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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42869	Ekdikēsis or A discourse of vengeance Delivered in a sermon preached at Dorchester, at the assizes holden there for the county of Dorset, March. 4. 1663. By Henry Glover rector of Shroton.	Glover, Henry, b. 1624 or 5.	1664 (1664)	Wing G889B; ESTC R217417	16,653	28

even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you And Col. 3. 13. For bearing one another and fogiving one another Lactant if any man hath any quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you so also do yee He hath done thee wrong what then Non minus mali est referre injuriam quam inferre To Revenge is as great a sin as to do an injury When all is done our Saviours advice is best and if you will not follow that you may pay dearer for worse Counsel In your patience possesse you souls Luke 21. 19. 2. For those things that are of greater consequence be ready to offer satisfaction if thou hast done injury to take it if injury hath been done to thee And embrace all equitable Termes of Reconciliation nay rather recede something from thy Right then foment a quarrel that it may appear it is not thy Fault if the Breach be not made up Why do yee not rather take wrong Why do yee not rather suffer your selves to be defrauded saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 6. 7. 3. Do nothing in Rash Anger against thy offending Brother Lay aside passion and first weigh both causes in the Ballance of discretion with calm and sedate Affections before you seek a Remedy which may prove worse then the disease 'T is good Counsell which Solomon gives you Pro. 25. 8. Go not forth hastily to strive least thou know not what to do in the end thereof when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame Ira peccati Magistra est saith Ambrose Anger is the Mistrese of sin and Revenge is the Hand-Maid of Anger and the next word you hear from an Angry man is I 'le be reveng'd Yea but hear what Seneca a Heathen man will tell thee Inhumanum verbum est Vltio Revenge is a Brutish barbarous word If Dogs and Beares could speak they would talk of Revenge just as you do One said well There is no such Injury as Revenge and no such Revenge as the contempt of an injury 4. Fortify your souls with Rational and Scriptural Arguments against that intemperate and exorbitant passion of Anger and Revenge such as these which I shall but mention 1. It 's Discovery of much Impotency and weakness of Judgement to be so transported Invalidum omne natura querulum est Senec. The weaker any thing is the more querulous ever Children and old and sick people are most apt to be angry 2. It degrades the Noble Reasonable soul and turns it down into the Rank of the most malitious and Ravenous Beasts Anger and Revenge in a Man is the same saith Basil that poyson in a sepent Now a venemous Beast doth not onely do hurt by his poyson but is provoked and stirred up by it to do hurt So is Anger and Revenge in a man it doth not onely enable him to do mischief but provokes him to it 3. It fetcheth coales out of Hell to kindle a Fire in the Heart and the Devil comes along with it to blow those coals so t●at if you give not place to wrath you must give place to the Devil to that Devil of Revenge Eph. 4. 26. 27. which if once admitted will set the whole course of Nature on fire of Hell Jam. 3. 6. Such sober considerations as these if timely applyed may happen to charme that evil spirit of Revenge and cast him out before he hath taken the full possession of the soul 5. Imitate the Examples of the best and wisest men who have looked upon nothing so irrational as Revenge nothing so noble as Forgiveness What Revenge do you think that pious Barnard did wish to the worst Enemies he had in the world Bern. ser 63. sup Cant. Vtinam omnes adversantes mihi sine causâ ita capere possim ut Christo eos vel restituam vel acquiram He wisheth this Revenge to all his causeless enemies that he might be an Instrument to restore them or win them to Christ That indeed is the right Christian Revenge which our Saviour Jesus-Christ hath taught us not onely by his Precept but Example too viz. to wish well and do well to the worst enemies we have 6. Last of all if Scripture and Christian Examples will not prevail learn this lesson and be ashamed even of Heathens and Turkes of Julius Caesar it is reported Quad nihil oblivisci solebat nisi injurias that he forgat nothing but injuries he had an excellent memory for any thing else but injuries and shrewd turns he could not remember Nay the very Turkes themselves they say when they see their Fellows quarrelling or fighting or reviling one another will reprove them thus what a Musselman do so fie upon 't 't is enough for a Christian And fie upon us indeed that we have given them such occasion to speak thus of us While we are Turks one to another we may fear least God should make the Turk a Turk to us all If we give them occasion thus to Reproach and blaspheme Christ it is but just if Christ give them occasion to harasse and lay wast Christendome God Almighty power down his holy spirit among us that we may live in Love and Peace and the God of Love and Peace may be with us to which God of Love and Peace Father Son and Holy Ghost be all glory and praise c. FINIS