Hepieíkeia: or, a treatise of Christian equity and moderation. Delivered publicly in lecturesHepieíkeia: or, a treatise of Christian equitie and moderation. Deliuered publikely in lectures

And thus I hope I have opened this duty of forgiving, and forbearing, in such sort; as a Christian may see how to practise it, with comfort to his conscience, also without any great loss in this world, or hurt to his estate.

And thus I hope I haue opened this dutie of forgiuing, and forbearing, in such sort; as a Christian may see how to practise it, with comfort to his conscience, also without any great losse in this world, or hurt to his estate.

And thus much for the four several duties and degrees of Private Equity.

And thus much for the foure seuerall duduties and degrees of Priuate Equitie.

Now having opened the nature & kinds of Christian Equity, let us proceed further in the text. Let your Equity (saith the Apostle) ⟨p. 65⟩be known to all men. The words import; that it is our duty, not only to know this virtue and the nature of it, and to be able to talk of it, but in all our affairs public and private, and in all our dealings with men, so to put it in practise, that men may see it, and that it may be known to other men: and that they may be able to avouch for us; that our dealing is upright, equal, and indifferent, joined with equity and moderation, and free from extremity and oppression: this is the meaning of that which we are here commanded by the Apostle. And the reason why the Apostle urgeth us to make it known, is, because there is a privy hypocrisy in our natures, whereby we are given to make show of more then is in us. Against which vice we do truly labour, when we labour to make our virtues manifest and known to the world, that so the tree may be known by his fruits: he is a holy and religious man, not who knoweth, and can talk well, but he whose religion and holiness is known in the world, and seen of men: he is a merciful man, of whose mercy men do taste: So