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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: THE SIXTH SERMON, PREACHED ON THE FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT, 1552, BY MASTER HUGH LATIMER. ROMANS XIII. [8, 9.] Owe nothing to any man but this, that ye love one another: for he that loveth another fulfilleth the law. For this command- j-Vu ment, Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: fnAf?ndtly Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not lust, and so forth; if there be any other command- ment, it is all comprehended in this saying. As for the first part of this epistle, we have1 spoken of it before. For St Paul entreateth of love; and I told you A dew tht how2 that love is a thing which we owe3 one to another; and MfM. we are never quit4 of this debt, we can never discharge ourselves of it: for as long as we live we are in that debt. I will not tarry now to entreat of it; for I told you, since I came into this country, certain special properties of this love. Therefore, I will only desire you to consider, that this love is the livery of Christ; they that have this livery be I.o u his servants. Again, they that have it not, be the servants uvery. of the devil; for Christ saith, By this they shall know that John urn. ye be my disciples, if ye love one another. They that bear ill will, hatred, and malice, to their neighbours be the devil's servants. And whatsoever such men do that hate their neighbours, pleaseth not God; God abhorreth it; they and all their doings stink before him. For if we would go about i cor. iiu. to sacrifice and offer unto God a great part of our substance, if we lack love, it is all to no purpose; he abhorreth all our doings: therefore our Saviour giveth us warning, that we shall know that our doings please not God when we are out of charity with our neighbour, have grieved, or injured him. These be hi...

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