n :-o · ·C~tfos ofCon[dence ah6f11 Sin~erity ...Thus all the Pharifees, what were•tbe c<;>als that kindled filch a .zeal within them, but tradition from their Fathers~ th~ 'Joh+ the woman argued, ourf~tthers 'IVorfoipped in thumounl. ·Thu; the Hear:bens. efpecially Symach~U their notable Orator ; plead~d eo the Emperor fo~ their ?JfJ~~ill,ti,dolatry,to who$1 .Ambrofe ~nfwered, Oh fatth he, {equendi /ll14t.p;:mntCI, qui feliciter fuo>· furJt fequuti, contumeliofa eft emendatio /"eneflut u; as he goes on: let us follow on to this, as c6ey happily fol– lowed theirs; its a contumelious and reproadifall ~hing to -think cq be wifer ~hen them: fo that this is a plain demon- _ ftr:uion, chat at! the religious zeal and dev,ocion, which pof· fibly can be lhe11red, that vet hath no better grounds thea ;tradition, or cufrom, or eduC4ltion, cannot be acceptable te ,God, neither doth ic argue any regeneration in us: Oh then · how may this p~rcicular confound the hopes of many, who put f.onh fome hearty devotions in the macters of God, but the motive of all, is not a divine faith, on-cly education and tradition, fuch whie:h all the religions in the world, though · never fo abfurd ~nd idolstricall,can and do pretend unto. ' ! ;. . 3• Such zeal as ~auls w:~s, doth not a-rgue a true upright -Such areignO.. heart, becaufc: all fuch, in the highefl acb of fuch rel,i· nnt of t~e gious worfhip, are 'WonderfMil jgmmmt andlen(elejfe of the dup, ;~:~-:~!!u~lOns inw~~Jrd, an'd {oul·pollt~tions tha,t do cleave to the heart. Tbo~gh ,;hem. -n tbey may be carefull to av01d all outward, groife, an~ fonl finnes, yet they are ignorant of the hearc-filthinetfe, and fo not carefull to cleanfe thlt mudded fountain : Thus P.aul himfelfalLthe while he ranged thus up and down like a divel or a roaring Lyon, feeking what innocent lamb, what Chri- , fl:ian he might devour, he never reReCl:s tlpon hit own ~ruitilh nature, he fete not what a monfier and beaft h~ was with· ' . . ,, I· in as he himfelfR6m,J. doth at large tell us: Oh chat is an e~cellent Chapter, defcribing to the very lifer, wbat ttuiet, feif. juftifying thoughts fuch men have 1hpw igoara,Qt o£the depth and breadeh of originall Gnne within ~h~m ! _what a .fuuntain of aH poifon is within their h~arts, though they know it not~ and this our S1vio11r did coalhntly charge tip– .on the Phadfees: They did not know, or regard .what their hearts were within ; The pride,the hardnctfe.- the felli£hne1fe · - and
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