In the steps of my Bud Doc Martin
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"Let us lie down having peace with all men. It is in our best interests to go to sleep, as well as to die, in charity. Those who interact much with the world can scarcely go through a day without something or other happening that is provoking, some affront given to them, some injury done to them. Or at least they think so. When they retire at night and reflect on it, they are apt to magnify the offense. While they are musing on it, the fire burns, their resentments rise and they begin to say "I will do so to him as he hath done to me." (Prov 24:29). Then follows a time of ripening and passion into a rooted malice and meditating revenge.
"Therefore, let wisdom and grace be put to work to extinguish this fire from hell before it gets ahead. Then let this root of bitterness be killed and plucked up. Let the mind be disposed to forgive the injury and think well of, and wish well to him who did it."
"We cannot lie down at peace with God unless we are at peace with men. We cannot pray in faith to be forgiven unless we forgive. Let us therefore study the things that make for peace, the peace of our own spirits, by living, as far as it depends on us, "Peaceably with all men" (Rom. 12:18).
Quotes of Matthew Henry
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