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BE slow to wrath in the greatest in juries inferred upon thy selfe; but in the least affront offered to God, put on all the indignation and rigour thou hast: Be mild, and for∣bearing, suffering, and soft, in causer
Eremicus theologus, or, A sequestred divine his aphorisms, or, breviats of speculations, in two centuries / by Theophilus Wodenote ...
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- Eremicus theologus, or, A sequestred divine his aphorisms, or, breviats of speculations, in two centuries / by Theophilus Wodenote ...
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- Wodenote, Theophilus, d. 1662.
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- London :: Printed by T.W. for Andrew Crooke ...,
- 1654.
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of thy own, but in the quarrell of God be magnanimous and fervent, sharp and severe, according to thy power, and place. Moses in his own quarrell, in matter concerning him∣self, was a man most meek, and had not an equall unto him in his time, for peaceable and gentle be∣haviour[a]; he quietly bare won∣derfull wrongs, and was easily per∣swaded to depart from his right: But when he was to deal for God, he took upon him an holy obstina∣nacy; He would not consent unto Pharao, that so much as an hoofe should remain behind them[b]; but, when he spyed a Calf in the campe, when he perceived idolatry committed, and Gods glory com∣ming into question, He proclamed a bloody massacre, and pronounced the execution to be a consecration; yea he with his partakers speedily sacrifised to God the blood of three thousand malefactours[c]. S. Paul was not mooved with thought of his own troubles, or danger of death; but when he saw the City of A∣thens wholy given to idolatry, his
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spirit was stirred in him, and though he did not as Moses, because he had not the like authority, yet he dis∣puted in the Synagogue with the Jewes, and with the devout persons, and in the Market daily with them that met with him[d].
Notes
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[a]
Numb. 12.2, 3.
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[b]
Exod. 10.26.
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[c]
Exod. 32.27, 28, 29.
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[d]
Acts 17.16, 17.