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1 pref | Preface - Showing that to teach rules for the interpretation 2 pref, 0| great advantage be taught to earnest students of the 3 pref, 0| themselves opening such secrets to others. These rules I propose 4 pref, 0| others. These rules I propose to teach to those who are able 5 pref, 0| rules I propose to teach to those who are able and willing 6 pref, 0| who are able and willing to learn, if God our Lord do 7 pref, 0| the thoughts He is wont to vouchsafe to me in my meditations 8 pref, 0| He is wont to vouchsafe to me in my meditations on 9 pref, 0| undertaking, I think it well to meet the objections of those 10 pref, 0| of those who are likely to take exception to the work, 11 pref, 0| likely to take exception to the work, or who would do 12 pref, 0| men should still be found to make objections, yet at 13 pref, 0| against their assaults), to turn them back from a useful 14 pref, 0| back from a useful study to the dull sloth of ignorance. ~ 15 pref, 0| There are some, then, likely to object to this work of mine, 16 pref, 0| then, likely to object to this work of mine, because 17 pref, 0| because they have failed to understand the rules here 18 pref, 0| that I have spent my labour to no purpose, because, though 19 pref, 0| rules, yet in their attempts to apply them and to interpret 20 pref, 0| attempts to apply them and to interpret Scripture by them, 21 pref, 0| by them, they have failed to clear up the point they 22 pref, 0| that it can be of no use to anybody. There is a third 23 pref, 0| the kind that I propose to lay down here, will cry 24 pref, 0| To reply briefly to all these. 25 pref, 0| To reply briefly to all these. To those who 26 pref, 0| reply briefly to all these. To those who do not understand 27 pref, 0| answer is, that I am not to be blamed for their want 28 pref, 0| as if they were anxious to see the new or the old moon, 29 pref, 0| they had not sight enough to see even my finger, they 30 pref, 0| would surely have no right to fly into a passion with 31 pref, 0| understand my directions, fail to penetrate the meaning of 32 pref, 0| imagined, are just able to see my finger, but cannot 33 pref, 0| though I can move my finger to point out an object, it 34 pref, 0| object, it is out of my power to open men's eyes that they 35 pref, 0| But now as to those who talk vauntingly 36 pref, 0| directions as those I now propose to lay down, and who think, 37 pref, 0| that what I have undertaken to write is entirely superfluous. 38 pref, 0| calm themselves so far as to remember that, however justly 39 pref, 0| teachers they themselves learnt to read. Now, they would hardly 40 pref, 0| man, who, not being able to read himself, is said to 41 pref, 0| to read himself, is said to have committed the Scriptures 42 pref, 0| committed the Scriptures to memory through hearing them 43 pref, 0| dint of wise meditation to have arrived at a thorough 44 pref, 0| that it might be revealed to him; after three days' supplication 45 pref, 0| through a book presented to him on the spot by the astonished 46 pref, 0| with Christians who profess to understand the Scriptures 47 pref, 0| advise all our brethren not to teach their children any 48 pref, 0| apostles immediately began to speak the language of every 49 pref, 0| perversity, we may even refuse to go to the churches to hear 50 pref, 0| we may even refuse to go to the churches to hear the 51 pref, 0| refuse to go to the churches to hear the gospel itself, 52 pref, 0| hear the gospel itself, or to read a book, or to listen 53 pref, 0| itself, or to read a book, or to listen to another reading 54 pref, 0| read a book, or to listen to another reading or preaching, 55 pref, 0| that we shall be carried up to the third heaven, "whether 56 pref, 0| it is not lawful for man to utter, or see the Lord Jesus 57 pref, 0| from heaven, was yet sent to a man to receive the sacraments 58 pref, 0| heaven, was yet sent to a man to receive the sacraments and 59 pref, 0| although an angel announced to him that his prayers were 60 pref, 0| remembrance, was yet handed over to Peter for instruction, and 61 pref, 0| also instructed by him as to the proper objects