Christian Rules of Love to God and Love to Man

1. Of being subject to the glory of God. (1 Cor. x. 31.)
2. Of seeking to please Him in all things rather than ourselves. (Rom. xiv. 7, 8. and xv. 3. Col. iii. 17.)
3. Loving his will rather than our own. (Matt. vi. 10. and vii. 21.)
4. Loving our neighbour as ourselves, and doing unto him as we would he should do unto us. (1 John iv. 7. Matt. vii. 12. Col. iii. 14.)

Hence the necessity of Christian self-denial, (Luke ix. 23.) mortification, (Rom. viii. 13.) and crucifixion of the corrupt nature, (Gal. v. 24. Rom. vi. 6.) that we may not be ruled by the love of self, but by the love of God and man. (Matt. xxii. 37—40.)

Mortification of any sin must be by a supply of grace; of ourselves we cannot do it.

This grace is the purchase of a Saviour's sufferings, and can only be received by faith in him. (Titus ii. 14. John vii. 38, 39.) By union with Christ, his Holy Spirit flows into the soul. (John xv. 4, 5.)