This ye may do
every day; for if ye find not offences, ye feign them; and surely ye
may remove your own work, if ye may re-remove another's. To rescue
requires more thought and wariness; learn, then, the easier lesson
first. Afterward, when ye rescue any from another's violence, or
from his own (which oftentimes is more dangerous, as the enemies are
within not only the penetrals of his house but of his heart), bind
up his wounds before ye send him on his way. Should ye at any time
overtake the erring, and resolve to deliver him up, I will tell you
whither to conduct him. Conduct him to his Lord and Master, whose
household he hath left. It is better to consign him to Christ his
Saviour than to man his murderer; it is better to bid him live than
to bid him die. The one word our Teacher and Preserver said, the
other our enemy and destroyer. Bring him back again, the stray, the
lost one bring him back, not with clubs and cudgels, not with
halberts and halters, but generously and gently, and with the
linking of the arm. In this posture shall God above smile upon ye;
in this posture of yours he shall recognize again his beloved Son
upon earth. Do ye likewise, and depart in peace.
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