as well as Religion is necessary in a Divine Truth may be apprehended without much knowledge but it cannot be taught without a large measure of understanding A man may have faith enough for himself and yet want power to infuse it into others The Arts are nothing else but Reason improved and Divinity though it transcend does never crosse nature Morality is a servant to Grace and such a Queen cannot be without her attendants Conscience and Phylosophy may well stand together a good Pastor is well furnished with both Without the first none will without the second none can rightly instruct the people LVI I will ever suspect that man that makes too much haste to gaine my acquaintance A violent affection goes away as fast as it comes a fire of straw is easily kindled and quickly out Love that is ripe too soon like Summer fruit will not hold out in the Winter of affliction A durable friendship is built upon consideration He that thrusts himself upon me may be presumed to want honesty or judgement either he hath some designe upon my person or else is not worthy of my knowledge Religion is the best ground of a familiar society And I shall think that he hath but little in himself that will venture upon me not yet informed of mine LVII Travel to a wise man is a lesson of experience The deepest Schollars cannot by their reading comprehend so much as others that want learning have seen and observed A narrative information is sometimes no more then a dreame many times a very lie and 't is impossible to make so good a collection of what we hear or read as of that which is clearly represented to the sight Our Maps do but contract the understanding which is enlarged by a full view and open contemplation of the place There are some so wedded to their home that they will not approve of any voyage into forraigne parts As 't is a practice commonly taken up by young gallants meerly for fashion sake I cannot but condemn it but if we go with a thrifty intention to informe our selves and have a care to the maine chance if Gods grace and goodnesse do not leave us when we leave our Countrey I know not any thing that can be especially to persons of honour and men of great birth and fortune more convenient lawful and in some sort necessary LVIII War is our misery and yet oftentimes proves necessary an inevitable malady that turns to a benefit as it may be the means to prevent a greater mischief or procure an unexpected happiness It is the best way sometimes to expell poyson by a contrary poyson and such destructive medicines may preserve the patient and ruine the sicknesse When our Peace is corrupted with luxurious sinnes it is time to launch it with a revengefull sword and the state must be wounded to the quick to let out her putrifaction Who would not rise from his sleep when a just cause calls him forth when the War-like Trumpet sounds an Alarme to our drousie spirits who is he that can willingly embrace a senseless ease Warre is a remedy as well as a disease though sometimes it prove a remedy worse then the disease brings health as well as sickness and preserves the active minde which having no object to work upon consumes it self it renues the Nobility of a decayed house and scoures off the foule aspersions of a long contracted infamy whether false or real it revives the natural fire that lies raked up in dust and ashes and stirs the heart to a generous contention LIX A good Souldier is a good man for grace and valour are never separated He knowes that the practise of sinne is a dishonour to his Lord and a disgrace to that service and imployment which he hath undertaken Holiness he accounts the best prize and thinks Religion a thing as necessary in the field as in the Church His carriage and conversation is most eminent and conspicuous The most exemplary patterne of vertue and severe example of goodness He maintains Christianity with his life and his perfections shine brighter than his sword He bears a just and single heart in a righteous cause As conscience brought him to the Warre so that shall preserve him alive or dead nor can he proceed valiantly in any action without it He alwayes endeavours to march like a Christian walks worthy of his extraordinary calling Such he esteems it a profession of extreame necessity not like our mercenary Sword-men a common trade of villany and destruction The ten Commandments are his millitary orders He measures Martial-Law by the decalogue and hath skill to overcome his enemies without a breach upon that precept which forbids murder He loves conscience better then fame and thinks it impossible to obtain the last without the first He carries a clear countenance in a cloudy brow looks boldly like a lion and as he would fright the devil and all his Host but humbly fearful like the modest Publican at the sight of God He is free and kinde to his friends charitable to his worst enemies courteous and merciful to his captives faithful and loyal to his Prince good and just to all You may discern a mannerly rudenesse in his behaviour an eloquent plainnesse in his speech hearty sweet expressions without complement He is full of all deserving qualities wisdome justice temperance liberality These are all companions to fortitude his peculiar vertue He fears not the worst mischief that can befall him and will go on though all the powers in Hell should rise to his destruction He