of faith, 62 pref, 0| without doubt it was possible to have done everything through 63 pref, 0| degraded if God had not chosen to make use of men as the ministers 64 pref, 0| the ministers of His word to their fellow-men. For how 65 pref, 0| everything that He wished to be taught to men by voices 66 pref, 0| that He wished to be taught to men by voices from heaven, 67 pref, 0| not sent by the apostle to an angel, nor was it an 68 pref, 0| it an angel who explained to him what he did not understand, 69 pref, 0| understand the prophet, came to him, and sat with him, and 70 pref, 0| with a human tongue, opened to him the Scriptures. Did 71 pref, 0| the great nation entrusted to him? For Moses knew that 72 pref, 0| it might originate, was to be ascribed not to the man 73 pref, 0| was to be ascribed not to the man who devised it, 74 pref, 0| man who devised it, but to Him who is the Truth, the 75 pref, 0| does he himself undertake to interpret for others? Why 76 pref, 0| rather send them direct to God, that they too may learn 77 pref, 0| The truth is, he fears to incur the reproach: "Thou 78 pref, 0| slothful servant, thou oughtest to have put my money to the 79 pref, 0| oughtest to have put my money to the exchangers." Seeing, 80 pref, 0| follow. For no one ought to consider anything as his 81 pref, 0| He who reads to an audience pronounces aloud 82 pref, 0| that others may be able to read for themselves. Each, 83 pref, 0| Each, however, communicates to others what he has learnt 84 pref, 0| so, the man who explains to an audience the passages 85 pref, 0| that is, shows others how to read for themselves. So 86 pref, 0| just as he who knows how to read is not dependent on 87 pref, 0| else, when he finds a book, to tell him what is written 88 pref, 0| rules which I here attempt to lay down, if he meet with 89 pref, 0| not need an interpreter to lay open the secret to him, 90 pref, 0| interpreter to lay open the secret to him, but, holding fast by 91 pref, 0| no one can justly object to this undertaking of mine, 92 pref, 0| has no other object than to be of service, yet as it 93 pref, 0| as it seemed convenient to reply at the outset to any 94 pref, 0| convenient to reply at the outset to any who might make preliminary 95 pref, 0| start I have thought good to make on the road I am about 96 pref, 0| make on the road I am about to traverse in this book. ~ 97 1, arg | two parts, one relating to the discovery, the other 98 1, arg | the discovery, the other to the expression, of the true 99 1, arg | Scripture. He shows that to discover the meaning we 100 1, arg | meaning we must attend both to things and to signs, as 101 1, arg | attend both to things and to signs, as it is necessary 102 1, arg | signs, as it is necessary to know what things we ought 103 1, arg | know what things we ought to teach to the Christian people, 104 1, arg | things we ought to teach to the Christian people, and 105 1, arg | knowledge of these things is to be sought. In this first 106 1, arg | into three classes, things to be enjoyed, things to be 107 1, arg | things to be enjoyed, things to be used, and things which 108 1, arg | only object which ought to be enjoyed is the Triune 109 1, arg | ascended into heaven, taking to Himself as his bride the 110 1, arg | resurrection of the body to eternal glory; if not, we 111 1, arg | not, we shall be raised to everlasting punishment. 112 1, arg | These matters relating to faith having been expounded, 113 1, arg | expounded, the author goes on to show that all objects, except 114 1, arg | loved, yet our love is not to rest in them, but to have 115 1, arg | not to rest in them, but to have reference to God. And 116 1, arg | them, but to have reference to God. And we ourselves are 117 1, arg | not objects of enjoyment to God: he uses us, but for 118 1, arg | advantage. He then goes on to show that love the love 119 1, 1 | enunciation of the meaning, and is to be undertaken in dependence 120 1, 1 | and one that, if difficult to carry out, it is, I fear, 121 1, 1 | is, I fear, presumptuous to enter upon. And presumptuous 122 1, 1 | fear but that He will go on to supply what is yet wanting 123 1, 1 | wanting when once I have begun