gtl<ouo . aíti. Prifoner for the Proteftant Religion, would . not fay, That his Wife was his Whore, no, not to fave his life offered to him on thofe terms. Now Fear being a kind of flight from evil,the greater the evil is, the greater is the fight; and when an evil is the greateft of evils,fuch as Sin appears to Faith, the flight from it is as from Hell it Pelf; and more if poffible, according to the laying of einfelm, That if Sin were fit befóre him on the one hand,and Hell on the other, ,he would rather leap into Hell than fall into Sin. Another Grace aéuated bÿ Faith, is Zeal, which is an intenfe Love, or a mixture of Love and Anger, or rather the heat and boy- ling up of all the affeFions in the concerns of God and his Glory : This is a coal from the Al- tar, which warms Hearts and Lives, and fpar- kies out in every Grace and Duty ; without it all is in fpirituali gelicidio, cold and frozen, as in a Sunlefs World. Indeed without Faith Zeal is blind, as in the yew, who in his heat for the Law oppofes the Gofpel and true Righ- teoufnefs; Or it runs out upon Humane things as in the Papi(t, who crys up Traditions as a fecond Oracle; or it moves upon Pelf lh Prin- ciples, as in the Pharifeer, who did all thea- trically to be feen of men. But when Faith comes, Zeal is according to the Word as its Rule, and for Divine things as the worthieft Objea; and out of a pure intention to Gods Glory as the fupream end. Faith brings us into Communion with God, and makes us on: fpi- Xz rit 3,©7
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