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Of this we have an example in I. Kings iii., where two women
contended before King Solomon for a child, and each claimed the
child. And when the king would discover which was the real mother of
the child, he must appeal to nature, whereby he detects it; and he
said to the two women, You say that the child is yours, while you say
also that it is yours: well, then, bring hither a sword and divide
the child into two parts, and give one part to this woman, and
another to that. Thus he attained knowledge as to which was the real
mother; and the text tells us that she was inwardly affected with
anxiety for the child, and said, No! no! rather give the child whole
to this woman, and let it live. Then the king pronounced his decision
and said, That is the true mother; take the child and give it to her.
Hence you may understand what this word _heartily_ means.

This is what St. Peter would say: that we should conduct ourselves
toward one another like those that are truly friends by blood, as
with them the whole heart is moved, the life, the pulse, and all the
powers; so here, also, the course should be heartily kind, and
motherly, and the heart should be thoroughly penetrated. Such a
disposition should one christian man bear towards another. But the
standard is indeed set high; few will be found who bear such a hearty
love to their neighbor,--as when it is seen that a necessity is
imposed that they should have an affection like that which a mother
has for a child,--such that it presses through the heart and through
every vein. Hence you see what the monks' and nuns' state of life is;
how far it is removed from such hearty love: if all they have were to
be smelted together in one man, not one drop of such christian love
as this would be found in it. Wherefore let us look to ourselves and
be jealous over ourselves, whether we can find in ourselves such a
kind of love. This is a short lesson and quick spoken, but it goes
deep and spreads itself wide.

_Courteous_, is, that we lead outwardly a gentle, pleasing, lovely
behaviour,--not merely that we should sympathize one with another, as
a father and mother for their child, but also that we should walk in
love and gentleness one with another.[4] There are some men rough and
knotty, like a tree full of knots,--so uncivil, that no one will
readily have anything to do with them. Hence it happens that they are
usually full of suspicion, and become soon angry; with whom none of