CHAP.I. upon the Epiflle of JAM! s. VJi R$,17· ,hecome dif{w~tjives from Error. One faith, We mufr fpeak to Kirigs tpnp.rM'I /3voshm 'WithJil~m Words: Certainly we had need to ufe much tendernefs to perfons that differ from us, fpeak to them in {ilkJn words, where the m{ltter is like to dtfplea{e, the m.r.nner l.bould not be bicter : Pills mull: be fugred, that rhey may down the better; many a man hath been loft, through violence you engage them to the ?ther party ; as.Tert~!Lian, when he.had fpokenfavourably of the ~onta~ift:,_by thevt?lence of the Pmfis • . of Rome he was "" forced mto thetr fellow!h1p ~ Meelmefs may Prorfus rn cain thofe that ~re not enga![ed; Men of another party will think Mun(ita':t partes '-' • r. 1. f d"' · fi h > • d · tnzn tvtt Pa– all ts 1po.Ken out o rage an anger agam t em, cts goo to g1ve mel m vita them as little caufe as may be, efpecially if buc inclining through Tertu/. ~ weaknefs to an Error: Oh do not eYr, my beloved Brethren; I · would to God we could learn this wifdom in this age. :1 Tim. z. 2)· In meekzufsinftru£ling thofe that oppofe themfelve.r, ifperadventure Godwill give them repentance to the ac/z.nowledging of the truth, Others will brook lliarpnefs better then they : Every · man that is ofacontrary opinion, thinketh that he bath theadvan– tage. ground of another, as being in the right ; andpride ualways touchy: Outward grofs fins fill the Soul with more lhame, and upon.condition there is not that boldnefs of reply, for a man is fo far under another, as he may be reprr1ved by him : But now here, where every man thinketh himfelf upon eq~al or higher terms, we had needdeal the more meekly, lefi pride take prejudice, and out of.a difiafie otthe manner, fnuffat the matter it felf: But of this cl~whcr~ , :Verfe 17. Every gqod gift, nndcvery perfe£l gift u from above; and cometh down from the Father of Lights , with , Whom i4 no varillblene[s, neither jbado"\\1 of turning. , .He taketh occafion from the former matter, whichwas to thew · rou,That God was not rhe ~uthor ofjirt, to iliew you,That God 1S the Author ofall good, efpecially the fpiritual gifts and graces be"! flowed on u~, in. which there is an Argument fecr.etly couched; the Author of .all.good cannot be the Author of· evil: ·now e1Jer] good ~md perfeEt gift is of God ; and becagfe · the Argument Olould be. the more firorig, by an allufion to the~un, he repre... {enteth God in th~ l~tter part of the Verfe as ef[enti~tlly and im11. I'J'#Jtably good. · - · .. R ~ 3 , E:vlry;~ i'
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