634 Chap. 3 t. An Expofition upon the Boolte of Jo a. Ver(.3o. beare to with it ; They who can doe no hurt toothers can with ir, and utually they who can doe leak with it molt ; and what their hands cannot reach to, they ftrive to reach andeffcft with, their tongues. Salvian found thisctarfed Spirit, the Spirit ofcur- P/ima j r}gar fing, much up in his dayes; Curter ( faith he ) are the frf infiru irarr, rata fun, ments'cf anger and that which we earnot doe becau/e are are maledifla, d5 'Teak.e, we with maybe done, becaufe weare enraged. To pray for qua non mild- good to others or to bleffe them , is one of the moil proper mu'r imbecillas workes of Grace ; and to pray for evill upon others, or to curie manna ha:i them,is one ofthe molt proper workes ofunrenewed nature. Saivhm Secondly , Obferve. To earfe or with ill to another, though an enemy, is very finfse 1. Cu Ping is ore of the worft ufes or fervices the tongue of man can be put to, as bltfíïng is one of the beft. He that witheth a a curie upon another, puts God to the doir,g óf -that, which ey- cher, frfl, he is not able to doe, or fecondly, is afraid todoe, or thirdly, is athamed to doe ; now what a wickednetfe is it for man I ui matedi.Fi to delireGod to doe that for him, which as himfelfe cannot, fo on15"rinim1e"m he is e\ ther afraid or afhamed to doe. Chritt in his Sermènup- nnperurr, the Mount (Math: commands us to love our enemies, to aliuä Calm on ( 5.44) doom factre and t blefetbolothatcurfeus. And the Apofile faith (Rom 12. vo'unt,nii qucd t 4. ) $!rife them that jerfecuteyou,blefe and curie not. The Law ípG forere eue of Gofpel love doth not reti in Negatives. 'Tis much to refraine from evil) attings towards an enemy, 'cis more to refraine from wifhing himevill,or turfing him,but'cis molt of all to bleffe him. And wheras Come may wonder why theApoftle fhould fay,Bloffe .find curjeme, andnot rathercurie not but bleffe ; for a man that abAincs from turfing may not yet proceed tobleffe,but it would be (!range thing ifwhen a man hathbltfTed his enemy.he ['could . then proceed to curie him. I ànfwer, when the Apoftle faith, Blrfe and curie not , I conceave his meaning may be only this, that we thould carp it alike,FirR,to all perfecuters,and not blaffe too-le and curie others, or Secondly, that we fhould cary it alike at a41 times; and not by.any extremity which they ufe tous,turne our felves from bleflïng to curling, But forme may fay, Is it altogether unlawfuli to curie to enc. my, or to with himevill, have we not many examples of dread- full curies in Scripture ; David powres dowre a whole fhower of neq,tea+ar aut err, bzlcune. Grog:
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