A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon…

And are we not apt enough likewise, to offend our Brethren? ¹Either we have offended or may offend; so that we have need that others should bear with us, & why then should not we bear with them? Hanc venom petimusque damusque vicissim. Our Rule is, What we would that Men should do to us, when we offend them, the same we should do to them, when they offend us, for this is the Law and the Prophets, Mat. 7. 12.^* Solomon appeals to our own Consciences herein, Eccl. 7. 22. ⟨p. 132⟩For oftentimes also thine own Heart (which is instead of a thousand Witnesses) knoweth that thou thy self likewise hath cursed others. The penitent remembrance of that former guilt, would greatly help to curb the passionate Resentment of the present Trouble. When the undutiful Rebellious Son (in a Story that I once read) dragged his Father by the Hair of the Head to the House door, it qualified the Anger of the old Man, to remember, that just so far he had dragged his Father; as it seems to have silenced Adonibezek, that he was now treated no otherwise, than he had formerly treated others, Judg. 1. 7.

And are we not apt enough likewise, to offend our Brethren? ¹Either we have offended or may offend; so that we have need that others should bear with us, & why then should not we bear with them? Hanc veni•m petimusque damusque vicissim. Our Rule is, What we would that Men should do to us, when we offend them, the same we should do to them, when they offend us, for this is the Law and the Prophets, Mat. 7. 12.^* Solomon appeals to our own Consciences herein,