is confidently assured that he can lose no more then his body His peace is made with heaven and the greatest dangers of outward Warre cannot disturb that happy union He dares entertain Death in any habit in any place or at any time He is provided in the field and in his chamber and every houre he expects his last houre In the greatest storm of ill success he carries yet fair weather in his face His countenance is the Almanack by which others prognosticate their hopes and expectations If sometimes he miscarry through a light error or mistake his pardon may be as just as merciful nor is it fit that all former deserts should be covered in the grave of one misfortune A foile or two will adde more strength and courage for the next engagement Shall small offences be writ in Marble and constant vertues in fleeting sand shall one unlucky trespass blot out the remembrance of many victories LX Me thinks the very name of Man should perswade us to a peaceful quietnesse but if natural Reason cannot prevaile yet the respect we have unto Religion the profession of a Christian should work effectually When I hear the name of Man I am taken with delight as conceiving him the Subject of peace but when I read the title of a Christian my hope is confirmed beyond expectation yet amongst Christians we finde that discord which the Heathens would
visible motion advance themselves by degrees into a fruitful state and condition The creature without life is not without action With what a brave carere the shining Sunne spreads his diurnal pace And how the sister Moon in a constant change follow this leading dance How nimble is the fire how piercing is the air How the Sea rowles about with perpetual waves All which may teach man a lesson of laborious diligence and raise him from the lethargy of a non-imployment Laziness corrupts both the body and the minde Nothing can be so tedious and irksome as to want business Exercise keeps the heart in tune and feeds the spirits with a lively sense whereas doing nothing disorders the brain and starves the quickest wits into a dull discontent VIII Boldness is an Ornament to a vertuous man but when 't is put on to boulster up a vicious act nothing more odious Bashful vertue 't is a foolish sin and bold vice is a sinful bravery Too much modesty intangles the soule with many impediments and over-daring drives headlong into infinite dangers Remorse for sinning is a divine grace but to be ashamed of goodnesse is the next way that leads to impiety How many good natures have betray'd themselves for want of courage to deny an unreasonable importunity As I would not stubbornly reject the worst request so I shall never grant the beâ—t without some intimation of power in the libertie of a denial I will neither accept nor afford any thing in such a manner but that the world shall see I could easily forbear to confer and as easily refuse a benefit IX If a man were nothing but all eare yet a boundlesse tongue would tire his patience And commonly those that are tedious in their discourse are also impertinent He that regards his matter will not strive for words He that loves to hear himself talk considers not what will please others How was poore Horace tortured with the shuffling shifting voice of Crispinus Like the scraping of a trencher or the noise of a drum to a learned Student such are the ill sounds of a talkative mouth to a judicious hearer The teeth and lips seeme to be drawn out as a circle to keep in the slippery speech which must needs run some hazard when it runs too far without these lines of communication But if a present danger cannot fright the secure speaker I wish those that love to speak much would consider that one day they must give an account for every idle word X. It is an easie task to censure another Hardly any thing can be undertaken without some mistakes No man can express himself so exactly but a censorious critick will finde matter enough to work upon We may easily spy a fault where there are many vertues It is not always a part of wisdom to discover a folly Ignorance is a busie fool that would seem wise by condemning others when it knows least it self He that is alwayes raking in ashes will but foule his own face and he that seeks to diminish the credit of his neighbour may cast a blemish upon his own reputation XI There are certain birds of Paradise which make the best musick in a Cage The sweet singer of Israel was most full of melody in his greatest Afflictions David could blesse God in a cave Iob on the dunghill The prison sometimes is the Saints Quire where the heart is at liberty while the body is under restraint and their very groans are acceptable notes of praise and benediction The good mans sorrow is never without some joy Our very hope can afford us songs of deliverance When our heavenly father makes up the consort who can forbeare to tune his voice and keep time with him Heaven and happinesse waits upon them that with patience attend his leasure Gods presence translates the Dungeon into a Sanctuary turns Babylon to Hierusalem captivity into triumph Our Jaylors are our life-guard our enemies our servants since they serve but as instruments to his will upon us who is indeed our Master He is happy enough that can patiently expect salvation As the Marriner keepes under hatches till the tempest be allayed so our present misery is nothing but a safe