome of them borrowed my co|py, with a pretence to read it over, and ruminate upon it, but they had it to the pre&s;s. I hearing of it fetch'd it thence, as fear|ing to b to&s;s'd upon the dangerous &s;eas of the world, with the &s;tormy bla&s;ts of mens different opinions, and various conceipts.<NOTE N="[c]" PLACE="marg">Ae&s;tu|at, &amp; lento mi&s;erima turba veneno liquitur, ut giacies incerto &s;aucia &s;ole.</NOTE></P>
<P>Upon which they de&s;ired my loving and learned friend, Mr. <HI>Hud&s;on</HI> of <HI>Putney,</HI> to borrow it of me, only to &s;ee it, which I &s;ent him, and he approving of it, it was carryed once more to
<PB REF="3" MS="y"> the Pre&s;s, and part of it compo&s;ed, which I hearing of acci|dentally, ob&s;tructed the bu&s;ine&s;s once more,</P>
<P>Yet at la&s;t, I was had to the Pre&s;s my &s;elf, and pre&s;&s;ed &s;o hard that I yeilded to the efflagitations of divers worthy Per&s;ons among&s;t you, e&s;pecially my loving friend and Brother Steward Mr. <HI>Edward Jack&s;on,</HI><NOTE N="[d]" PLACE="marg">Hoc re&s;pon&s;o. Parve (nec invideo) &s;i|neme liber ibis in orbem</NOTE> to whom I &s;urrendred my copy to be at their di&s;po&s;al. In&s;omuch that as the Prophet <HI>David</HI> &s;aith<NOTE N="[e]" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 75.7.</NOTE> Promotion cometh neither from the <HI>Ea&s;t,</HI> nor from the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> nor yet from the <HI>South;</HI> &s;o may I &s;ay of the promotion of this Sermon to be Printed, coming only from (the <HI>North</HI>) my North country friends; which now being come forth by their means, if it plea&s;e any, let them have the thanks, if not, let them have the blame.</P>
<P>Onely this I mu&s;t tell you (by way of digre&s;&s;ion) that as the<NOTE N="[f]" PLACE="marg">Nec aranearum textus ideo melior, qui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">x &s;e fila gi|nuntur, nec no&s;ter ideo vilior quia ex alienis libemus, ut ape<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lip&s;i|us.</NOTE> Spider workes his web out of his own bowels, and the Bee gathers honey of every flower,<NOTE N="[g]" PLACE="marg">Flori&s;eris ut apes in &s;altibus omnia libant. <HI>Lucretius.</HI></NOTE> &s;o Divines make their Sermons after both fa&s;hions: I am for the latter &s;ort, picking out of every Author tho&s;e things which I thought fit for my pur|po&s;e, and as a reverend Bi&s;hop &s;aid<NOTE N="[h]" PLACE="marg">B. King. Ep. ded. his lect. on <HI>Jonas.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Where I liked the waters of other mens wells, I drank of them deeply:</HI> &s;o where the flowers were the &s;weete&s;t, I gathered mo&s;t plentifully. in&s;omuch that as he &s;aid<NOTE N="[i]" PLACE="marg">idem ibidem.</NOTE> <HI>nihil no&s;trum &amp; omnia, &s;ynony|mous</HI> to that of <HI>Democritus</HI> junior out of <HI>Macrobius,</HI><NOTE N="[k]" PLACE="marg"><HI>Dem.</HI> to the Reader.</NOTE> <HI>Omne meum &amp; nihil meum.</HI></P>
<P>Such as it is (my loving Country men) as you have brought it fourth, &s;o I pray bring it up, and maintain it again&s;t all tho&s;e <HI>Qui Lectorum nomen ferunt, &amp; Lictorum naturam gerunt.</HI> Who&s;e mouths are &s;heathes for <HI>Hanuns</HI> rai&s;ors<NOTE N="[l]" PLACE="marg">2 Sa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 10.4.</NOTE> wherewith they &s;have and cut off what they plea&s;e, to disfigure the mo&s;t
<PB REF="4"> holy intents. For (as I &s;aid) this Sermon was mine, now tis yours; let my words in it, be your deeds out of it; it was calcu|lated for the Meridian of <HI>We&s;tmerland;</HI> let them that heard it, heed it; them that heard it not read it, for who&s;e &s;ake it be|ing now printed in <HI>Lines,</HI> it may be the better imprinted in their <HI>Lives,</HI> con&s;ider what I &s;ay, <HI>and the Lord give you un|der&s;tanding in all things. 2</HI> Tim. <HI>2.7.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours and his Countries &s;ervant <HI>John Crosbie.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Ad Lectorem.</HEAD>
<P>SI quid dixi quod placeat, habeat Lector gratiam Deo propter me, Si quid, quod non placeat, igno&s;|cat mihi propter Deum, &amp; male dictis, det veniam propter ben&egrave; dicta, Lud. Vives in Aug. de Civitate Dei, lib. ult. cap. ult.</P>
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<HEAD>PHILADELPHIA: OR Brotherly Love A Sermon Preached at St. <HI>Michaels</HI> Crooked-lane <HI>London,</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI> meeting, <HI>Novemb.</HI> 30. 1653:</HEAD>
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<HEAD><BIBL><HI>1</HI> Peter <HI>3.8.</HI></BIBL> Love as Brethren.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHat&s;oever things are written are written for our learn|ing</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Rom.</HI> 15.4.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Our Apo&s;tle in his &s;econd Epi&s;tle ur|geth this tex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> four &s;everal times.</HI> 1 Pet 1.7. cap. 1.22. 2 Pet. 2.17: &amp; cap. 3.8. <HI>S. Paul, in his writngs thrice</HI> Rom. 12.10. 1 The&s;. 4.9. Heb. 13.1.</NOTE> And if with &s;tu|dious and attentive minds we read over the Sa|cred and holy Scriptures, we &s;hall ea&s;ily perceive that
<PB N="2" REF="5" MS="y"> among&s;t all the vertues and fruits of the Spirit, our Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t exhorteth us to none &s;o much, as <HI>Love</HI> and <HI>Charity:</HI> by this (&s;aith Chri&s;t) <HI>&s;hall all men know that you are my</HI><NOTE N="[a]" PLACE="marg">Si pro Chri&s;tianis di&s;cipulis Chri&s;ti habe|re volumus oportet, ut nos mutu&ograve; quod ardenti|&s;&s;ime diligamus, <HI>viz.</HI> non verbo &s;olum neque lingua &s;ed opere &amp; veritate <HI>1 Joh. 3.18.</HI> Pi&s;cat in loc.</NOTE> <HI>Di&s;ciples if ye love one another,</HI> Jo. 13.35. As if he had &s;aid, other mens &s;ervants are known by their Ma&s;ters badges and cogni&s;ances, I will al&s;o that you which are my Di&s;ciples be known by my badge and cogni&s;ance; that is, <HI>that ye love one another.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 12.10. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14.1. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2, 8. <HI>Gal.</HI> 5.13. <HI>Eph.</HI> 4.2. <HI>Phil.</HI> 2.2. <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 2.2. 1 <HI>Tne&s;.</HI> 3.12. 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 1.3. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 6.11. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.22. <HI>Philom.</HI> 9. <HI>Heb.</HI> 13.1. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4.8. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.7. 1 <HI>Jo.</HI> 4.16. 2 <HI>Jo.</HI> 1.3.</NOTE>And as our Saviour did harp much upon this &s;tring, &s;o did the Apo&s;tles in all their writings, in&s;omuch that almo&s;t there is never an Epi&s;tle, but it hath &s;ome mention of Love and Charity one towards another. Wherefore our Apo|&s;tle in this Chapter where my text is, after he had exhorted the Husband and the Wife to their particular duties, one towards another, he proceeds to exhort all men to gene|al duties in the eight ver&s;e, <HI>Finally be yee all of one mind,</HI> one &s;uffer with another, <HI>Love as Brethren.</HI></P>
<P>In which three words con&s;ider two things, the matter, and the manner, the matter <HI>Love,</HI> the manner <HI>as Brethren.</HI></P>
<P>In the matter ob&s;erve to whom <HI>Love</HI> doth belong, or who ought to be the object of our <HI>Love.</HI></P>
<P>In regard of the object of our <HI>Love,</HI> it mu&s;t be to God, and to man: to God principally, to man for Gods &s;ake, to God, as the <HI>Law</HI> hath taught us, <HI>Thou &s;halt love the Lord thy God, with all thy Soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy heart</HI> Deut. 6.5 <HI>To man,</HI> as the Lord hath taught us, <HI>thou &s;halt not avenge nor be mindful of wrong again&s;t the Children of thy people, but &s;halt love thy Neighbor at thy &s;elf.</HI> Levit. 19.18.</P>
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<P>In My Text (beloved) <HI>Love</HI> is not taken for that <HI>Love</HI> which is due unto God, but for that <HI>Love</HI> which every Chri&s;tian &s;hould have one towards another, and therefore &s;aith St. <HI>Bernard,</HI><NOTE N="[c]" PLACE="marg"><HI>Bernard</HI> in Epi&s;t.</NOTE> <HI>Charitas e&s;t non quod &s;ibi u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ile quaerit. &s;ed quod multis, Love</HI> &s;eeeketh not that which is profitable to it &s;elf but to many; it re&s;pects more the publick good then the private: more the good of others, then the good to it &s;elf.</P>
