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3. We find Grace compared to Fire, and gracelessness to water: the Spirit came down on the Apostles in the likeness of fiery tongues, ¹at the day of Pentecost: and John Baptist testifies of CHRIST, that he should Baptise with the Holy Ghost, and with Fire. The spirit of sin falls on the heart like a cold dew.² It is implied, Revel. 3.15. that zeal is hot, wickedness cold, neutrality luke-warm. Fire is hot (and dry) Water is cold (and moist) predominantly, and in regard of their habitual qualities: so zeal; is 1. hot; no incendiary, no praeter-natural, but a supernatural heat; equally mixed with Love and Anger: such was Elijah zeal for the Lord of Hosts;³ he could not be cold in this life, that went up in Fire to Heaven. 2. Dry: not like Ephraim, a Cake baked on the one side, but crude and raw on the other: no, the heat of zeal hath dried up the moisture of profaneness. But wickedness is 1. cold, a gelid nature, a numbness in the Conscience: that, (as when the Air is hottest, the Springs are coldest, so) when the Sun of Grace warms the whole Church, is yet shaking of an Ague; nay, and will not creep (like Simon Peter) to the fire. 2. Moist, not (succus & sanguinis plenum) full of juice and sap; but sin runs like a cold rheum over the Conscience. This metaphor follows Saint Paul, Quench not the Spirit: ⁴wherein he fully justifies this circumstance, forbidding the water, of impiety, to quench the fire of Grace.

3. Wee finde Grace compared to Fire, and gracelesnesse to water: the Spirit came downe on the Apostles in the likenesse of firie tongues, ¹at the day of Pentecost: and Iohn Baptist testifies of CHRIST, that hee should Baptise with the Holy Ghost, and with Fire. The spirit of sinne falls on the heart like a cold deaw.² It is implied,