Philadelphia, or, a treatise of brotherly-love Shewing, that we must love all men: love the wicked in general: love our enemies: that the godly must especially love another: and the reasons of each particular love. The manner of our mutual love; the dignity, necessity, excellenc, and usefulness of brotherly-love. That the want of love, where love is due, is hatred, shewed in divers particulars. The greatness of the sin of malice and hatred; with the reasons why wicked men hate the saints: together with cautions against those sins that break the bond of love. Many weighty questions discussed, and divers cases cleared. By William Gearing, minister of the word.

Title

Philadelphia, or, a treatise of brotherly-love Shewing, that we must love all men: love the wicked in general: love our enemies: that the godly must especially love another: and the reasons of each particular love. The manner of our mutual love; the dignity, necessity, excellenc, and usefulness of brotherly-love. That the want of love, where love is due, is hatred, shewed in divers particulars. The greatness of the sin of malice and hatred; with the reasons why wicked men hate the saints: together with cautions against those sins that break the bond of love. Many weighty questions discussed, and divers cases cleared. By William Gearing, minister of the word.

Author

Gearing, William.

Publication

London :: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, at the Gilded Bible on London Bridg, next the Gate,

1670.

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Love -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Right Worshipful Sir John Banks of Ailesford in the County of Kent, Baronet, and to Richard Hampden of Hampden in the County of Buckingham, Esquire; and to the vertuous Ladies, their Wives.
• Index Rerum.
• PHILADELPHIA: OR, A Treatise of BROTHERLY-LOVE.
  • CHAP. I.
    • SECT. I.
    • Sect. II.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII. I come now to the main thing in my Text, and that is Christian-Love: And thence shall ob∣serve,
    • Sect. I.
    • SECT. II.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI. I come in the second place, to shew, How we must manifest our Love in general to the wicked. Here consider, of what we must beware, and what we must do.
    • 1. Of what we must beware.
    • 2. What we must do.
  • CHAP. XII.
    • Sect. 1.
    • SECT. II. Now I will shew, bow no Publicans or wicked men can love their enemies.
    • SECT. III.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • CHAP. XV.
    • Sect. 1.
    • SECT. II.
    • SECT. III.
    • SECT. IV.
    • SECT. V.
    • SECT. VI.
    • SECT. VII.
    • SECT. VIII.
  • CHAP. XVI.
    • Sect. I.
    • SECT. II.
    • SECT. III.
  • CHAP. XVII.
    • SECT. I.
    • SECT. II.
  • CHAP. XVIII.
  • CHAP. XIX.
    • SECT. I.
    • SECT. II.
    • SECT. III.
  • CHAP. XX.
    • Sect. I.
    • SECT. II.
    • SECT. III.
    • SECT. IV.
    • SECT. V.
  • CHAP. XXI.
  • CHAP. XXII.
  • CHAP. XXIII.
  • CHAP. XXIV.
  • CHAP. XXV.
  • CHAP. XXVI.
  • CHAP. XXVII.
  • CHAP. XXVIII.
• Books to be sold by Thomas Parkhurst, at the Golden Bible on London-Bridg.