I found this nugget of gold in Calvin's commentary on Amos chapter 7. He's exhorting modern ministers of the Word to have the same feelings Amos has for Israel when Israel was facing God's judgement...
"Let then all teachers in the church learn to put on these two feelings - to be vehemently indignant whenever they see the worship of God profaned, to burn with zeal for God, and to show that severity which appeared in all the Prophets, whenever due order decays, - and at the same time to sympathise with miserable men, whom they see rushing headlong into destruction, and to bewail their madness, and to interpose with God as much as is in them; in such a way, however, that their compassion render them not slothful or indifferent, so as to be indulgent to the sins of men."
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