retiring till all dangerous stormes be blown over and we arive at last to the Haven of our Rest. XII In experience I shall observe this Rule rather spend too little then too much For covetousness there may be some satisfaction but the Prodigal is lost beyond all Redemption He that spends above his abilities will never be able to make himselfe amends I had rather deceive the expectations of others then cosen my self He that straines his estate to be accounted liberal may be thought covetous when all 's spent for the world is most apt to censure those that decline their former course Give God his due in Tythes the poor in Almes and thy self in Necessaries and there will remaine no great superfluitie of wealth to cast away in vanity XIII Our joys in this world do not alwayes run smooth and clear The best Contentments have some kinde of muddy mixture the sweetest cup hath some Lees at the bottom Our outward peace is frequently interrupted our inward peace is oftentimes eclipsed Here is no constant satisfaction in this Region of vicissitude Our comforts are neither full nor permanent We must look for that happinesse in heaven Who would live in this vale of brittle earth where every thing consumes and nothing is everlasting In the highest advancement some clouds will overshadow us In the heighth of joy there may be a depth of sorrow There is a kinde of connexion in contrarieties Here prosperity and adversity are linked together It is said of Hezekiah after his glorious victory over the host of Zenacherib that in those dayes Hezekiah was sick to the death Those dayes are these dayes and all dayes in our sphere where the greatest blessings are perpetually attended with some discontents and such sometimes that sicknesse or death would be a blessed remedy XIV Nothing makes the work of God in the compositions of our bodies more admirable then the beauty of their shape and curious Art used in the workmanship For this cause the Royal Prophet considering his Creation cries out as one ravished with admiration I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made No image or picture can be compared with the form of a mans body no imbroydered piece can be so well wrought or set out with such variety of excellent figures But when we consider that besides there is a soul inclosed in this exquisite frame as farre above it as that above all other things we cannot be so unthankful or unreasonable as not to acknowledge that the divine hand of heaven hath a peculiar influence of benediction and favour to the race of mankinde beyond all other Creatures whatsoever XV In every work we are to regard as well the manner of performing it as the work it self
confused noise and by that in some measure can declare their meaning but men only can dispense an articular sound We have reason therefore to be careful how we deliver our selves and utter our conceptions in such words as may tend to the edification of others and the glory of our Maker XXII Asa was a very good son of very bad parents Goodness proceeds from the favour and grace of God is not born with us nor yet conveyed into our hearts by breeding and strict education The best instructions are often rejected and the worst principles cannot corrupt that heart which the holy Spirit is pleased to sanctifie If men could entaile their vertues with their estates what a world of glorious Saints would this world afford On the other side if vice were hereditary what swarms of wickednesse would still increase In all events whether of good or evill let us alwayes admire the gracious providence of our heavenly Father XXIII He that hath but a meane fortune must be careful not to plant himself amongst his Superiors for great men always suspect the endeavours of those that are below them and fearing their own greatness may be supplanted in time prevent such a suspected mischief with the ruine of their neighbours Power and Majesty can brook no equals A rich neighbour is compared to a Pyke that devoutes all the younger Fry Pharaohs fat-kine eat up the leane And the Sea swallows the smaller Rivers The poor live best with the poore as Bees thrives together in a swarme But the sheep are in continual fear when the wolfe is near XXIV Religion and riches seldom meet together They that are kept down with such cloddes of earth can hardly reach at the joys of heaven The Rich-man is so puff'd up with the leaven of his wealth that he cannot enter in at the strait-gate and the way thither is too narrow for his spreading greatnesse Poore Lazarus was advanced to the bosome of Abraham while Dives lay frying in the bowels of Hell Grace and abundance are not alwayes inconsistent but Poverty hath fewer temptations and less danger Nay even in this world plenty doth but crosse content and he that hath all things to his minde yet wants a mind to enjoy all he hath Feare of loosing care of preserving envy of neighbours opposition of enemies so disturb his rest that he cannot truly say soul take thy ease here or soul go to heaven hereafter XXV God and the world never agree in the measure of time The purpose of his will not the motion of the Sunne determines his houres Did we set our wills by his decree Gods clock and ours would alwayes strike together Our affections are poised with the weights of selfe-love and ambition which move too fast in regard of our true necessity which he only