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Expositions on the Book of Psalms: Psalms 53-75
Expositions on the Book of Psalms Psalms 5375 Author:Augustine 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: 78 Our Lard the Example for our Love. He can be foilowed. Lst. PSALM LVII. EXPOSITION. 1. We have heard in the Gospel just now, brethren, how loveth us ... more »our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God with the i circa Father, Man with us, out of our own selves, now at' the right hand of the Father; ye have heard how much He loveth us. For the measure of His own love He hath even Himself prescribed, and upon us hath laid it, saying that John is, His commandment is, that we should love one another. J ' And that we should not inquire doubting and fretting how much we ought to love one another, and how much that perfect love is which is pleasing to God, (for that is perfect than which greater there cannot be,) He hath Himself John 16,expressed, hath taught, and He saith, Greater love than 13' this no one hath, than that a man should lay down his life for his friends. He hath Himself done that which He taught; the Apostles have done that which from Him they learned, and by us that it be done they have preached. Let us also do thus; because even if we are not what He was, in respect of this, that He created us, what He was nevertheless we are, in respect of that which He was made because of us. And if He alone had done, perchance no one of us ought to dare to imitate Him: for in such sort He was Man, as that God also He was: but in that Man He was, servants have imitated Lord, and disciples Master; and they have done that have gone before us in His own Family, our fathers indeed, but nevertheless our fellow-servants ; nor would God command that we should do this, if impossible He judged it, that this by man should be done. But considering thy weakness, dost thou faint under the command ? be comforted in the example. But even the example for tnee is a great thing. There is ...« less