·I Witbout ElflmilU.tion no-mercy. (and our natures are fenfible,of great changes) and therefore ·how excefiively doth hee rejoyce ! but takeone who isguilty ofthe fame fault, who knows thar-if hc:e have not his pardon,hee lhould loofe his life,but hath his pardon prefently after the fentence paffed' ; hee will prizehis pardon as much as the o- · ther, thoughhappily hee isnot fo turbulently affe- . 6led as the other. It falls out thus by rea{on ofthe ignorance fome have lived inbefore, who therefore areenli~htened to know their .eftatesall on thefuddaine ; whereas an other hath beenebrought up inknowledge, and the knowledg (l)fhis mifery being let inby degrees, then the cafe doth alfo differ, as ~tweene two men · whowere togoe throughawood, whereof one is fet upon by theeves not fufpeeting any, and is put into a feare of his life,, and knowes not how to efM cape., but one comes on the fuddaine, and refcues. · him and gives .himhis life ' ·,but another is warned before, knowes hee mull: goe throug.h fuch a paf. · fage ~ and that uoleife hec hath a firong guard to goe ~along with him , _hee iliall certainly pedlq ; ~his man_appt"ehends the dang~r as gt;e_at; as the "other; .and t-he benefit as great., an9 th~ loveof ·him that 1hould goe.__with him as great ; .only his paffion,either of.feare or joy,is nor fo violent·as the .others , though bee truly rejoyceth in 'the del i veranc.e as rriucb as the other, and thinkc:s him , felfe as moch bound to the man that ddivered him. . , J have fpoken thefe things, becaufe fome are fcrupulous in ~he point, and thinke they may pot H fafely -
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