963 / 1054
Riles
how to
deale with wicked
Mee.
58s
Sixthly, You
muff
not
be
partiall
in
your
hard language
;
you
(halt
have
many
that
a
-e
canali
and
wicked men, that
if
a
profefior
of Religion doe
any thing
amide
,
ë
what
hard
and
bitter
language will they give
again{}
him,Bur
let
one of
their
Companions
doe
that
which
.is
worfe, they
rYill
give
no
revi-
ling fpeeéhes
to
him,
but
a
p,oteifor ofReligion, they
will
be
fure
to
lay !Dade
upon him
;
now
.hat's
a
Ligne
that
thou doeft
not
reprove according to the
way
of
Chrifi:,when
thou
arc
par-
.
tiall in thy
Reproofes.
Seventhly, You mull
be
fure
not to
give harder
language
then
the
matter
will
beare,
(
that's
a
reviling;)
and
not to
o%-
ferve
the
Rules that before
we
let.
Eighthiy,
The
manner of our
fpirits mull be obferved,
it
mull not
be paiïionate,
that
is, manifefl
that
we are in
a
beate,
but
when we
fpeak
of
the evilhof others,
we
had
need
have
as
quiet
a
fpirit
as
at
any
time
in
the world. Now
we know
whence comes
reviling
;
when men and women are
put into
a
heate,
they care not what
they
fay ;
but
if
you come
to
exa-
mine,
you fpake fuch and fuch
things
,
and
you fay
they
doe
deferve
fo
and fo,and they
are guilty;what then
?
why,
it's not
for
you pailionately
to reprove them
,
but
your fpirits.muft be
quiet
at that
time,
and
you
mull
labour
to
Bill all
pa;lfion
when
you are about
the reprehenfion
of your
Brethren.
Ninthly , You
mull
not doe
it
revengefully
;
It's
not
e-
nough o fay,
That they doe
deferve
it,
but you
may
revenge
your
:elves
in
fpeaking
that
that
is
but
right
perhaps they are
guilty
of
fuch
things
;
I
but
you
may charge
them with
it,
not
our
of
a
hatred to their
fin,
or
doing -hem good,
but out
of
a
fli,,-it
of
revenge
to
thy felfe.
Shimei
(whom
we named
be-
fore ) he
did
revile,
though
the
thing
were true he
Paid
;
why,
becaufe
he
did
it
out of
a
fpirit
of revenge
;
But certainly
force
there are,
that
fharpipeeches
does tend more to doe
them
good,thofe
that
are
Cretians
that the
Scri-ture
fpeaks
of:
The cutting ipeeches
toaCretian,
is
morefutable,
and
tends
to
H
good rather
then another
fpeech._
T,,nthly
,
We
fhould
obferve
whether they be of
filch
na-
tures
,
that
foft wayes will
doe them
good
rather then harfh
F
ff£
wayes;
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