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And a calm even spirit goes through rough work far better than a furious one. Although therefore God did use at the time of the Reformation some sour, overbearing, passionate men, yet he did not use them because they were such, but notwithstanding they were so; and there is no doubt he would have used them much more had they been of a humbler, milder spirit.
taken from:
Journal (Everyman Edition Volume 3 page.258) see No other Foundation page 57
