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4 In a false religion men have showed much zeal and forwardness, Isa. 46. 6. I hey ¹lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, & hire a Goldsmith, and he maketh it a god, they fall down, yea they worship, &c. The people were so violent in an Idolatrous religion, that they did spare no cost nor pains to accomplish it. So those false Prophets, those prophets and worshippers of ²Baal, 1 King. 18. 28. They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancers till the blood gushed out upon them. So Paul when he was a Jew and adversary to Christianity; beyond measure he persecuted the Church of God, and wasted it, Gal. 1. 13. ⟨p. 47⟩³Jerem. 32. 35. Those superstitious Jews built ⁴the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Moloch, which I commanded them not. So zealous and fervent were they in their Idolatrous worship and service, that they would cause their children to be burnt as a sacrifice to their false god. So likewise among us the Papists are zealous and eager for their worship, witness their whippings and scourgings and fastings and other penances. If men be thus zealous in false ways, how fervent should we be in a true? But so much for the first branch of the Caution.

4 In a false religion men have shewed much zeal and forwardnesse, Isa. 46. 6. I hey ¹