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OHN, the beloved diſciple, in his Epiſtles, is ſtill breathing love; love is the ſtring he delights particularly to harp upon: So he is either magnifying God's love to us, or preſſing our love to God, and to one another. - And his darling ſubject, love, is no narrow one, but moſt comprehenſive; it comprehends both the goſpel and the law, both faith and works. The love of God to man is the great doctrine of the goſpel, the object of faith; mens love to God, and to one another, is the great doctrine of the law of the ten commandments, and the object of holy practice. And there is a near relation between the two: God's love is the fountain, our love the ſtream; the former the original holy fire, the latter the flame kindled by it. Accordingly, in the text, there is a diſplay of the love of God, for moving us to love one another; the which diſplay of divine love is the ſubſtance of the goſpel.

Here then we have the goſpel, which all the apoſtles were in one voice to preach unto the world; 'We have ſeen, and do teſtify, that the Father ſent the Son to be the