The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 9.

Loue, (saith the Apostle) doth no euill to his neighbour: therefore is loue the ful∣filling of the lawe.

For, all the law is fulfilled in one vvord, which is this: Thou shalt loue thy neigh∣bour as thy selfe.

Wherefore,] If any man say, I loue God, and hate his brother, he is a lyer; for howe can hee that loueth not his brother whom he hath seene, loue God, whom he neuer saw?

Moreouer; Whosoeuer he be, that hath this worlds good, & seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from him: howe dwelleth the loue of God in him?

For, by the true and perfect loue which we beare vnto God, we rightly vnderstand what our dutie is towards our neighbour.

And, this is the cōmaundement of God, which we haue heard from the beginning: That we should loue one another. * Euen as Christ himselfe hath loued vs.

Notes

• Rom, 13, 10
• Gala. 5, 14.
• 1, Ioh, 4, 20.
• 1, Iohn. 3, 17
• Erasmus.
• 1, Ioh, 3, 11.
• Ephe, 5, 2.