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‘Dilige, et die quicquid voles.’ August, in Gal. 6.1. ‘Scarce can the harshest reproofs be thrown back, that have upon them the stamp of love.’—Leighton on 1Peter 2.11. In illustration of this—a Minister of a remarkable spirit of love, sharply rebuked, in the presence of a clerical friend, a parishioner for gross misconduct. The severity of the reproof astonished his friend, who could not help declaring that in his own case with one of his people, he should have expected an irreconcilable breach. The answer was the result of Christian wisdom and experience—‘O my friend, when there is love in the heart, you may say anything.’ See also Dwight’s Theology, Sermons 153, 154. and Bishop of Winchester’s Min. Cha. of Christ, pp. 396-398.