respects The least delay seems tedious to an hasty minde the longest is but short to the patient soul Think not then that he is slow who never failes in the houre of his promise though he answer not the very minute of our expectation XXVI Presumption is the harbinger of destruction When men grow wanton in their sins judgement is not farre from their elbows Agag cries out most sweetly the bitterness of death is past when ready to be hewed in pieces When his hopes were at the highest pitch Samuel laid him even with the ground The candle makes the greatest blaze in the socket but presently expires with an unwholesome smell The bold sinner is most confident at his latter end but that confidence betrays him to the power of utter darknesse XXVII He that begins well gives a good hope of his future proceedings Yet the first actions of men do not always entaile a perpetuity of grace Perseverance is a rare and emiment vertue Ioash and Nero were two vertuous Princes under two excellent Tutors but very bad Kings both their after reignes did utterly disprove their former subjection He that is rightly instructed in his youth will doe something worthy of his education but those precepts which our Masters distill into the braine are not ever rooted in the heart Time will weare out the impression of goodnesse made upon our tender yeares if not preserved and blessed by the secret insinuations and continual motions of a divine spirit XXVIII It is impossible to gaine the good opinion of all the world Let my conversation be never so innocent there will be found some detractors to undervalue my reputation If I do ill the vertuous cannot love me if well the wicked must needs be my enemies He that can clearly avoid the strokes of a censorious tongue hath more wit then honesty and may be presumed to comply with all occasions to maintaine his credit and in that looseth what he so slily endeavours to preserve I shall labour therefore to approve my self to God and my conscience and let others say what they please my owne innocency is my own satisfaction XXIX He that sowes the winde reaps the whirlewinde Bad actions are onely fruitfull to destruction Wickedness is alwayes attended with death The end still answers the beginning We cannot gather Grapes of Thornes or Figges of Thistles He that meanes to thrive let him use those means to which the Providence of God addes a blessing For what can any man expect but wages answerable to his work The evil of sin and the evil of punishment go hand in hand together but grace and goodnesse are united with everlasting glory XXX Sinne in the very act may be full of pleasure but it always leaves a sting behind it The guilt and horror lies close a while in ambush and then starts up to surprize the offender The devil leads us in a dance to hell and so leaves us to our ruine like a crafty strumpet that with her flattering outside draws in the secure sinner to his own destruction fits him with a fine disease in the rear of his delight Vain man How is folly ingraffed to thy very nature that having so often tried the deceit of vice wilt yet give credit to her pleasing smiles and be thus courted to a miserable downfall XXXI The want of things makes them precious We are scarce sensible of a benefit which we enjoy Before possession we think our selves miserable and when our desires are satisfied we growe weary of our happinesse The fond lover can court his Mistris with Oaths and Protestations whom afterwards he esteemes no better then his necessary drudge A poor man knows the value of a penny when the rich Prodigal throwes away his pounds How sweet is Liberty and Redemption to the Captive Health and strength to the diseased We are eager for those blessings which are denied us and unthankful for those which we obtain The apprehension is still fixt upon the object which is absent as not thinking that which is present worth a serious and stedfast view But certainly that man is most true to his owne content that can rightly value a blessing enjoyed and
tinkling sound of his own applause and commendation L. He that marries meerly to satisfie his lust may chance to have an ill match by the bargain for if there be not abilities to maintain an estate as well as strength to satisfie desire true love and affection will soon growe cold We cannot feed upon beauty imbraces will not cloath the back A single man may have patience enough to endure the worse of evils but when poverty afflicts two souls together the pain is intollerable If fortune frown upon my self alone I can finde the warres a remedy for such a disease but what griefe can be conceived greater then this to see my second-self ready to starve without power of reliefe my little Infants crying for breaâ— when I have nothing but my teares to comfort them The meanest beggar after death is as the greatest Prince but he that leaves his wife a poor widow starves in his memory and is miserable in his grave LI. Death can finde us out when we least look for it A Summer Parlour is no ominous place of destruction yet there Eglon perished by the hand of Ehud A brothers feast hath little shew of danger yet there Amnon fell by the treachery of Absolon Sitting is a posture of safety and ease yet Eli by ill news was cast down from his seat and brake his neck The house of God is no stage of violence yet there Zechariah or not farre from thence was