Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

Unto this I Answer: We may be resolute, and yet charitable, for one Grace never crosses another: As the greatest Courage is still accompanied with the greatest generousness to an Adversary, so the warmest zeal, if true, is attended with the purest Charity; otherwise it is but Rage and Brutishness which is very foreign to the Christian temper. Where true Grace is impressed on the Soul, there graciousness and kindness will be expressed to all men. When all is said and done, all true Christians are sworn Brethren, and must love and bear with one another. Proh dolour! (S. Cyprian) quid facit in cord Christianorum luporum feritas & canum rabies?

Unto this I Answer: We may be resolute, and yet charitable, for one Grace never crosses another: As the greatest Courage is still accompanied with the greatest generousness to an Adversary, so the warmest zeal, if true, is attended with the purest Charity; otherwise it is but Rage and Brutishness which is very forreign to the Christian temper. Where true Grace is impressed on the Soul, there graciousness and kindness will be expressed to all men. When all is said and done, all true Christians are sworn Brethren, and must love and bear with one another. Proh dolor! (S. Cyprian) quid facit in corde Christianorum luporum feritas & canum rabies?

2. Bitterness can never cure violence: As the wrath of Man works not the Righteousness of God, so neither doth it work the Reformation of men: One sin can never work a right cure upon another. We see this in our selves, severity and violence cures no body; and this should be mens design in all Arguments, Disputes and Reproofs, namely, to recover and cure those that are out of the way; but durum super durum non facit murum: Hence the expression of that peaceable Bishop Hall, I am, and profess to be, as the terms stand, on neither, and yet on both parts; for the peace of both, for the humour of neither: how should mortar cement, if it lie not between both stones? The Kingdom of God stands not in meats, in colours, in noises, in gestures; God stands not on such trifles, and why should we? &c. The Wisest of men determines this: Prov. 30.33