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Keafons moving us to forgive. 387 ing me wrong. But nothing fo many as thy finnes are againft God : neither doll thou put an end to thy finning. 5. Yea,but I have def rued well of him. But not fo well as God bath deferved of thee. 6.Yea,but I havefought to win him with kindnef . And hath not the Lord by his mercies invited thee to repentance 7. Tea, but he bath been often admonifhed of his fault. Not fo oft as thou. Furthermore, as thy brother oiendeth againft 4 Reafon: thee, fo for the moll part thou offendeft againft him, either by giving him occafion of evil, or by anger and impatience conceived againft him: there- fore the debt being mutual', thou fhouldfl be rea- dy to ftrike off thine own debt by pardoning of him. And although perhaps thou haft not defer- ved fo ill of him , yet thou haft deferved worfe of the Lord, who by him as his inllrument correá eth thee: and therefore muff fay, as Mich. 7. 9. 1 have finned , and therefore I will bear the anger of the Lord. The third degree is ái ma , forgetfaalnefe ; Duty 3. That we fhould not onely forgive but alfo forget the offenfes done againft us, as we defire that the Lord would forget the fumes which we have com- mitted againft him . And therefore this art of obli- vion,which Themitlocles wifhed, we are to beg of the Lord. The fourth is, by Chriflian charity to labour to 4 We muff win him, and to overcome evil with oodneffe ) lwin abour himto Rom. 12.21. And this love muff be exercifed r. by doing good to him that bath deferved ill, Pfal. 25. zi, 22. for thereby alfo we (hall refemble the C c z good-