' I ~4 The indiffenj71b7e Dttf) . How then can we think it unreafonablk; to allow that to others, vvhich ourfelves. / expe&' and defire ?· Can, we. look that our– ma/lerjhouldfirglve us ten thou/(nzd talents~ if we take ourjello?.v-flrvant by the throat; ana hale him into prifon for · one hundred pence?- Or with "-V11at confid·c:nce cari~e fay, pardon our fiiu, unlefs .we be willing to add, thatw·epardon tho:fe rz,vho.fin again/t us? Certainly, if it be reafonable to feel~ pardon, it is jufi and equal to give 'it and nothing but blind felfiilinefs, and · extrava.. g-an-t partia-lity; can teach us to n1ake fo unreafonable a difference betwixt ourfelve3 and others·. A'gain, The ~eafonablenefS· of this duty .will farther appear if _we con1pare ir with that ·n1alice and · revenge whieh it 'lloes op– _pofe.· Can there be any thing n1ore agianfl: :natural reafon, than ·to· delight- in an evil '\vhich can bring no benefit to us ?-Yet this– is the very nature ,and ~!fence of revenge: fo'r; if the clan1age we fuHain can be re– paired; it is no -revenge to reek it ;·and, if it _cannot, .it does no way alleviate the evil of the accident, that 've draw l}jn1 that caufed it into as great a mifery·: · nay, t1n– lefs we are unnatural, and without bowels, it will augment o.ur trouble to fee any eva . - b r 1 .era• . '" 1 l ..... .
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