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SECT. VIII.
THirdly, This Rule trains us up to an universal Innocency, that we do wrong to no man, but in the Lan∣guage of the Apostle,
Be blameless and harmless, the Sons of God with∣out rebuke, though in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation.
Now wrong we may do to others ei∣ther in their Persons, or Relations, or Possessions, or Good Names and Repu∣tation; and in reference to each of these we are taught Innocency: that Inno∣cency, or Negative Justice, Pythagorean Justice, which, as Hierocles defines it, consists 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. In abstaining from what is anothers, and not hurting of another, nor raising ones own Profit and Gains from anothers Misery and Calamities.
First, We must not wrong or injure the Person of our Neighbour, because we would not that any other should wrong or injure ours. Now a Mans Person, you know, consists of these two parts, Soul and Body; in either of