to use what He has already 124 1, 1 | yet possessed as it ought to be possessed. The Lord saith, " 125 1, 1 | Lord saith, "Whosoever has, to him shall be given." I He 126 1, 1 | I He will give, then, to those who have; that is 127 1, 1 | those who have; that is to say, if they use freely 128 1, 1 | have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts. The 129 1, 1 | before the disciples began to divide them among the hungry 130 1, 1 | But when once they began to distribute them, though 131 1, 1 | Lord has already vouchsafed to me with a view to undertaking 132 1, 1 | vouchsafed to me with a view to undertaking this work will, 133 1, 1 | will, as soon as I begin to impart them to others, be 134 1, 1 | as I begin to impart them to others, be multiplied by 135 1, 1 | poverty, I shall be made to rejoice in a marvellous 136 1, 2 | thing" in a strict sense, to signify that which is never 137 1, 2 | cast into the bitter waters to make them sweet, nor the 138 1, 2 | call signs: those things, to wit, which are used to indicate 139 1, 2 | to wit, which are used to indicate something else. 140 1, 2 | sign. And so, in regard to this distinction between 141 1, 2 | of the subject according to which I am to discuss things 142 1, 2 | according to which I am to discuss things first and 143 1, 2 | remember that what we have now to consider about things is 144 1, 3 | things, then, which are to be enjoyed, others which 145 1, 3 | enjoyed, others which are to be used, others still which 146 1, 3 | objects of use assist, and (so to speak) support us in our 147 1, 3 | objects, if we set ourselves to enjoy those which we ought 148 1, 3 | enjoy those which we ought to use, are hindered in our 149 1, 4 | For to enjoy a thing is to rest 150 1, 4 | For to enjoy a thing is to rest with satisfaction in 151 1, 4 | in it for its own sake. To use, on the other hand, 152 1, 4 | use, on the other hand, is to employ whatever means are 153 1, 4 | means are at one's disposal to obtain what one desires, 154 1, 4 | unlawful use ought rather to be called an abuse. Suppose, 155 1, 4 | our wandering, and wishing to put an end to our misery, 156 1, 4 | and wishing to put an end to our misery, determined to 157 1, 4 | to our misery, determined to return home. We find, however, 158 1, 4 | land or water, in order to reach that fatherland where 159 1, 4 | fatherland where our enjoyment is to commence. But the beauty 160 1, 4 | these things which we ought to use into objects of enjoyment, 161 1, 4 | enjoyment, we become unwilling to hasten the end of our journey; 162 1, 4 | from God; and if we wish to return to our Father's home, 163 1, 4 | and if we wish to return to our Father's home, this 164 1, 5 | supreme above all, and common to all who enjoy Him, if He 165 1, 5 | all. For it is not easy to find a name that will suitably 166 1, 5 | excellence, unless it is better to speak in this way: The Trinity, 167 1, 5 | Spirit is only Holy Spirit. To all three belong the same 168 1, 6 | nothing more than desire to speak; and if I have said 169 1, 6 | it is not what I desired to say. How do I know this, 170 1, 6 | And so God is not even to be called "unspeakable," 171 1, 6 | called "unspeakable," because to say even this is to speak 172 1, 6 | because to say even this is to speak of Him. Thus there 173 1, 6 | opposition of words is rather to be avoided by silence than 174 1, 6 | avoided by silence than to be explained away by speech. 175 1, 6 | of Him, has condescended to accept the worship of men' 176 1, 6 | medium of our own words to rejoice in His praise. For 177 1, 6 | sound reaches their ears, to think of a nature supreme 178 1, 7 | the form of an endeavour to reach the conception of 179 1, 7 | partly by those which pertain to the bodily senses, partly 180 1, 7 | partly by those which pertain to the intellect and soul, 181 1, 7 | them who are in bondage to sense think that either 182 1, 7 | heavens, or what appears to be most brilliant in the 183 1, 7 | of gods: or if they try to get beyond the universe, 184 1, 7 | the universe, they picture to themselves something of 185 1, 7 | they think that superior to all others. Or if they think 186 1, 7 | shape and form, according to what