Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences,…

3 'Tis a sin against Hospitality, to open your doors, and shut up your Countenance; be sweet, gracious, and free, let your looks be the Chrystal to your Disposition. Though a churl may bid all Welcome, yet he thinks none so; though he may say, Eat and drink, yet his heart is not with thee, and his courtesy seldom comes, but for gain or falsehood, as Solomon tells us, Prov. 23.3, 6, 7, 8. And on the other hand, how generously soever you entertain, never compel him to surfeit, whom you invited to feast; nor to be drunk and lose his own by another's health, Hest. 1.7, 8.

3 'Tis a sin against Hospitality, to open your doors, and shut up your Countenance; be sweet, gracious, and free, let your looks be the Chrystal to your Disposition. Though a churl may bid all Welcome, yet he thinks none so; though he may say, Eat and drink, yet his heart is not with thee, and his courtesie seldome comes, but for gain or falshood, as Solomon tells us, Prov. 23.3, 6, 7, 8. And on the other hand, how generously soever you entertain, never compel him to surfet, whom you invited to feast; nor to be drunk and lose his own by anothers health, Hest. 1.7, 8.

4. 'Tis better to be above, than but even with an enemy: He that revengeth is but even with him (as the phrase is) but he that pardoneth is above him; ⟨p. 73⟩for so much as a man is better than another, so much he is above him, Matth. 5.44, — 48. And on the other hand, let no man offend on the presumption of a pardon; for he seems to be in love with a fault (like Shimei) who had rather be forgiven, than be innocent. It's better not to need, than to have a pardon.