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Saints
muff not
revile,
though
they
sire
reviled.
ing
of
reviling
;
t
he husbandman
makes
his
ground`
fruit till,
by
caring
dung
on
it
; fo
doth
(god
make
his Saints
fruitfull,
by
the
calling revilings
on
them
by
wicked
men;
why is
it
Inch
a
blef
ednefle
?
thou
art to
look
on
it
as
a
blefied thing
,
that
when thou
art reviled
for
Chritt,
thou
mightell
have
beta
re
viled
for thine
owne
wickedneffe
;
and
bleffed are
ye,for there
is
a
great
reward
;
great
is
your reward in heaven
;.
the
Lord
takes care of
your
names while you
are
fo
reviled.The
life
that
we flood upon the lafl
day
is
this,
that
if
it
befuch
a
b1effed
thing
to be reviled,
to
fuffer
for
Chrift,
then it
fhould
teach
the
Saints
that when they
are
reviled not to revile
againe,for
what
need they,
it
is
that
that
is
turned
into
a`bleffing.
Againe,
We
muff
not
revile
others,
what
may
we
not
charge
others
of the evill that
they are guilty of, we fpent
a
Non
ei
incutpa
great deale of time the
hfl
day
to
Phew
you how yon
may
freargue
hoc
charge
others
of
what
evill they
are
guilty
of,and charge
them
deeply
too,
and
not be guilty of reviling,becaufe
it
was
a
hard
worke
to
have
to
doe with
other
mens fins,
and
not
to
be guil-
ty-of
reviling, 7
iris
i
-eh.
to,
and
r
3.verfes.Fer
there
are ma-
ny
unruly
and vaine talkers and
deceivers,
efpecially
they
of
the
óa
m
tifti-
Crcumcafon.:
The
word tranflated
fharplÿ
is
cuttingly,
and if
precifetor
any
people
of
the world maybe
rebuked, they are
the
Creti
to
thequicl ans
that are
lyars, they.may
call
them.tothe
rule of the Apo
-
So
Eflius.
í11e
:
it
is
not
lafe when
any
have
provoked
you
to
fall
prefent-
ly
a
rebuking,
when
the
butineffe concerns our felves we may
avoyd
the.turning of
reprehenfions
into
revilings by
delibera-
ring
of
it,
and
if the
fine
be
lecret
then
we mufl
not
in
a
pub
-
lick
way fpeake
evill
of
men, for
then it
is an
argument that
a
man loves reviling,when
he feekes
to
rake up
fecret
things
and
declares
and
ptìblitlies rhem,in evill
language ro
the
world,
if
God
keep them fecret then
you
fhould not reveale
them,
and
you muff
not
be
glad of
offences
neither,oh
take
heed
of that,
oh
mourn
for
them
and
be
Pure
what language you give have
a
¡Lift
foun'atin
in
the evill that
is
committed.
by
thole men
that
you
ipeak againfi, and
that
you
do!
not doe
it
pafhonately
and revengefully, but:do
it
out
of ameeke
and
quiet
fpirit-
-and
out of
love.tothe
truth, the
more
.you
fpeake
againfi any,.and
charge