<P>And by this<NOTE N="[d]" PLACE="marg">Fructus ing<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; virtuti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> om|ni&s;que, pra|stantia, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> maxi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> ca|pitur, cum in proximum quemque confertur. Cic. lib. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> Ameriti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>Love</HI> is not under&s;tood, only a bare and naked affection without any effects annext unto it, for o|therwi&s;e it were not worthy the name of <HI>Love,</HI> as St. <HI>John</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Who&s;oever hath this worlds good, and &s;eeth his Brother have need, and &s;hutteth up his compa&s;sion from him, how dwel|eth the</HI> Love <HI>of God in him? My little children let us not</HI> Love <HI>in word, nor in the tongue only, but in deed and in truth,</HI> 1 Jo. 3.17.18.</P>
<P>Wherefore to know what this <HI>Love</HI> is, let us know that it is a vertue whereby we love others dearly: and what o|thers our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour (in the tenth of the Go&s;pel by St. <HI>Luke,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Charitas e&s;t mutuus amor hominis ad Deum cujus objicitum e~ Deus propter &s;e dilectus, &amp; prox mu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> propter Deum <HI>d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> Deum qua&s;t. <HI>23.</HI> art. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE>) an&s;wered the expounder (that tempted him) at large, by the example of a certain man, that went down from <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> to <HI>Jericho,</HI> that was robbed and wounded, and left half dead: and a <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> and a <HI>Levite</HI> pa&s;&s;ed both by him, and gave him no comfort: then a <HI>Samaritane</HI> came and had compa&s;&s;ion on him, and bound up his wounds, and poured in Wine and Oyle, and &s;et him on his bea&s;t, and had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to an Inne, and took care on him: <HI>which now of the&s;e three</HI> (&s;aith our Saviour) <HI>was neighbor unto him that fell among&s;t the Thieves?</HI> and he &s;aid, <HI>he that &s;howed mercy on him.</HI> From whence we may learn by the words of our
<PB N="4" REF="6" MS="y"> Saviour him&s;elf, that<NOTE N="[e]" PLACE="marg">Qutcun|que quavis ratione tibi adjunctus fuerit eum &s;criptura vo|cat <HI>REACH</HI> proximum; I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">um praecipit Do|minus dilige|re pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">emum intelligen|dum ip&s;um p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> quem vis quac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n|que ratione natu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> adjunctum diligamus <HI>Jan&s;en</HI> comment in <HI>Luc. 6.</HI> Rec. Haebraeis <GAP DESC="foreign"> Graecis &amp; Latin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> proximus e&s;t proprius qui tibi qualibet ratione conjunctim fuerit ibid, <HI>David</HI> did &s;o <HI>P&s;al. 35.12.</HI></NOTE> every one that is joyn'd unto us by any occa&s;ion, &s;hould be our Neighbour, and theeefore to be loved, his nece&s;&s;ity being objected to our eyes, and thereby made capable of our benefits: &s;o that tho&s;e whom we mu&s;t love, are all tho&s;e that &s;tand in need of love, Strangers, Friends, Acquaintance, yea our very Enemies as well as the&s;e, according to to that of our Saviour <HI>Mat.</HI> 5.44. <HI>I &s;ay unto you</HI><NOTE N="[f]" PLACE="marg">It is not in our power not to have Enemies, but it is our power not to hate Enemies, <HI>Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> Luke <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.27.</HI> Di&s;ce diligere <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m &s;ivis cavere iuimicum <HI>Aug.</HI> in <HI>P&s;al. 100.</HI> Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> profe&s;&s;o ho&s;tes no&s;tri&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">, &s;coundum &s;cripturam proximi &s;unt nob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;unt proxi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in inimici. <HI>Jao&s;en</HI> comment in <HI>Mat. 5.</HI> Prox|imi &s;umus condit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> ferr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nae naivil <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, &amp; f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aire &s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tis haridit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is <HI>Gerad.</HI> medi|tat,</NOTE> Love <HI>your Enemies, ble&s;s them that Cur&s;e you, do good to them that Hate you, pray for them that Hurt you:</HI> and he gives a rea&s;on of it in the 46th. ver&s;e. <HI>For if you love them that love you what reward have you? even the</HI> Publicans <HI>and</HI> Sinners <HI>do the &s;ame things,</HI> as if you &s;hould have &s;aid, if you love but only tho&s;e who are your lovers and friends, you are no better then <HI>Publicans</HI> and <HI>Sinners,</HI> for &s;o do they <HI>Love</HI> one another.</P>
<P>As rhat is the hotte&s;t fire which warmeth them that are furthe&s;t of, &s;o that is the mo&s;t fervent and perfect <HI>Love</HI> which for&s;aketh not, though they be never &s;o far of, neither friend not &s;o, that may be beloved, but imbraceth all in him who never for&s;aketh unle&s;s he be for&s;aken, even <HI>Je&s;us Christ.</HI></P>
<P>But this doctrine may &s;eem &s;trange unto fle&s;h and blood, that we &s;hould love all men, even our enemies; yet I be|&s;eech you let us rather obey the commandements of Chri&s;t<NOTE N="[g]" PLACE="marg">Virtu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> e&s;t coram ho|minibus inimi|cos &s;ed virtus coram Deo di|legere, quia hoc &s;olum De|no&s;acrificium accipit quod ante occulos ejus in altari charitatis flamma incendit, <HI>Greg.</HI> in pa&s;t. <HI>Exod. 23.4.</HI></NOTE> to love all men, even our enemies, then to yeild unto
<PB N="5" REF="6" MS="y"> the inticements of the fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">il and un&s;table fle&s;h, which by its own Nature is alwaies proue unto evil, <HI>for he that i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the fle&s;h cannot plea&s;e God.</HI> Rom. 8.8.</P>
<P><HI>Dulce e&s;t pacis nomen, &amp; res ip&s;a &s;alutaris</HI> (&s;aith the Orator<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Tul. 2 Phil.</NOTE> the very name of Peace it &s;weet, and the thing it &s;elf whole&s;ome, but e&s;pecially in the Church <HI>Love</HI> and concord is to be de&s;ired.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t of all, among the Teachers of the Word, for<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Qua&s;i tu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a exalit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vo|cem tuam in|quit, <HI>I&s;a. 8.1.</HI> &amp; &s;i <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> certum &s;onum taba dederit, quis apparabitur ad bellum, <HI>1 Cor. 14.8.</HI></NOTE> di|&s;ention among&s;t Teachers produceth divers doubts in the hearts of many, hinders the &s;ervice of God, and the cour&s;e of the Go&s;pel to have free pa&s;&s;age among&s;t us.</P>
<P>Secondly,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Hom. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ind.</NOTE> how much available <HI>Love</HI> and concord is in Common-wealth, the agreement of Citizens and Coun|trymen and how unprofitable is di&s;cord, (which <HI>Livie</HI> in the Common-wealth of <HI>Rome</HI> calls<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Di&s;cordia <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> urbit, patrum ac plebis c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rtaminia, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> nobis imperis, nec <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> libertatis te&s;timo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r, <HI>Liv. 1 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;t. R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o 41 Dei.</HI></NOTE> a povi&s;on) late experi|ence (in the&s;e our days) hath plainly manife&s;ted, the good|ne&s;s of the one, and the badne&s;s of the other.</P>
