310 netiotto Said), at Gods Glory; and fo endears all things ten- ding thereunto, that upon the leaft violation thereof Zeal will be ready to break forth in that behalf. Moreover, Faith gives a further advance thereunto by looking on the unparal- lolled Love of God. O what a Zeal bath he for our salvation ! Ffath he not writ our poor names in the book of Life, and (hall we neg- leEt his glorious one ? Hath not he fent his own Son in the flefh to be the great Ordinance of our Salvation, and to fill all the under -Or- dinances with his Spirit and Grace, and (hall we not be zealous in and for his Wor¡hip? Are not his holy Truths the day_ftar in our hearts, feeds of the New Creature, and Cordials of rich Comfort, and ¡hall we not carnally con- tend for them ? Will he not glorifie us to all eternity above, and (hall we not glorifie him in our little fpan cf time here below ? Whileft Faith is thus mufing,the fire of Zeal muff needs kindle in our Hearts. Another Grace aEtuated by Faith is Meek- nefs, which is as cool in our own caufe as Zeal is hot in Gods. This is the great Mode - ratrix of Anger, that it breaks not out Preter ,equurn & bonum, not unjuftly for a light oc- cation ; as that Pope's did, who'raged upon the miffing a cold Peacock; and blafphemoufly added,If God was fo angry for an Apple,he might ju /fly be fo for a Peacock: Nor upon a juft caufe exce¡lively; as it did in that great Conqueror Stephen King of Poland, who was fo angry with the igenfes about the Gregorian Calendar, that
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