Severity and Leniency

Heinrich Bullinger quoting Augustine (not a promotion of Bullinger and Augustine as true Christians):

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"Not everyone that spares is a friend; nor is everyone that strikes, an enemy. Better are the stripes of a friend than the voluntary kisses of an enemy. It is better to love with severity, than to deceive with leniency. He that binds a frenzied man, and wakes the one who is sick from lethargy, troubles them both, and yet he loves them both."