stoned by the people at the Kings Commandment Where Ioash found a Sanctuary the faithful Prophet findes a way to his grave The same Ioash was slaine on his bed a receptacle of safe repose and quiet rest slaine by his own servants the Ministers of preservation and defence as if their cruelty meant to prevent his sicknesse and give the first blow to dissolution His killing diseases could not secure him from violent hands He little thought to be killed when he was ready to die So his latter end came upon him unawares Nay then was the last year of his raign and life when he expected to live long and rule at pleasure The sword of Justice can destroy the sinner anywhere at any time beyond all expectation And the best Saints sometimes are sent to heaven in a trice though never unprepared yet alwayes ignorant of the time though not against their will yet without their desire LII When God resolves to make his wisdom knowne by suppressing the counsels of Wise men it is commonly done by small means and weak instruments thus the poor man shall save the City thus Iaell shall prevaile against Sisera above an army of men thus the folly of preaching hath confounded all the learning of the world To teach us that nothing can be done without him The streames of our strength runne dry unless the spring of his bounty be full The best knowledge if not attendant to his grace will faint and tire at last but the least spark of wit animated by his goodnesse shall mount up with Eagles wings Nothing can act rightly except he inspire the motion Yet he that looks for Revelations and expects a divine assistance to his undertakings without all endeavour on his own part intends but to deceive himself and others As too much confidence in the external helps of devotion brings in superstition so too much neglect doth but advance profanenesse The very name of a University is hateful to ignorant Atheists and Heresies thrives best in the suppression of all learned diligence Industry and grace will stand well together strength and glory have a mutual complyance Let us not trust overmuch to the one nor caution our selves with a conceit of the other LIII The common people judge of persons and things by the issue and event Their love is violent upon a flourishing object and their hate as cruel to those whom adversity hath overthrowne Who but a Saul after his great victory over the Ammonites How miserable is Iob afflicted by his seeming friends Success is the Baud to vulgar admiration while misfortune and misery do but court contempt and hatred Prosperity may challenge respect and observance when ragged honesty can hardly move compassion If a good conscience did not make amends for all extreamities nothing were more miserable then vertue in a low condition Our miseries may informe us that God himself is offended yet such is the profit of Affliction that by it we may learn to prepare our hearts for endless joyes and everlasting blessings LIV. There is not any vice more hateful to Almighty God nor more disdainful or ridiculous in the society of man than pride whereas a modest humility doth procure many divine favours and knits the souls of men in a loving sympathy a powerful cement a binding vertue that glues and ties all relations together a center wherin every line of the circumference meets the magnetique Lady of all other honourable graces the Queen Regent of all other vertues whose Scepter is tipp'd with a commanding power to tame the most desperate devil and becalm all the turbulent combustions of a distracted enmity Why should the minde disdaine to be submissive to her self to be humble in her own thoughts if she contemplate the greatnesse of that power that can depress the Cedars and bring the hills down to the vallies that hath not spared the inhabitants of the Heavenly Court but hath deprived Lucifer and his train of that blessed Association God cannot endure this swelling humour which flies like stinking smoke into his nostrils and goes out like an unsavory snuff that gives offence to all and serves but to be thrown away and trod upon Can I be proud of beauty when I meet every day others farre more beautiful Is my coxcomb curried with a little learning do my brains begin to crow there are those in the world in comparison of whom I am but a plaine dunse a forlorne ideot a meer ignoramus If we have much how much more do we want enough to make us humble The proud Peacock is soon taken down when he beholds the blacknesse of his feet the mournfull Hien makes the height of pride recoile into a bashful penance he can no more admire the glittering bravery of his feathered rain-bowe So true is that of Solomon when pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is wisdome Nay such is the danger of this sinne that from thence he inferres the consequence of all mischief and misfortune Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall that alone is the cause of all jarring discord and confusion onely by pride cometh contention When I look upon the sweet behaviour and humble carriage of our great and powerful Redeemer I cannot but wonder at the pride of those ambitious spirits that can hardly brook either Equal or Superiour I cannot be proud if I consider what I am in my selfe and what God hath done and suffered for me LV Learning
