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love_n	commandment_n	law_n	love_v	7,725	5	6.9269	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72378	Certaine godly, and most necessarie annotations vpon the thirteenth chapter to the Romanes: set forth by the right vigilant pastor: Iohn Hoper, by Gods calling, Bishop of Gloucester.; Godly and most necessary annotations in ye .xiii. chapyter too the Romaynes	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1583 (1583)	STC 13756.5; ESTC S124475	17,410	49

that commeth by land or trade of Marchandise and in this point faith must bee kept to all men according to the lawes appoynted by the higher power Feare is due vnto God the King to parentes and to all other of whome we be holpe in body or Soule and so is honour due likewise Therefore sayth the lawe feare God honour the King honour Father and Mother c. 1. Pet. 2. Exod. 20. Arise to a hoare hed Saint Paul breketh his disputation of duetyes and will tary no longer in the enumeration and numbring of the partes and particulars of duetyes but prefereth altogether so charitie in this wise The Text. Owe nothing to any man but to loue one the other AS though he had sayde what needeth it to write much of dueties contractes of buyinge lendings and such other lyke thinges Let charitie be the rule of all these thinges vnto the which if the subiect submit himself he will vse his higher power none otherwise than he wold be vsed himself if he were an higher power the higher power the subiect none otherwyse then though hee were a subiect him selfe what so euer thing agreeth with charitie is good What so euer agreeth not with Charitie is euill But many men can not tell what charitie is And therefore it is no marnaile thogh al their doings be against charitie Charitie is a feruent desire earnest study to do wel vnto al men yea euen with the hurt of him that doeth it if necessity so requireth as S Paule teacheth And S Ihon saith christ gaue his lyfe for vs and we ought to giue ours for our brothers The effects properties Phil. 2. and conditions of this charity S Paule sheweth and saith Charitie suffereth 1. Ioh. 3. wil not do euill for euill looketh not her owne profit charity will not conspire nor worke traiterously but pray for them that persecute her Thus S Paule declareth that we be debttours to keepe peace and quietnesse among our neighbours and to do al mē good as long as we liue Faith maketh vs frée before God in Christ Iesu charitie maketh vs seruants to our neighbours for the loue of Christ S. Paule proueth by examples that charitie shoulde be the rule of all our doinges with these words that follow The Text. For hee that loueth another fulfilleth the law For these commaundementes thou shalt not commit adultrie thou shalt not kill thou shalt not steale thou shalt not beare false witnes thou shalt not desire and so forth if there be any other commaundement they are all comprehended in this saying loue thy neighbour as thy selfe A Wonderful commendation of charitie that who so obserueth her fulfilleth the whole law meaning the law that appertayneth for the duety and offices to be done betwéene man and man And not that any man can satisfie the law before God sauing only Christ no nor all partes towardes man for no man loueth his neighbour so feruently as the law of God requireth Yet S Paule saith we fulfil the law when we giue our selues earnestly holy as much as lieth in vs to work the law And then our lack imperfectiō shal be profited and accounted ful and sufficient for Christes sake he addeth yet an other cōmendation of charitie The Text. Loue hurteth not his neighbour THat is to say he that hath a Christian loue can not hurt his neighbour By this rule men may know whither they haue charity or not for in case we deminish the goods of our neighbors whether they be of his bodye or his soule or els of his possessions honour place or dignitie Or if we increse not these goods towards all mē if we may there is no charity in vs. Or els if we diminish not their euils and troubles as we may eyther if we doe the euils in any sort by our selues or by other we haue no charitie in vs. By this rule we may now know whether we loue our brothers or not and duly examining our selues we shall sée how farre we be from charitie and that it is an easie thing to speake and talke of charitie and a very harde matter to practise and lead our liues according to charitie For if we had as much charitie as we professe to hane we should satisfie al the law as S. Paule saith The text Therefore is loue the fulfilling of the law MEaning by the lawe the seco●● table of the ten Commaundements in the which is contayned the duetye and office of euerye man to all maner of persons of what condition soeuer they be As for the law of the first table which contayneth the religion of God feare faith loue prayer obedience patience right vse of Sacramentes with such other as appertayneth onely vnto God and be the fountayne and originall of all good workes For here his argument and state is to tell what men shoulde doe to men and in the first table is declared what man should doe to God fully and sufficiently these two former partes sufficiently declared by Saint Paul he followeth with the third part of the chapter which contayneth an exhortation vnto innocencie and honesty of life The Text. Because we know the season how that it is time we should awake now out of sleepe HItherto S. Paule hath taught how christiā men should behaue thē selues not only towards the publik person the King and Magistrate whom they be bound to honor obey but also towards priuate persons that beare no office whō they be bound to loue And that the same obedience to the higher power and loue towards al men may the better preserue continue hee addeth now an exhortation to honest liuing and Godly conuersation which he taketh metaphorically or by similitude of the time saying it is meete we should liue honestly now for it is time meaning by the time the season and time wherin the grace of God in Christ Iesu is preached and opened to the world the which shoulde not giue vs occasion of wickednes and sin but rather wake vs out of our sléepe and to reare vs out of sinne Here mark what the Apostle calleth sleepe and what to rise and wake out of sleepe Sleepe is a stupor and deadnes of the minde that resteth and is a sléepe in euil and mischiefe and careth not for the law nor wil of God but wil follow religion of wil phantasies idolatrie superstition ignoraunce and al vngodly conuersatiō without al fear feeling or remorse of Gods displeasure In this sleepe resteth al idolaters obstinate dronken couetous enuious sedicious traiterous adulterous sclāderous proud and negligent persons that feele not nor repent not though they be sunke downe euen to bottom and very dregs of these euils Frō this sléepe the gospel of Christ prouoketh exeitateth stirreth if obstinacy haue not endured and made hard our harts And would haue vs to correct amend our self and idolatrical iudgement in religion from our wils to honesty and obedience and to a new life that we