Of the imitation of Christ : four books . CHAPTER Of a good and peaceable Man. IRST, keep thyself in peace andthen shalt thou be able to makepeace among others. A peaceable man doth moregood than he that is welllearned. A passionate man draweth even good into evil,and easily believeth the worst. A good and peaceable man turneth all thingsto good. He that is in peace, is not suspicious of any.^But he that is discontented and troubled, is tossedwith divers suspicions : he is neither quiet himself,nor suffereth others to be quiet. He often speaketh that which he ought not to Cor. xiii. 5. I
Of the imitation of Christ : four books . CHAPTER Of a good and peaceable Man. IRST, keep thyself in peace andthen shalt thou be able to makepeace among others. A peaceable man doth moregood than he that is welllearned. A passionate man draweth even good into evil,and easily believeth the worst. A good and peaceable man turneth all thingsto good. He that is in peace, is not suspicious of any.^But he that is discontented and troubled, is tossedwith divers suspicions : he is neither quiet himself,nor suffereth others to be quiet. He often speaketh that which he ought not to Cor. xiii. 5. IMITATION OF CHRIST. speak ; and Icaveth undone that which it weremore expedient for him to do. He considcreth what others are bound to do/and neo-lecteth that which he is bound to dohimself. First, therefore, have a careful zeal over thy-self,^ and then thou mayest justly shew thyselfzealous also of thy neighbours good. 2. Thou knowest well how to excuse andcolour thine own deeds, but thou art not willingto receive the excuses of others. It were more
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