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3. That charity and brotherly
affection are to be religiously and stedfastly practised.
In Malachi: “Hath not one God created
us? Is there not one Father of us all? Why have ye
certainly deserted every one his brother?”4184
Of this same thing according
to John: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto
you.”4185
Also
in the same place: “This is my commandment, That ye love
one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love than this has
no man, than that one should lay down his life for his
friends.”4186
Also
in the same place: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the sons of God.”4187
Also in the same place:
“Verily I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth
concerning everything, whatever you shall ask it shall be given you
from my Father which is in heaven. For wherever two or three are
gathered together in my name, I am with them.”4188
Of this same thing in the
first Epistle to the Corinthians: “And I indeed, brethren,
could not speak unto you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to babes
in Christ. I have given you milk for drink, not meat: for
while ye were yet little ye were not able to bear it, neither now are
ye able. For ye are still carnal: for where there are in
you emulation, and strife, and dissensions, are ye not carnal, and walk
after man?”4189
Likewise in the same place: “And if I should have all
faith, so that I can remove mountains, but have not charity, I am
nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods for food, and if
I should deliver up my body to be burned, but have not charity, I avail
nothing. Charity is great-souled; charity is kind; charity
envieth not; charity dealeth not falsely; is not puffed up; is not
irritated; thinketh not evil; rejoiceth not in injustice, but rejoiceth
in the truth. It loveth all things, believeth all things, hopeth
all things, beareth all things. Charity shall never
fail.”4190
Of
this same thing to the Galatians: “Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and accuse one another, see
that ye be not consumed one of another.”4191
Of this same thing in the Epistle
of John: “In this appear the children of God and the
children of the devil. Whosoever is not righteous is not of God,
and he who loveth not his brother. For he who hateth his brother
is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding
in him.”4192
Also
in the same place: “If any one shall say that he loves God,
and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he who loveth not his
brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth
not?”4193
Of this
same thing in the Acts of the Apostles: “But the multitude
of them that had believed acted with one soul and mind: nor was
there among them any distinction, neither did they esteem as their own
anything of the possessions that they had; but all things were common
to them.”4194
Of
this same thing in the Gospel according to Matthew: If thou
wouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy
brother hath ought against thee; leave thou thy gift before the altar,
and go; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy
gift at the altar.”4195
Also in the Epistle of
John: “God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
God, and God in him.”4196
Also in the same place:
“He who saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is a
liar, and walketh in darkness even until now.”4197
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