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Excerpt from The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution: Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World; With Considerations and Discourses Upon the Several Parts of the Story, and Prayers Fitted to the Several Mysteries
But becaufe god is not onely excellent and good, bur by being fupreme Lord hathopower to give us what lawes he pleafe obedience to'his la'wes therefore becomes namrally, but.confequentlynecelfary, when god decrees them becaufe he does make himfelfe an enemy to all rebells and difobe. Dient fons by afiixing penalties to the tranfgrefi'qrs and therefore 'difobe dience is naturally inconfrf'tent, not onely withlove to our felves abecaufe it brings af?ictions upon us, but with love to our fupreme law - giver 5 it is' contrary to the naturall love we beare to god fo underflood becaufe it makes him our enemy who naturally and reafonably we cannot but love, and therefore alfo Oppofit to the firf't appetite of man which law be like god, in order'to which we have naturally no inftrument but love, and the eonfequents: of love.
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