no bout, has ben the occasion of confounding and perplexing the minds of many who hav ben troubled with this text.  It is a comon notion that to love our enemies we must lov thar conduct; but this is confounding two things which are by no means conected.  This might be shon from the text itself.  We are to lov our enemies, but enmity is not to be approved in any case whatever.  Enmity is an evil passion and is hateful.  And if we cannot lov our enemies without loving their actions or conduct, we canot lov them at all and canot oba the text.  To get rid of this obvious difficulty we must lov our enemies and hate thar conduct, in other words, we must be plesed with our enemies, but displesed with thar actions; but this is a paradox.  We alwas place the deliberat actions of a person to thar own acount so as to be plesed or displesed with them on acount of thar actions.  If we separat the conduct of a person we tak his caracter awa and he becums an object which we can neither lov nor hate; he is lik and inanimat thing in our estimation.

1.  But that ar human and divin exampls to sho that we may lov our enemies and not lov thar conduct.  The prophet Jeremiah's lov to his nation is an instanc of it; his lov to them was evident from his conduct.  He would not forsak them in thar calamities; he patiently endured the most unmerciful tretment from them.  He always gave them the best advic, and for them he put up many prayers, and profesied and preched the truth to them.  But for thar evil behavior he alwas reproved them, and none of their sins with which he was acquainted went unadmonished.

None can for a moment doubt Christ's lov for men when He gave up His life for them.  Who will question His dislik to the conduct of men when we kno that He lost His life for reproving men for thar conduct?

2.  Loving our enemies does not imply that we must be plesed with thar company.  We kno that it is not possibl for us to be plesed with the company of one who we kno to be an enemy.  Can we suppos that Paul was ever plesed with the company of his nation, when he knu tha wer ploting his ruin?  And at the same tim he asures them that he