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Here also are all such to be censured as faulty, that can pry and make a privy search into the wants of others, accounting the same wants no wants in themselves. The father saith, this my child doth amiss: and the child, in this my father faileth: the husband knoweth, what the wife should do; and the wife, what the husband should do, &c: every one in the mean time neglecting their own duties; whereas indeed every ones principal care should be, to know and do his own duty, and to be grieved where he cometh short of the same. And thus much for the third rule, that true zeal must begin in our selves.

Heere also are all such to be censured as faultie, that can prie and make a priuie search into the wants of others, accounting the same wants no wants in themselues. The father saith, this my childe doth amisse: and the childe, in this my father faileth: the husband knoweth, what the wife should doe; and the wife, what the husband should doe, &c: euery one in the meane time neglecting their owne duties; whereas indeed euery ones principall care should bee, to know and doe his owne dutie, and to be grieued where he commeth short of the same. And thus much for the third rule, that true zeale must beginne in our selues.

Now further we are to understand, §4that there must be an order kept in being thus zealous: namely, ¹that first and especially we make conscience of the principal matters of the word, and after of the lesser, as our Saviour telleth the Scribes and Pharisees: These things ought ye to have done, (that is, the weightier matters of the Law) and not to have left the other undone: viz. matters of smaller importance.

Now further we are to vnderstand, §4that there must be an order kept in being thus zealous: namely, ¹