Matt. xxii. 40. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets, Rom. 13. 9. James 2. 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. 15. 12.

Ver. 35. By this fhall all Men know that ye are my Difciples, if ye have love one to another.

Rom, xii. 9. Let Love be without Diffimulation.

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 fhalt love thy Neighbour as thy felt, Ver. 15.

Eph. v. 2. Walk in Love, as Chrift hath loved us, and hath given himfelf for us.

Phil. i. 9. I pray that your Love may abound more and more. Heb. x. 24. Let us confider one another, to provoke unto Love and to good Works.

xiii. 1. Let brotherly Love continue. 1 Pet. 3, 8. Love as Brethren.

1 Pet. i. 2. See that ye love one another with a pure Heart fervently. ii. 17. Honour all Men, love the Brother-hood.

1 John ii. 10. He that loveth his Brother abideth in the Light, and there is none Occafion of ftumbling in him.

iii. 11. This is the Meffage that ye have heard from the Beginning, that we should love one another.

Ver. 14. We know that we have paffed 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.

1 John iii. 23. This is God's Commandment, that we should believe on the Name of his Son Jefus 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 fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another.

Ver. 20. If a Man fay, 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 feen ?

Ver. 21. And this Commandment had we from God, that he who loveth God, love his Brother also.

2 John 5. That Commandment we have from the Beginning that we love one another.

2. Of the Caufe of Love, and how it is produced, Prov. xvii. 9. He that covereth a Tranfgreffion feeketh Love.

xviii. 24. A Man that hath Friends muft fhew himself friendly, and there is a Friend that fticketh clofer than a Brother.

Heb. x. 20. Let us provoke one another to Love and to good Works.

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Gal. v. 6. Faith worketh by Love.

Ver. 22 The Fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, &c.
1 Theff. iv. 9. Ye are taught of God to love one another.
1 John iv, 7. Let us love one another, for Love is of God.
Ver. 8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is Love.
Ver. 12. If we love one another, God dwelleth 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.

3. Prayers and Thanks to God for Chriftian Love, as being his Gift.

i Theff. iii. 12. The Lord make you to increase and abound in Love, one toward another, and toward all Men, even as we do to. ward you, Ch. 3. 1. Col. 2.2.

Eph. i. 15. After I heard of your Faith in the Lord Jefus, and Love unto all the Saints.

Ver. 16. I cease not to give Thanks for you, making mention of you in my Prayers.

4. The Influence and Effects of Love upon the Temper and Behaviour of Chriftians, one toward another, or how Love is evidenced.

Rom. xii. 12. Be kindly affectionate one to another, with brotherly Love.

xiii. 10. Love worketh no Ill to his Neighbour.

Gal. v. 13. By Love ferve 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 fame 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, Minifters and People, Commandment Fifth.

Charity.

5. Charity with other Graces enjoined. 1 Cor. viii. 1. Knowledge puffeth up, but Charity edifieth.

xiii. 1. Though I speak with the Tongues of Men, and of Angels, and have not Charity, I am become as founding Brafs, or a tinkling Cymbal.

Ver. 2. And though I have the Gift of Prophecy, and understand all Mysteries, and all Knowledge, and though I have all Faith, fo that I could remove Mountains, and have not Charity, I am Nothing.

Ver. 3. And though I beftow 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. Charity fuffereth long and is kind, Charity envieth not, Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up;

Ver. 5. Doth not behave itself unfeemly, feeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no Evil.

Ver. 6. Rejoiceth not in Iniquity, but rejoiceth in the Truth. Ver. 7. Beareth all Things, believeth all Things, hopeth all Things, endureth all Things.

1 Cor. xiii. 8. Charity never faileth.

Ver. 13. Now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, thefe three, but the greatest of these is Charity.

xiv. 1. Follow after Charity, and defire spiritual Gifts.

xvi. 14. Let all your Things be done with Charity.

Col. iii. 14. Above all Things put on Charity, which is the Bond of Perfectnefs.

