and who are as zealous to quench the Charity of others, when it is destroyed in themselves, as holy persons are zealous to provoke others to Love, which dwe••eth and ruleth in themselves. In your Solitude with God, you shall not hear the lies and malicious revilings of the ungodly against the generation of the just: Nor the subtle cheating words of Heretics, who being themselves deceived, would deceive others of their Faith, and corrupt their lives. You shall not there be distracted with the noise and clamours of contending uncharitable professors ⟨p. 105⟩of Religion, endeavouring to make odious first the Opinions, and then the persons of one another: one saying, here is the Church, and another, there is the Church: One saying, This is the true Church Government, and another saying Nay, but that is it: One saying, God will be worshipped thus, and another, not so, but thus or thus: You shall not there be drawn to side with one against another, nor to join with any faction, or be guilty of divisions: You shall not be troubled with the Oaths and Blasphemies of the wicked, nor with the imprudent miscarriages of the Weak; with the Persecutions of Enemies, or the falling out of Friends. You shall not see the cruelty of proud Oppressors, that set up lies by armed violence, and care not what they say or do, nor how much other men are injured or suffer, so that themselves may tyrannize, and their wills and words may rule the World, when they do so unhappily rule themselves. In your solitude with God, you shall not see the prosperity of the wicked to move you to envy, nor the adversity of the just to be your grief: You shall see no Worldly pomp and splendour to be fool you; nor adorned ⟨p. 106⟩beauty to entice you, nor wasting calamities to afflict you: You shall not hear the laughter of Fools, nor the sick mans groans, nor the wronged mans Complaints, nor the poor mans murmurings, nor the proud mans boastings, nor the angry mans abusive ragings. As you lose the help of your gracious friends, so you are freed from the fruits of their peevishness and passions; of their differing opinion and ways and tempers; of their inequality, unsuitableness, and contrariety of minds or interests; of their levity and unconstancy, and the powerful temptations of their friendship, to draw you to the errors or other sins which they are tainted with themselves.
and who are as zealous to quench the Charity of others, when it is destroyed in themselves, as holy persons are zealous to provoke others to Love, which dwe••eth and ruleth in themselves. In your Solitude with God, you shall not hear the lyes and malicious revilings of the ungodly against the generation of the just: Nor the subtile cheating words of Hereticks, who being themselves deceived, would deceive others of their Faith, and corrupt their lives. You shall not there be distracted with the noise and clamours of contending uncharitable professors ⟨p. 105⟩of Religion, endeavouring to make odious first the Opinions, and then the persons of one another: one saying, here is the Church, and another, there is the Church: One saying, This is the true Church Government, and another saying Nay, but that is it: One saying, God will be worshipped thus, and another, not so, but thus or thus: You shall not there be drawn to side with one against another, nor to joyn with any faction, or be guilty of divisions: You shall not be troubled with the Oaths and Blasphemies of the wicked, nor with the imprudent miscarriages of the Weak; with the Persecutions of Enemies, or the falling out of Friends. You shall not see the cruelty of proud Oppressors, that set up lyes by armed violence, and care not what they say or do, nor how much other men are injured or suffer, so that themselves may tyrannize, and their wills and words may rule the World, when they do so unhappily rule themselves. In your solitude with God, you shall not see the prosperity of the wicked to move you to envy, nor the adversity of the just to be your grief: You shall see no Worldly pomp and splendor to be fool you; nor adorned ⟨p. 106⟩beauty to entice you, nor wasting calamities to afflict you: You shall not hear the laughter of Fools, nor the sick mans groans, nor the wronged mans Complaints, nor the poor mans murmurings, nor the proud mans boastings, nor the angry mans abusive ragings. As you lose the help of your gracious friends, so you are freed from the fruits of their peevishness and passions; of their differing opinion and ways and tempers; of their inequality, unsuitableness, and contrariety of minds or interests; of their levity and unconstancy, and the powerful temptations of their friendship, to draw you to the errors or other sins which they are tainted with themselves.
