Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D, Vol. 5 of 9 The words I have chosen are a warm and pathetic question put to the consciences of the disciples, with regard to the great duty ot'charity and love, which our blessed Saviour, had been just preaching in sublimer degrees than the ancient pro theta, Ifyou salute none but your brethren, if you love only those t tat lo'veyou 'or as Luke vi. 33. If you do good them that do good to you, what do you more than others For the publicans and sinners do the same. Persons who make no pretences to godliness, and who neither enjoy the advantages with which you are blessed, nor lie under equal engagements they love their own friends as well as you, and make grateful returns for benefits received they prac tise many duties of morality, but I expect that you my disciples should far excel them, both in the duties you practise, and in the manner of performance: I expect that you should love your ene mies, and should bless them that curse you, anddo good to them. That halcyon, as in verse 44. What is here spoken thus warmly by our Lord to his own disciples, concerning love and civilit and kindness to our fellow-creatures, may with the same justice be. Lpplied to most of the duties which. We owe to God or man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.