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This Temperance must guide our conversation.^f Gods Sacrifice and Service must be Reasonable. Cum fervour discretionem erigit, & discretio fervorem dirigit, Bern. Let Zeal inflame Temperance, and Temperance qualify Zeal. Nimia remissio nutritiva criminum, nimia districtio parricida virtutum. Too much remissness nourisheth vices, too much strictness killeth virtues. Without this moderation, Fear passeth into Despair, Grief into Bitterness, Love into Flattery, Hope into Presumption, Joy into Dissoluteness, Anger into Fury: The want of Temperance in stead of cherishing, destroys: like the Idolater so rapt with the fair Image of the Goddess, that coming to kiss it, he bit it. It altogether over-does.^g Be not righteous over-much, neither make thy self over-wise. Qui plus posse putat sua quam natura ministrat: Posse suum superans, se minus esse potest. But enough of this kind of Temperance; men are not so hot that we need to cool them; but rather so cold that we had need to heat them. Few among us are so over-zealous to out-run Christ, it is well if yet we will follow Christ. We need not so much add temper to your zeal, as zeal to your temper; and wish you so much of both, as may bring you to salvation.

This Temperance must guide our conversation.^f Gods Sacrifice and Service must be Reasonable. Cum fervor discretionem erigit, & discretio fervorem dirigit, Bern. Let Zeale inflame Temperance, and Temperance qualifie Zeale. Nimia remissio nutritiva criminum, nimia districtio parricida virtutum. Too much remissenesse nourisheth vices, too much strictnesse killeth vertues. Without this moderation, Feare passeth into Despaire, Griefe into Bitternesse, Love into Flattery, Hope into Presumption, Ioy into Dissolutenes, Anger into Fury: The want of Temperance in stead of cherishing, destroyes: like the Idolater so rap'd with the faire Image of the Goddesse, that comming to kisse it, he bit it. It altogether over-does.^g Be not righteous over-much, neither make thy selfe over-wise. Qui plus posse putat sua quam natura ministrat: Posse suum superans, se minus esse potest. But enough of this kinde of Temperance; men are not so hot that we need to coole them; but rather so cold that we had need to heat them. Few among us are so over-zealous to out-run Christ, it is well if yet we will follow Christ. We need not so much adde temper to your zeale, as zeale to your temper; and wish you so much of both, as may bring you to salvation.