Avoid the Revenge of heart and tongue. 243 to honour a. Magiftrate that doth good to you and all Sut as the Apoflle faith of fervants, x Pet. z. 183 19120. ( Be fubjeEl Not only to the good and .gentle, bast alfo to thefroward :. For this is thank-worthy ,; if a man for confcience toward God endure grief, f ffering wrongfully For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faultsyou take it patiently? But if when ye do well and ftfer fr it) if take it patiently, this is acceptable with GQd. DIRECT. LIÍ. Okake confcience of bear:- revenge ; and tongue-revenge , Will ít;s of hand-re7, vengea IT is fo notorious that L evenge is a ufurpatioi of Gods prero ative,tk a heinous fn,that Pro-' feffors could not fo frequently eafily commitit, if they did not fiat deceive themfelves, and take that to be no revenge which is. To do any open hurt toanother, they take notice of as fail re:- venge. But is there no fecret with in your heart., that force evil may befal another ? Nor no fecret Àladnefs that force evil hath befaln him ? You. v ll fay, It is not in revenge, but in hope he may repent : Bat take heed what is in your heart. Itg one thing to Repent of his injury to you as finch, and to make you amends and repair your honour And its another thing to repent of it as a fin a- gainfi God , to the faxing of his own foul . Is it not the former that you more d.efire than the k- V= ? T i And
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