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CHAP. XV.
Concerning hatred.
MAn's obligation extend's to hatred as well as love. The right knowledg then of hatred and love, is the same. All that hath bin proved of love, may be proved of hatred. As the will can love, so can it hate. Hatred alway's follow's love. If man be bound by the law of nature, to love the lord with all his heart, soul, mind and strength, he is consequently bound by the same law, to hate every thing that's against God, with all his heart, soul, mind, and strength; and that, continually and incessantly. Theres the same obligation upon man, to hate all that's contrary to the will of God, as to love God above all. The first and principal thing he ought by the law of nature to hate, is his own private self-will, and that with all his heart, as most contrary to God. And forasmuch as our own honour, praise, glory, and bodily pleasur's, do necessarily follow the love of our own will, in opposition to God's, we ought to hate our own honour, praise, and bodily delights, and conse∣quently all the vices subservient thereunto, cove∣tousnes, envy, wrath, and the rest. As from one principal love, many secondary, subordinate loves do arise; so from one principal hatred, many se∣condary hatreds. Every man ought to hate and