A choice Bed of Spices. the devil can make. Holy zeal is fire that will make its way through all thing, that (lands between God and the foul. The true penitent is unchangably refolved to be rid of his fins what ever it coil him ; who ever efcapes, who ever lives, he is fully determined his lulls (hall die for it ; only remember,this, though zeal fhould eat up our fins, yet it mull not eat up our wifdom, no more than policy should eat up our zeal. Seventhly, Yea what revenge.The true penitent 'revenges himfelf upon himfelf for his fins, not by whips and fcour- ges as the Papiils do ; but by buffetting the flesh, and bring- ing it into fubjeolion by failing and prayer, and by crofling' of his lulls, and loading of them with chains, and by drawingl the fword Of mortification againl} them, and by with-holding Ifrom them that fuel that might feed them, and by the ufe of all other holy exereifes, whereby the old man, the body of fin and death may be fabdued to the obedience and difcipline of the Spirit of God. Holy revenge will thew it felf by contradieting of corrupt felf, and by a fevere chaftifing and punishing of all thofe inflruments that have been fervants to the flefh. ; as you may fee by the daughters of Ifr.lel in dedi- Cating their looking-glaffes, by which they had offended, to the fervice of the Sanauary ; and as you may fee by the Ephefians burnina of their coftly and curious books before all. men ; and by dry Magdalens wiping of Chrill's feet with her hair wherewith formerly her fond and foolish lovers were inticed and intangled. And die fame fpirit yol may fee working in Zacheial 'Ake 19. 8, 9. and in the jailor, /kis i6. 23, 24, 29, 30,31,33,34. And fo bleffed Crammer thruil his right hand firfl into the fire, that being the hand by which he fribfcribed the Popifla Articles, revangfully crying out, This unworthy right hand, this unworthyright hand, as long as he could fpeak. The common language of holy revenge is this; Lord, pour out all thy *Pa t h , and all thy Fierce anger, and all thy fiery indignation, upon this lull, and that lull ; Lord, bend thy bow, and shoot all the arrows of thy clifplea- fure, into the very heart of my firong corruptions ; Lord, H h when 233. 7. Concomitant - of godly furrow. IA 1):triit9e,nTin- ner loaths the very (cars Ins after f are healed) Nal4n. Ex.:i. 38. 8. Ads 19. 19. Luke 7,
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