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Yfes of the former docirine. and folly our luflie gallants , efpecially our che- valiers and hackfters, are guilty : who think it the greatefl difparagement that may be ( which the ho- ly Ghoft efleemeth to be the glory of a man) ro put up an injury; and therefore will die upon a man rather then fuffer the leaf} offenfe unrevenged. But thefe men muff know, that not onely they are car - nall men and remain in their finnes, but alfo that in feeking private revenge they are fatanicall and de- vili(h. And therefore when Abifhai flirred up Da- vid to revenge himfelfe upon Shimei , David an- fwered , What have Ito do with you , ye fonnes of Zeruiah, that ye are this day to me ttt5, inflead of Satan, 2. Sam. 19. 22. to teach us that they arein- fpired of Satan that breathe after revenge, lea, but, faith one , 1 know how to avoid both this hypocri- fie and folly , and yet I will be evenwith mine enemie too. For either I will leave out this petition , or ufe fome other form of prayer where this claufi is not, or elf I will not pray at all. Yea, but the fentence of our Saviour, whether we ufe thefe words or no, ftand- eth fure; If ye forgive not men their trefpaf s, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trefaffes, Matth. 6. 5. & r8.33. and therefore thole that ufe filch thifts do but mock God and deceive them - felves. Remember the parable, M atth. 18. and the Paying of Tertullian, fì id efi ad pacem Dei accedere fine pace? ad remiffionem debitorcum cum retentione in- juriarum? Komodo placabit patrem iratus infratrem? &c. What is it to come unto God to feek peace without peace: for remiflion of our debts with re- C ç 3 tension 389