396 what things snug we rife íbloderatiots, Serm. ï 6. 4. Lanly We mull- moderate our profecution of loch injuries and wrongs ,As we ought to vindicate our felves from and fee punifhed. Though we tnuft forgive all injuries as to our felves by charity to others , yet we may, nay, we muff in force cafes have fo much charity alto Co the publick and our felves, that in notorious injuries we fhould do righe . to both in the profecution of fuck offenders, as will not otherwi(e be refcrainedor do us right. If thy brother fin againlf thee not only leven . but feventy feven times a day, thou mull forgive him, Mattis. l-8.22: s. e. If he frequently wrong and injure thee ; (for fo the yord finning when againn us fignifies, as the Sept. z Sam. 19.4. Gen. 41. 22, and elfewhere frequently ufe the Greek words, ds xuúp ?? çyj,g- 75j' 7Tñ)107Óy, If any m..n trefpafs again!1 his neighbour, that is injure or wrong him) yet thou rnufI conf antly forgive him ; but notwirhaandicg thou may, eft feek thy right from him, and if by no fair means can't obtain ir, profecute him before the Magifirte for the fame. Nay than not only mayef but femetimes mull'. 1. when God is concerned therein; as in the Churches right.Thus,Alfof r. though the meeken man upon earth would not abate Pharaoh an hoof, ( Exod. t o.z6.) for thereof mr1f we ferve the Lord (faith he) and we know not with what, until we come thither, i. e. C,naan. A Mininer may yield his own, but he muff not the Churches right. 2. In cafe of trraf from others. Either from the publick, or private perfons, which allow us not to make terms of conceflion but nand up- on aria Junice and right. Here fo far as others content which are pro - prietors,we fhould com pole, yield, and take up controverfies; further we junly cannot ; for in cafes of trua, a man mua be regulated by the will of thofe that intrua him ;as Arbitrators and Sollicitors for others; So Executors frequently'and Guardians , that are intruded for thofe that are young, and not yet Jui juris at age to confenr, and difpofe of their own; and the like cafes, wheaein the intruded are refponfible for what is not legally done therein ; the Laws determination being by all prefumed ¡ult. 3.In our own perfenal injuries,wherein the publickis concerned. i .When publick peace, order and government are much violated and broken thereby. As in notorious thefts, attempts of murder and the like; which if tolerated the World would become a great latrociniunm, and . flaughter- houfe, wherein the longeft fword and nrotigen arm would fweep away all, a place for beans but no quicr habitation for men. When the publick emolument or eflimation furîers in our injuries. I,s,MagiUrates, Minifters, and all others imployed in publick affairs,
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