Christian Love
by Hugh Binning
The Scottish Covenanter Hugh Binning argues from John 13:35 that love for one another is the badge Christ left his disciples, and that believers disown their Master when they cast it aside over every disagreement. Rooting love in humility and meekness after Christ's own pattern, the work is paired in this edition with three sermons from The Sinner's Sanctuary.
Based on A Treatise of Christian Love (c. 1735), by Hugh Binning
Puritan quotes
Quotes by Hugh Binning
“Self-knowledge is the mother of humility.”
“Charity is apt to take all things in the best sense.”
“In love a Christian should be like his Father, and there is nothing in which he resembles him more than in this, to walk in love towards all men.”
“Self love and pride were the first poison that the malice of Satan dropped into man's nature, and this is so strong and pestilent, that it has spread through the whole of mankind, and the whole in every man.”
“There is a greater moment and weight of Christianity in charity than in the most part of those things for which Christians bite and devour one another.”
“We are not our own, therefore we ought not to live to ourselves, but to God, whose we are.”
“Temptation were no temptation, if our hearts were not wicked hearts.”
“I beseech you consider, that what you give your time, pains, thoughts and affections to, that is your God.”
“A believing soul looks upon God as its only portion, accounts nothing misery but to be separated from Him.”
“Whatever you hear or know of God, know that it is vain and empty unless it descend down into the heart to fashion it to his fear and love.”