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,…

in greater causes let this be our canon, to use greater zeal: in less matters let this be our pedagogy, to use less zeal, so that we remember to count nothing small in the word, and that we can increase & decrease in affection, as the thing loved doth increase or decrease in goodness. If I say, we can zealously pursue the most principal things, and for the peace of the Church can tolerate less things (for if any man in matters of less importance ¹list to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the Church of God,) we shall observe this 1. rule still remembering this caution, that we count nothing small commanded or forbidden in the ⟨p. 830⟩²Word. The second rule is, that we have an eye as well to things inward as outward: our Saviour CHRIST reprehendeth the Pharisees, for that they made clean the out side of the platter, and left the inner-side foul, whose lives though outwardly they were without reproof, yet inwardly they were full of pride, disdain, self-love, & such like. Well, our zeal must begin within, and in time appear without: we must no less fear to do evil, being by our selves alone, then if we were eyed of the whole world, least that we become as painted sepulchres, and as such dishes, as are clean without and foul within. A branch of this Rule is to have a narrow and jealous eye of our own corruptions, lurking in the bottomless pit of nature, and gauged only by the word and spirit. When we love to be hypocrites,³ in dissembling this natural corruption, and yet are busy in pretending some outward sanctimony, the justice of GOD in time will uncase us, & then the sin which we would hide, shall appear in the face outwardly, and the good which in Truth we never loved, shall be seen never to have been in us. Herein then we may go to school with the covetous man, who had rather be rich, than be counted rich, that we may rather be godly indeed, than be counted to be godly, least that seeing we be not such indeed as we would be, we become notoriously to be such as we would not be.

in greater causes let this be our canon, to vse greater zeale: in lesse matters let this be our pedagogie, to vse lesse zeale, so that we remember to count nothing small in the word, and that we can increase & decrease in affection, as the thing loued doth increase or decrease in goodnes. If I say, we can zealously pursue the most principall things, and for the peace of the Church can tolerate lesse things (for if any man in matters of lesse importance