Page:Two godly letters of the pious martyr Mr. James Renwick.pdf/14

( 14 ) others grieve you, yet let it aot infect you; but let zeal be accompanied with meekness, that ye may be free of passion and prejudice; and let meekness be backed with zeal, that ye may be free of luke-warmness and indifferency: Let meekness be extended toward all persons, and zeal against all sins: And as ye would not lose your ground, be positive against sin in the first proposal and motion thereof; ye will not get it shifted by, and your selves kept free from it, by hiding your selves, and not appearing freely against it, though there may be an unwillingness unto it: I conceive Aaron had no will to make the Golden Calf, and he thonghtthought [sic] to have gotten it put out of the Israelites minds, by bidding them break off their golden Earings and bring them unto him; but this simple shift would not do it: The saint of God is pitifully insnared; and if he was simple, in opposing that abomination, he got as silly an excuse for himself; it would not have been thought that a child would have said, there came out this calf. Now,

Commit your cause unto the Lord, for judgment and righteouness shall yet meet together again upon earth: He is interested in his own work, and therefore he can neither forget it nor forsake it: And, such as wait for him shall never be put to shame. But,

O long and cry for his appearance, that he may right wrongs, and rule for himself, and claim his own right of possession; that the promised day may come, that this shall be voiced alongst the heavens, the kingdoms of the earth are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ: He is busy in order to this; he is carrying on a discovery of all sorts of folk, enemies and others: I thought that his discovery had been near through Scotland before this; but he lets me see my self a fool, for so judging; But happy are they who are sincere and intire; they need not fear, for when they are tired they shall come forth as gold. Now