each man thinks the 187 1, 7 | effort of the intelligence to reach a conception of God, 188 1, 7 | natures that are subject to change. All, however, strive 189 1, 7 | however, strive emulously to exalt the excellence of 190 1, 7 | nor could any one be found to believe that any being to 191 1, 7 | to believe that any being to whom there exists a superior 192 1, 8 | Chap. 8. God to be esteemed above all else 193 1, 8 | that has suggested itself to them, recognize that it 194 1, 8 | and prefer what is living to what is dead; who understand 195 1, 8 | superior in dignity and worth to the mass which is quickened 196 1, 8 | it. Then, when they go on to look into the nature of 197 1, 8 | they consider it inferior to sentient life, such as that 198 1, 8 | that even this is subject to change, they are compelled 199 1, 8 | change, they are compelled to place above it, again, that 200 1, 8 | is, one that has attained to wisdom, was, previous to 201 1, 8 | to wisdom, was, previous to its attaining wisdom, unwise. 202 1, 8 | which is unchangeably wise to one that is subject to change. 203 1, 8 | wise to one that is subject to change. This will be evident, 204 1, 8 | affirm the unchangeable life to be the more excellent, is 205 1, 8 | themselves that is not subject to change. ~ 206 1, 9 | of unchangeable: wisdom to that which is variable~ 207 1, 9 | so egregiously silly as to ask, "How do you know that 208 1, 9 | unchangeable wisdom is preferable to one of change?" For that 209 1, 9 | of all men, and presented to their common contemplation. 210 1, 9 | valuable objects in preference to that which they own to be 211 1, 9 | preference to that which they own to be more excellent and more 212 1, 10 | Chap. 10. To see God, the soul must be 213 1, 10 | since it is our duty fully to enjoy the truth which lives 214 1, 10 | purified that it may have power to perceive that light, and 215 1, 10 | perceive that light, and to rest in it when it is perceived. 216 1, 10 | kind of journey or voyage to our native land. For it 217 1, 10 | that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, 218 1, 11 | becoming incarnate, a pattern to us of purification~ 219 1, 11 | not Wisdom condescended to adapt Himself to our weakness, 220 1, 11 | condescended to adapt Himself to our weakness, and to show 221 1, 11 | Himself to our weakness, and to show us a pattern of holy 222 1, 11 | Yet, since we when we come to Him do wisely, He when He 223 1, 11 | wisely, He when He came to us was considered by proud 224 1, 11 | considered by proud men to have done very foolishly. 225 1, 11 | And since we when we come to Him become strong, He when 226 1, 11 | strong, He when He came to us was looked upon as weak. 227 1, 12 | sense the Wisdom of God came to us~ 228 1, 12 | He is everywhere present to the inner eye when it is 229 1, 12 | and clear, He condescended to make Himself manifest to 230 1, 12 | to make Himself manifest to the outward eye of those 231 1, 12 | foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." ~ 232 1, 12 | but because He appeared to mortal men in the form of 233 1, 12 | mortal flesh, He is said to have come to us. For He 234 1, 12 | He is said to have come to us. For He came to a place 235 1, 12 | come to us. For He came to a place where He had always 236 1, 12 | who in their eagerness to enjoy the creature instead 237 1, 12 | foolishness of preaching to save them that believe? ~ 238 1, 14 | use of remedies is the way to health, so this remedy took 239 1, 14 | this remedy took up sinners to heal and restore them. And 240 1, 14 | the binding, in addition to its mere usefulness, so 241 1, 14 | assumption of humanity adapted to our wounds, curing some 242 1, 14 | just as he who ministers to a bodily hurt in some cases 243 1, 14 | applies contraries, as cold to hot, moist to dry, etc., 244 1, 14 | contraries, as cold to hot, moist to dry, etc., and in other 245 1, 14 | likes, as a round cloth to a round wound, or an oblong 246 1, 14 | wound, or an oblong cloth to an oblong wound, and does 247 1, 14 | not fit the same bandage to all limbs, but puts like 248 1, 14 | all limbs, but puts like to like; in the same way the 249 1, 14 | man has applied Himself to his