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| Chapter XIV.—Exhortations to faith and love.
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Chapter XIV.—Exhortations to faith
and love.
None
of these things is hid from you, if ye perfectly possess that faith and
love towards Christ Jesus580
which are
the beginning and the end of life. For the beginning is faith, and the
end is love.581
Now these two, being inseparably
connected together,582
| 582
Literally, “being in unity.” | are of God, while
all other things which are requisite for a holy life follow after them.
No man [truly] making a profession of faith
sinneth;583
nor does he that
possesses love hate any one. The tree is made manifest by its fruit;584
so those that profess themselves to be
Christians shall be recognised by their conduct. For there is not now a
demand for mere profession,585
| 585 Literally, “there is not now the work of
profession.” | but that a man be found continuing in the
power of faith to the end.
Wherefore none of the devices of the devil shall be
hidden from you, if, like Paul, ye perfectly possess that faith and love
towards Christ586
which are the beginning
and the end of life. The beginning of life is faith, and the end is love.
And these two being inseparably connected together, do perfect the man of
God; while all other things which are requisite to a holy life follow
after them. No man making a profession of faith ought to
sin, nor one possessed of love to hate his brother. For He that said,
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,”587
said also, “and thy neighbour as thyself.”588
Those that profess themselves to be
Christ’s are known not only by what they say, but by what they
practise. “For the tree is known by its fruit.”589
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