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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27465	Diatribæ discourses moral and theological delivered by several persons in a plain, practical and friendly conference / composed and collected by William Berkeley.	Berkeley, William, 17th cent.	1697 (1697)	Wing B1974; ESTC R30223	76,603	195

David spared his raging Enemies and would if he could have obliged them For all Persons but those would have acknowledged themselves to have been so Let our next Stage be towards Mount Olivet and thence let us take a View of the Law of Grace and therein we shall find that the Holy Iesus St Stephen the Apostles and Martyrs and all Saints have been Exemplary herein this Motto was given by one of the first Rank of them Maledicimur Benedicimas 1 Cor. 4. It is true These were Saints and such to whom a large Manifestation of the Holy Ghost was given But yet Caesar and Pericles were not such nor were many others which we may call to mind from our own reading and observation and therefore what they did to procure a vain and transitory why should not we do to obtain a real and eternal Glory Moreover Ioseph David Stephen Paul and others were Saints yet at that time they were also Men they were kneaded up together of Flesh and Bones and we all know they had Sense and Blood and Choler tho' they were Pure and Holy and so ought we all to be otherwise we shall not enter into the Kingdom of God Thus we have heard that the whole World and each part of it enjoyn us by their Example to Love our Enemies And now Eumenes was passing on to his last Reason for this Duty But there being in this Congress a Nephew of his by his Sister Aurora named Musophil who Beloved of the Muses had been very attentive to what had been spoken and having peculiarly noted his Uncle's Argument for Enemy-Love which was drawn from Authority especially as to the two first parts of it made some sign to Glycon that they might admit of his chearful Interpone before any other Argument was urged in the present Matter This offer was kindly accepted and hereupon Musophil added to the Narrative of the first part of the Worlds Testimony for the Love of our Enemies this That Tho' 〈◊〉 with Storm the April Tulip be Yet when that 's or'e it smiles most gratefully And as unhurt Courts as before each Eye And again Th' Air pleasing Bird tho' turned out of Cage Wanders not to and fro in scraming rage But with her winged sails doth cruise in th' Air Back to her first place where she sings more rare I thank you said Eumenes for this gilt Button to my Freez Ierkin and for this carving said Glycon to our Oaken board And now Eumenes had in reserve his last Reason to Discourse upon but considering that 't would take up more time than could at present be well spar'd to make it clear and demonstrative to his Friends he kept it as a fit Subject for their hearing the next Meeting CHAP. XII Eumenes Second Discourse of the Love of Enemies WHEN they appear'd together again after the usual Formalities were over Eumenes assisted their Memories with a short Narration of whathad been formerly deliver'd and then past on to another main Reason why all Christians should Love their Enemies and this he drew from the State and Condition of all Persons in this World For says he We can go no where but we shall meet with opprobrious Terms and injurious Actions these are daily past N. B. upon us and we can get no Buckler large enough to defend us from them However unless we learn to Love these Enemies who are thus desperately bent against us and to Pardon their Affronts and sometimes wink at their Dis-obligations there will be no Love or Peace in this Life we must love them or we can scarcely Love any Body and therefore we should do exceeding well and that which would be much more than the value of our Pains to make this Virtue of Necessity And here I cannot choose but add That in this Life we are so frail of Temper and so full of Sin that the very thought hereof should hinder us from breaking the Band of Love when Injuries and Disgraces are cast upon us For to expostulate this Case a little I pray tell me Are we despised Let us consider that we N. B. have nothing Praise worthy Are we cheated or plunder'd of our Goods Let us consider that they were perishable and uncertain and that it becomes each of us to be as those who have nothing Are we hurt and maim'd in our Bodies We should consider that this is a sort of necessary Discipline taught us by God himself Are Traps and Snares laid for our Lives We should then consider what St. Paul in this very Case did and follow him Are we maliciously and peevishly slander'd and frequently ill spoken of We should then Note that our Great Master and dear Saviour was so used and when he was revil'd revil'd not again Now when we are gone hence and have proper time to Meditate let us do so by weighing these foremention'd Considerations and then we must think it reasonable to Love our Enemies so as to forgive and forget their Injuries And besides all this for Arguments in this Case swarm about us It is an Office most excellent in its Essence and Operations and highly Beneficial to those who can execute it and in good Earnest none can be more for it is a Matter Generous Noble and most Christian like To Love our Friends is a mere Mechanical Employ and can Challenge only the Name of Traffick or Merchandise for that is such and not Friendship which aims at Gain and only regards that it may be hoarded up To love our Friends is an Occupation which Publicans and Sinners can set themselves about Ay and by your leave said Musophil this Occupation as you well word it may and hath been manag'd by Creatures most irrational and vile For Wolves Vipers Lions Tygers can Give Love unto their Brood as well as Man The Youth who pickt the Thorne from th' Lion's Foot Got Friendship from him and his Life to 〈◊〉 It is well and truly observ'd said Eumenes but the Love of our Enemies is a Business of another kind and a Lesson of an higher form and a Star of a greater magnitude Believe it there is nothing of the forementioned Merchandize in it But we must acknowledge that there is in it another which is much more gainful for hereby we wind and turn the penny for things which are eternal It is not impossible but a Friend may be loved for the sake of God however it is not so apparent as that there can be no question made of it But when an Enemy is loved it seems as clear as Light it self that he is so in respect of God himself for where shall we find any other Motive to it 'T is certain that the Love of God doth not shine forth very hot in a Friend but in an Enemy it spreads forth its Beams largely and its Rays are very keen and servent And though thus to love be against Nature yet it is only that which is corrupt for it agrees and