<P>Thirdly, how profitable it is in private families, in which (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s in the Church or Common-wealth) that &s;aying of <HI>Au&s;tin.</HI> is verified,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Sicut cor|poris, membra per &s;piritum id <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">gunium ita vera cor|poris mystici membra per &s;piritum &s;anctum charitatis v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ncula <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, <HI>Gerard. Med.</HI> Tale bonum &amp; bonum pacis ut in rebus creatis nihil gratio&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> fola<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t ami<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, dip<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> di|lectatibus concupi&s;ci, nihil utilius po&s;&s;ideri Spiritus enim huminus &amp;c. <HI>Augu&s;t. de Civitat. Dei.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Spiritus humanus nunquam vivi|ficat membra ni&s;i fuerint unit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e &s;ie Spiritus &s;uncta <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">unquam vivificat membra Eccle&s;iae, ni&s;i fuerint concordia <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> The Spirit of a man doth not qui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ken the members of the Church, that are not Cemented with <HI>Love</HI> and Concord.</P>
<PB N="6" REF="7" MS="y">
<P>La&s;tly, how ought it to flouri&s;h among all men? &s;ince Chri&s;t doth r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">peat that precept, as the onely and chief pre|cept before his pa&s;&s;ion, calling it his Commandement a<NOTE N="[n]" PLACE="marg">Facil&eacute; declaratur quomodo no|vum &s;it di|lectionis prae|ceptum &agrave; Chri&s;to da|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">um <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> enim <HI>Cyrillus</HI> fra|trem diligendum e&s;&s;e ait, ficut &s;e ip&s;um Chri&s;tus, autem magis nos quam &s;cip&s;um a|mov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t, novas atque auditus dilectionis modus, nihil omnino dilectioni fratrum an|teponentas, non gloriam, non divitias, non corporis hujus mortem, &s;i opus fuerit pro &s;a|luto fratris mori quod a beatis Salvatoris di&s;cipulis factitatum e&s;&s;e videmus. <HI>Ian&s;en</HI> in loc.</NOTE> new Commandement, and a mark whereby his Di&s;ci|ples might be di&s;cerned from the ungodly, <HI>John</HI> 13.24. Therefore tho&s;e that de&s;ire to be accounted Chri&s;ts di&s;ci|ples, let them carry this mark in their fore-heads<NOTE N="[o]" PLACE="marg">Non enim e di&s;centionis Deus &s;ed pacis <HI>1 Cor. 14.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">3.</HI></NOTE> let them <HI>Love one anothe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and not carry the mark of the Bea&s;t, which is Helli&s;h and Diveli&s;h di&s;&s;ention. And thus much of tho&s;e we mu&s;t <HI>Love.</HI> I come now to the &s;econd circum|&s;tance, in what it con&s;i&s;ts.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Nec habet a|liquid viri|di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atis boni operis &s;i non manet in ra|dice charita|tis in homine multis modis intelligitur charitas, cler|mentia, &s;ua|vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ate, pati|entia, invidentiae &amp; aemuiationis vacuitate, &amp; in juriarum oblivione, Clemens Alex|and. Sicut in regali pretexi&acirc;, illi flores &amp; colores praecio&s;i &s;unt qui hanc conficiunt, chlamyd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n; Itidem &amp; hic, illa &s;unt prafio&s;a virtut<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, qua charitatem contintant Chry&s;o&s;t. Hom. <HI>51.</HI> de diver&s;is.</NOTE>St. <HI>Gregory</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Ut multi arboris rami ex una radice prodeunt: &s;ic multae vertutes ex una charitate generantur?</HI> as many bows &s;pring from the &s;ame root: &s;o many vertues proceed from this one vertue <HI>Charity,</HI> Therefore under the name of <HI>Charity</HI> among&s;t many others &s;ix things are com|prehended.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t</HI> to <HI>Love, Secondly</HI> to council, <HI>Thirdly</HI> to releive, <HI>Fourthly</HI> to bear, <HI>Fifthly</HI> to pardon, <HI>Sixtly</HI> to teach by good example of life: and who&s;oever wants any of the&s;e, wants &s;ome part of <HI>Love.</HI></P>
<P>For &s;ome will &s;ay they love their Neighbour, but that
<PB N="7" REF="7" MS="y"> hath but only the name, it wants much of the Nature of <HI>Love:</HI> others <HI>Love</HI> and give good coun&s;el, and releive not their needy Brethren: others <HI>Love,</HI> give good coun&s;el, and releive: yet they bear not their infirmities: they fol|low not the coun&s;el of the Apo&s;tle,<NOTE N="[q]" PLACE="marg">Nibi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ic probat a|micum que<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> admodum o|neris amic &s;upportatis nemo ni&s;i pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> amicitiam cogno&s;citur, &amp; ideo amicorum mala fermiter &s;u&s;tinemus, quia bona eorum nos delectand, &amp; tanent Augu&s;t. <HI>12.</HI> qua&s;tion.</NOTE> bear ye one a|nothers burthen, and &s;o fulfill the law of Chri&s;t. <HI>Gal.</HI> 6.2. Others do <HI>Love,</HI> coun&s;el, releive, and bear: but they do not mercifully pardon tho&s;e that have injur'd them: and la&s;tly, there be &s;ome that have all the afore&s;aid effects and vertues of <HI>Love,</HI> but they edify not their Neighbour, either by words or<NOTE N="[r]" PLACE="marg">Nullum ego con&s;ilium milius arbitror, quam &s;i exam|plo &s;uo fratrem docere &s;tudeas, qua oportit fieri, provocans cum ad meliora, &amp; con&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|lens <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i, ne&abque; verba, ne&abque; lingua, &s;ed opere &amp; veritate Greg. lib. <HI>10.</HI> moral. Sic luce|at lux ve&s;tra corum h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">minibus &amp; h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c autem fir cum apparet mi&s;erecordea in affectu beniguitas in vultis, humilitas in habitu, mode&s;tia in habitatione, patientia in tribulatione. Hugo de clau&s;t. enim. lib. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> good example of life, which is the be&s;t and noble&s;t of all the duties of <HI>Love.</HI></P>
<P>According to this order, let every man examine him|&s;elf, that he may under&s;tand what he hath, and what is wanting to him in this vertue: For we may &s;ay, he that <HI>loveth,</HI> is in the fir&s;t degree of <HI>Love,</HI> he that <HI>loveth and gi|veth</HI> coun&s;el, is in the &s;econd: he that <HI>loveth, giveth coun|&s;el, and releiveth,</HI> in the third, he that <HI>loveth, giveth coun|&s;el, releiveth, and &s;uffere h,</HI> in the fourth, he that <HI>loveth, coun&s;elleth, releiveth, &s;uffereth, and pardoneth,</HI> in the fifth, but yet there wants another &s;tep of this Ladder unto Hea|ven, el&s;e he will &s;carce come there, and that is <HI>good exam|ple</HI> of life: for every man &s;hould <HI>Love, give good coun&s;el, re|leive, &s;uffer, pardon, and teach as they are able by Godly</HI><NOTE N="[s]" PLACE="marg">Quan|tis exemplum vera humanitatis &amp; perfecta charitatis o&s;tenderis cum tantis pro tantis atorna pramia po&s;&s;idebis, Leo in Serm.</NOTE>
<PB N="8" REF="8" MS="y"> <HI>examples,</HI> and then he hath a&s;cended the la&s;t &s;tep, and &s;tand+eth upon the uppermo&s;t &s;tair, that reacheth unto heaven: yea what &s;hall I &s;ay more? why &s;hould I recount all the ble&s;&s;ed and remarkable fruits of this <HI>Love?</HI><NOTE N="[t]" PLACE="marg">Haec in adver&s;itate tolerat, in pro&s;peritate temperat in daris pa&s;&s;io|nibus fortie e&s;t: in bonis operi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">ilaris est, in tem|pora lib. di<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">+ti&s;&s;ima in ho&s;piralitate lati&s;&s;ima in|fer bonos fra|tres lati&s;&s;ima inter fal&s;os &s;a|pienti&s;&s;ima In abel per &s;acri|ficim laeta in No<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> per dilu|vium &s;ecura Abrahae, pe|rigrenatione fideli&s;&s;ima in Davidis tri|kulatione miti&s;&s;ima, &amp;c. Aug de laude Charitatis</NOTE> <HI>In Chari|tate pauper e&s;t dives, fine Charitate omnis dives e&s;t pauper,</HI> &s;aith St. <HI>Au&s;tine,</HI> In <HI>Love</HI> or Charity, every poor men is rich, without Charity every rich man is poor, and again &s;aith the &s;ame Father,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. tract. <HI>9</HI> Joan.</NOTE> <HI>&s;i de&s;it charitas fru&s;tra habentu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> caetera, &s;i ad&s;it recte habentur omnia.</HI> If Charity be wanting; nothing is pre&s;ent, if Charity be pre&s;ent, nothing is wanting; It &s;uffers in adver&s;ity, it is mild in pro&s;perity, it is &s;trong in works, large in ho&s;pitality: it rejoyceth among&s;t good Brethren, and is mo&s;t patient among&s;t fal&s;e: It was glad in <HI>Abel</HI> through his Sacrifice, in <HI>Noah</HI> by the flood: faith|ful in the perigrination of <HI>Abraham,</HI> mo&s;t comfortable in the wrongs again&s;t <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> mo&s;t gentle in the trouble of <HI>Da|vid:</HI> free in <HI>Paul</HI> to reproove, humble in <HI>Peter</HI> to obey: humane in Chri&s;tians to confe&s;s, divine in Chri&s;t to pardon:<NOTE N="[v]" PLACE="marg">Ne&s;cio quid majas in laude tua dicere pollum quam ut Deum de caelo traheres, &amp; ho|minem ad caelum elevares magna virtus tua, &amp; parte u&s;&abque; ad hoc humiliaretur Deus, &amp; u&s;&abque; ad hoc exalteretur homo Hugo de <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">aude Charitatis.</NOTE> what &s;hal I &s;ay more of the fruits and effects thereof? <HI>Si mihi centum linguae <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">ra&abque; centum,</HI> if I had a hundred tongues to &s;peak, and as many mouths to utter, as the Poet &s;aith, or as the Apo&s;tle faith, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.1. <HI>If I had the tongues of Men and Angels, and had not</HI> Love, I <HI>were as &s;ounding Bra&s;s, or as a tinckling cymbal.</HI> And &s;o I come to the Second ge|neral part of my text, that is the manner as we ought to <HI>Love as Brethren.</HI><NOTE N="[w]" PLACE="marg">Ip&s;a enim e&s;t anima literarum prophetiae virtus, &s;acramenoorum &s;alus, &s;apientiae &s;tabilimentum, fidei fructas d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">tie pauperum, vita morientium Augu&s;t. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">n loc. ibid.</NOTE></P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<PB N="9" REF="8" MS="y">
