a HOLY LIFE. 

 which none elfe is qualified for. Such an 

 unwillingnefs there is in molt Men to hear 

 of their faults, that thofe that undertake 

 that Work, had need have a great prepof- 

 feflion of their Hearts to make them pa- 

 tient of it. Of the abfurdity and unrea- 

 fonablenefs of this unwillingnefs to be re- 

 proved, Cicero faith very well, Atque illud 

 abftirdum eft, quod n qui monentur^ earn 

 rnolefttam quam dtbent cafere non cafiunt^ 

 earn cafhmt qua debent carere. ^Peccdffe 

 enim fe non anguntur, objurgari molefle fe- 

 runt : Quod contra ofortebat, deliffo dolere y 

 Qbjtirgatione gattdere. It is abfurd, that they 

 which are admoniihed receive not thence 

 the trouble which they ought to have, but 

 that which they ought to want. For they 

 are not forry that they have finned, but they 

 take it ill that they are reproved. \ Whereas 

 on the contrary they ought to grieve for their 

 Offence, but rejoice for their Reproof. 



3. Condolence and Confolation in any Ad- 

 verfity, Affliftion, or Suffering; as Sick- 

 nefs, the Death of any near Relation or 

 Friend, lofs of .Worldly Goods by Fire, 

 Shipwrack, Inundation, Invafion of Ene- 

 jnies, or the like. He that condoles with 

 his Friend in fuch Accidents, doth as it 

 were bear part of his Burthen, and by con- 



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