Chapter 27
28. Now he is a man of just and holy life who forms an unprejudiced estimate
of things, and keeps his affections also under strict control, so that he
neither loves what he ought not to love, nor fails to love what he ought to
love, nor loves that more which ought to be loved less, nor loves that equally
which ought to be loved either less or more, nor loves that less or more which
ought to be loved equally. No sinner is to be loved as a sinner; and every man
is to be loved as a man for God's sake; but God is to be loved for His own
sake. And if God is to be loved more than any man, each man ought to love God
more than himself. Likewise we ought to love another man better than our own
body, because all things are to be loved in reference to God, and another man
can have fellowship with us in the enjoyment of God, whereas our body cannot;
for the body only lives through the soul, and it is by the soul that we enjoy
God.
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