Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

6. Follow after Charity. Knowledge puffeth up, but Charity edifieth. This is the healing Grace, and if this be not applied to our bleeding wounds, they will never be cured. This suffereth long, and is kind. Charity envieth not, Charity vaunteth not it self, is not puffed up. [Pray read on, and mark all these passages:] Charity doth not behave it self unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil: Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the Truth. Beareth all things, (tolerable) believeth all things, (credible) hopeth all things, (possible) endureth all things, and (as it follows,) endureth after all things; 1 Corinth. 13. That whole Chapter most fit to be read, and often studied by all that love peace. Charitas dicit aliorum bona certa, meliora; certa mala, minora; bona dubia, certa; dubia mala, nulla. An excellent Conclusion of Charity! That it reckons the good parts, qualities, or actions that are certainly in others, to be rather better than they are indeed; and the ills, to be less than they are indeed; the doubtful good things in them, to be certain; and the doubtful evil to be none. And how far would this Temper and Practice go to the promoting of Unity and Concord! And how directly contrary do most of them proceed, that make the greatest noise in our irreligious quarrels! Not only putting the most invidious fence upon one another's words and actions, but also the most uncharitable judgment upon their persons, upon their Spiritual and Eternal Estate.

6. Follow after Charity. Knowedge puffeth up, but Charity edifieth. This is the healing Grace, and if this be not applyed to our bleeding wounds, they will never be cured. This suffereth long, and is kind. Charity envieth not, Charity vaunteth not it self, is not puffed up. [Pray read on, and mark all these passages:] Charity doth not behave it self unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil: Rejoyceth not in iniquity, but rejoyceth in the Truth. Beareth all things, (tolerable) believeth all things, (credible) hopeth all things, (possible) indureth all things, and (as it follows,) indureth after all things; 1 Corinth. 13. That whole Chapter most fit to be read, and often studied by all that love peace. Charitas dicit aliorum bona certa, meliora; certa mala, minora; bona dubia, certa; dubia mala, nulla. An excellent Conclusion of Charity! That it reckons the good parts, qualities, or actions that are certainly in others, to be rather better than they are indeed; and the ills, to be less than they are indeed; the doubtfull good things in them, to be certain; and the doubtfull evil to be none. And how far would this Temper and Practice go to the promoting of Unity and Concord! And how directly contrary do most of them proceed, that make the greatest noise in our irreligious quarrels! Not only putting the most invidious fence upon one anothers words and actions, but also the most uncharitable judgment upon their persons, upon their Spiritual and Eternal Estate.