<HEAD><HI>Love as Brethren.</HI> The Second general Part.</HEAD>
<P>THe word <HI>(Brethren)</HI> hath divers acceptations in holy Scripture, modern writers reduce them to three heads, there are (&s;ay they) <HI>Brethren</HI> by <HI>Race,</HI> by <HI>Grace,</HI> and by <HI>Place.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>Race,</HI> and that, fir&s;t by birth as<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Gen. 29.26</NOTE> <HI>Jacob</HI> and <HI>E&s;au,</HI> &s;e|condly by blood, as<NOTE N="[y]" PLACE="marg">Gen. 12.7.</NOTE> <HI>Abraham</HI> and <HI>Lot,</HI> &s;o our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour is &s;aid to have Brethren and Si&s;ters, <HI>Mark.</HI> 6.3. <HI>Mat.</HI> 12.47. And <HI>Jacob</HI> called <HI>Labans</HI> Sons his <HI>Brethren, Gen.</HI> 29.4.</P>
<P>By <HI>Grace,</HI> and that is either common or &s;pecial naturall or &s;piritual, by generation or regeneration; In the former re&s;pect all men are Brethren, <HI>God hath made of one blood all Nations of Men, Acts</HI> 1.7.26. by the latter re&s;pective are all Brethren by Chri&s;t, <HI>Heb.</HI> 2.11. <HI>Colo&s;&s;.</HI> 4.9. <HI>Mat.</HI> 12.50. <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.29.</P>
<P>By <HI>Place,</HI> thou &s;halt chu&s;e a King, from among thy <HI>Brethren,</HI> of thine own Nation, not a Stranger <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.15. Unto a &s;tranger thou maye&s;t lend upon U&s;ury, but not unto thy <HI>Brethren, Deut.</HI> 23.20. <HI>Rom.</HI> 9.4.</P>
<P>But to make it more plain unto you (though briefly) there are five &s;orts of Brethren in the Scrip|ture in all which we are joyn'd together in <HI>Love,</HI> The 1 &s;ort
<PB N="10" REF="9" MS="y"> are<NOTE N="[z]" PLACE="marg">Con&s;er|vanda e&s;t hu|manitas, &s;i homines rect&eacute; dici velimus Id autem ip|&s;um con&s;er|vare huma|nitatem quid aliud e&s;t quam diligere hominem, quia h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">mo&s;it, &amp; idem quod nos &s;umus. Lactan. firm. divin. in&s;titat. lib. <HI>6.</HI> c. <HI>10.</HI> Amico conterranti. contribulis, popula|res, &s;odales commilitones, convictores, familiares, proximi, &s;unt omnes fratres. &s;ic di&s;|cipali <HI>1 Chron. 25, 7.9.10.</HI> &amp; &s;imiles vel, aequales <HI>Job. 30.29. Pro. 18.9.</HI></NOTE> <HI>humanitate, brethren,</HI> in common humanity, as in <HI>Gen.</HI> 9.5. There the Lord &s;aith, at the hand of a man, e|ven at the hand of a mans <HI>brother,</HI> will I require the life of man: after which acceptation, the <HI>Hebrews</HI> in the old Law, and the Chri&s;tians in the Go&s;pel are called <HI>brethren:</HI> &s;o are all tho&s;e that are born of <HI>Adam,</HI><NOTE N="[a]" PLACE="marg">Num quid non Pater nun<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> omnium no&s;trum Namquid non Deus unus creavit no<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ma|lac. <HI>2.10.</HI></NOTE> of whom is of one &s;tock and blood all mankind was made, 1 <HI>Chro.</HI> 5.11.</P>
<P>Secondly <HI>affinitate, brethren,</HI> by affinity tho&s;e that come of the &s;ame line, though it be of divers degrees to the <HI>He|brews</HI> called their cou&s;ins and kin&s;men, <HI>brethren,</HI> as<NOTE N="[b]" PLACE="marg">Are&s;ti|nus ad fra|trem dixit reconcilia|tum, memi|neris te di&s;|&s;entionis, me reconciliationis fui&s;&s;e Autori. Stob. Serm. <HI>82.</HI></NOTE> <HI>A|braham</HI> to appea&s;e and &s;tay the debate between his Heard&s;|men and <HI>Lots</HI> (his Nephew) calleth <HI>Lot</HI> (his Brothers Son) <HI>brother. Let there be no &s;trife between us, and our Heardmen, for we are brethren.</HI> Gen. 13.8.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Con&s;anguinitate,</HI><NOTE N="[c]" PLACE="marg">Quis a|micur e&s;t quam frater fratri, aut quem alie|num fidum i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">venias &s;i tui<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> ho&s;tis fuerit? ut Mycip&s;a dixit filii &s;uis. Salu&s;t de bello Ju|gurthino. Non ego te, vita frater amabilior, a&s;piciam po&s;t hac. Catul. ad Ortal.</NOTE> <HI>brethren</HI> in blood, and con&s;anguinity, who came of the &s;ame Parents, and have the &s;ame Father and Mother, as <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> and <HI>Ben|jamin, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>Chri&s;tianitate Brethren</HI> in Chri&s;tianity; and &s;o are all Chri&s;tians called brethren, therefore <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;ee|ing
<PB N="11" REF="9" MS="y"> two Hebrews contend and &s;trive together to reconcile and &s;tay the contention between them, asketh them, why they &s;trove together &s;eeing they were <HI>Brethren, Exod.</HI> 2.12. So in the Go&s;pel by St. <HI>Matthew,</HI> our Saviour &s;peaking of the Scribes and Phari&s;ees unto the multitude, and his Di|&s;ciples &s;aith, but be not ye called <HI>Rabbies,</HI> for one is your Doctor (to wit Chri&s;t) and all ye are <HI>brethren, Mat.</HI> 23.8.</P>
<P>Fifthly, and La&s;tly<NOTE N="[d]" PLACE="marg">vel Pro|vincia ip&s;a ex qua orti &s;umus voca|tur Patria Unde &s;alu&s;ti|as, hi&s; pantam &s;ibi patriam antiquam dixit.</NOTE> <HI>Patria,</HI> tho&s;e that are all of one Country are called <HI>brethren:</HI> &s;o the Jews are called among them&s;elves <HI>brethren: Deut.</HI> 15.12. If thy <HI>brother</HI> an <HI>Hebrew</HI> &s;ell him&s;elf unto thee, and &s;erve thee &s;ix years, even the &s;e|venth year thou &s;halt let him go free from thee, he is thy <HI>bro|ther.</HI> So all we of one county, of<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ma|rius</HI> or ra|ther (as &s;ome call him) We&s;tmer overthrew the Picts with Roderid their leader, at <HI>Stainemore</HI> &s;o called from a Stone, erected in that place, as a memorial of the Victory, and from this We&s;tmer came the name of We&s;tmerland. An. Chri&s;ti. 13. <HI>Prideaux</HI> Introduction to reading Hi&s;tories Pag. 279. and I&s;aac Sons Chrono.</NOTE> <HI>We&s;tmerland</HI><NOTE N="[e]" PLACE="marg">Camden Brit.</NOTE> (Britanno-brigantes, as learned <HI>Camden</HI> calls us) are <HI>brethren.</HI> Nay all Engli&s;hmen are <HI>brethren,</HI> being all of one Nation though not of one affection, as woful experience hath lately taught us for in the&s;e late civil uncivil Wars, <HI>brother</HI> hath been again&s;t <HI>brother,</HI> as our Saviour foretold long ago: the brother &s;hall betray the brother, and that unto Death, <HI>Math.</HI> 13.12.<NOTE N="[f]" PLACE="marg">Ecce patrem nati perimunt nato&s;&abque; parentes. Mutua&abque; armati conunt vulnera fratres. Manil. lib. <HI>4.</HI> Acerba fata Romanos agunt, Scelu&s;&abque; fratornae nicis, Ut im|m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">titis fluxit interram Remi&s;acer nepotibus cruor. Hitat. <HI>7.</HI> Ethod. Fraterno primi muduerunt &s;anguine muri, Lucan. lib. <HI>1.</HI> de bell. civit.</NOTE></P>
<P>This word <HI>Brother</HI> (take it in what &s;en&s;e you will) is a name of much <HI>Love,</HI> as both the Greek word<NOTE N="[g]" PLACE="marg">Adicti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ne <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp; a pro <GAP DESC="foreign"> qua&s;i <GAP DESC="foreign"> Con&s;tant.</NOTE> (<GAP DESC="foreign">) and the Latine<NOTE N="[h]" PLACE="marg">Qua&s;i &s;are alter, Aut. G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll. lib. <HI>13.</HI> Nect. A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t.</NOTE> <HI>(frater)</HI> intimates unto us. If it be ta|ken
