In his passage, with the great company of religious people, of which Christian tribes he was the brave leader and famous governor; from the island of Great Britain, to New England in the North America. Anno Having already set forth the practice of mercy 2 according to the rule of God's law, it will be useful to lay open the grounds of it also, being the other part of the Commandment; and that is the affection from which this exercise of mercy must arise.
The Apostle tells us that this love is the fulfilling of the law. But in regard of the excellency of his parts giving any motion to the other, as the soul to the body, and the power it has to set all the faculties on work in the outward exercise of this duty. As when we bid one make the clock strike, he does not lay hand on 1 MC incorrectly spells this "Arrabella", which has produced some confusion.
The autograph of Winthrop's Journal p. Previously called Eagle, it was re-named in honor of Lady Arbella Johnson, a prominent Puritan who accompanied the expedition, but who sadly died two months after arriving in Massachusetts. The handwriting of this title page is different from that of the sermon itself. For though this course may enforce a rational mind to some present act of mercy, as is frequent in experience, yet it cannot work such a habit in a soul as shall make it prompt upon all occasions to produce the same effect but by framing these affections of love in the heart, which will as natively bring forth the other as any cause does produce the effect.
The definition which the Scripture gives us of Love is this: "Love is the bond of perfection. Secondly, it makes the work perfect.
There is no body but consists of parts. And that which knits these parts together gives the body its perfection, because it makes each part so contiguous to [an]other as thereby they do mutually participate with each other, both in strength and infirmity, in pleasure and pain. To instance in the most perfect of all bodies, Christ and his Church make one body: the several parts of this body considered apart, before they were united, were as disproportionate and [with] as much disordering as so many contrary qualities or elements; but when Christ comes and by his Spirit and Love knits all these parts to himself and each to other, it is become the most perfect and best proportioned body in the world.
One modern rendering is: "Christ, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to its function. The ligaments of this body which knit together are Love. No body can be perfect which wants its proper ligaments.
All the parts of this body being thus united are made so contiguous in a special relation as they must needs partake of each other's strength and infirmity, joy and sorrow, weal and woe. This sensibleness and sympathy of each other's conditions will necessarily infuse into each part a native desire and endeavor to strengthen, defend, preserve and comfort the other. To insist a little on this conclusion being the product of all the former, the truth hereof will appear both by precept and pattern: "Ye ought to lay down your lives for the brethren" 1 John ,9 Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Gal For patterns we have that first of our Savior, who out of his good will in obedience to his Father, becoming a part of this body, and being knit with it in the bond of Love, found such a native sensibleness of our infirmities and sorrows as he willingly yielded himself to death to ease the infirmities of the rest of his body, and so heal their sorrows.
From the like sympathy of parts did the Apostles and many thousands of the Saints lay down their lives for Christ again. The like we may see in the members of this body among themselves. Paul could have been contented to have been separated from Christ that the Jews might not be cut off from the body. Rom 9[:2—4] 10 It is very observable which he professes of his affectionate part[ak]ing 8 All of 1 Cor —27 applies. Who is offended and I burn not;11 and again, "Therefore we are comforted because ye were comforted.
So Phoebe and others are called the servants of the Church. The like we shall find in the histories of the Church in all ages: the sweet sympathy of affections which was in the members of this body one towards another; their cheerfulness in serving and suffering together; how liberal they were without repining, harborers without grudging, and helpful without reproaching. And all from hence they had fervent love amongst them which only make[s] the practice of mercy constant and easy.
The next consideration is how this love comes to be wrought. Adam, in his first estate, 13 was a perfect model of mankind in all their generations, and in him this love was perfected in regard of the habit. But Adam, rent in himself from his Creator, rent all his posterity also one from another.
Whence it comes that every man is born with this principle in him: to love and seek himself only. And thus a man continues till Christ comes and takes possession of the soul and infuses another principle: of love to God and our brother. And this latter, having continual supply from Christ as the head and root by which he is united, gets the predominance in the soul, so by little and little expels the former.
Love cometh of God and every one that loveth is born of God 1 John , so that this love is the fruit of the new birth, and none can have it but the new creature. Now when this quality is thus formed in the souls of men, it works like the Spirit upon the dry bones. It gathers together the scattered bones or perfect old man, Adam,14 and knits them into one body again in Christ whereby a man is become again a living soul.
Jude The outward has been handled in the former preface of this discourse. For unfolding the other we must take in our way that maxim of philosophy, simile simili gaudet 16 or like will to like; for as it is, things which are carved17 with disaffection to each other, the ground of it is from a dissimilitude18 or [blank]19 arising from the contrary or different nature of the things themselves; so the ground of love is an apprehension of some resemblance in the things loved to that which affects it.
This is the cause why the Lord loves the creature, so far as it has any of His Image in it. He loves His elect because they are like Himself. He beholds them in His beloved Son. So a mother loves her child, because she thoroughly20 conceives a resemblance of herself in it. Thus it is between the members of Christ: each discerns by the work of the Spirit his own image and resemblance in another, and therefore cannot but love him as he loves himself.
Now when the soul, which is of a sociable nature, finds any thing like to itself, it is like Adam when Eve was brought to him.
She 21 must have it one with herself. She has a great propensity to do it good, and receives such content23 in it, as fearing the miscarriage of her beloved, she bestows it in the inmost closet of her heart. She will not endure that it shall want any good which she can give it. If by occasion she be withdrawn from the company of it, she is still looking towards the place where she left her beloved. If she hear it groan, she is with it presently.
If she find it sad and disconsolate, she sighs and mourns with it. She has no such joy, as to see her beloved merry 16 More commonly, similis simili gaudet. If she see it wronged, she cannot bear it without passion. She sets no bounds of her affections, nor has any thought of reward. She finds recompense enough in the exercise of her love towards it. We may see this acted to life in Jonathan and David. We converge on inner-city neighborhoods to plant flowers and pick up trash, battering the pride of residents who have the capacity and responsibility to beautify their own environment.
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