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The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…
The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan showing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by S. and B.G. for Nevil Simmons, 1676
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.
5. In a patient bearing the wrongs and injuries of others done unto thee. Matth. 5. 19. saith our Saviour, Resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on the right Cheek, turn to him the other also, &c. which words are not to be understood simply, and literally, but comparatively; as if he had said, Rather than revenge thy self, by rising up against him that hath smitten thee on the right Cheek, turn to him the other also; that is, be more ready to receive another wrong, than retaliate the former; ra•her than thou shouldst revenge thy self of a small injury, be ready to receive a greater.
5. In a patient bearing the wrongs and injuries of others done unto thee. Matth. 5. 19. saith our Saviour, Resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on the right Cheek, turn to him the other also, &c. which words are not to be understood simply, and litterally, but comparatively; as if he had said, Rather than revenge thy self, by rising up against him that hath smitten thee on the right Cheek, turn to him the other also; that is, be more ready to receive another wrong, than retaliate the former; ra•her than thou shouldst revenge thy self of a small injury, be ready to receive a greater.
Neither is this exposition of our Saviour to be applied only to real blows, to smiting by the hand, but also by the tongue, to the suffering of reproaches: as if he had said, If a man shall speak disgracefully and reproachfully of thee, be so far from casting dirt in his face, by reproaching and reviling him again, as rather be ready to receive and bear greater reproaches and disgraces.