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[ 230] It is the glory of a Christian, to passe by offences and injuries.

ONe Vitus Theodorus,* 1.1 a German Divine, sends to advise with Melancthon, what he should do, when Os••ander preached against him. Melancthon writes to him, and beseeches him for the love of God, yea chargeth him, that he should not answer Os••ander again, but that he should hold his peace, and make as if he heard nothing:* 1.2 Vitus Theodorus writes back again, that this was hard to do, yet he would obey. And thus must every good Christian do, he must not be too hasty to oppose oppositions, not be like those Salamanders, that are never well, but when they are in the fire of contention, but go on patiently in a constant way, resolving to bear what he meets with;* 1.3 rather to suffer an hundred wrong▪ than return one; and then God at length will make his righteousnesse break forth as light: For it is the onely valour to remit a wrong, and the greatest applause, that a man might hurt, and would not.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Melch. Ada∣mus, in vita.
• * 1.2

  Jer. Borogh's Heart divisions.
• * 1.3

  Optimus ille, qui ferre novit inju∣rias plurimas.