A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

for as long as it remains with you, it is an accursed thing, and will bring a Curse on all the rest. If you have wronged others in their Names, make them all the Satisfaction you can. Christ drew from Peter a treble Profession of his Love, to answer his threefold Denial. By all public Vindications you should seek to heal the Wound you have made. Take an Instance of one that accused a Bishop at Jerusalem falsely, God touched his Heart that he wept his Eyes blind.

for as long as it remains with you, it is an accursed thing, and will bring a Curse on all the rest. If you have wronged others in their Names, make them all the Satisfaction you can. Christ drew from Peter a treble Profession of his Love, to answer his threefold Denial. By all publick Vindications you should seek to heal the Wound you have made. Take an Instance of one that accused a Bishop at Ierusalem falsly, God touched his Heart that he wept his Eyes blind.

4th Rule of Justice: You must bear the Injuries of others with Patience, rather than revenge them. If Patience be not a part of Justice, I am sure private Revenge is a part of Injustice; because you take God's Work out of his Hands, and you make your selves Magistrates without a Commission. Rom. 12.9. Dearly beloved, avenge not your selves, but rather give place unto Wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. You must leave it to God and his Deputies. It is an Usurpation, and against all right to avenge your selves; that a Man should be Accuser, Judg and Executioner, and all in his own Cause, where Self-Love is, is apt to make us partial. If we are fit to be an Accuser, certainly not to be Judg and Executioner. •t crosseth the Ends of just Revenge, which are to right the Party wronged, or mend the Party offending, or to provide for public Safety. He that avengeth his own Quarrel, doth but more and more enrage his Adversary, scandalize others, and not right himself. In taking Wrong we suffer Evil, in returning Wrong we do Evil; the one is our Affliction, the other is our Sin. It will be no Excuse for you to say, you were wronged first. See how the Spirit of God takes off these Pleas,