said that we hold our peace when we say nothing for all war proceeds from the jarring discord of an ill-tun'd voice A long oration many times concludes in sorrow and though it may be for our disadvantage to be silent yet properly we cannot repent of what was never uttered He that speaks much seldome speaks truth which being plain or naked needes not the trim or habit of a large discourse and he that lies often will at last discover himself by a contradiction Whoever therefore would be wise or honest let him say little for he that talks without compasse can never mean fairly nor handsomly deceive An everlasting Speaker is a troublesom fool that will still be saying something because he understands nothing and if sometimes he hit upon the right he is more beholding to his mistrisse Fortune then his own good skill or knowledge XCVIII An industrious diligence never makes too much haste Things of wonder are not accomplished without long and serious consideration We cannot catch at vertue with a leap her Throne is fixt upon a rock whither 't is impossible to ascend but by degrees Blessings may fall into our mouths but like the raine or dew by drops and he that greedily gapes for a flood may be choaked with an inundation of curses The way to heaven is up-hill and he that would get thither by running may tyre before he can come to the top of the mountain God himself spent six days in creating the world and do we think to obtaine everlasting happinesse in a moment How many men have been undone in an eager pursuit of wealth and honour while others by a sober thirst have sped better It becomes every man to have some employment but he that is too quick and over-hasty in a businesse seems to be weary of it before it be well begun and will never stay to see it happily ended He that makes light of the burden wil hardly arrive at the profit of an action XCIX As true it is as Truth it self that the true servants of God shall never want The Heavens shall rain down Manna the hard rock shall melt into water varieties shall come flying upon the wings of the winde We read of a dry cruse that became a fountain of oyle the Lions jaws that afforded honey the devouring Ravens that could spare meat the fish with money in his mouth All creatures contribute to the relief of those that abound in grâ—ce In the barren wildernesse David was satisfied with marrow and fatnesse Our Infant Saviour is safe in Egypt a Nation ever hated of of the Iewes St. Chrysostome found friends in Armenia where he could expect nothing but famine and death Great Athanasius lived six years in a Cystern and foure moneths in his fathers Tomb The Divine Providence can preserve those that are appointed to die His hand is never too short to confer protection and salvation Thus indeed the Protestants have a God for all purposes one that never failes to provide for those that trust in him Conceive the worst and we can be but beaten out of Gods ground into heaven where our immortal souls shall be free from all farther trouble persecution and distresse C. It is reported of Pliny the Elder that while he was overcurious in searching out the cause of the continual burning of mount Aetna the smoke that ensued from thence at last choaked him Thus some men are overwhelmed with their own curiosity To seek for a signe of Gods visible proceedings in his unrevealed decrees is both vaine and dangerous Why should I endeavour to know that which is impossible to be known To comprehend that which is above the reach of humanity If I acknowledge a Deity I cannot deny him those secrets of State which constitute his essential power Even earthly Kings have their secret resolves and shall the King of heaven lie open to any mortal eye God is a consuming fire He that comes too near to inform himself of his Nature and essence may be suffocated with the smoaky blasts of his fiery indignation I will admire him in all his works but inquire the meaning of none no farther then he is graciously pleased to render an account of his Actions in his holy word His Publick declarations are full of satisfaction and he that seekes for other Reasons then are there set down is most unreasonable All conceptions of the minde are either Relative Negative or Absolute By the first we understand God no otherwise then he stands in relation to our selves as a Father a Governour a Creator or the like which cannot positively express his Nature By the Second as when we say he is not Mortall not Materiall not Finite we understand not what he is but what he is not By the Third we cannot apprehend him at all If such a conception should be granted it must be such as whereby we shal be able to comprehend all those real Attributes which formerly and properly belong to his divinity which no naturall understanding can imbrace any otherwise then by reflection in the Creatures Lord if it be so hard to understand what thou art by the Strength of Reason how vaine is their wisdome that would prove there is no God at all and because they cannot know thy essential truth will disclaim all belief in thy power and existence FINIS Eccl. 1.14 2 Sam. 18 33 Mat. 12.36 Isa. 38.1 Psal. 139.14 1 Sam. 6. Matth. 10.42 2 Sam. 1. 1 Sam. 15.32 Prov. 7.16 Judg. 3.20 2 Sam. 13.28 1 Sam. 4.13 2 Chron. 24.21 Vers. 21. Eccl. 9.15 Judg. 4.21 Pro. 11.2 Ch. 16.18 Ch. 13.10 Isa. 32.17 1 Cor. 13.13 1 King 19 18 Gen. 39.9 Job 17.14 Phil. 2.21 Pro. 19.12 Psal. 30.5 Mat. 6.12 Eph. 4.26 Mat. 5.22 Luk. 23.34 Heb. 12.29