<PB N="12" REF="10" MS="y"> in the fir&s;t &s;en&s;e,<NOTE N="[i]" PLACE="marg">Secundum Hie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onimum Augu&s;t|um &amp; Theo|philactum, nomine fra|tris vel prox|ime &s;ignifica|tur omnis ho|mo, eo quod ex eodem parente omnis &s;umus nati, at&abque; ad eandem Dei &s;imilitudinem facti, &amp; ad e|andem vocati, haereditatem caele&s;tem. Jan&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Comment. in Mat. <HI>5.</HI> &amp; Luc. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> for common humanity, <HI>homo homi|ni non e&s;t lupus,</HI> one man is not a wolf unto another, being made all of one &s;ub&s;tance, the body from the earth, and the &s;oul from heaven: and have all one Creator, the true and ever living God, by whom one onely man was created, from whom all &s;hould proceed, that the &s;trength of Bro|therhood might be among&s;t all, and if we &s;hould <HI>Love</HI> as <HI>Brothers</HI> in common humanity onely, it were a motive not to be de&s;pi&s;ed.</P>
<P>Or if the Apo&s;tle had &s;aid <HI>Love</HI> as <HI>kindred,</HI> which is a further knot to tye men together, both by the Law of God and Man; the very name whereof po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth many with &s;uch graceful delight, that they are ready to claim it of tho&s;e, who are many degrees removed.</P>
<P>But natural <HI>Brotherhood</HI> is a more &s;trict tye then that, in|&s;omuch that nothing is deemed more odious, then tho&s;e that are conjoyn'd in blood, &s;hould be di&s;joyn'd in affecti|on.</P>
<P>Now if the&s;e be of force to plead for <HI>Love</HI> and <HI>Cbarity,</HI> much more is Chri&s;tians <HI>Brotherhood,</HI> which bindeth men together in the &s;traite&s;t conjunction:<NOTE N="[k]" PLACE="marg">Joh. 1.12.13. Eph. 2.4.</NOTE> having one God for their Father,<NOTE N="[l]" PLACE="marg">Is non pote&s;t ha|bere Deum patrem, qui eccle&s;iam matrem non habet. Ter|tul. lib. de a|nima.</NOTE> one Church for their Mother,<NOTE N="[m]" PLACE="marg">Heb. 2.11. Mat. 12.5.</NOTE> one Chri&s;t for their elder <HI>Brother:</HI><NOTE N="[n]" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1.23. and 25.</NOTE> being all begotten by the immortal &s;eed,<NOTE N="[o]" PLACE="marg">Tit. 3.5.</NOTE> wa&s;hed by the laver of one new birth,<NOTE N="[p]" PLACE="marg">John. 6.3.5. <GAP DESC="foreign"> Coll. 2.2.</NOTE> conjoyn'd by the Sinews of the &s;ame Faith,<NOTE N="[q]" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3.2. Heb. 5.12.</NOTE> nouri&s;hed by the milk of the &s;ame word,<NOTE N="[r]" PLACE="marg">Rom. 5.2. 1 Pet. 1.3.</NOTE> having all the
<PB N="13" REF="10"> &s;ame hope of immortality to come: Wherefore the Pro|phet concludes this <HI>Brotherly Love</HI> unto us, in comparing it to the pretious Oyl, <HI>that ran down upon the board even upon</HI> Aarons <HI>beard, and went down to the Skirts of his cloath|ing, P&s;al.</HI> 133.2. For as an Oyntment well compounded and of &s;weet and odoriferous things cannot but be accept|able to the &s;ent of all men: So the unity which beginneth at Religion, and &s;tretcheth to the utmo&s;t borders of the Church, and Common-Wealth cannot but both plea&s;e God and all good men, and therefore the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, as ye are men, and as ye are Chri&s;tians, <HI>Love as Bre|thren.</HI></P>
<P>And let me add one thing more, (as concerning this pre|&s;ent occa&s;ion) that not onely as ye are men, and as ye are Chri&s;tians, but as ye are<NOTE N="[&s;]" PLACE="marg">Patria e&s;t velut al|ter quidem Deus, &amp; proximas maximu&s;&abque; Pareus quo qui nomen ei impo&s;uit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> reip&s;a, non temere patri|am nomina|rit, vocabu|lo quidem patre deducto, pronunciato tamen faemenina terminatione, ut ex utroque parente mixtum e&s;&s;et; At&abque; haec ratio in&s;inuat patriam unam ex aequo, ut utrum&abque; parentem colendam E&s;&s;e. <HI>Scob. Serm. 37.</HI> Chari &s;unt parentes, chari liberi, propinqui, familiares &s;ed om|nes omnum charitates patria una complexa e&s;t, pro qua quis bonus dubitet mortem op|perere, &s;i ei &s;it profuturus ic. off. <HI>lib. 1.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Countrymen, Love as Brethren.</HI> This one motive, if there were no other (in my Judgment) might be enough to induce us to <HI>fraternal amity,</HI> for what more dear to a man then his Country, <HI>Lucian</HI> hath a whole Treati&s;e <HI>de encomio patriae,</HI> of the prai&s;e of ones own<NOTE N="[t]" PLACE="marg">unicun&abque; &s;ua patri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> charior e&s;t, dum &s;upra omnia &s;ulvam fore quaeritur. ubi ab ip&s;is cunabalis commeratur, feris datum e&s;t a|gros cilves quaerere, hominibus autem patrias &s;uper cuncta diligere. Aves ip&s;ae per aero vagantes proprios nidos amant, erratiles ferae ad cubilia dumo&s;a fe&s;tinant. vo|luptuo&s;i pi&s;ces cavernas per quirunt, cuncta&abque; animalia ibi &s;e norunt refugere, ibi lon|gi&s;&s;ima cupiunt aetate con&s;tare <HI>Ca&s;s. 1. Epi&s;t. 20.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Country,</HI> which (he &s;aith) evermore ought to be e&s;teemed and reverenced of all men: &s;howing that what&s;oever men do, they ought to do it for the good and honour of their <HI>Country,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> (&s;aith <HI>Homer</HI> nothing more &s;weet then ones own <HI>Country,</HI><NOTE N="[v]" PLACE="marg">Nemo patriam dili|git qua mag|na, &s;ed quia &s;ua, Vli&s;&s;es ad &s;ua &s;axa Ithacae prope|rat, ut Agamemnon ad Mycenerum nobiles miros, Sen de rem fort.</NOTE> in&s;omuch
<PB N="14" REF="11" MS="y"> that although men be born in a &s;teril and barren &s;oyl, notwith&s;tanding they prefer it before all the &s;plendid Cities or Kingdoms of the World, for as every bird think|eth her own brood the fine&s;t, and every Parent their own off-&s;pring the Faire&s;t: &s;o every man conceiveth his own <HI>Country</HI> to be the plea&s;ante&s;t.<NOTE N="[v]" PLACE="marg">Patria nihil dulcius, nullus locus e&s;t dome&s;tica &s;ide jucundior, chari&s;unt parentes, liberi, proximi qui, familiares &s;ed omnes omnium charitates patria una complexa est, pro qua quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere &s;i ei profuturus Cic. off. <HI>lib. 1.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P><NOTE N="w]" PLACE="marg">Durus fuit Ser|mo (inquit Augustinus) cum Deus dixit <HI>Abrahamo,</HI> Exi e&s;t terra tua, ex patris do|mo, &amp; ex cognatione tua &amp;c. Sertorius dixit &s;e malle Romae igno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;i&s;&s;imum civem, quam exulem, omnium aliarum civi atum imperatorem nominare. Plutarch. in Serto|rio. Et &s;ola e&s;t patria poenacarere &s;ua, <HI>Ovid de Tri&s;t. lib. 4. Eleg. 8.</HI> Nos patriae fines &amp; dulcia linquimus arva, Nos Patriam fugimus tu Ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yre lent us in umbra for|mo&s;am re&s;onare, docis Amaryllida &s;ilvas Virg. Et eum Patriam mi&s;i tunc e&s;t perii&s;&s;e putato <HI>(Ovid. de Tri&s;t. lib. 3. Eleg. 3.)</HI> &amp; prior &amp; gravior mors fuit illa mihi. <HI>Ovid. de Pont. lib. 1. Eleg. 4. The Jews in their Captivity &s;ung the 137.</HI> P&s;alm <HI>By the rivers of</HI> Babilon <HI>we &s;at down and wept when we remembred thee O</HI> Sion, <HI>&amp;c. If I forget thee O</HI> Jeru&s;alem! <HI>Let my righ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, &amp;c.</HI></NOTE> <NOTE N="[w]" PLACE="marg">Non dabia e&s;t Ithaci prudentia, &s;ed tamen optat fumum de patriis po&s;&s;e videre focis. <HI>Ovid. de Pont. lib. 1. Eleg. 4.</HI> Amor Lacaenae erga &s;uam Patriam e&s;t ob&s;ervatione digni&s;&s;. quae cum filium in praelium mi&s;i&s;&s;et, &amp; interfectum audivi&s;&s;et: Ideirt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> (inquit) generam, ut e&s;&s;et, qui pro Patria morte non dubitar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t occumbere, <HI>Cic. lib. 1.</HI> Tu&s;c. Quae&s;t. Filiae Erichthaei Athenis Regis mortem pro Patria contempli&s;&s;e dicantur. Cic. Orat. pro Pab. Se&s;tio.</NOTE>And therefore when tho&s;e that are in authority, pu|ni&s;h malefactors for grand offences, they u&s;e to deprive them of their native <HI>Country</HI> by bani&s;hment as a puni&s;hment of high Nature. <HI>Ovid</HI> had &s;ad experience of this, which made him write his five whole books <HI>de Tri&s;tibus,</HI> as he was wherryed away from <HI>Rome</HI> to <HI>Pontus,</HI> the place whither he
<PB N="15" REF="11" MS="y"> was bani&s;hed in contemplation of his <HI>Country</HI> &s;aying thus.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Hom. ody&s;s. <HI>1.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, Id ody&s;s. <HI>13.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">. Stob.</NOTE></P>
<Q><L>Ne&s;cio qua natale &s;olum dulcedine cunctos</L>
<L>Ducit &amp; immemores non &s;ine e&s;&s;e &s;ui,</L></Q>
<Q><L>All think their native &s;oyl to be &s;o &s;weet</L>
<L>That farthe&s;t di&s;tant they remember it.</L></Q>
