(i) love for others;
(ii) dislike for slander;
(iii) candour;
(iv) refutation of error;
(v) non-conformity;
(vi) dislike of worldliness, including love of money;
(vii) prudence;
(viii) love of prayer.
I enjoyed reading about the focus of Henry's mind: 'Alluding to the prospect of an interview with his personally unknown friend, Mr. Thoresby, he thus beautifully expressed the habitual temper of his mind. "This is not the world we are to be together in ; but there is such a world before us ; where we 'shall be together for ever, and with the Lord.' To the general assembly of the church of the first-born, which are written in heaven, we are already come in faith and hope ; by virtue of which we meet daily at the same throne of grace ; and have comfort in a spiritual communion with 'all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord ; both theirs and ours.' This is an earnest of that blissful state in which we shall be with all the saints ; none but saints ; and saints made perfect ;' where Luther and Calvin are both of a mind. God keep us ^ looking for that blessed hope."'
We must keep looking forward to the world in which all saints will be perfectly united, including Luther and Calvin!
R
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