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Another most excellent and glorious property of pure zeal is, §9¹to be humbled in our selves for those sins which we espy and censure in others, and so to nourish an holy compassion towards them.

Another most excellent and glorious propertie of pure zeale is, §9¹to be humbled in our selues for those sins which we espie and censure in others, and so to nourish an holy compassion towards them.

1. 1Compassion to be joined with zeal.Compassion to be ioyned vvith zeale.

Here is an excellent and infallible difference between godly zeal and fleshly heat, viz. when our anger for our brothers falling doth not feed it self upon the party, because of our wrath, but upon his sin, because of our zeal; we still retaining a tender affection towards the person of the offender. When our Saviour Christ went about to heal the man that had the withered hand, the Pharisees that stood by murmured, because he would heal on the Sabbath day: hereupon it is said, that he looked about him angerly, & yet it is added, that he sorrowed for the hardness of their harts. Mark here in this notable example, ¹how anger and sorrow meet together: Anger, that men should have so little knowledge of God, and love of there brother: ²sorrow, that through ignorance they were so folly overseen. So likewise in zeal of his father, Christ looked on Jerusalem, with an hatred to their sin, and yet with pity of their misery which was at hand, which appeareth