cure, being Himself 250 1, 14 | immortality so badly as to incur the penalty of death: 251 1, 14 | His mortality so well as to restore us to life. The 252 1, 14 | so well as to restore us to life. The disease was brought 253 1, 14 | through a woman's virgin body. To the same class of opposite 254 1, 14 | as the limbs and wounds to which they are applied: 255 1, 14 | He was born of a woman to deliver us who fell through 256 1, 14 | woman: He came as a man to save us who are men, as 257 1, 14 | who are men, as a mortal to save us who are mortals, 258 1, 14 | who are mortals, by death to save us who were dead. And 259 1, 15 | stimulated by His coming to judgment~ 260 1, 15 | had it in His power thus to take it up again. With what 261 1, 15 | And when men look for Him to come from heaven as the 262 1, 15 | that they retake themselves to diligent preparation, and 263 1, 15 | and learn by holy living to long for His approach, instead 264 1, 15 | and that He has also given to each gifts suitable for 265 1, 15 | what He points out as right to be done, not only without 266 1, 16 | transplanted it from this world to the eternal world, He may 267 1, 16 | eternal world, He may take it to Himself as His bride, without 268 1, 17 | our sins, opened the way to our home~ 269 1, 17 | could He, who was willing to lay Himself down as the 270 1, 17 | and more merciful, except to forgive us all our sins, 271 1, 17 | by being crucified for us to remove the stern decrees 272 1, 18 | chap. 18. The keys given to the Church~ 273 1, 18 | given, therefore, the keys to His Church, that whatsoever 274 1, 18 | loosed in heaven; that is to say, that whosoever in the 275 1, 18 | they should not be remitted to him; but that whosoever 276 1, 18 | good remained for him than to be evil, when he has ceased 277 1, 18 | evil, when he has ceased to have faith in the results 278 1, 20 | chap. 20. The resurrection to damnation~ 279 1, 20 | whose soul does not die to this world and begin here 280 1, 20 | this world and begin here to be conformed to the truth, 281 1, 20 | begin here to be conformed to the truth, falls when the 282 1, 20 | death, and shall revive, not to change his earthly for a 283 1, 20 | heavenly habitation, but to endure the penalty of his 284 1, 21 | And so faith clings to the assurance, and we must 285 1, 21 | that the wicked rise again to endure inconceivable punishment, 286 1, 21 | punishment, and the good to receive eternal life. ~ 287 1, 22 | chap. 22. God alone to be enjoyed~ 288 1, 22 | use, that we may be able to arrive at the full enjoyment 289 1, 22 | question, whether men ought to enjoy, or to use, themselves, 290 1, 22 | whether men ought to enjoy, or to use, themselves, or to do 291 1, 22 | or to use, themselves, or to do both. For we are commanded 292 1, 22 | both. For we are commanded to love one another: but it 293 1, 22 | question whether man is to be loved by man for his 294 1, 22 | else, we use him. It seems to me, then, that he is to 295 1, 22 | to me, then, that he is to be loved for the sake of 296 1, 22 | else. For if a thing is to be loved for its own sake, 297 1, 22 | Neither ought any one to have joy in himself, if 298 1, 22 | clearly, because no one ought to love even himself for his 299 1, 22 | look at himself in relation to God, but turns his mind 300 1, 22 | when he turns from that to enjoy even himself. Wherefore 301 1, 22 | Wherefore if you ought not to love even yourself for your 302 1, 22 | no other man has a right to be angry if you love him 303 1, 22 | thy mind:" so that you are to concentrate all your thoughts, 304 1, 22 | that no part of our life is to be unoccupied, and to afford 305 1, 22 | is to be unoccupied, and to afford room, as it were, 306 1, 22 | as it were, for the wish to enjoy some other object, 307 1, 22 | else may suggest itself to us as an object worthy of 308 1, 22 | object worthy of love is to be borne into the same channel 309 1, 22 | neighbour aright, ought to urge upon him that he too 310 1, 22 | which suffers no stream to be drawn off from itself 311 1, 23 | Man needs no injunction to love himself and his own 312 1, 23 | use are not all, however, to be loved, but those only 313 1, 23 | us in a common