Doltrznes of Love andConcord. 333 kewir deceive the hearers about that very hetineji and Zeal which he commendeth, wHeft he lamely and fo falfly reprefenteth and deicribeth it ; and loth not make them knew hcwMuch cf Holinefs confifieth in Love ; for that trsie zeal is Loveit felf in its fervtor and intenfe degree : And fopeo- ple are enticed to think that Holinefs is nothing but the paffons offear andgrief, and earnei ek- preftons in preaching and praying, or fcrupu- loufnefs and fingulartty about forne ccntrover- ted things , or force other thing than indeed it is And they are tempted to think that Chriflian zeal is rather the violence of partial paffions, and the fervor of Wrath, and the Making things fn- ful whip h God forbiddeth not, than the fervors. of Love to God and man. And when the mind is thus mocked with a faifeimage of Holinefs and .eal, it is call into a fnful mold, and engaged in the purfuit of an erroneous dangerous courfe of life ; And at Taft it corneth to anenmity and con- tempt cf that vk hich is Holinefs and Zeal indeed Por it accounteth Love but a Moral-vertue (which they ignorantly take for a diminutive title of the great and prioritise duties required by the light and law of nature it felf. ) And zealot Love is accounted by them but a carnal and felfiih com- pliance and temporizing , and a pleáfing ofmen inflead of Gcd ; And r zealot,' promoting ofEni- ty and Puce, is taken but for a cowardly neutra - lily and betraying of force truth, which ahculd be carnally contended for. And on the other fide they that preach up Love to man, and Peace and Conccrá without rutting firfi the Lowe, cf Cod, and a Holy and Heavenly mind
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