CHAP.a.rs}. v9Cornmerrtat$e upon the 510 ! day, whoaremuch in zeale, whereby they are in continual! tumults (as Act., v. the Ephefians) for their Diana , but ignorance muff be the mother of Z thefedeuotions. Secondly, it mufl be guided bygooddifcretion: it muff Difcreùon, be wile as well as warme;lngreater matters greater , and lcffer in Ieffer. A wife man wil not powre out all his indignation agaínfi euery trifling difpleafure, nor let his whole flrength to that which he can wipe away with a finger; There muti alwaies be a fireof zealekept burning in the foule, as the fire on the Altar neuer went out, but it mull be a intl zeal; proportionedaccordingto the occafion; euen as we keepe the fire on our hearths all day long,but enlargeor lefron it according to theoccafi- ons of the houfe. Iffome great good be in thine eye, tending to the great glory ofGod, and great goodof his Church flirre vp and adde to thy zeale,till it become a great flame ; but in fnrailer, and minutiall matters to carrie an unbounded and vnbridled zeale, were to call for a (word to kill a file, or an hatchet tobreake an egge ; and yet zeale mull euer fence the heart from affeóiing,committing, or communicating the 3 leafl euill in the world. Thirdly , it mull carry with it , fincere affeltion, sinccricy. abandoning all by- tefpeéìs, betides the ,glory of God , delire of mens good, and confcience of the good duty it felfe. In doing any good thing theclofecorners ofthe heart mull be well fearched, teeing much deceit and guile lurketh in them; and if with the Papill, we doe any thing neuer fo good for the matter; andneuer fo zcaloufly for the man- ner, to merit at the handofGod; or with the Pharitie, to bee fence of men, or in which our owne refpeéls prouoke our zeale, whether glo- ry, fauour, credit, wealth, or any other by-end, verily we bane alreadie our reward. Nowwhat a neceffary attendant this right ordered zeale is to our Howneceñale good works, what great reafon the Lord bath to require it,will ap- zealc is ro a good workc peare by the fruits and effeasofir, which arc fuchas make the workes we doc,not goodonly but glorious.And becaufezeale is a mixt affeóli- on,of loue and anger, therefore at one time it bath refpeét bothvnto the good worke it felfe,as allo that which is contrary, and producelr effeéts Ptteâsofzea1c ollouc to the former, and properties ofhatred againfi the latter. The nain(i enill, effeóls of zeale againfi euill, are, t, a great hatred of it, with a care and diligence topreuent it ; or if that cannotbe ,it caufeth an inward greefe and vexationofheart for the euills it cannot reforme: thus was the righteous foule of Lot vexed for that hecould not redreffe: and this greife giueth often tefiimonieoutwardly of it felfe in fighs and teares: as Dauids eyes gufhed out with rimers of teares,6ecaufe men kept not the PGLr,r;6. word: and Ieremie wifited his head a feuntaine of teares, to weepe for the Cannes ofthe people : yea, it is a markeof fuchas are marked for the Iegç.a. Lords
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