XXVII.
And you need no other Star to guide you in taking the de∣grees of your sins against God, than the consideration of the
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And you need no other Star to guide you in taking the de∣grees of your sins against God, than the consideration of the
circumstances by which you are to measure the injuries done to your self. And I need not tell you, how the harm a man doth you is the more hainous, if he do it knowingly and willingly, than if he did it ignorantly and against his mind: Next, when he doth it purposely and with deliberation, than when he doth it suddenly and at unawares; when he doth it in the heat of Passion and blindness of Zeal, and according to his present sentiments, than when he doth it contrary to the checks and resistances of his Conscience, and the cool dictates of his Reason. You likewise judge the injury more grievous and provoking, the oftner it is repeated: and you can with less trouble for∣give a few, than many faults. You also find your self more sensible of the wrong done by him you often pardon'd and
long spar'd; whom by many benefits you have oblig'd, and who has vow'd and promised to do so no more. And in the last place, it makes the wrong in∣tolerable, that it is become cu∣stomary; and that he that doth it, can by no reproof, threat∣ning, exhortation, advice, or punishment, be diverted; but that notwithstanding all means used to the contrary, he goes on, and takes pleasure to trespass a∣gainst you.