Wherein 11es thAt EXda RighteeHfnefs, which Sernio, mans condition, and to over-value our own ; another mans concern - merts feem lefs to us than they are, and our own greater than they are. Now this difficulty will moil eminently appear in Cafe' of pafoN, and intereji, and thofe fubardi,ate relatioar', which are at the grea :elt di- fiance ; another man provokes me, I revengemy felt on him ; one asks me, would you becontented to be thus dealt withal ; I at ready toan- fwer, yea, if I fhould fo provokeanother ; I aggravace the f_ult of his provocation, and Idea that of my own revenge, here is pdffo,,. I de- lire a courtefie of a man which he cannor conveniently doforme, he denies me, I think much at him, becaufe I judge the coxrtef :e kß, and his obligation to do itgreater, than indeed it is ; here is íntereff ; I chink if I were a Father, I fhould not carry my fell' fo feverely towards my Children ; if I were a Mailer, I fhould givemore liberty to fervants,and Life them with a greater familiarity ; if I were a Minifler, I fhould not fall thecanfciences ofpeople by fo free and open a reproof of tin ; if I were a Magiiirace, I should make other Laws, orpunish fame crimes more or lefs, feverely : Now if men frequently thus mu-judge, how ihall this rule be put in pra&ife? To remove thefe difficulties, as much as may be, and to make the praclife of this Rule moreeafie : obferve thefe rules. I. Labour ro underhand truly every mans condition, fo far as you have opportunity ; this is eafily fail, but how (hall we come tar do it ? Thus, when you are in any condition, obfervediligently the motionsof your own mind, and how your affe.ions then work, and what appre- henüons, you then have of things, and what it is that in Inch a conditi- on you delire, and expect from others; and labour to remember this when you are out of that condition, and to retain the fenfe which you then had of things. x. Incafes wherein you are unexperienced, and which you cannot reafonably be prefumed to underhand, partly becaufe of your dìflance from that condition, partly becaufe of theoppo(ition of your own in- teref} ; and partly becaufeof the mitts and clouds, of ¡our own pallion; trufi the concurrent experience of others, that are in that condition : and think that you ought nor todo that to another, whichthe_generali- ty of mankind count grievous, and that fit to bedone, which themoll, and w;fca iti-fuch a condition and relation, do ufually expel. If men when they are ur'der, and Iye at the atercy of others, generally delire that c'e:nency, andmodefaégon tlaóuld a ufed cowards them,how juíl loeuer thou;maye(I tlitnla,tyhy,everity t , and that thouwouldefi becon, rented, that ,another (hould deal to'wich thee, yet do not trufi thy prefent
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