138 The Saints S iiritua/l ßrength. That Chriii dyed, the hee might purchxfe unto him- pp a people zealau of good worker : this zeale muff not bee a conftrained zeale, but a willing zeale, and if there were no other motiveto move men to bee zealous but this, becaufe Chrift came to redeeme them , for this cod that they might be' jealous for his glory , if there bee any fparke'of the fire of the Spirit in him , it will burnt at Chrifts difhonour : and if Chr`iff carne Unto t ik end to make men z °aloe , then furely Chrift sridl hot look his end; but they that Chrift will fave,' (hail be zealous : therefore I befeech you labour to be ftrong in the inward man, and Iab'our ro get the Spirit that you may be zealous : but alas, men have drunke too much of this Cup of giddineffe, they thinke they need not bee fo zealous as they are: but I fay, ifyou be not, iris aliiguethat you have not the Spirit: efpecially it Rands men now upon, ifthey have any holy zeale in then ro (how it : I fay, it is time you fhould (how it when you fee fuch halting betweene two opinions, (how 7 ur zeale by hating, and abhorring Popery, and by labouring to draw men from it:efpecially,now when we fee men fo defirous to goe into Egypt a- gaine, which is to be lamented in thefe dayes, for which the Lord hath fIretcht out his hand again({ us: but where is our zeale e what fpirituall heate is there in us , where are thefe men that at fuch a time would have beenc hot and zealous t' nay, where are the generation of there men e farely,1 they are all gone, for there is no heate and zeale left 1E1
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