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Roles

hotu

to

deale

with

wicked men.

-3g7

it, O

this

is

a

wicked thing

;

That's

as

much

as

to

fay,

I

prize

móre my

particular advantage, then

I

do the

honour

of

God

:

when thou hail

to

Beale

with

an

Adverfary,

if

there

be

any

thing

that

is

evil!

that thou

hall

to

fay

againfl him

;

I

fay,

thou

fhouldefl charge him according

to

the nature

of

the

offence

;

---

And

withall be forty that

God

ha_h

left

him to

fish

a

fin

;

And

mots

ne

for

it,

Appeale

to

(.:;o:1

Doe

you

doe

fo

that doe revile others

?

I

meane,

that

fpeak

evill of others

;

for

no man will acknowledge

himfelfe

to be

a

Reviler

;

No,

they

fay

they

have

jufl Caufe

to

fpeak

of

it

;

But grant

it,

that

you

have

jufl

caufe,

but are

you

forty from your

foules

that

there

is

jufl

caufe,

how

dorh

it

grieve

your foules

that this

man

is

left to

fo

much evil!

, that

you have fo much advan-

tage

againfl

him, certainly

if

it

be

fo,

there

is

no

feare

of

Re-

viling.

Fourteenthty,

Laflly.,

When

men

iha1l

come and

fpeak

evill of others before they

are

called

toit,

there

certainly

it

Both

argue

a

guiltinefhe.

Herein this

man or woman

is

in

dan-

Áer

to be

guilty

of the

fin

of Reviling

;

So

that

now obferve

but

thefe

Rules,(for the

heart of

man

is

very unruly)

and

then

you

may

come to

know how

to

carry your felves

in

a

Chrifliatt

way

when

you have

to

deale with others that do deferve (harp

reprehenfion

,

you may

reprehend them

fharply,

and

not

at

all

revile them

;

For

he

is

ableffed

man

that

is

revil'd

falfely

for Chrifls

fake.

a

F

f

ff

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