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William Burkitt's Expository Notes

Luke 6:32

The design of our blessed Saviour in all and every one of these precepts is to recommend unto us all sorts and kinds of mercy and charity; namely, charity in giving, charity in forgiving, charity in lending; it is sometimes our duty (if we have ability) to lend to such poor persons as we cannot expect will ever be in. capacity, either to pay or to requite us. This is to imitate the Divine bounty, which does good to all, even to the unthankful and to the unholy.

Love for love is justice; love for no love, is favor and kindness; but love and charity, mercy and compassion, to all persons, even the undeserving and the ill-deservings, this is. divine goodness,. Christ-like temper, which will render us illustrious on earth, and glorious in heaven.

St. Luke says here, Be ye merciful, as your Father is merciful. St. Matthew says, Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect; Matthew 5:48 implying, that love and mercy, charity and compassion, is the perfection of. Christian's graces; he that is made perfect in love, is perfect in all divine graces; in the account of God.

Perfection in graces, but especially in love and charity, ought to be our aim in this life, and shall be our attainment in the next.

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