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To be merciful, is to have compassion ¹and to feel an other mans disease, and to mourn with them that mourn, and suffer with them that suffer, and to help and succour them that are in tribulation and adversity, and to con fort them with good counsel & wholesome instruction and loving words. And to be merciful, is lovingly to forgive them that offended thee, as soon as they knowledge their misdoing & ask thee mercy. To be merciful, is patiently long to abide the conversion of sinners with a lusty courage and hope that God will at the last convert them, and in the mean time to pray instantly for them, and ever when he seeth an occasion, to exhort them, warn them, monish them, and rebuke them. And to be merciful, is to interpret all to the best, and to look through the fingers at many things, and not to make a grievous sin of every small trifle, and to suffer and forbear in his own cause the malice of them that will not repent nor be a known of their wickedness, as long as he can suffer it, and as long as it ought to be suffered, and when he can no longer, then to complain to them that have authority to forbid wrong and to punish such evil doers.

To be mercifull, is to haue compassion ¹and to feele an other mās disease, and to mourne with thē that mourne, and suffer with them that suffer, and to helpe and succour them that are in tribulation and aduersitie, and to cō fort them with good counsell & wholsome instruction and louing wordes. And to be merciful, is louingly to forgeue them that offended thee, assoone as they knowledge their misdoyng & aske thee mercy. To be mercifull, is patiently long to abide the conuersion of sinners with a lusty courage and hope that God will at the last conuert them, and in the meane tyme to pray instantly for them, and euer when he seeth an occasion, to exhort thē, warne them, monishe thē, and rebuke them. And to be mercifull, is to interpret all to the best, and to looke thorow the fingers at many thynges, and not to make a greuous sinne of euery small trifle, and to suffer and forbeare in his owne cause the malice of them that wil not repent nor be a knowen of theyr wickednesse, as long as he can suffer it, and as long as it ought to be suffred, and when he can no lenger, then to complayne to them that haue auctoritie to forbidde wrong and to punishe such euill doers.