Toward your neighbor
Is your heart right toward your neighbor? Do you love as yourself all mankind without exception (Matthew 22:39)? If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you (Luke 6:32)? Do you love your enemies? Is your soul full of goodwill, of tender affection toward them? Do you love even the enemies of God, the unthankful and unholy (2 Timothy 3:2)? Do your bowels yearn over them? Could you wish yourself (temporally) accursed for their sake (Romans 9:3)? And do you show this by blessing those who curse you, and praying for those who spitefully use you and persecute you (Matthew 5:44)?
1771 text
17. Is thy heart right toward thy neighbour? Dost thou love as thyself, all mankind without exception? If you love those only that love you, what thank have you? Do you love your enemies? Is your soul full of good-will, of tender affection toward them? Do you love even the enemies of God? The unthankful and unholy? Do your bowels yearn over them? Could you wish yourself (temporally) accurst for their sake? And do you shew this, by blessing them that curse you, and praying for those that despitefully use you and persecute you?
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 39 in the 1771 Works. 2 Kings 10:15.
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