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The fourth use is for caution, and that in four particulars. 1 Take heed of pleading ¹for, or being contented with a moderation in matters of religion. Moderation in religion is accounted a virtue in these times, whereas Jesus Christ would have spued us out of his mouth. If Jesus Christ commend an holy violence in the matters of religion, what becomes of this moderation? Indeed for men to be moderate in things that are lawful is good. It is the advice of the Apostle, Phil. 4. 5. Let your moderation be known ⟨p. 45⟩²unto all men; the Lord is at hand: that is, let your moderation be in the love and desire of things lawful and indifferent, of things in this world; be moderate in those things, that they may not hinder you in your course towards heaven, but not in any case to be moderate in religion; and that I shall make appear in these four particulars.

The fourth use is for caution, and that in four particulars. 1 Take heed of pleading ¹for, or being contented with a moderation in matters of religion. Moderation in religion is accounted a vertue in these times, whereas Jesus Christ would have spued us out of his mouth. If Jesus Christ commend an holy violence in the matters of religion, what becomes of this moderation? Indeed for men to be moderate in things that are lawfull is good. It is the advice of the Apostle, Phil. 4. 5. Let your moderation be known ⟨p. 45⟩²unto all men; the Lord is at hand: that is, let your moderation be in the love and desire of things lawfull and indifferent, of things in this world; be moderate in those things, that they may not hinder you in your course towards heaven, but not in any case to be moderate in religion; and that I shall make appear in these four particulars.