The New Gospel

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">For upon nobody does the divine power seem so to enjoin the precept ‘Know thyself,’ as upon him who proposes to censure another.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">No man of sense will hate the erring; otherwise he will hate himself.&nbsp; Let him reflect how many times he offends against morality, how many of his acts stand in need of pardon; then he will be angry with himself also.&nbsp; For no just judge will pronounce one sort of judgment in his own case and a different one in the case of others.&nbsp;</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Some sins we have committed, some we have contemplated, some we have desired, some we have encouraged; in the case of some we are innocent only because we did not succeed.&nbsp; Bearing this in mind, let us be more just to transgressors.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">We are all inconsiderate and unthinking, we are all untrustworthy, discontented and ambitious ... And so each man will find in his own breast the fault which he censures in another ... And so let us be more kindly toward one another. &nbsp;</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">For it is against all reason that those who claim to dispense justice to others should themselves have offences to answer for.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Such gems [wisdom] of varied beauty are interwoven in the laws, bidding us give wealth to the poor, and it is only on the judgment seat that we are forbidden to show them compassion.&nbsp; Compassion is for misfortunes, and he who acts wickedly of his own free will is not unfortunate but unjust ... And therefore let no cowering, cringing rogue of a poor man evade his punishment by exciting pity for his penniless condition.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">How would you be, if He, which is the top of judgment, should but judge you as you are?&nbsp; O, think on that; and mercy then will breathe within your lips, like man new made.&nbsp;</em></p>