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s i238 A SERMON,shv p tieTce tahjrevegRevenge Ubloody.^BodittdeReflib.s c, 6,^' Heknowes out of his Chriftian policy,that a couragious and undaunted infenfibility infuffering injuries, is the way to tame and flopthe rage and fury of thewrongcrs^and to makethem to returne and rebound wholly like heavyblowes upon their owne pates. For, a prophanemalicious man cannot be poiUbly more vext^thanto fee himfclf dired particularly his hate and contemptagainft his fuppofed adverfary^a goodChriflian_,andyet hee is able to beareit away withoutwoundorpaffions nay with reputation and comfort.As revenge is bafc, fo it is bloody andunquenchable, and prodigioufly thirfty thatway :I will give inftance in the moft revengeful!wretch (lam perfwaded ) that ever lived : It isreported ofa man, or rather a * monfter of cJ^?/-lai»2 in Italy : when he had furprifed upon the fuddenone whom he dead lily hated, he prefentlyoverthrewhim, and fetting his dagger on his breaft,told him ,hc would prefently have his bloud, excepthe would renounce, abjure, forfwcare, andblafpheme the Go d of Heavcn^which, when thatfearefullman (toofinfully greedy of a miferablelife) had done 3 in a moft horrible manner he immediatelydifpatch'd him, as foone as thofe prodigiousblafphemics were out of his mouth : andwith a bloody triumph infulting over his murderedadverfary, as though his heart hadbcene poffeftof all the malice of hell, he addedthis horrible fpeech : oh ( faith he ) this is arightnobler and htroicdl revenger , which doth notonely