The Works of the Rev Daniel Waterland

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON II. The Duty of loving our Neighbour as Ourselves, explained. Matthew xxii. 39. The second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. JL HE whole sentence or context runs thus: Thou shah love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and so on: This is the first and great commandment. And...
More Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON II. The Duty of loving our Neighbour as Ourselves, explained. Matthew xxii. 39. The second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. JL HE whole sentence or context runs thus: Thou shah love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and so on: This is the first and great commandment. And the se- cond is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. My present concern is with the commandment to love our neighbour, which is a duty second and similar to that of the love of God. It is second only, or subordinate to ihefast, and therefore not of equal rank, order, dignity, or obligation with it: but stiJl, because it is second to it, and like it, it is also of high rank, order, dignity, and obligation, and only short of the highest commandment of all, in which both this and every other commandment or duty centers. There is this honour done even to the second commandment, though it resolves into thejfr/, that it is here represented as one of the two main beams upon which all other duties hang: not that any thing really hangs upon the second, which hangs not on the Jirst also, (for the second depends upon the first, ) but this second is so considerable both in value and extent, that our Lord was pleased to place it in thatdistinct view, and to set it in that honourable light, in order to recommend it the more strongly to the attention and affection of the hearers. On these two commandments hang all the rest: every duty is summed up and comprised in the love of God, and the love of our neighbour. There are some self-duties, which may be thought to make a third chief head; and Divines have frequently branched out the several duties incumbent upon us, into our duty to God, a...