ATreatije of the Alfe5tions, \ 1.?3 and the things of this life ? that man makes gain his Religi -1 on.Seeft thou a man zealous after any thing? that's his Re- ligion. Zeal is the religious part of the 4ffedtions,and,there- fore it's due only unto God. Secondly, As zeal is the religious on part of our herefore feai due iI ßec A, e fo alto it is the moll of every afetl zeal is the unto God. Zeal is the moil of every adl that a man does. mod he That which the minde mindes molt and (Indies molt, that I.te'i a of mindes zealoufly ; that which the memory remembers 'ìi,,,, molt, which the heart veils moll, it wils zealoufly. That which a man fears moil, and loves molt, and defiires moil, that it does zealouly. Now if zeal be the moil of every aee of the foul, it mull needs be idolatry to place it any where elfe but in the fervice of God. Doti thou meditate moll, and think moil of the world ? thy thoughts are idola- trous : Doff thou talk molt, and confer moll of the things of the world? thy words are idolatrous. Dolt thou cark moll, and care molt ? doll thou love moll, and rejoyce molt in any thing of this life ? thine affedlions are idolatrous. Doll thou forrow moft for croffes, and loges, and difgr - ces, and the like, more then thou grievett for thy fns ? thy grief is idolatry. That's the hearts Idol which it doth of -1, felt molt. How often is God in Scripture . called the my?' High? the moil High, Ait. 7.48. if he be the moll high;' then the moll high of every aft and of every affedlion mutt' be for him. The very Heathen call God, Dens optimoes max- imus, God the moil good, and the moll great : fo likewife he is the moll terrible, and the molt holy, and the [nott jua; and therefore themott of our affeaions mutt needs be due unto him. Zeal is' the molt of every one of the affections, i and that only is futable to God. The affedlions mutt be fu- table to the thing we affedl ; but nothing of all the affedii- ; ons is futable to God betides zeal : for zeal is the molt of hiifec,à, every one of them. the ccch . Thirdly, As zeal is the mo{tyo.f every affedüon, fo it is the of every peculiar pitch ofevery afetëion. TR here cannot be two moilThe s. _;ffeffion,
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