Provoke me to love
I mean, thirdly: provoke me to love and to good works (Hebrews 10:24). Second your prayer as you have opportunity, by speaking to me in love whatever you believe to be for my soul's health. Quicken me in the work which God has given me to do, and instruct me how to do it more perfectly. Yea, strike me in friendly kindness and reprove me (Psalm 141:5), in whatever I appear to you to be doing rather my own will than the will of him who sent me. O speak and spare not (Isaiah 58:1) whatever you believe may conduce either to the amending of my faults, the strengthening of my weakness, the building me up in love, or the making me more fit in any kind for the Master's use (2 Timothy 2:21).
1771 text
6. I mean, thirdly, provoke me to love and to good works. Second thy prayer as thou hast opportunity, by speaking to me in love whatsoever thou believest to be for my soul’s health. Quicken me in the work which God has given me to do, and instruct me how to do it more perfectly. Yea smite me friendly and reprove me, wherein soever I appear to thee, to be doing rather my own will, than the will of him that sent me. O speak and spare not, whatever thou believest may conduce, either to the amending my faults, the strengthning my weakness, the building me up in love, or the making me more fit in any kind for the master’s use.
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Sermon 39 in the 1771 Works. 2 Kings 10:15.
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