Oj'loving our Enemies. 155 that his eye would ferve our -head, or his band fit -our arm, or his pain allay our :torment, which· he had procured to us. Fron1 hence we n1ay judge what is to be thought of thofe who are re:tdy to revenge ·the fi11allef1 injury, even, an uncivil expref– fion, with the death -of the -offender; never being fatisfied till they have ven– tured two lives and a.s many fouls, in the -co.rnbat: A th1ng which fhould not be ~named an1ong Chr.iflians, but with the fame ·detefiation we have againH the vilefl: ac– tions; for whatever colours of bravery or .gallantry it tnay be painted with, it is really nothing elfe than a n10re fpecious and for– mal ki-nd of murder. Nor does it differ from the bafeft aifaffination, fave only in this, with the wickednefs of attemping an– ·other' s life it joins. the railinefs and folly of .expofing our own. Lafi1y, The love which we owe our ·enemies, does exclude all fuperciliqus and fcornfull contempt and negleCt of them. Which I mark the rather, becaufe fome . think they have fuffi.cicntly obeyed the ,precept, if they overlook an injury, as thinking the.perfon below their revenge. Mean while their corrupt nature relifhes as muc-h pleafure in the fcorn and difdain ·of
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