1 Tim. i. 5. The End of the Commandment is Charity, out of a pure Heart, and of a good Confcience, and of Faith unfeigned.

1 Tim. ii. 15. The Woman shall be faved in Child-bearing, if they continue in Faith and Charity, and Holineis, with Sobriety.

iv. 22. Be thou an Example of the Believers, in Word, in Converfation, in Charity, in Spirit, in Faith, in Purity.

2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful Lufts, but follow Righteousness, Faith, Charity, Peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure Heart. Tit. ii. 1. Speak the Things that become found Doctrine.

Ver. 2. That the aged Men be fober, grave, temperate, sound in the Faith, in Charity, in Patience.

1 Pet. iv. 8. Above all Things have fervent Charity among yourfelves, for Charity fhall cover a Multitude of Sins, Prov. 10. 12. v. 14. Greet ye one another with a Kifs of Charity.

2 Pet. i. 5. Add to your Faith, Virtue, Knowledge.

Ver. 6. Temperance, Patience, Godliness.

Ver. 7. Brotherly Kindness, and to brotherly Kindness, Charity.
Jude Ver. 12. Your Feafts of Charity.

6. Approved Examples of Charity, and other Graces. 2 Theff. 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, towards each other, aboundeth, Theff. 3. 6.

2 Tim. iii. 10. Thou haft fully known my Doctrine, manner of Life, Purpose, Faith, Long-fuffering, Charity, Patience, Perfecutions, Afflictions, &c.

Rev. ii. 18. To the Angel of the Church of Thyatira, write these Things, faith the Son of God.

Ver. 19. I know thy Works and Charity, and Service and Faith, and Patience. See Ver. 3. John Ver. 6.

See Inftances of charitable Conduct toward others, 1 Cor. 8.9 12. 13.

Hatred.

7. Hatred, Threatnings against it. Lev. xix. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thine Heart.

Pf. xxxiv. 21. Evil fhall flay the Wicked, and they that hate the Righteous fhall be defolate.

Prov. xxix. 10. The Blood-thirsty hate the Upright.

Ezek. xxxv. 5. Because thou (Mount Seir) haft had a perpetual Hatred, and haft fhed the Blood of the Children of Ifrael;

Ver. 6. Therefore as I live, faith the Lord, I will prepare thee un

to Blood, and Blood fhall purfue thee.

Am. v. 10. They hate him that rebuketh in the Gate, they abhor him that fpeaketh uprightly.

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Mic. iii. 2. Who hate the Good, and love the Evil. Matt. x. 22. Jefus faid, ye fhall be hated of all Men, for Sake, Ch. 24. 9.

xxiv. 10. They shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. John vii. 7. The World hateth me, because I testify of it, that the Works thereof are Evil.

xv. 18. If the World hate you, ye know that it hated me before

it hated you.

Ver. 19. If you were of the World, the World would love his own, but because ye are not of the World, but I have chofen you out of the World, therefore the World hateth you, Ver. 20.

xvii. 14. Jefus faid of his Difciples, the World hath hated them because they are not of the World, even as I am not of the World. Tit. iii. 3. We ourselves were fometimes foolish,disobedient,deceived, ferving divers Lufts and Pleasures, living in Malice and Envy, hateful and hating one another.

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. 15. He that loveth not his Brother abideth in Death, whofoever hateth his Brother, is a Murderer, and ye know that no Murderer hath eternal Life abiding in him.

1 John iv. 20. If a Man fay, 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 ?

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8.The Duty of the Righteous toward thofe that hate them. Exod. xxiii. thou see the Afs of him that hateth thee lying under his Burthen, thou fhalt furely help with him.

Matt. v. 44. Do Good to them that hate you.

Rom. xii. 21. Overcome Evil with Good.

