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Fourthly, do good for evil, this is that which the men of the world cannot do. We must labour to do ¹some singular thing for God; if you only do good for good, the Publicans can do so, but we must do good for evil. As it is reported of Bishop Cranmer, they used to say of him, If they would have Bishop Cranmer their friend, let them do him some ill turn: Do you not think how you may be even with them that have done you an ill turn, but rather go home, and all the way you are going, be musing, and studying how you may return some good to that man that hath done you wrong, and so you shall not be even with him, but above him; by this you shall heap coals of fire upon his head: This beseems the people of God, that are the peculiar of God. It was a notable speech that Balaam had in Numbers 23. 9. Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the Nations: They are a people peculiar amongst themselves; if they be such a people as are so peculiar, as they must not be reckoned amongst the Nations, then they must do such things, as cannot be reckoned amongst the ways and works of the ⟨p. 302⟩Nations. If we should read all Authors of the Heathens, yet we may find such things in Gods people, as we cannot find in all the Authors.

Fourthly, do good for evil, this is that which the men of the world cannot do. We must labor to do ¹some singular thing for God; if you onely do good for good, the Publicans can do so, but we must do good for evil. As it is reported of Bishop Cranmer, they used to say of him, If they would have Bishop Cranmer their friend, let them do him some ill turn: Do you not think how you may be even with them that have done you an ill turn, but rather go home, and all the way you are going, be musing, and studying how you may return some good to that man that hath done you wrong, and so you shall not be even with him, but above him; by this you shall heap coals of fire upon his head: This beseems the people of God, that are the peculiar of God. It was a notable speech that Balaam had in Numbers 23. 9. Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the Nations: They are a people peculiar amongst themselves; if they be such a people as are so peculiar, as they must not be reckoned amongst the Nations, then they must do such things, as cannot be reckoned amongst the ways and works of the