<P>Nay &s;aith <HI>Lucian</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> the very name of my <HI>Country</HI> is plea&s;ant unto me, yea the &s;moak of my Country (&s;aith he) is more delight|&s;ome to me then the fire of another, much like that of <HI>U|ly&s;&s;es,</HI> in <HI>Homer,</HI> who &s;aid he prefer'd the &s;moak of his own <HI>Country</HI> before all the Kingdoms of the World. And you may read in holy Scripture likewi&s;e much of this &s;ubject, I will in&s;tance onely in one particular,<NOTE N="[y]" PLACE="marg">By faith <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> when he died made mention of the departing of the Chil|dren of I&s;rael <HI>&amp;</HI> gave com|mandment concerning his bones He. <HI>11.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">2.</HI></NOTE> namely <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> who loved his <HI>Country</HI> &s;o well while he was living, that when he was a dying, he took an oath of the Children of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;rael</HI> &s;aying, <HI>God will &s;urely vi&s;it you, and ye &s;hall carry my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ones fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hence, and bury me in the Sepulchres of my Fathers, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n my own Country.</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Quantum erat O magni) perituro parcere Divi ut &s;altem patri&acirc; contumularer hu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ovid de Tri&s;tib. l. <HI>3.</HI> Eleg. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> Gen. la&s;t 25. Whom when they had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mbalmed, they performed his <HI>Will,</HI> as you may read (at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">our lea&s;ure) at large, in the 13th of <HI>Exod.</HI> 19. And <HI>Lu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">un</HI> &s;eems to give a rea&s;on of this &s;ame extraordinary <HI>Love</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o ones own <HI>Country,</HI> for (&s;aith he) <HI>Omnibus patria communis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> water,</HI> our <HI>Country</HI> is the common Mother of us all, and &s;he be our Mother then we are her Sons, and if her Sons <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en <HI>Brethren,</HI> therefore <HI>Love as Brethren</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Libri quo&abque; &s;unt fratres e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;dem Authori<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. A&s;picies <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s illic ex ordine fratres, Quos &s;tudium cunctos evigi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avit idem Ovid. de Tri&s;t. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">g. <HI>1.</HI> lib. <HI>1.</HI> Quarebam fratres, exceptis &s;cilicet illis, Quos &s;uos optaret non geu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ens. Idem Eleg. <HI>1</HI> lib. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE>.</P>
<PB N="16" REF="12" MS="y">
<P>And thus I have &s;how'd you, that not only as we are <HI>Men,</HI> and as we are <HI>Christian-men,</HI> but as we are <HI>Country-men</HI> we ought to <HI>Love as Brethren,</HI> let us now &s;ee how we may <HI>Love as Brethren.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">How to Love as Brethren.</NOTE>To <HI>Love</HI> as a <HI>Brother,</HI> is to <HI>Love.</HI> 1. <GAP DESC="foreign"> that is,<NOTE N="[z]" PLACE="marg"><HI>1 Pet 1.22</HI> Multis &s;imulatio|num involu|eris tegitur, &amp; qua&s;i v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|lis quibu&s;|dam ob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">endi|tur unu&s;|qui&s;&abque; natu|ra, fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, oculi, vultus per&s;aepe mentiuntur Cic. ad Q. fratrem. Demo&s;then&egrave;s interroga|tu&iacute;, quid Deo &s;imile haberent homines; Re&s;pondit, benigne facere &amp; &s;inceritatem a|mare, Maxim. Serm. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> &s;incerely without di&s;&s;imulation, for it is not enough, to &s;peak well of him, and to do good unto him, unle&s;s it be with a true and &s;incere heart, &s;o that the outward habit, and the inward intent of the heart mu&s;t concurre, otherwi&s;e they are like to tho&s;e painted Sepulchres our Saviour &s;peaks off, <HI>Mat.</HI> 23.27. <HI>The out&s;ide very glorious, but the in|&s;ide nothing but corrupted bones, and rottenne&s;s,</HI> having out|wardly a di&s;&s;embling &s;how of <HI>Love,</HI> but inwardly are meer hypocrites:</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> to <HI>Love</HI> as a <HI>brother,</HI> is to <HI>Love</HI><NOTE N="[a]" PLACE="marg">Tunc plena cordis no&s;tri com|pa&s;&s;io e&s;t quam mala inopia pro proxima &s;u&s;|cipere non meruimus, ut illum a pa&s;&s;ione liberemus. Plus e&s;t aliquando compati ea corde, qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+dare, quia qui&s;&abque; indigenti perfect<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> compatitur minus e&s;timat omne quod dat; &amp; re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> quamlibet plarum&abque; dat, qui non compatitur <HI>Greg. moral</HI> l. <HI>20.</HI></NOTE> <GAP DESC="foreign"> that is, to make our <HI>brothers</HI> calamities and mi&s;eries, as though they were our own a friend that loveth, &amp;c. <HI>Prov.</HI> 17.17. for as a member in a mortal body, being wound|ed or di&s;ea&s;ed, all the re&s;t of the body feels the &s;mart there of, &s;o in the &s;piritual body (the Church of God) whereo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;t is the head, there ought to be a<NOTE N="[b]" PLACE="marg">Si doles condol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> non dol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o tantum, maxime &s;ciens a &s;alute longius ab&s;i&s;tere membrum quod ob&s;tupuit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> aegrum &s;e&s;e non &s;entientem periculo&s;ius laborare. Bern. de con&s;ol. ad Eug. Cujus pect<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tam ferreum, cujus cor tam lapideum, ut genitus non exprimat, lach<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yma non eff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> dat, cum proxime vel amici morbum vel interitum intuetur, ut patienti, non compa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">+tur, &amp; dolenter non condoleat; Ip&s;e J&eacute;&s;us cum vide&s;&s;et Mariam, &amp; judaeos plera<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> infremuit &s;piritu turvavit &s;e ip&s;um &amp; lachrymatus est Inne de vilit. Condit. humi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Tanto qui&s;&abque; perfectior e&s;t quanto perfectius, &s;entit dolores alienos. <HI>Greg. Moral. li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 19.</HI> Chri&s;tus ip&s;e patiendo compa&s;&s;us e&s;t non &s;olum erat patiens &s;ed compabions. <HI>Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+nard, in Canc.</HI></NOTE> Fellow feelin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="17" REF="12" MS="y"> one of anothers mi&s;eries, and a condoling &s;orrow for them, as though they were proper unto them&s;elves: hence is it that he that receiveth Chri&s;t, receiveth God, and he that contemneth a true Chri&s;tian, contemneth Chri&s;t, who per|&s;ecuteth a true Chri&s;tian per&s;ecuteth Chri&s;t, and therefore &s;aith our Saviour, <HI>Acts</HI> 9.1. (When they per&s;ecuted his members the Church) <HI>Saul Saul why per&s;ecute&s;t thou me?</HI> the head was &s;en&s;ible of the per&s;ecution of the body, there|fore &s;aith he, <HI>why per&s;ecute&s;t thou me.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI><NOTE N="[c]" PLACE="marg">Con&s;tan|tia e&s;t nutrix ad meritu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> moderatrix ad praemium &s;oror e&s;t pati|entia per&s;e|verantiae fili|a, omnes pacis, amicitiarum nodus unanimitatis vinculum, &s;anctitatis propugnaculum Deni&abque; non qui incaeperit, &s;ed qui per&s;everavit u&s;&abque; ad finem, &s;a vus erit. Bern. in e|pi&s;t. <HI>129.</HI> Con&s;tans &amp; perfectus debet e&s;&s;e Amor no&s;ter &s;i nece&s;&s;e fuerit, amore illius moriamur qui amare no&s;tro placide ac benigne mori dignatus e&s;t. Augu&s;t. de Catal. rudib. Vide <HI>1 John 4.17. Heb. 3.14.</HI> Qua potes excu&s;a, nec amici de&s;ere cau&s;am Quo <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ede caepi&s;ti, &s;ic bene &s;emper eas. <HI>Ovid. lib. 1. de Tri&s;tib.</HI></NOTE> to <HI>Love</HI> as a <HI>Brother</HI> is to <HI>Love</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> to be con&s;tant therein, to continue to the end, not to be fleeting, or wavering in their <HI>Love,</HI> not to <HI>Love</HI> for a day, or a month, or a year, and then give over: not to be wea|ry of well doing, not to be weary of <HI>Loving;</HI> after the ex|ample of our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour Chri&s;t, for tho&s;e whom he <HI>Lo|veth,</HI> he <HI>Loveth</HI> unto the end.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> to <HI>Love</HI> as a <HI>Brother</HI> is to <HI>Love</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> to be unwilling to have any<NOTE N="[d]" PLACE="marg">Concor|des unus ca|pit lectulus, &s;ed d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;cordes pe tota qui|dem Domus-Plaut. Her|balem &amp; Hi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;alem.</NOTE> di&s;cord or difference with any of the <HI>brethren,</HI> but to live in peace and unity, to keep the unity of Spirit in the bond of peace, <HI>Eph.</HI> 4.3.<NOTE N="[e]" PLACE="marg">Salu&s;t. (de bello Jugurthing) &s;ic ait Mycip&s;a Rex jamjam moriturus, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onens filios &s;uos paterno affectu, ut concordes &s;int, aureis &s;empte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> literis &s;cribendam &s;en|tentiam ut&abque; adderent, Concordia parvae res cre&s;cunt di&s;cordia, &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Concordia p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rvae res cre&s;cunt di&s;cordia magnae dilabuntur,</HI> is not &s;o old as true (it is the <HI>Motto</HI> to <HI>Merchant-Taylors</HI> Arms, and it is a good one (by concord &s;mall things increa&s;e to great, by
