Private revenge is forbidden by the law and the gospel (Samuel Rutherford)

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Eye for eye, was a judicial Law, falsely exponed by the Pharisees to maintain hatred of our enemy, and private revenge, which both Law and Gospel forbids.

Samuel Rutherford, A survey of the spiritual antichrist (London: Andrew Crooke, 1648), Part 1.21, p. 217.
 
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