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 ward emotion contrary to love, tho' it go no farther than the heart. Be angry at sin, at an affront offered to the Majesty of heaven; but love the sinner still: like our Lord, who ''looked round about upon the Pharisees with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts''. He was grieved at the sinners, angry at the sin. Thus be thou angry and sin not.

9. * Now do thou hunger and thirst, not for ''the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life''. Trample under foot the world and the things of the world: all these riches, honours, pleasures. What is the world to thee? Let the dead bury their dead: but follow thou after the image of God. And beware of quenching that blessed thirst, if it is already excited in thy soul, by what is vulgarly called religion, a poor, dull farce, a religion of form, of outside show, which leaves the heart still cleaving to the dust, as earthly and sensual as ever. Let nothing satisfy thee but the power of godliness, but a religion that is spirit and life; the dwelling in God and God in thee; the being an inhabitant of eternity; the entering in by the blood of sprinkling within the veil, and sitting in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.

10. Now, seeing thou canst do all things thro' Christ strengthening thee, be merciful as thy Father in heaven is merciful. Love thy neighbour as thyself. Love friends and enemies as thy own soul. And let thy love be long-suffering, and