Part II. The FLi'ving Temple. 249 that is capable of favouring real Goode nefs. Nor Both any Precept, within the whole compafs of that Revelation which he bath given us, exprefs more fully, at once, both our Duty, andhis o vn Nature, than that of Loving our Enemies, or of Forgiving Men their Trefpaffes. There is, perhaps, fame- where (but O how rarely !) to be found among Men, that benign, generous Temper ofMind, as when an Enemy is perfe&ly within one's power, to be able to take a real Solace in /hewing Mer- cy; when he is in a fearful, trembling Expectation, and bath even yielded himfelf a Prey to Revenge, to take pleafure in furprifing him by Ads of Kindnef andCompd./from One that can avow the contraryfentiment to the Spirit of the World, and to themwho fo em- phatically fay, How f veet is Revenge ! And can with greater ,zàa@ , oppofe to it, that, as the undifguifed Senfe of his Soul, 0 but howmuchfweeter is it tofbr, give ! Than which, there is no where to be feen a more livelyRefemblanceof God ! A truer and more real part of his Living Image, who bath comman- ded us to love our Enemies; if they hun- ger, to feed them, to Mel; them that turf xs,
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