A Saint Indeed

What can you not find an heart to forgive one that hath […] instrumental of so much good to you, tha• •s strange what though they meant it for evil, y•t if God have turned it to good: you have no more reason to rage against the instrument, ⟨p. 126⟩then he had who received a wound from his enemy which only brake and let out that impostume, which otherwise had been his death.

What can you not find an •eart to forgive one that hath 〈…〉 instrumental of so much good to you, tha• •s strange what though they meant it for evil, y•t if God have turned it to good: you have no more reason to rage against the instrument, ⟨p. 126⟩then he had who received a wound from his enemy which only brake and let out that impostume, which otherwise had been his death.

6. R•m. 'Tis of excellent use to keep the heart from revenge, to look up and eye the first cause by which all our troubles are ordered.

This will calm and meeken our Spirits quickly; never did a wicked tongue try the patience of a Saint more than Davids was tried by that railing Shimei: yet the Spirit of this good man was not at all poisoned with revenge, though he goes along cursing and casting stones at him all the way: yea, though Abishai offered David, if he pleased, the head of that enemy; but the King said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zerviah? So let him curse because the Lord hath said unto him, curse David; Who shall then say, wherefore hast thou done so? it may be God uses him as his rod to lash me, because I by my sin made his enemies to blaspheme him: and shall I be angry with the rod? how irrational were that? this also was it that quieted Job he doth not rail, and vow revenge upon the Chaldeans and Sabeans, but eyes God as the orderer of those troubles, and is quiet, The Lord hath