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Another rule is, §11that in pure zeal we be patient in our own causes, & devour many private injuries; ¹but hot and fervent in Gods causes. Many can be as hot as fire in their own private matters, who are as cold as ice in things that concern Gods honour and glory.

Another rule is, §11that in pure zeale wee be patient in our owne causes, & deuoure many priuate iniuries; ¹but hote and feruent in Gods causes. Manie can be as hote as fire in their owne priuate matters, who are as colde as ice in things that concerne Gods honor and glorie.

1. 1We must be most fervent in Gods causesWee must be most feruent in Gods causes

But it was otherwise with Moses: When any private ⟨p. 98⟩wrong was offered unto him by the Israelites, he was meek as a lamb, and would with wisdom speak mildly unto them to pacify them, and pray earnestly unto God to pardon them: but when they fell to Idolatry, and worshipped the golden calf, (a matter which nearly concerned the glory of God) his wrath waxed hot, ¹and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them in pieces, and burnt the calf in the fire, and ground it to powder, and made them drink of it, being strewed upon the water; and after caused a great number of the principal doers in this wickedness to be slain by the sword. This also is the commendation of the Church of Ephesus, that they had much patience, and yet could not forbear those which were evil,