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Fourthly and lastly, severely where God himself (were he present) would show severity, and hath willed severity to be shown. As ye have just cause to ^mtake heed how ye deal rigorously, where God would have lenity and clemency used, as ⁿSaul with the Gibeonites, ^*in lesser and slighter slips ^owith silly weak ones, in simplicity and infirmity over-taken rather, then offending out of malice and wilful contempt: that were as the Prophet speaketh, ^pto turn judgement into gall: ^qIt is as well a point of injustice above desert to punish the guilty, as it is without desert, to punish those that be wholly guiltless.

Fourthly and lastly, seuerely where God himselfe (were he present) would shew seuerity, and hath willed seuerity to be showne. As yee haue iust cause to ^mtake heed how ye deale rigorously, where God would haue lenity and clemency vsed, as ⁿSaul with the Gibeonites, ^*in lesser and slighter slips ^owith silly weake ones, in simplicity and infirmitie ouer-taken rather, then offending out of malice and wilfull contempt: that were as the Prophet speaketh, ^pto turne iudgement into gall: ^qIt is as well a point of iniustice aboue desert to punish the guiltie, as it is without desert, to punish those that be wholy guiltlesse.