A sermon touching the peace and edification of the church preached at the second…

Secondly, Peace may in this case be preserved by moderating the fervour of our zeal against those that are otherwise minded. There is in the nature of many men a certain [Greek or Hebrew],¹ an heat and activeness of spirit, which then principally, when conversant about Objects divine and matters of Conscience, is wonderful apt, without a due corrective of wisdom and knowledge, to break forth into intemperate carriage and to disturb Peace. It was zeal in the Women which persecuted Saint Paul, Acts 13.50. and it was zeal in him too which persecuted Christ before he knew him, Phillip. 3.6. Acts 26.9.² For as the Historian saith of some men, that they are Sola socordia Innocents, bad enough in themselves, and yet do little hurt, by reason of a flegmatick and torpid Constitution, indisposing them for action: so on the contrary, men there may be, who having devotion,³ like those honourable Women, not ruled by knowledge; and zeal, like quick-silver, not allayed, nor reduced unto usefulness by wisdom and mature learning,⁴ may be, as Nazianzen saith they were in his time, the Causes of much unquiet. It was a grave censure which Tacitus gave of some over-violent Assertours of their ⟨p. 21⟩Liberty, and it may be verified of others, who as violently maintain their Opinions,⁵ Quod per abrupta inclarescerent, sed in nullum reipublicae usum.

Secondly, Peace may in this case be preserved by moderating the fervour of our zeal against those that are otherwise minded. There is in the nature of many men a certain 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,¹