The zealous Christian taking heavenThe zealovs Christian taking heaven

Answ. 1 Answ. 1. This proceeds from an holy indignation against themselves, which is a fruit of repentance or conversion, as you read, 2 Cor. 7. 11. For this self-same thing that ¹ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness did it work in you? yea what clearing of your selves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what desire, yea what zeal, yea what revenge? ⟨p. 57⟩There ariseth in such a desire to be revenged upon themselves, Isa. 30. 22. Ye shall defile ²also the covering of the graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold, thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth, thou shalt say unto them, Get thee hence. Isa. 2. 20. In that day a man shall cast ³his idols of silver, and his idols of gold which they have made, each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats. Cranmer burned his right hand first, because it had subscribed his recantation, and oftentimes repeated in the flame, Oh this unworthy right hand! An holy indignation makes him to reason thus within himself. Could I sin worse then others, and shall I now be contented with less grace then others? Could I be as swift as a Dromedary in the ways of sin, and shall I creep like a snail in the ways of God? Have I been zealous for the committing of sin, and shall I be cold in my motions after Christ? Such persons are ashamed of their former ways, and therefore they now labour to take off that reproach by making some reparations.

Answ. 1 Answ. 1. This proceeds from an holy indignation against themselves, which is a fruit of repentance or conversion, as you read, 2 Cor. 7. 11. For this self-same thing that ¹