“NOW to obtain an Interest in your Redeemer’s Love,

LABOUR to know your Need of him, as well as his Ability and Readiness to relieve all that take their Flight to him.

BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ.

THINK much on the Riches of his Love, contained in the precious Promises.

TRY to be like him in Heart and in Life; such as say they have Fellowship with him and walk in Darkness, do lie, and know not the Truth.

AND such who have an Interest in Christ’s Love, but want the Evidence of it,

LET them endeavour to know, and do the Will of God: He that hath my Commandments, and keepeth them, saith Christ, he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him.

CONVERSE much with Christ, by serious and delightful Study.

BEWARE of Unbelief, and unkind Returns for Mercies received; When he speaks Peace, do not return to Folly.—

CRY for Assurance to a gracious God, for Christ’s sake, with Hopes of obtaining it.—

WALK IN LOVE, as Christ also has loved us; live in Love, let this be your Element!

LOVE as Christ did, let your Thoughts be kind; For Charity thinks no Evil, but hopes all Things, and believes all Things that are good of our Brother, as far as there is any Reason for it. Let your Speeches be courteous, Put on, as the Elect of God, Bowels of Mercy, Kindness, and Humbleness of Mind; be pitiful, be courteous, and O let your Actions be beneficent: Say not to the Hungry, be fed, and to the Naked, be clothed, when it is in the Power of your Hand to give: If so, How dwells the Love of God in you? The Love of Christ is a long-suffering, sympathizing, forgiving, and enduring Love; and so should ours be: In case of Offences, and different Sentiments in Religion, bear, forbear, forgive; In Meekness and Long-suffering, says the Apostle, forbearing and forgiving one another, even as God has, for Christ’s sake, forgiven you.” — Gilbert Tennent, Brotherly Love Recommended, By the Argument of the Love of Christ (1748), pp. 24-25