Love suffers long
Love, for that is what one wishes the word had been rendered throughout, being a far plainer and less ambiguous word than charity, the love of our neighbor as Christ has loved us, suffers long (1 Corinthians 13:4). It is patient toward all people. It suffers all the weakness, ignorance, errors, and infirmities, all the stubbornness and littleness of faith, of the children of God, and all the malice and wickedness of the children of the world. And it suffers all this, not only for a time, for a short season, but to the end, still feeding our enemy when he hungers, and if he thirsts, still giving him drink, and so continually heaping coals of fire, of melting love, upon his head (Romans 12:20).
1771 text
3. Charity, or Love (as it were to be wished it had been rendered throughout, being a far plainer and less ambiguous word) the love of our neighbour as Christ hath loved us, suffereth long, is patient toward all men. It suffers all the weakness, ignorance, errors, infirmities, all the frowardness and littleness of faith, in the children of God; all malice and wickedness of the children of the world. And it suffers all this, not only for a time, for a short season, but to the end: still feeding our enemy when he hungers: if he thirst, still giving him drink: thus continually heaping coals of fire, of melting love, upon his head.
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Sermon 22 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:5-7.
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