The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

These examples teach us if we have the means, not to trust in them; if we want them not to distrust in God. And thus far the sum of the second Sermon.

These examples teach vs if we haue the meanes, not to trust in them; if we want them not to distrust in God. And thus farre the summe of the second Sermon.

III. The third is of zeal, which teacheth: first, how God commandeth and commendeth zeal: secondly▪ how he rewards it.

III. The third is of zeale, which teacheth: first, how God commaundeth and commendeth zeale: secondly▪ how he rewards it.

The rules to know the true zeal of God are these. 1. True zeal begins in our selves: & so proceeds to others: and gain returns from other men, & ends in our selves, Abraham, Job, Moses, &c. first sinite themselves, & ever be more zealous against themselves than against other men: for by the sense and feeling of our own sores, we be taught to deal more mildly and meekly with the sores of other men. 2. True zeal is as willing to be admonished, as it is careful to admonish: and that not only of¹ superiors, where we must yield of necessity, but also of equals, yea of inferiors, whom we may seem to contemn. 3. True Zeal is not to be hot, by fits, and cold in the end. 4. A very special mark of true zeal is this: To be ^*comforted in the public prosperity of the Church, when private crosses may make us •ad: and contrarily, to