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Defi. Charitie is the indissoluble band of God with vs, whereby wee are inflamed with the loue of him, for that which we owe vnto him, and therby also are induced to loue our neigh∣bours for the loue of God.
CHaritie is the scope of all Gods com∣maundements. Chris.
Charity delayd, is halfe lost.
Charitie raunsommeth vs from sinne, and deliuereth vs from death.
Charitie increaseth fayth, begetteth hope, and maketh vs at one with God.
As the body without the soule enioyeth no life, so all other vertues without charity, are cold and fruitlesse.
Charity is a good and gracious affect of the soule, whereby mans hart hath no fancy to esteeme any thing in this world, before the study to know God. Hermes.
The charitable man is the true louer of God. Seuerus.
As the sunne is to the vvorld, and life to the body, so is charity to the hart.
Charity resembleth fire, vvhich inflameth all things it toucheth. Erasmus.
Charitie in aduersitie is patient, in prospe∣ritie temperate, in passions strong, in good works quicke, in temptations secure, in hos∣pitalitie bountifull, amongst her true chyl∣dren ioyfull, amongst her false friends pati∣ent.
Charitie in midst of iniuries is secure, in hart bountifull, in displeasures meeke, in con∣cealing euills innocent, in truth quiet, at o∣thers misfortune sad, in vertues ioyfull.
Charitie in aduersity fainteth not, because it is patient, and reuengeth not iniuries, be∣cause it is bountifull.
Hee that truely loueth, beleeueth, and ho∣peth. Aug.
By charitie one seeth the glorious light of God. Aug.
Hee alwayes hath to giue that is full of cha∣ritie. Bernard.
To loue with all the soule is to loue wisely, to loue with all the strength, is manfully to suffer for truth, to loue with all our hart, is to prefer the loue of God before all things that flatter vs. Aug.
The measure in louing of God, is to loue him without measure. Bernard.
Charity is the way of man to God, and the way of God to man. Aug.
If any man waxe drunke vvith the loue of God, he is straightwayes apt and ready to all good; he laboureth and is not weary, hee is weary and feeleth it not, the malicious mock him, and he perceiueth it not. Bernard.
The loue of God hath power to transforme man into God.
Charity maketh a man absolute and perfect in all other vertues.
Neither the multitude of trauailes, nor the
antiquity of seruice, but the greatnes of cha∣rity increaseth the reward.
God is charity, vvhat thing is more preci∣ous? & he that dwelleth in charity, dwelleth in God, what thing is more secure? & God in him, what thing is more delectable.
The nature of charity, is to draw all things to it selfe, and to make them participate of it selfe. Lactan.
There is no vertue persit without loue, nor loue without charity.
Charity is neuer idle, but worketh for him it loueth.
The greatest argument of godly loue, is to loue what God loueth.
Charitable loue is vnder no rule, but is Lord of all lawes, and a boundlesse Emperor.
There is true charity, where two seueral bo∣dies haue one vnited hart.
Of charity mixed with mockery, followeth the truth of infamy. Pythag.
Charity is the child of faith, and the guide to euerlasting felicity.
All charity is loue, but not all loue charity. Augustine.
The filthy effects of bribery, hinder excee∣dingly the works of charity. Plato
Charity causeth men to forsake sinne, and
embrace vertue.
Charitie is a word vsed of many, and vnder∣stood but of a few. Cicero.
By charity with God, we learne what is our duty towards man.
By charity, all men, especially Christians, are linked & bound in conscience to releeue one another.
It is the true property of a charitable min∣ded man, louingly to inuite the poore, curte∣ously to intreate them, and quickly to suffer them to depart.
A poore man being in charity is rich, but a rich man without charity, is poore. Aug.
Charitie and pride dooth both feede the poore; the one to the prayse and glorie of God, the other, to get prayse and glorie a∣mongst men.
Tyrannorum vita est, in qua nulla est chari∣tas, nulla fides, nulla stabilis beneuolentiae fidu∣cia, omnia semper suspecta et sollicita sunt, nullus locus amicitiae.
Prata et arua, et pecudūgreges diliguntur isto modo, quod fructus exijs capiuntur, hominis chae∣ritas et amicitia gratuita.