Chap.S . according te St M A T T Y E vo. 165 venge : teaching the people to render evil for evil, to pay their e- nemies in their own coin, and to give them as good as they Neminem lade, brought.This is adilateofcorrupt nature, and her chief Secretary nif lá liiatur ,4rif1totle proclaimeth it. To be revenged of our enemies is held fur u<çao f better in point of honour, then to be reconciled unto them. F1ef1l Inimüor u!cif, and blond fuggdteth that it is ,matter ofgood mettall to bequick of ci,potiur quam touch, as forward in returning as others are in offering wrong. rreconetliari bo'e turn cen,e- For if aman ftrde his enemy, aril! he let him go well away ?afard cur.Ár,it, Sax/. This is quite againft the principles of nature and common Rhet caps. pollicy. To turn again, and revenge, is counted courage; which Gb 9. yet the word ofGod calleth cowardlineffe, difgrace, and loffe of r S1'11. 24.19, vidory. It is not manlinef e, butfooiirhneffe, Ecc1f..y.9. It's ñT7. x, brurifhneffé; Anger a dogge, and hee'I fly in your face : touch an Affe, and het', kick andwinch. Its bafenelte, fo to be ledby our pallions, as tobe able to bear nothing, as Simeon and Levi, bre- thren in iniquity, that in their anger flew aman, and in their fell-- Cur,6, ., will digged down a wall. Their father Jacob, heard that Dinah G,p.49 6' was defiled, and held his peace; he reyned in his pallions, byPet- ting Godbefore them : and fo that divine Proverb was made good inhim : He that ieflew to anger is better then the migl ty ; andhe G 4 t. teat ruleth f irit (as Jacob) then he that takerh'a City (ashis ro,, r 6.; A. Eons.) 1 t is a godly mans part, at Tome times,and in fome plares,to To guidon be deaf and dumb, as if he ;Lnderiteod not, or as men in whole h'i prateemit- mouthes are no rep.o,f. Which as David could skill of at tome Haute 0 fc times,P a1, 8 14. and in his carriage towards Shimei fo at other `rcrinbet nc T 3 4 S E d times (whcn theflefh prevailed) he could not, P131.39.2,3. and in his expedition againif Nabal. But Peter mutt put up hiafword,if ó,yE%/u;.Sre De- he mcàn to be Chrits Difctple. And Chriftians mutt not fo much 'nento (.alto as grudge one againft another, unlelfe they will be co .de'noed : l ej+rf+ian a pu l Dro,.eur nr, tor.beLold,the fudge flandeth befire the door, as ready to rightus. J,,,, °,i. As ifwe retaliate we leave himnothing to doe, unfelt:: it be co turn his wrath from our enemy, on whomwe have been avenged al- ready, upon ear felves,forour finofPelf- revenge. We ufe to lay, if Pro. 24.1 7ir lR, the Magil}rate be not prefent, we may offend another, todefend our felves : but if the Magiffrate be prefent, there is noexcufe. Nowhere theJudge !andeth befire the d?or, and crieth our unto us with a loud voice : Dearly beloved, aveng-e notyour felves, but rather keep the Kings peace, and fogiveplace to wrath ;that is, .to the wrathofGod ready to feize upon thine advert ry, if thou prevent it not byan over-hafty revengeof the wrongs offered thee. expounded. M3 For
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