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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, ¹that first and especiallie wee make conscience of the principall matters of the word, and after of the lesser, as our Sauiour telleth the Scribes and Pharises: These things ought yee to haue done, (that is, the weightier matters of the Law) and not to haue left the other vndone: viz. matters of smaller importance.

1. 1We must make greatest account of the weightiest matters. Matth. 23.23.Wee must make greatest account of the vveightiest matters. Matth. 23.23.

Which showeth, that their zeal is very corrupt and faulty, who as our Saviour saith, strain out a Gnat, & swallow a Camel; who are very hot about matters of ceremony, but altogether cold in matters of substance: as ⟨p. 90⟩also theirs that (on the other side) will cry out against them that rob by the high-ways side, & yet they themselves make no conscience of pilfering, & cozening, and secret defrauding of their neighbours: as if small sins were not to be left as well as great.