The Fountain of Life Opened

First, It consists not in a stoical insensibility of wrongs and injuries. God hath not made men as insensible stupid blocks, that have no sense or feeling of what is done to them. Nor hath he made a Law inconsistent with their very natures that are to be governed by it. But allows us a tender sense of natural evils, though he will not allow us to revenge them by moral evils. Nay, the more deep and tender our resentments of wrongs and injuries are, the more excellent is our forgiveness of them: so that a forgiving spirit doth not exclude sense of injuries, but the sense of injuries graces the forgiveness of them.

First, It consists not in a stoical insensibility of wrongs and injuries. God hath not made men as insensible stupid blocks, that have no sence or feeling of what is done to them. Nor hath he made a Law inconsistent with their very natures that are to be governed by it. But allows us a tender sense of natural evils, though he will not allow us to revenge them by moral evils. Nay, the more deep and tender our resentments of wrongs and injuries are, the more excellent is our forgiveness of them: so that a forgiving spirit doth not exclude sense of injuries, but the sense of injuries graces the forgiveness of them.

Secondly, Christian forgiveness is not a politic concealment of our wrath, ¹and revenge, because it will be a reproach to discover it; or because we want opportunity to vent it. This is carnal policy, not Christian meekness. So far from being the mark of a gracious spirit, that it's apparently the sign of a vile nature. It is not Christianity to repose, but depose injuries.

Secondly, Christian forgiveness is not a politick concealment of our wrath, ¹and revenge, because it will be a reproach to discover it; or because we want opportunity to vent it. This is carnal policy, not Christian meekness. So far from being the mark of a gratius spirit, that it's apparently the sign of a vile nature. It is not Christianity to repose, but depose injuries.