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Doct. 7. Long suffering or a patient mind not rash, or hasty, is another part of Christian worthiness, and a necessary Cause of Unity and peace.

Doct. 7. Long suffering or a patient mind not rash, or hasty, is another part of Christian worthiness, and a necessary Cause of Vnity and peace.

[Greek or Hebrew] hath more in it than many well consider of: I know it is commonly taken for restraint of anger by patient long-suffering: But I think that it chiefly signifieth here and elsewhere in Pauls Epistles, that deliberate slowness and calmness of mind which is contrary to passionate haste and rashness: When a passionate man is hasty and rash and cannot stay to hear another speak for himself nor to deliberate of the matter and search out the truth, nor forbear revenge while he thinketh whether it will do good or harm, or what the case will appear in the review; this Longanimity will stay men and compose their minds, and cause them to take time before they judge of opinions, practices or persons, and before they venture to speak or do; lest what they do in haste, they repent at leisure: It appeaseth those passions which blind the judgment when wrath doth precipitate men into those conceptions, words and deeds, which they must after wish that they had never known. Hasty rashness in judging and doing, for want of the patience & lenity of a slow deliberating mind, is the cause of most errors, Heresies and divisions, and of abundance of sin and misery in the world.

〈non-Latin alphabet〉 hath more in it than many well consider of: I know it is commonly taken for restraint of anger by patient long-suffering: But I think that it chiefly signifieth here and elsewhere in Pauls Epistles, that deliberate slowness and calmness of mind which is contrary to passionate haste and rashness: When a passionate man is hasty and rash and cannot stay to hear another speak for himself nor to deliberate of the matter and search out the truth, nor forbear revenge while he thinketh whether it will do good or harm, or what the case will appear in the review; this Longanimity will stay men and compose their minds, and cause them to take time before they judge of opinions, practices or persons, and before they venture to speak or do; lest what they do in haste, they repent at leisure: It appeaseth those passions which blind the judgment when wrath doth precipitate men into those conceptions, words and deeds, which they must after wish that they had never known. Hasty rashness in judging and doing, for want of the patience & lenity of a slow deliberating mind, is the cause of most errors, Heresies and divisions, and of abundance of sin and misery in the world.