relation to God, such as a man or an 314 1, 23 | angel, or are so related to us as to need the goodness 315 1, 23 | are so related to us as to need the goodness of God 316 1, 23 | persecutors, although they used it to attain the favour of God. 317 1, 23 | kinds of things that are to be loved, first, that which 318 1, 23 | truth, he still continues to love himself, and to love 319 1, 23 | continues to love himself, and to love his own body. The soul 320 1, 23 | very great if it is able to lord it over its companions, 321 1, 23 | inherent in the sinful soul to desire above all things, 322 1, 23 | desire above all things, and to claim as due to itself, 323 1, 23 | things, and to claim as due to itself, that which is properly 324 1, 23 | that which is properly due to God only. Now such love 325 1, 23 | desire what is beneath it to be obedient to it while 326 1, 23 | beneath it to be obedient to it while itself will not 327 1, 23 | the health of the soul is to cling steadfastly to the 328 1, 23 | is to cling steadfastly to the better part, that is, 329 1, 23 | the better part, that is, to the unchangeable God. But 330 1, 23 | God. But when it aspires to lord it even over those 331 1, 24 | must be a spirit. And as to the fact that they seem 332 1, 24 | that they seem in some sort to scourge their bodies by 333 1, 24 | exercise of the body itself to root out those lusts that 334 1, 24 | those lusts that are hurtful to the body, that is, those 335 1, 24 | affections of the soul that lead to the enjoyment of unworthy 336 1, 24 | these are contrary the one to the other." For this is 337 1, 24 | the spirit lusteth, not to destroy the body, but to 338 1, 24 | to destroy the body, but to eradicate the lust of the 339 1, 24 | its evil habit and thus to make it subject to the spirit, 340 1, 24 | thus to make it subject to the spirit, which is what 341 1, 24 | having become wholly subject to the spirit, will live in 342 1, 24 | will live in perfect peace to all eternity; even in this 343 1, 24 | we must make it an object to have the carnal habit changed 344 1, 24 | loves should be subject to the higher principle; and 345 1, 24 | flesh, is working as it were to destroy the ill founded 346 1, 24 | peace of an evil habit, and to bring about the real peace 347 1, 24 | bodies would be prepared to sacrifice one eye, even 348 1, 24 | unless some object was to be attained which would 349 1, 24 | same kind are sufficient to show those who candidly 350 1, 25 | Man, therefore, ought to be taught the due measure 351 1, 25 | he may love himself so as to be of service to himself. 352 1, 25 | himself so as to be of service to himself. For that he does 353 1, 25 | himself, and does desire to do good to himself, nobody 354 1, 25 | and does desire to do good to himself, nobody but a fool 355 1, 25 | fool would doubt. He is to be taught, too, in what 356 1, 25 | taught, too, in what measure to love his body, so as to 357 1, 25 | to love his body, so as to care for it wisely and within 358 1, 25 | his body also, and desires to keep it safe and sound. 359 1, 25 | have been found voluntarily to suffer both pains and amputations 360 1, 25 | more highly. But no one is to be told not to desire the 361 1, 25 | no one is to be told not to desire the safety and health 362 1, 25 | very fond of and desires to heap up, but it is because 363 1, 25 | sustains. It is superfluous to argue longer on a point 364 1, 25 | wicked men often compels us to do. ~ 365 1, 26 | chap. 26. The command to love God and our neighbour 366 1, 26 | neighbour includes a command to love ourselves~ 367 1, 26 | violated, and which is common to us with the beasts (for 368 1, 26 | only remained necessary to lay injunctions upon us 369 1, 26 | injunctions upon us in regard to God above us, and our neighbour 370 1, 26 | classes of things that are to be loved is overlooked in 371 1, 26 | evident all other things are to find their centre in Him, 372 1, 26 | centre in Him, nothing seems to be said about our love for 373 1, 27 | loves what he ought not to love, nor fails to love 374 1, 27 | ought not to love, nor fails to love what he ought to love, 375 1, 27 | fails to love what he ought to love, nor loves that more 376 1, 27 | loves that more which ought to be loved less, nor loves 377 1, 27 | that equally which ought to be loved either less or 378 1, 27 | less or more which ought to be loved equally. No sinner 379 1, 27 | loved equally. No sinner is to be loved as a sinner; and 380 1, 27 | sinner; and every man is to be loved as a man for God' 381 1, 27 | for God's sake; but God is to be loved for His own sake. 382 1, 27 | own sake. And if God is to be loved more than any man, 383 1, 27 | any man, each man ought to love God more than himself. 