The third, love and humility, exceeds measure.

The first abounds amongst subtile & crafty professours, and is to be abhorred and detected.

The second among simple & devout, is to be pitied and directed.

The third amongst passionate and affectionate, and is to bee moderated and corrected.

The first is the meere vizor of zeale, looking asquint one way and tending another; pretending God and his glory, intending some private and sinister end; first, either of honour and promotion, as Jehu, who marched furiously, and his word was the Lord of hosts, but his project was the kingdome.

Secondly, at filthy lucre:  as Demetrius and his followers, who cried great is Diana of Ephesus; but meant her little silver shrines.  It cannot bee denied, but many such there were, who helped to pull downe the Abbyes; not out of any hatred to those uncleane cages, but to reare their owne houses out of the ruines, and spoyled copes to make cushions. Judas complained of superfluity, but greeved it fell besides his bag:  many hold temporalities tithes and glebes, unlawfull, because they are loth to forgo them:  If Jezebel proclaime a Fast, let Naboth looke to his vine-yard; If the Usurer & Trades-man frequent Sermons, let the buyer & borrower look to themselves.  It is too common a thing to make zeale a lure & stale, to draw customers; a bait of fraud, a net to entrap; with malicious Doegs, to make it a stalking horse for revenge against the Priest, thereby to discharge their gall at Ministers and other Christians, for the omission and commission of such things, as themselves care not for; with the Strumpet in the Proverbs, to wipe their mouthes, and frequent the Sacrifices, that they may be free from suspicion.

All these evils, have I seene under the sunne-shine of the Gospell:  but by how much, zeale is more glorious then common profession, by so much is dissembled fervency more detestable then usuall hypocrisie; yea, no better then divellish villany & double iniquity:  such painted walles and whited sepulchers, the Lord will breake downe.  Let all Timothies & Nathanaels learne to descry them, and discard them:  The cure of this was deepely forelayd by Christ; I counsell thee to buy gold tried in the fire:  all is not gold that glistereth, an image of faith breeds but a shew of zeale; many seemed to trust in Christ, but Christ would not trust them:  but such faith as will abide the fire, brings foorth zeale that will abide the touch-stone.

[Sidenote:  [Greek:  kakozelia].]