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Excerpt from A Sermon Against Contention and Brawling
How we should ing thereof we may be made the bet read the Scrip ter livers, rather than the more con ture' tentions disputers. If any thing be necessary to be taught, reasoned, or disputed, let us do it with all meekness, softness, and lenity. If any thing shall chance to be spoken uncomely, let one bear another's frailty. He that is faulty, let him rather amend, than defend that which he has spoken amiss, lest he fall by contention from a foolish errox into an obstinate heresy. For it is better to give place meekly, than to win the victory with the breach of charity, which chanceth when every man will defend his Opinion obstinately. If we be the Christian men, why do we not follow Christ, which saith, Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart Matt. Xi. A disciple must learn the lesson of his schoolmaster, and a servant must obey the command ment of his master. He that is wise and learned, saith St. James, let him show his goodness by his good conversation, and soberness of his.
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