Be not too impatient with 3 3 i DIRECT. IV. yf others (hew their *veaknefs by anyunwar.; rentable fingularities or divi/jons, _hew not your greater weaknefs by papions, impa- tiency or uncharitable, cexfTres or ufage of them : efpecìally when any felf-interefi d®tb provoke you. None ufually. are fo fpleenifhly impatint at the weaknefs of Diffenters or Separa- tils as the Paftors are ? And what is the caufe Is it becaufe they abound moll in Love to the fouls of thofewho offend, or them who are en- dangered by them ? If fo, I have no more to fay to fuch. But when we fee that the Flono,,r and inure of the Paílors is molt deeply concerned in thebufinefs,and that they are carried by their im patiency into more want of Charity,than the other dxprefs by theirfeparatvons ; and when we fee that they well enough bear with thernfelves irl fuch sins as this, or in others as great ; and that they' can bear with as great fns in the people with tóo much patience , when their own intereft concurreth not to raife their pagions; in fuch cafes we have reafon enough to fear, left pride and felfifhnefs have too great a part, in much that is fa id and done againll fchifm in the world. Is it a greater fhame for children to cry and wrangle with the Nurfe and one another or for the Nurfe or Parents to go to lawwith them for it, or to hate them; and turn them out of doors? Bb Is
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