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Men to bear with one anothers Infirmities. [ 986]

A Blind Man, and a lame Man (as it is in the Fable) meeting upon the way; the lame Man said,* 1.1 If thou wilt be feet unto me, then I will be eyes unto thee; so the blind Man carrying the lame, and the lame guiding the bind, both arrived at their journies end in a good hour: Thus it is that Men, especially Christian men, must bear with one another, yea bear and forbear; If a brother in his unadvised anger use thee roughly, rudely, bear with him, & thou bearest his burthen; If thou be too silent in thy conversation, and thy brother on the contrary too full of prattle, bear thou with his loquacity,* 1.2 that he may bear thy pertinacy. A Magistrate in the Common-wealth, and a Master in his Family, must have patience to see many things, and not to see them; hence is that Motto of Frederick the first, Qui nescit

dissimulare, nescit imperare,* 1.3 may be digested easily with a little salt; For when small faults are winked at in time and place wisely, Soveraign and Subject, Ma∣ster and Man, one and another according to that Apostolical injunction, may be very well said to bear one anothers burthen, Gal. 6. 2.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Aesop••s in fa∣bula de caeco & claudo.
• * 1.2

  Primasius. Anselm. in Gal. 6. 2.
• * 1.3

  Reusneri Sym∣bola.