384 1, 27 | himself. Likewise we ought to love another man better 385 1, 27 | because all things are to be loved in reference to 386 1, 27 | to be loved in reference to God, and another man can 387 1, 28 | chap. 28. How we are to decide whom to aid~ 388 1, 28 | How we are to decide whom to aid~ 389 1, 28 | Further, all men are to be loved equally. But since 390 1, 28 | since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special 391 1, 28 | do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those 392 1, 28 | are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents 393 1, 28 | commodity, and felt bound to give it away to somebody 394 1, 28 | felt bound to give it away to somebody who had none, and 395 1, 28 | that it could not be given to more than one person; if 396 1, 28 | fairer than choose by lot to which you would give what 397 1, 28 | what could not be given to both. Just so among men: 398 1, 28 | happens for the time being to be more closely connected 399 1, 29 | chap. 29. We are to desire and endeavour that 400 1, 29 | God, we love partly those to whom we render services, 401 1, 29 | those who render services to us, partly those who both 402 1, 29 | look for none. We ought to desire, however, that they 403 1, 29 | accept from them should tend to that one end. For in the 404 1, 29 | works in every way he can to secure new admirers for 405 1, 29 | more anxious he becomes to show him to others; and 406 1, 29 | anxious he becomes to show him to others; and if he find any 407 1, 29 | indifferent, he does all he can to excite his interest by urging 408 1, 29 | strives in every way he can to remove it. Now, if this 409 1, 29 | what does it become us to do who live in the fellowship 410 1, 29 | true happiness of life, to whom all who love Him owe 411 1, 29 | fear that any one who comes to know Him will be disappointed 412 1, 29 | our love, not for any gain to Himself, but that those 413 1, 29 | For if they would turn to Him, they must of necessity 414 1, 30 | 30. Whether angels are to be reckoned our neighbours~ 415 1, 30 | enjoyment of Him whom we long to enjoy; and the more we enjoy 416 1, 30 | more easy do we find it to bear our pilgrimage, and 417 1, 30 | But it is not irrational to ask whether in those two 418 1, 30 | that He who commanded us to love our neighbour made 419 1, 30 | Apostle Paul. For when the man to whom our Lord delivered 420 1, 30 | those two commandments, and to whom He said that on these 421 1, 30 | going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, fell among thieves, 422 1, 30 | that nobody was neighbour to this man except him who 423 1, 30 | upon him and came forward to relieve and care for him. 424 1, 30 | himself interrogated in turn. To whom our Lord says, "Go 425 1, 30 | neighbour whom it is our duty to help in his need, or whom 426 1, 30 | whom it would be our duty to help if he were in need. 427 1, 30 | duty it would be in turn to help us is our neighbour. 428 1, 30 | can be neighbour except to a neighbour. And, again, 429 1, 30 | made of any one as a person to whom the offices of mercy 430 1, 30 | Lord extends the rule even to our enemies? "Love your 431 1, 30 | Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you." ~ 432 1, 30 | thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour." Whoever 433 1, 30 | this precept, is compelled to admit, what is at once most 434 1, 30 | Christian or were an enemy, to commit adultery with his 435 1, 30 | adultery with his wife, or to kill him, or to covet his 436 1, 30 | wife, or to kill him, or to covet his goods. And as 437 1, 30 | clear that every man is to be considered our neighbour, 438 1, 30 | neighbour, because we are to work no ill to any man. ~ 439 1, 30 | because we are to work no ill to any man. ~ 440 1, 30 | But now, if every one to whom we ought to show, or 441 1, 30 | every one to whom we ought to show, or who ought to show 442 1, 30 | ought to show, or who ought to show to us, the of offices 443 1, 30 | show, or who ought to show to us, the of offices of mercy 444 1, 30 | manifest that the command to love our neighbour embraces 445 1, 30 | by turning the attention to many passages of Holy Scripture. 