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If we could keep this golden mixture, we should stop the mouths of the adversaries, who accuse us to be ⟨p. 97⟩full of rancour and malice, if we be angry as enemies to their sin, but grieved in that for sin they are become enemies to God.

If wee could keepe this golden mixture, wee should stop the mouthes of the aduersaries, who accuse vs to be ⟨p. 97⟩full of rancour and malice, if wee be angrie as enemies to their sinne, but grieued in that for sinne they are become enemies to God.

Further, we must know, §10that true zeal maketh us as willing to be admonished, as careful to admonish: ¹and that not only of our superiors, which is an easy thing, because there we must of necessity yield: but also of our inferiors, whom we may seem to contemn. All men will grant, that a child ought willingly to be admonished of his father, or a servant of his master: but few will in practise give this, that a father should listen to the advertisement of his son, or that a master should receive an admonition of his servant. Howbeit Job saith, he durst not contemn the judgement of his servant or of his maid, ²when they did contend with him, because in a duty of piety, he looked to them, not as servants, but as brethren; he looked not to the speaker only, which in respect of his calling was his inferior, but unto the things spoken in the ordinance of God, unto whom Job himself was an inferior, and before whom he knew there was no respect of persons.

Further, wee must know, §10