Alleine - Houston-Packer Collection BX5201 .A42 1664 pt.2

(1-4I).'- 1 ofeke whole intereft of Religion, ·and fo rent an<l ' run away front all thofe that agree not with you. Be not ratb, be not headie ; be tender, but be warie~ be·well infirutl:ed, if you will be trulie tender: 6rlt ' carefullie inform thy confcience~ and then peac:e- · ablie follow it. , ~ ~Of what is that confciente te1Ider,that ~5 not t.en– d~t of .making wounds and rents in the bodie o£ Chrift? ·9.• . Bewa~e . ofCen(urings and Jurlgings, of biting and ·devounug one another. If ye bite and dev-our one -another, ye fhall be confumed 0111 of another.Let him that is ·Wi t hout fault, cart the firfi fione at his Erring Bro.ther. Be not birter aga infl the bitternefs ofo– th ~rs , : ifothe rs fowernefs offenrJ thee, yet let it not /raven t!Jee: Be not reviled into a Reviler, fcoffed ·into a S£offer; overcome evil with goodnefs : 'Tis · not fel dom t hat ot~r inve8:ivcs againfi others bitter– nefs,are n1ore keeti and cutting, than that we corn– }llain of: Jufiifie not what thou judgefi.; Prall:ife not thy felf, wpat in the fa·me Breath .thou con– demneft in thy Brethren: ·Throw ~1ot ba-ck thy Brother's Fire-balls in his Face, ~eft in cenfuring · hirn, thou be _alfo thine own Judge: Purfue not matters in d1ffer(nce over hotly, but learn modet't– lie and meeklie to differ, where you cannot agree. • "' • t,; • · . · 10. , Let your .conv£rfa-tion be fo holy, humhi~, and h~avenlie, carrie your {elves in fuch fimplicitie an.d godlY; finceliity ,towa.rds God,towar,ds one ano– t,ber, and towar,ds all men,_that you may command ~a.ch other to believe, that however yQu agree not , , • · • 1 · about '{ \ I.

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