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,…

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 ^*mourn and lament for our brethren, when private prosperity might cheer our hearts. 5. True zeal (saith he) will not spare sin in kindred: for that he loveth most naturally, that hath learned to love most spiritually: and he loveth most truly, that cannot abide sin in the party beloved, without some wise and discreet admonition. 6. True zeal feareth not the force of the mighty, neither is it dismayed at the looks of the proud. 7, True zeal is seen in their cause who can never recompense us again. 8. The last rule of zeal is this, to be humbled in our selves for those sins which we espy or censure in other men: and specially such sins as we espy in them which are committed to our charge: for that the holy Ghost in his word, accounteth⁴ their sins our sins. And thus far the third Sermon.

The rules to know the true zeale of God are these. 1. True zeale begins in our selues: & so proceeds to others: and gaine returnes from other men, & ends in our selues, Abraham, Iob, Moses, &c. first sinite themselues, & euer be more zealous against themselues than against other men: for by the sense and feeling of our owne sores, we be taught to deale more mildly and meekely with the sores of other men. 2. True zeale is as willing to be admonished, as it is carefull to admonish: and that not onely of