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that even their vices which inflame us too choler and anger, ought too minister occasion unto us too pity our neighbours. I see some▪ man that hath done me wrong: not it is the devil that hath driven him thereunto, & the wretched man doth but undo himself, for he provoketh God against him. Now then, if there were no more in me but the common nature whereunto God hath knit us all: ought I not too be sorry at the ⟨image 254⟩hart, when I see a soul that is beguiled by Satan's […] go too destruction? Yes verily. Therefore let none of the wrongs carry us away which are done unto us, neither let us be so far provoked, as not too pity those that do amiss, namely, because they be blinded by Satan, and provoke Gods wrath, and fight against their own salvation. Behold then, the very remedy which we have too hold us unto and too keep,¹ is, that too be gentle, we must be pitiful and have compassion, as is showed in the foresaid texts. For there is none of us but he would gladly be borne withal: and without that, we could not tell how too live one day in the world. The perfectest man that is hath yet some infirmity, insomuch that if men should deal altogether rigorously with him, he should be disdained, yea and as good as utterly disgraced and defaced. Nay further, where is that man too be found which hath not many infirmities in him, and would not fain be greatly borne withal, (as need requireth) and that men should not shake him of, though he have some vices that deserve their withdrawing of themselves from him? Now if we would so fain be borne withal our selves: ought not we also too pity others? And soothly when we see a man hath some blemish, ought we not too think, I am subject too the same? verily when I have sifted all things throughly, I shall find other things in my self, that deserve more justly too be condemned: and yet would I fain be borne withal, though I were never so much convicted. Therefore like as we would that other men should pardon us: so let us learn too pity other men, for they be no more Angels than we be. That then is the thing which S. Paul meant too bring us too.

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