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And as Charitie binds you to seek to be reconciled to those whom you have injured, and to obtain their pardon; so it like∣wise engageth you to forgive those by whom you have been wrong'd. And indeed the for∣giving other their Trespasses, is the condition of obtaining the forgiveness of your own: for if you forgive men their Trespasses,
your heavenly Father will for∣give you; but if you forgive not men their Trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your Trespasses. This was our Sa∣viours own Doctrine (Mat. 18. from vers. 23. to the end) and also his Practice, when he pray'd for the forgiveness of his Cruci∣fiers, and that at a time too when his own most gracious A∣gonies and Pains might justly have diverted all respect to o∣thers, especially to those who were then actually putting him to death. How dismal then is your condition, if instead of ha∣ving your heart replenished with Charitie, it be full of Ma∣lice! if instead of obeying the Doctrine, and following the Ex∣ample of Christ, you act quite contrary! If you find your brest barren of this kindness to your fellow-Christians, pretend not to any real respect to the blessed
Author of that Name. For if a man say, I love God, and hateth his * 1.1 brother, he is a lyar: for he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he never saw? You never beheld God with any eye but that of Faith; and therefore could never have opportunitie (if he needed it) to shew any kindness to his Person. So that all you can do to testifie you love him, is your Obedience to his Commands; whereof this is the sum, That he who loveth God, loves his brother also, 1 John 4. 21.
1 John 4. 20.