<PB N="18" REF="13" MS="y"> di&s;cord great things come to nothing, therefore &s;aith the <HI>P&s;almi&s;t behold</HI> (do not perfunctorily look over it but behold) <HI>how good, and joyful a thing it is for Brethren to live together in unity,</HI> P&s;al. 133.1.</P>
<P><NOTE N="[f]" PLACE="marg">Di&s;tanti|a loci non tol|lit amiciti|am. Ari&s;tot. Ethic. lib. <HI>8.</HI> cap. <HI>5.</HI></NOTE><HI>Fifthly</HI> and <HI>La&s;tly,</HI> to <HI>Love</HI> as a <HI>Brother,</HI> is to <HI>Love</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>ubique gentium,</HI> to make no difference of place, for <HI>Love</HI> mu&s;t be extended to a <HI>Brother</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> as well as <HI>We&s;tmerland,</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> all over as well as <HI>London,</HI> in <HI>France, Spain,</HI> or <HI>Italy,</HI> as well as <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ngland,</HI> abroad as well as at home: So <HI>Pauls Love</HI> did reach from <HI>Corinth</HI> to <HI>Rome,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>&amp;c.</HI> 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.1.</NOTE> from <HI>Philippi</HI> to <HI>Corinth,</HI> from <HI>Rome</HI> to <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> and &s;o our Apo&s;tle <HI>[g]</HI> St. <HI>Peter,</HI> in my text, exhorts the &s;tran|gers, that dwell here and there throughout <HI>Pontus Galatia, Cappadocia, A&s;ia</HI> and <HI>Bythinia to love as brethren.</HI></P>
<P N="1">I. But how many fail in the&s;e duties, in the&s;e days? the number is innumerable, therfore I &s;ay unto every one of you in particular, do&s;t thou <HI>Love</HI> thy Neighbour as thy &s;elf, do&s;t thou <HI>Love</HI> him without fraud or di&s;&s;imulation? or do&s;t thou call him<NOTE N="[h]" PLACE="marg">Facto pi|us &amp; &s;celera|tus eodem. O|vid. Met. lib. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Brother</HI> in Chri&s;t, yet would cut his throat<NOTE N="[i]" PLACE="marg">Innocens contra hypo|critam &s;u&s;ci|tabirum in judicio Job. <HI>17 8.</HI> Job. <HI>8.13.</HI> Mat. <HI>6.24.</HI></NOTE> behind his back? if &s;o thy portion &s;hall be with hypocrites where &s;hall be weeping wailing, and gna&s;hing of teeth.</P>
<P N="2">II. Do&s;t thou make thy <HI>Brothers</HI> Calamities as though they were thine own? art thou partaker of his mi&s;eries or ra|ther do&s;t thou flout and laugh at his mi&s;eries? &s;urely then thou art no member of Chri&s;t,<NOTE N="[k]" PLACE="marg">Mortu|um e&s;t corpo|ris mem|brum, quod alterius non &s;en&s;it affectum nec &s;e verum my&s;tici corporis membrum e&s;timet qui alteri patienti non condolet. Gerard. Meditat. Dolentem non pote&s;t, con&s;olari, qui non concor|dat dolori Emolliri debet animus ut afflicto congruat, congruens inhaereat inhaerens trahat. nec ferrum ferro conjungitur, &s;i non utrin&abque; exu&s;tione ignis liquetur. <HI>Greg. Moral.</HI> Qui vere amans e&s;t omni tempore diligit, nam eum tormentum non &s;eperat, labor non laxat, the&s;aurus non &s;uperat, alienas amor non occupat, <HI>Ca&s;s. in Epi&s;t.</HI></NOTE> thou art but like a wood|en
<PB N="19" REF="13" MS="y"> leg, crept in the Church, or ha&s;t no &s;ence or feeling of any other members, therefore great is thy Judge|ment.</P>
<P N="3">III. Do&s;t thou <HI>Love</HI> thy <HI>brother</HI> con&s;tantly unto the end? do&s;t thou never &s;hrink from him in any di&s;tre&s;s, but &s;tick as clo&s;e to him as the bark unto the tree? or is thy <HI>Love</HI> as the dew, &s;oon on, and &s;oon off? or do&s;t thou for&s;ake him, as the <HI>Di&s;ciples</HI> did <HI>Chri&s;t?</HI> then thou breake&s;t the Com|mandement of Chri&s;t, that we &s;hould love one another as he hath loved us, and tho&s;e whom he <HI>Loveth</HI> he <HI>Loveth</HI> unto the end, <HI>John</HI> 13.1.</P>
<P N="4">IV. Art thou a favourer of Unity and Peace among thy <HI>brethren?</HI> do&s;t thou &s;eek to &s;tay their hatred and pacifie their Wrath?<NOTE N="[l]" PLACE="marg">Qui&s;quis corpus affli|git &s;ed con|cordiam de&s;e|rit; Deum quidem lau|dat in tympa|no &s;ed non in choro Hier<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;uper Epi&s;t ad Rom.</NOTE> or art thou a brother of di&s;cord and di&s;&s;ention, and means to &s;et thy <HI>brethren</HI> together by the Ears? then ob&s;erve what St. <HI>Austine</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Non erit tibi concordia cum Chri&s;to, &s;i &s;it di&s;cordia cum Chri&s;tiano,</HI> thou &s;halt have no concord with Chri&s;t, if thou art at di&s;cord with a Chri&s;tian<NOTE N="[m]" PLACE="marg">Sicut nihil e&s;t pre|tio&s;ius Deo virtute di|lectionis ete nihil e&s;t de&s;i|derabilis Diabolo extinctione cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">itatis. Qui&s;qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s ergo &s;eminando jung<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a dilecti|onem prox morum perimit, ho&s;ti Dei familiarius &s;ervit, <HI>Greg. in pa&s;t.</HI></NOTE> or rather that, <HI>Si vocantur filii Dei qui pacem faciunt, procul dubio &s;unt filii Diaboli qui pacem con|fundunt.</HI> If they be called the Sons of God that make peace, then without doubt, they are the Sons of the Devil, that confound peace, and are the Authors of di&s;cord and divi&s;ion, and therefore are reckoned among&s;t tho&s;e that God hates, for the&s;e &s;ix things doth the Lord hate, yea his &s;oul abhorreth &s;eaven, the haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that &s;hed innocent blood, a heart that imagineth
<PB N="20" REF="14" MS="y"> wicked enterprizes, feet that be &s;wift in running to mi&s;cheif, a fal&s;e witne&s;s that &s;peaketh lyes, and him that rai&s;eth up contention among <HI>Brethren,</HI> Prov. 6.16.17, 18, 19.</P>
<P N="5">V. Or do&s;t thou <HI>Love</HI> thy <HI>Brother</HI> where&s;oever he be, at home or abroad; in the Countrey or in the City in thine own Pari&s;h or in another, in thine own hou&s;e or without? Or do&s;t thou hate a &s;tranger, a Town&s;man, a Forraigner or a door Neighour? then know this, that as God is no Accepter of Per&s;ons, &s;o he is no Accepter of Place, and for this will bring thee to Judgement.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Ob."> Some may object, and &s;ay, how can this Doctrine be true, that we mu&s;t <HI>Love</HI> our <HI>Brethren</HI> always even unto the end? &s;eeing it is &s;aid in the book of the Preacher, that there is a time to <HI>Love,</HI> and a time to hate, <HI>Eccle&s;i|a&s;tes</HI> 3.8.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Sol."> I an&s;wer, that in this place is not meant, that a man may &s;ometimes <HI>Love,</HI> and &s;ometimes hate his <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rother</HI> lawfully but the&s;e words, as al&s;o all tho&s;e from the beginning of the Chapter are to &s;how unto us, that all the actions and affections of men, whether rhey be good or evil, have been and are done in the appointed time of God: for <HI>Non de|notant quid agendum &s;it, &s;ed quid agimus,</HI> the words demon|&s;trate not what we ought or may lawfully do, but what we commonly do: So that they may &s;eem to be under&s;tood thus,<NOTE N="[n]" PLACE="marg">Tempus dilectionis quam diu ille qui diligitur e&s;t bonus, &amp; tempus odiis, quando efficitur ma|lus: non tam &ograve;diendo naturam quam culpam. Lyra in loc.</NOTE> There is a time to <HI>love,</HI> that is, there is a time
