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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33300	Christian good-fellowship, or, Love and good works held forth in a sermon preached at Michael's Cornhill London before the gentlemen natives of Warwickshire at their feast November the 30, 1654 / by Samuell Clarke.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1655 (1655)	Wing C4505; ESTC R26025	19,446	26

use to provoke one another to love Answ. 1. Propter praeceptum Because of the command of God and were there no other reason for it this should be instar omnium instead of all Because God will have it so Indeed I may say of this as David doth of Goliaths sword There is none to that We see how peremptorily our Apostle requires it here Provoke unto love and our Saviour Christ is not lesse urgent Joh. 13. 34. A new commandement I give unto you that yee love one another and this precept he backs with the best president As I have loved you that ye also love one another And that beloved Disciple that seems to be wholly composed of love doth often inculcate it 1 Ioh. 3. 16. He would have our love so ardent as to lay down our lives for the brethren and ver. 18. Let us not love in word neither in tongue onely but in deed and in truth and ver 23. This is his commandement that we love one another and Chap. 4. 7. Let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loves is born of God and knows God and verse 11. If God so loved us we ought also to love one another and ver. 12. If we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us and in diverse other places of his Epistles But to this diverse other arguments may be added As 2. Propter unitatem Because of that unity and Onenesse that is amongst us we are all men therefore of the same kind and the Apostle tells us Act. 17. 26. that God hath made of one blood all Nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth Yea more We are all Christians and therefore should love one another Yet more We are all English men and therefore should love one another Once again We are all the same County Warwickshire men and therefore should love one another To all which unities may be added one more if we are the same in truth as we are in profession we are all members of the same mysticall body whereof Christ is the head Rom. 12. 5. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another 3. Propter bonitatem pulchritudinem Because of the goodness and comlinesse of it Love is an amiable Grace as afterwards I shall shew It 's lovely in the eyes both of God man Yea they which want it themselves yet admire and love it in others Psa. 133. 1. David set's an Ecce before it Ecce quam bonum c. Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity 4. Propter firmitatem Because it strengthens us against adversaries the old Maxim is Divide impera They are easie to be ridden by every Usurper who are first divided amongst themselves Hence it was that Micypsa lying on his death-bead called all his sons together and caused them to write this sentence in Golden letters Concordiâ parvae res crescunt Discordiâ magnae dilabuntur By concord small things are encreased and strengthned But by discord the greatest are overthrown And you know the story of Scillurus who likewise calling for his eighty sons upon his death-bed told them that whilst they continued knit together in brotherly love like a bundle of darts or sheaf of Arrows they would be altogether invincible but if once disjoyned or severed by hatred they would quickly become a prey to their adversaries 5. Propter similitudinem Because of that likenesse that is amongst us And similitudo gignit amorem Likenes breeds love We see it in all tame and profitable creatures who loving each other in regard of likenesse feed and flock together similis gaudet simili Like loves his like And truly we are more brutish then they if this moves us not to love one another Indeed it 's the property of wild beasts as of Lions Bears Tygres c. to love solitude in howling Wildernesses and to walk abroad alone and if they meet to intertear one another But though the great Tyrants of the world joyne house to house and field to field that they may dwell alone Yet seeing God hath made us sociable creatures and Religion hath made us Christians Let us provoke one another to love 6. Propter propinquitatem Because of that near alliance and kindred that is amongst us If we be reall as well as Nominall Christians we have all one Father God One Mother the Church One Redeemer Jesus Christ One Sanctifier The Holy Ghost Are nourished at the same breasts The sincere milk of Gods word Are heirs to the same Kingdom The Kingdome of Heaven and are often told by Gods word that we are all brethren Hence the Apostle Peter inferrs that we should love as brethren 1 Pet. 3. 8. 7. Because it is the best Ornament that we can put upon us Better then a chain to the neck or a Ring to the finger Yea we should cloath our selves with love as with a Garment Col. 3. 14. Above all put on charity which is the bond of perfectnesse But alas It 's now almost out of fashion Many talke indeed of love but shew no fruits of it as some boast of costly Garments in their Wardrobes or Chests but wear them not whereas God hath given us this Garment of love to wear neither need we fear wearing of it out as we may other Garments For it 's the better for using as Gold is for rubbing that shines the brighter yet as we are not born with cloths on our back nor with chaines about our neck So neither are wee borne with this Grace of love in our hearts but are by nature hateful and hating one another Tit. 3. 3. 8. The sacred Scriptures heap up many motives to stir us up to love as 1. It will prove us to be true Disciples of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ not spurious nor bastards Ioh. 13. 35. By this shall all men know that you are my Disciples if ye have love one to another 2. It will be a great ornament to our profession and will beautifie the Gospell of Jesus Christ Tertullian tells us that in his time the mutuall love amongst Christians was so eminent and remarkable that the Heathens taking notice of it could say Ecce quam invicem se diligunt Christiani Behold how loving the Christians are one to another 3. It will declare and demonstrate the truth of our Faith Gal. 5. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but Faith which worketh by love 4. It shewes that we are translated from death to life 1 Ioh. 3. 14. and hereby we may know that we are so Yea fifthly Love is the life of God Angells and Heaven Of God for God is love 1 John 4. 8. Of the blessed Angels for there is nothing but love and concord amongst them Of Heaven for that wil perfect our love put an end to all the