446 1, 30 | Himself, our Lord, desired to be called our neighbour. 447 1, 30 | Lord Jesus Christ points to Himself under the figure 448 1, 30 | the man who brought aid to him who was lying half dead 449 1, 30 | our nature, the command to love God is distinct from 450 1, 30 | God is distinct from that to love our neighbour. For 451 1, 30 | goodness, but we show pity to one another on account of 452 1, 31 | for use, there seems still to be something that requires 453 1, 31 | ignorant or in doubt as to the fact that the light 454 1, 31 | says most plainly, "I said to the LORD, Thou art my God, 455 1, 31 | uses us, I am at a loss to discover in what way He 456 1, 32 | objects, we do so with a view to the full enjoyment of the 457 1, 32 | use of us, has reference to His own goodness. For it 458 1, 32 | AM," and "Thou shalt say to them, I AM has sent me unto 459 1, 32 | their existence entirely to Him, and are good only so 460 1, 32 | so far as He has given it to them to be so. That use, 461 1, 32 | He has given it to them to be so. That use, then, which 462 1, 32 | then, which God is said to make of us has no reference 463 1, 32 | make of us has no reference to His own advantage, but to 464 1, 32 | to His own advantage, but to ours only; and, so far as 465 1, 32 | concerned, has reference only to His goodness. When we take 466 1, 32 | leave the mercy we show to him who needs it to go without 467 1, 32 | show to him who needs it to go without reward. Now this 468 1, 33 | proud angel arrogate this to themselves, and are glad 469 1, 33 | themselves, and are glad to have the hope of others 470 1, 33 | we are weary and anxious to stay with them and rest 471 1, 33 | in them, set themselves to recruit our energies with 472 1, 33 | then urge us thus refreshed to go on our way towards Him, 473 1, 33 | admonisheth the man who is about to worship him, that he should 474 1, 33 | made happy, and you rejoice to have come to Him in whose 475 1, 33 | you rejoice to have come to Him in whose presence you 476 1, 33 | And accordingly, Paul says to Philemon, "Yea, brother, 477 1, 33 | in the immediate context to "enjoy" is used in the sense 478 1, 33 | is used in the sense of to "use with delight." For 479 1, 33 | delight, and make it a means to that which you are permanently 480 1, 33 | which you are permanently to rest in, you are using it, 481 1, 33 | is an abuse of language to say that you enjoy it. But 482 1, 33 | enjoy it. But if you cling to it, and rest in it, finding 483 1, 33 | truly and properly said to enjoy it. And this we must 484 1, 34 | 34. Christ the first way to God~ 485 1, 34 | Christ, desiring not only to give the possession to those 486 1, 34 | only to give the possession to those who had completed 487 1, 34 | completed the journey, but also to be Himself the way to those 488 1, 34 | also to be Himself the way to those who were just setting 489 1, 34 | setting out, determined to take a fleshly body. Whence 490 1, 34 | is, that those who wished to come might begin their journey 491 1, 34 | after God who called him to the reward of His heavenly 492 1, 34 | their journey who desire to attain to the truth, and 493 1, 34 | journey who desire to attain to the truth, and to rest in 494 1, 34 | attain to the truth, and to rest in eternal life. For 495 1, 34 | that is, by me men come, to me they come, in me they 496 1, 34 | they rest. For when we come to Him, we come to the Father 497 1, 34 | we come to Him, we come to the Father also, because 498 1, 34 | us, so that we are able to rest permanently in the 499 1, 34 | far as He has condescended to be our way, is willing to 500 1, 34 | to be our way, is willing to detain us, but wishes us