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Injuries not onely to be forgiven but forgotten also. [ 395]

THe Athenians took one day from the moneth of May, and raced it out of all their Calendars,* 1.1 because on that day Neptune and Minerva fell out with one another, they could not endure any remembr••nce of that quarrel; And it is Py∣thagoras rule,* 1.2 Ignem gladio ne ••odias, do not stir up the fire that is almost out: Even so let Christians much more, bury th••se dayes in silence, and strike them out in their Almanacks in which any bitter contention fell amongst them, and the breach being once made up,* 1.3 and the wound closed, not to rub upon the old sore; and the heat be∣ing over, not to rake into the Embers or ashes of the fire of that contention lately put out, but to make a blessed Amnestia, an absolute act of Obli••ion upon all inju∣ries forepassed.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Plutarch. de amore fraterno.
• * 1.2

  Coelius Rho∣dogin Lect. var. 16. 19.
• * 1.3

  Ne malorum memineris Val. Max.