41111111 27 a ./1 Sermon Preached before From the ! it is very true ; when the horfe runs up and downe, danger of , too much boidneßt .cín jrv. P) náer of Esceffe muff bee prevented by a well regulating our boldc- ,tens. and is at liberty, the more mettle the worfe, but under the bridle, and in the way there cannot be too much ; keep the ltearne within the bankes,and let it runne in a right ChanneI', and then the fironger the better. It is good therefore in this cafe to come to a disjunction, which is the thing that Elijah advi(ed, If Baal be God, follory him; but if God be God, fallow him; and follow him to purpofe. And as Luther wrote to L7 ehtn- háhore, when he began to faint ; Why, c9telancihan, if this be the Caufe of God, why fhould wee bee dis- couraged r Why fhould we goe coldly about it If , it be not the Caufe of God, why doe not we defif} a1= I together This Disjunction put life into him. The Ob T, but di(cretion and moderation muff be ufed. It is jearon is true,but doth this crofle your zeale r Doth one Grace prof` croffe another Prudence doth not abate diligence, ted. And more but guides it in its worke. It teaches not to doe lefle, fulllY " but to doe better. Therefore, as for Moderation,you muff know it lands in avoyding the Rocke, in de- clining the extreme, but Moderation in a right courfe is not moderation, but lukewarmeneffe, and cold`_. neffe. Laft of all, to conclude this point, and only to name the rel. If . Zeale turne away the wrath of God, then where, is our zeale for the Church of Gone Why doe not we take its cafe to heart Why have we not the bowels of compaffion to lament over its conditi- on, as if it were our owne t It was a molt commen- dable thi )g in old Eli, when he heard the newes that the battell was loft, that his Tonnes were thine, that moved him not fo much ; but when he heard that the Arke [k. Con - viftion. From our want of Zeale for the Church.
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