...evidence of the other. If a man finl, I love (rod, and hateth his brother, he is a liar—By this tec know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep, his commandments* There is fuch a thing as fartialily to men, as obferved before, with refpect to the points in which...

...love all their brethren because they bear the image of their Father. Ver. 2. — 1. By this lie knots that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. Grotius, to render the apostle's reasoning clear, thinks the original should be construed and translated...

...Father, and therefore they love his children also. Hear what the same apostle saith, '1 John v. 1. "Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him." Others, who are not children of God, will either make no difference between persons, or will even hate,...

...of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever*. 2. If you love Christ, you love his people. Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him\. In the nature of things it cannot be otherwise. The people of Christ are his representatives on i-...

...Every oaethat loveth him who begat, loveth him also tlut is begotten of him. By this we know, th.it we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments." Love to God is an approbation of, and pleasedness with his moral character — his holiness, justice,...

...their sanctity or holiness ; then we love God in them, and so may conclude, we are born of God : For, " Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him," 1 John v. 1 . Hypocrites may love saints, on account of a civil relation to them ; br cause of their...

...the wicked, nor condemn the just. It influences a man to love God, and to love those that love him. " Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him." It is this spirit of wisdom that makes a man a freeborn citizen of Zion; and the character of such...

...all who are not " born of God." " Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is " born of God ; and every one that loveth him that " begat, loveth him also, that is begotten of him."1 Nowj if every true believer in Christ has been born of God ; and if none, as adults, are properly...

...desire that in all things God may be glorified, though it were by my dishonour and loss ? r vice ? ** He that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him." 6. Do I choose rather to be the proverb and reproach of all the ungodly among whom I dwell, than to...

...love of God in his heart, which attracts his affections both to God and to the child of God. " He who loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him :" love to God and our neighbour are the two grand hinges on which hangs the ministry of all the law...