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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
III. Seem to take little or no notice of those reproaches that are cast upon you. 1The Wise man saith, It is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression; i. e. to seem to take no notice thereof. And truly, it is the best kind of revenge you can take of your reproachers; for there can be no greater vexation to your malicious reproacher,2 than to see you take little or no notice of his reproaches against you, and whosoever will make trial, shall find that his Adversary is more vexed with his silence, than if he should return like for like.
III. Seem to take little or no notice of those reproaches that are cast upon you. 1The Wiseman saith, It is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression; i. e. to seem to take no notice thereof. And truly, it is the best kind of revenge you can take of your reproachers; for there can be no greater vexation to your malicious reproacher,2 than to see you take little or no notice of his reproaches against you, and whosoever will make trial, shall find that his Adversary is more vexed with his silence, than if he should return like for like.
- 1Prov. 19. 11
- 2Nec prudc••iae quic quam in se essê […] o•tendet, qui […] sen.Nec prudc••iae quic quam in se essê 〈…〉 o•tendet, qui 〈…〉 sen.