238 Speak ofthegood which is in others. as fuppofed to be good. The good of nature, is lovely in all men as men, even in the wicked and our enemies (And therefore let them that think they can never fpeak bad enough of nature take heed left they run into excels :) And the capacity of thegood of holinefs andhappinefs, is part of the good ofnature. The good ofgifts andof a corn- mon Profeiiian, with the pogibility or probabi- lity of Cncerity, is lovely in all thevifible mem- bers of the Church. And truly the excellent gifts ofLearning, judgment, utterance and me- mory, with the virtues ofmeeknefs, humility, pa- -tience, contentednefs, and a loving difpof tiori. inclined to do good to all,are fo amiable in force, who yet are too (+range to a heavenly life,that he mull be wife than a man who will not love them. Tovilifie all there gifts in others, fàvoureth of a malignant contempt of the gifts of the Spirit of Cod. And fo it doth, to talk all of their faults, and fay little or nothingof their gifts and virtues yea, forme have fo unloving and unlovely a kind of Religioúfneff, that theybackbite that man as a defender of the propbane, and a, commender of the ungodly, t hodoth but contradia or reprehend their backbitings : And are ever gain- faying all the commendations which they hear of any whom they think ill of. . But if you would when you talk, of others r efpecially them who differ from you in opini ens) be more in commendation of all thegood, which indeed is in them. T. You would fhew your (elves much liker toGod who is Love, and unliker to Satan the accufer. zi You wo.itd Chew
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