<PB N="21" REF="14" MS="y"> wherein we love our <HI>brother,</HI> and there is a time to hate our <HI>Brother,</HI> not by any approbation on Gods part, but through our own corrupt and malignant affections.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Some may &s;ay, that his neighbour is both an <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Ob."> enemy to God, he bla&s;phemeth his Name, prophaneth his Sabbaths, and the like, and al&s;o he is an enemy to me, for he hath greatly indamaged me in my goods and good name therefore what have I to do with him, in what thing am I bound to him, that is both an enemy to God and me.</P>
<P>Beloved thou that do&s;t thus rea&s;on with thy &s;elf know this, that thou mu&s;t not contemn any man, <MILESTONE UNIT="Sol."> <NOTE N="o]" PLACE="marg">Perfecta charitas e&s;t recti&s;&s;ima a|nimi affectio qua diligitur Deus propter &s;e, &amp; proxi|mus propter &s;eip&s;um Aug de Doctri. Chri&s;t. Odio habebis ini|micum tuum Mat. <HI>5.43.</HI> non inimicos <HI>but in the &s;ingular number meaning the Devil our com|mon enemy, as Aug. Serm. 59. de Temp.</HI> non fratrem &s;ed Diabolum. Idem ibidem.</NOTE> <HI>Love</HI> thy friends in the Lord, and thine enemies for the Lords &s;ake, who when thou wa&s;t his enemy, he &s;o <HI>loved</HI> thee, that to redeem thee, and deliver thee out of the hands of thine e|nemies, he gave his own life for thee. And although thine Neighbour be an enemy both again&s;t God and thee, yet for all this he mu&s;t not be hated, and de&s;pi&s;ed,<NOTE N="[p]" PLACE="marg">E&s;te &s;imilis medico medicus non amat aegrotantem &s;i non odit agritudinem: ut libere<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> aegrotum febrim per&s;equitur Nolite amare vitia amicorum ve&s;trorum, &s;i amatis ami|cos ve&s;tros. Aug. in quodam Serm. Non attinde, quid tibi faciat homo, &s;ed attende, quid tu feceris Deo, non attende injurias quas infert inimicus, &s;ed attende beneficia, quae confert tibi is, qui jubet a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">e inimicum diligas. Gerard. Meditat. Ne fratri ira&s;|cere quamvis peccato fratris ira&s;ceris, Aug. Retract. lib. <HI>1.</HI> cap. <HI>19.</HI> Non minima pars dilectionis e&s;t reprehendere delictum. Idem. Diligite homines interficite errores. A<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">g. con. lit. Petilian; <HI>lib. 1. cap. 29.</HI> Pacem cum hominibus bellum cum vitiis. Idem de cate|rudibus <HI>cap. 27.</HI></NOTE> but in this thou mu&s;t imitate the Phy&s;itian, who hateth the Di&s;ea&s;e, but not the Di&s;ea&s;ed, &s;o do thou, <HI>Loving</HI> that which is made of God, and abhorring that which is of the Devil, con&s;idering him not as thine enemy, but as the Image of God, and the workman&s;hip of his hands.</P>
<PB N="22" REF="15" MS="y">
<P>And thus (beloved) I have as plainly and breifly as I could, lay'd open the&s;e words unto you <HI>Love as Brethren.</HI> Wherein I &s;how'd you the <HI>matter</HI> and the <HI>manner,</HI> the <HI>mat|ter Love,</HI> the <HI>manner</HI> as <HI>brethren,</HI> in the matter <HI>Love,</HI> I laid open unto you.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. To whom <HI>Love</HI> doth belong.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. In what it con&s;i&s;ts.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>In the manner as <HI>brethren,</HI> I &s;how'd you there were five &s;orts of <HI>Brethren,</HI> in all which we are joyn'd together in <HI>Love.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. In <HI>Humanity.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. In <HI>Affinity.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. In <HI>Con&s;anguinity.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. In <HI>Chri&s;tianity.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5thly and <HI>la&s;tly.</HI> By <HI>Proximity.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Being all of one Country, much more of one County. And in this I &s;how'd you that we ought to <HI>Love as brethren</HI> In the next place I manife&s;ted unto you, how we ought to <HI>Love as brethren.</HI> And that was.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Sincerely.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Compa&s;&s;ionately.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Con&s;tantly.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Unanimou&s;ly.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5thly and <HI>la&s;tly.</HI><NOTE N="[q]" PLACE="marg">Omni tempore dili|git qui ami|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us, est, &amp; frater in an|gu&s;tiis com|probatur. <HI>Prov. 17.17</HI></NOTE> <HI>Univer&s;ally.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>At all times, and in all places. And &s;o much for the Text, and the time. Con&s;ider what <HI>I</HI> have &s;aid and the Lord give you under&s;tanding in all things.</P>
<P>Appendix.</P>
<P>And now, methinks <HI>I</HI> hear you &s;ay, the Ser|mon is done, no (my Brethren and Compatriots) it is but &s;aid, it is not done, it is then done and onely then, when we put in practi&s;e what hath been &s;aid<NOTE N="[r]" PLACE="marg">Bernard in Cant.</NOTE> <HI>Verba verte in opera</HI>
<PB N="23" REF="15" MS="y"> (&s;aith St: <HI>Bernard</HI>) turn the words into deeds, and then the Sermons done. We have all this while di&s;cour&s;ed of <HI>Love</HI> and <HI>Brotherly kindne&s;s:</HI><NOTE N="[&s;]" PLACE="marg">Charitas e&s;t radix, fructus &s;unt opera, Aug. &s;uper <HI>P&s;al. 4.1.</HI> fructus &s;piritus e&s;t charitas Gal. <HI>5 22.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Love</HI> is the root, <HI>brotherly kindne&s;s</HI> is the tree, but <HI>Charity</HI> is the fruit, <HI>love</HI> and <HI>bro|therly kindne&s;s</HI> is the hou&s;e, but <HI>Charity</HI> is the roof, which heals all, keeps all dry and warm; let us add the roof unto the hou&s;e, <HI>add to brotherly kindne&s;s Charity,</HI> they are the words of our Apo&s;tle 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.7. and that is done,<NOTE N="[t]" PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Jam. 2.15.16.</HI> Pa&s;cit e|&s;urientes cha+ritas, pa&s;cit &amp; &s;uperbia: charitas ut Deus laude|tur, &s;uperbia ut ip&s;a landetur ve&s;tit &amp; &s;uperbia. Augu&s;t. &s;uper Epi&s;tol. Jo. cap. <HI>7.</HI> Si non pavi&s;ti occidi&s;ti Ambro&s;. Qui &s;uccurrere perituro pote&s;t, &amp; non &s;uccurit, occidit. Sen.</NOTE> by <HI>feeding the hungry or cloathing the naked,</HI> if there be any of our <HI>Brethren</HI> or <HI>Compatriots,</HI> which be in need or nece&s;&s;ity, that we lend our helping hands, every man according to his power, for their releif.<NOTE N="[v]" PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t de civit. Dei. lib. <HI>10.</HI> cap. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> Charitable works to our <HI>bre|thren,</HI> (&s;aith the apo&s;tle are <HI>pro &s;acrificiis,</HI> in&s;tead of &s;acrifi|ces, Heb. 13.6. Nay <HI>prae &s;acri&s;iciis,</HI> before or better then &s;acrifices, Ho&s;. 6.6.</P>
<P>A King of our Country (<HI>I</HI> mean of <HI>Northumberland</HI>) in a controver&s;ie about <HI>Ea&s;ter,,</HI> &s;ome alledging for <HI>Peter,</HI> o|thers for <HI>John,</HI> bethought him&s;elf, that <HI>Peter</HI> was the Pot|ter of Heaven-gate, &s;aying, he would make the Potter his friend, that he might be &s;ure to get in. What&s;oever he did of <HI>Peter,</HI> let us do of Charity. Let us hereby make <HI>Christ</HI> our friend, he is <HI>&s;anua vitae,</HI> and thus the poor are made our friends, <HI>ready to receive us into everla&s;ting habitations.</HI> Luke. 16.9. <HI>I</HI> will onely commend unto you one porti|on of Scripture, which <HI>I</HI> would have you &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider on, both novv and anon, and vvith that <HI>I</HI> vvill conclude all, and it is in Deut. 15.9.10, 11. <HI>Beware that there be not a thought in thy heart, &s;aying the &s;eventh year, the year of the re|lea&s;e is at hand, and thy eye be evil against thy poor brother,
<PB N="24" REF="16" MS="y"> and thou give&s;t him nothing, and he cry unto the Lord again&s;t thee,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Judicium &s;i|ne mi&s;ericor|dia, erit iis, qui non faci|unt mi&s;ere|cordiam, &amp; gloriatur mi|&s;ericordia adver&s;us damnationem Jam. <HI>2.13.</HI></NOTE> <HI>and it be &s;in again&s;t thee. Thou &s;halt &s;urely give him, and thine heart &s;hall not be grieved, when thou givest unto him becau&s;e that for this thing, the Lord thy God &s;hall ble&s;s thee in all thy works, and in all that thou putte&s;t thine hand unto. For the poor &s;hall never cea&s;e out of the Land, therefore I command thee &s;aying, thou &s;halt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in the Land.</HI></P>
<P>Thus if we &s;hall do, of <HI>We&s;tmerlandians</HI> we &s;hall become <HI>Philadelphians,</HI> let us &s;o <HI>love</HI> as brothers here upon earth, that we may for ever live together as brothers hereafter in the Kingdom of Heaven: Which the Lord grant unto us all, even for his Son Chri&s;t Je&s;us his &s;ake, To whom, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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