Graphautarkeia, or, The Scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship or manners is reduced to its proper head, weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated and explained by others more plain.

In Particular. 1st, To love God, and the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

I'the Lord thy God, &c. shewing mercy unto thousands of them who love me, Exod. 20. 6.

The Lord our God, one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might, Deut. 6. 4, 5.

The Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love him, Deut. 7. 9.

And now Israel, what doth God require of thee, but, &c. to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul? Deut. 10. 12.

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, &c. If you shall hearken, &c. to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, &c. that I will, &c. Deut. 11. 1, 13.

The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, Deut. 13. 3.

And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, Deut. 30. 6.

Take diligent heed to do the commandment, &c. to love the Lord your God, Joshua 22. 5.

Take good heed therefore unto your selves (or souls) that ye love the Lord your God, Joshua 23. 11.

O love the Lord, all ye his saints, &c. Psal. 31. 23.

I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice, Psal. 116. 1.

Thy name is as ointment poured out, therefore do the virgins love thee, Cant. 1. 3.

Thus faith the Lord, I remember thee (or for thy sake) the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wil∣derness, Jer. 2. 2.

Judah hath prophaned the holiness of the Lord, whom he loved (or ought to love) Malachi 2. 11.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment, &c. On these, &c. hang all the law and the prophets, Matt. 22. 37, 38, 39, 40.

Iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold, Matt. 24. 12.

Her sins which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little, Luk. 7. 47.

He who loveth me, shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will manifest my self to him, &c. VVe will come unto him, and make our a∣bode with him, John 14. 21, 23.

Peter, &c. lovest thou me more than these? he saith unto him, yea Lord, thou knowest that I love thee, &c. Again the second and third time, John. 21. 15, 16, 17.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the holy Ghosts, Rom. 5. 5.

If any man love God, the same is known of him, 1 Cor. 8. 3.

Though I speak with the tongue of men and angels, and have not charity,

I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling-cymbal: and though I have the gift of prophesie, and understand all mysteries, &c. I have all faith, &c. and have no charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have no charity, it profiteth me nothing, &c. Charity never faileth, &c. Now abideth faith, hope, charity; but the greatest of these is charity, 1 Cor. 13. 1, 2, 3, 8, 13.

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha, 1 Cor. 16. 22.

Whether we are besides our selves, it is to God, &c. for the love of Christ constraineth us, 2 Cor. 5. 13, 14.

Circumcision availeth nothing, &c. but faith which worketh by love, &c. fruit of the spirit is love, Gal. 5. 6, 22.

The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, 2 Thes. 3. 5.

Hearing of thy love, &c. which thou hast towards the Lord Jesus, &c. Phil. ver. 5.

God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name, Heb. 6. 10.

Jesus Christ, whom having not seen, ye love, 1 Pet. 1. 7, 8.

God is love; and he who dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him, &c. there is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, &c. He who feareth, is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, is a lyar: for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 1 John 4. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, &c. 1 John 5. 2.

I have something against thee, because thou hast left thy first love: remem∣ber therefore from whence thou art fallen, &c. Rev. 2. 4, 5.