9. Prayers and Complaints to God, against the Hatred of the Wicked. Pf. ix. 13. O Lord, confider my Trouble, which I fuffer of them that hate me.

lxix. 14 Let me be delivered from them that hate me. See also Pf. 25. 19.—35. 19.—38. 19—41, 7-55. 3.—86. 17.-129. 5. 10. Promifes to thofe that are unjustly hated, and Threatnings against their

Haters.

Job viii. 22. They that hate thee fhall be cloathed with Shame. Pf. xviii. 17. God hath delivered me from them that hated me. xxxiv. 21. They that hate the Juft, fhall be defolate.

xliv. 7. Thou haft put them to Shame that hated us. lxxxix. 23. I will plague them that hate him.

Pf. cvi. 10. He faved his People from the Hand of him that hated them.

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

Ifa. lxvi. v. Hear the Word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his Word, your Brethren that hated you, and caft you out for my Name's Sake, faid, let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your Joy, and they fhall be ashamed.

Luke vi. 22. Bleffed are ye, when Men fhall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their Company, and fhall Reproach you, and caft out your Name, as Evil, for the Son of Man's Sake.

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Luke. vi. 23. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for behold your Reward is great in Heaven.

See Gen. 24. 60. Deut. 7. 15.-30.7.—33. 11. The Righteous hate only the Haters of God, 2 Chron. 19. 2. Pf. 26. 5.—31. 6.— 68. 1.-139. 21, 22. Pf. 15. 4.

Envy.

11. Envy forbidden to the Righteous. Prov. xxiii. 17. Let not thine Heart envy Sinners, but be thou in the Fear of the Lord, all the Day long.

xxiv. 1. Be not thou envious against evil Men, neither defire to be with them, Ver. 19.

Pf. xxxvii. 1. Fret not thyself because of evil Doers, neither be thou envious against the Workers of Iniquity.

Rom. 13. 13. Let us walk honeftly, not in Strife and Envying. 2 Cor. xii. 20. I fear left there be envying amongst you.

Gal. v. 26. Let us not be defirous of vain Glory, provoking one another, envying one another,

1 Pet. ii. 1. Laying afide all Malice, and all Guile, and Hypocrifies, and Envies, and evil Speaking.

Ver. 2. As new born Babes defire the fincere Milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby. See Pf. 73. 2. Compare Job 21. 7. Jer. 12. 1. Hab. 1. 3. Prov. 3. 31. Ifa. 11. 13. James 5. 13,

12. The Wicked, their Envy hurtful to themselves. Job v. 2. Envy flayeth the filly One.

Prov. xiv. 30. Envy is the Rottennefs of the Bones.

13. Envy toward others, is a Mark of an unconverted State. Prov. xxvii. 4. Who is able to ftand before Envy.

Matt. xxvii. 18. The Jews for Envy delivered Jefus to be put to Death, Mark 15. 10.

Acts v. 17, 18. The Jews filled with Envy, laid their Hands on the Apostles, and put them into the common Prison.

vii. 9. The Patriarchs moved with Envy fold Jofeph, Gen. 37. II. xiii. 45. The Jews filled with Envy fpake againft the Things that were spoken by Paul, Contradicting and Blafpheming, Ch. 17. 5. Rom i. 29. The reprobate Mind is filled with all Unrightoufness, Envy, &c.

Phil. i. 15. Some preach Christ of Envy.

1 Tim. vi. 4.Doting about Questions and Strifes of Words, whereof cometh Envy, &c.

Tit. iii. 3. We (in our unconverted State) were foolish, living in Malice and Envy.

James iv. 5. The Spirit that dwelleth in us, lufteth to Envy.

1 Cor. iii. 3. Whereas there is among you envying and ftrife, &c. are ye not carnal?

Gal. v. 19. The Works of the Flesh are Envyings, Murders, &c. Ver. 21.

James iii. 14. If ye have bitter Envyings and Strife in your Hearts, glory not, and lie not against the Truth.

Ver. 15. This Wifdom defcendeth not from above, but is earthly,

devilish.

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