23o Direaims forgetting and keeping in a neighbour , in a ferva.nt, or in their neereft friends,but wil make the worft ofevery fault,no won- der ifGod make filch feel their dealings with others, by his dealings with them. 1-kd filch that Love to their poorer brethren, which thinkcth no evil, and ípeaketh not evil, which filereth long and t kind, eravieth not, vaunteth not itfclf, nrt rtífed up, be- havtth not it felftsnrer1- J, fteìetÑ not I. roWn, is not eeJily provclud, bearethall things, helhcvtth all things, hoptib all things, endureth all t aings, 1 Cor.1 Had we more of this love, which covered) a multi - titudeof Infirmities ; trod would cover our infir- mities the more, and tell us of them, and trouble us for them the lefs. To this fin I may add another. which is fcarce another, but partly the fame with this, and partly its immediate effe& : and that is, vnpeaceablenefs and ssngrtietnejc with thole about sts; this commonly occafioneth God tomake us,as unpeacèable and un- quiet ill our felv-es. When people are fo froward, and pcevifh, and troubleforn , that few can live in peace with them, either in family or neighbourhood, except thofe that have little to do with them, or thofe that can humour them in all things, and have an extraordinary skill in fmooth (peaking, flattering or man- pleating fo that neighbours , fervants children, and fometimes their own yoak-fellows, muff be gone from them, and maynot abide near them, as a man gets Out of the way from a wild beaff or a mad dog, or avoideth the fatties of a raging fire ; is it any wonder if God give thefe people as little peace in their oàin fpirits, as they give to others ? When people are fo hard tobe pleafed,that no
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