2 R 2 The deceiifulneffe ()Mans heart. call them,in feparating from (Sur Churches; the like was the zeal of Peter in drawing out his fword,in his Mailers quarrel,and cutting off Malebief care: as alto of two of his ,fellowes, calling down for fire from heaven,to confume the inhofpital Samaritans. I n all thefe,Zeale degsnerared,and became like wine tur- ned into vinegar.As alto in the Ifraelites,when they were carried Co farre in their zeale and indignation Iudg.za. I. againft the Benj mites, that they (ware rafhly they woul4.noneofthem give any of their daughters to wife to a Benjamire : So fhoulda whole Tribe,have perithed, and the Church & Common wealth have been weakened and impaired. What madneffe was this, in punifhing others., fo farce to exceede, that therein alto we fhould punifh our felves ? Like the hands and other outward parts in the Parable, whichdenying to minifter food to the belly,becaufe as they laid, is was idle and laze while they glabou- red,did thereby pine and confume themfelves. And yet to this end, the deceirfull hearts of the Ifraelites bring them, upon occafion of their ¡lift and lawfi_11 zeale. So eafily may the Devill calf in his wild-fire into this fire ofzeale.Tbus,from the juftreverence of holy men,came in religious adoration; as we may fee in the examples of Cor,eliu.r and Ioh#, rebuked by Peter,and the Angel. So alfo, from godly furrow how eafily doe our deceitfull hearts carry us to im- moderate and exceflìve penfiveneff'e; from being Poore in fpirit, to be defperate in fpirit. As the Apo- tleçfheweth,admonifhing the Corintbianf,that they would comfort the inceftuous firmer , and releafe him ofhis excommunication , left he fhould upon occa-
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