2. Beare with lighter faultes for a time, til fit occasion be offred to* 1.1 have them amended.
- 1. No sinn is light in it selfe, but being continued in, and coun∣tenanced* 1.2 destroyeth the sinner. Matth. 5. 19.
- 2. It is the property of a prophane and hardened heart ever∣more to extenuate and lessen sinns.
- 3. Though the bearing and forbearing not onely of smal but even of great sinns also must be for at tyme, yet it must be but for a tyme, and that is whilest reformation be orderly sought, and procured, Lev. 19. 17. But what tyme hath wrought in the Church of England all men see, growing dayly by the iust iudgment of God, from evill to worse, and being never afore tyme so impatient eyther of reformation, or other good, as at this day.
- 4. A man must so bear an evill, as he be no way accessary vnto it, by forbearing any means appoynted by Christ for the amending it.