[ 1160] Likenesse to be a motive to lovelinesse.
THe Naturall Philosophers and others,* 1.1 write of a monstrous bird called an Harpy, which having the face of a Man, is of so fierce and cruel na∣ture, that, being hunger-bitten, will seize upon a Man and kill him; but after∣wards making to the water to quench her thirst, and there espying her own face, and perceiving it to be like the Man, whom she had devoured, is so surprized with grief,* 1.2 that she dies immediately: Thus our likenesse to Christ, and his like∣nesse to us in all things (sin onely excepted) ought to be an argument of Love, not of hatred;* 1.3 Birds of a feather will flock and keep together; Beasts, though by Nature cruel, yet will defend those of their kind: How much more should one Man love another, bear with one another, and stand by one another in the midst of any dang••r or difficulty whatsoever, they being all fellow-members of that mystical body whereof Christ Iesus is the Head.