CHAP. XIIII.
* 1.1IT cannot be (saith Theophrastus) but that a good man should bee displeased with the wicked. In this sence the better men should be the most cholericke. But contrariwise they should be more peace∣able, exempt from passions, and without hatered of any man. What reason might moue them, to hate sinnes, considering that it is errour which driueth them into these faultes: But it is not the part of a Wise man to haue those that erre, otherwise he should hate himselfe. L••t him bethinke himselfe, how many faults he committeth against good manners, how many thinges he hath done which require pardon? Then shall he bee angrie with himselfe. For a just Iudge pronounceth not one sentence in his owne be∣halfe, another in anothers. A man (saith hee) is not to be found, that can ab∣solue himselfe, truth it is, that euerie man (saith he) is innocent but it is in regard of witnesses not of his conscience. How farre more humane were it for a man to shew himselfe gentle, and pacified to those that offend, and rather to re∣con••••le them then to persecute them. It were better to lead them, into the di∣rect way who for want of knowledge haue straied out of it; as to thrust them out of the way.* 1.2 A man ought to correct him that offendeth by admonitions•• forcible reprehensions, friendly but effectuall speech: to the end to make him better for himselfe and for others. In briefe, hee ought to chastise him without passion of Choler. For what Physitian is he, that will bee angrie and displea∣sed with his Patient, whom he would recouer?