the
seeds of murder working in your breast; and if there were no law, no
gibbet, to check you, and no fear of disgrace neither, I am not sure
where you would stop.

_Bragwell._ Why, Mr. Worthy, you have a strange way of explaining
the commandments; so you set me down for a murderer, merely because
I bear hatred to a man who has done me a hurt, and am glad to do him
a like injury in my turn. I am sure I should want spirit if I did
not.

_Worthy._ I go by the Scripture rule, which says, "he that hateth
his brother is a murderer," and again, "pray for them that
despitefully use you and persecute you." Besides, Mr. Bragwell, you
made it a part of your boast that you said the Lord's prayer every
day, wherein you pray to God to forgive you your trespasses as you
forgive them that trespass against you. If therefore you do not
forgive them that trespass against you, in that case you daily pray
that your own trespasses may never be forgiven. Now own the truth;
did you last night lie down in a spirit of forgiveness and charity
with the whole world?

_Bragwell._ Yes, I am in charity with the whole world in general;
because the greater part of it has never done me any harm. But I
won't forgive old Giles, who broke down my new hedge yesterday for
firing--Giles, who used to be so honest.

_Worthy._ And yet you expect that God will forgive you who have
broken down his sacred laws, and have so often robbed him of his
right--you have robbed him of the honor due unto his name--you have
robbed him of his holy day by doing your own work, and finding your
own pleasure in it--you have robbed his poor, particularly in the
instance of Giles, by withholding from them, as overseer, such
assistance as should prevent their being driven to the sin of
stealing.

_Bragwell._ Why, you are now charging me with other men's sins as
well as my own.

_Worthy._ Perhaps the sins which we cause other men to commit,
through injustice, inconsideration, and evil example, may dreadfully
swell the sum of our responsibility in the great day of account.

_Bragwell._ Well, come, let us make haste and get through these
commandments. The next is, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Thank
God, neither I nor my family can be said to break the seventh
commandment.

_Worthy._ Here again, remember how Christ himself hath said, "whoso
looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed
adultery with her in his heart." These are no far-fetched
expressions