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8 This reproves those that content themselves with moderation in the matters of religion, that account a dram of zeal enough for a talent of discretion, as Mr. Greenham said. Many men are of this opinion, that religion is dangerous, and that an holy violence in religion is attended with troubles and dangers, and therefore it is best to be moderate in religion. There are many of these men in our days, otherwise religion had never come to so low an ebb as now it is. It was the saying of one, ⟨p. 23⟩that men may be religious, but then they must not be too zealous: they must not be too violent for the ways of God, for then they are called men of hot & furious spirits; Men (it seems) must not love religion too much. Amama quotes Tarnovius, who mentions a sort of men that brought in an opinion, which he calls a new Gospel, that if a man perform the external duties of religion, if he go to the Church, hear the word, pray, &c. it was sufficient for salvation. Of this temper Gallio was, Act. 18. 17. Gallio cared for none of those things. A ¹little religion will serve the turn. Most of the Statists and Politicians of this world are of this temper, which God will one day account a Laodicean lukewarmness or timorous cowardice. Geographers, who write of the situation of England, say, that it is between the Torrid and the Frigid Zone, neither hot nor cold; I wish our hearts were not like our land.

8 This reproves those that content themselves with moderation in the matters of religion, that account a dram of zeal enough for a talent of discretion, as Mr. Greenham said. Many men are of this opinion, that religion is dangerous, and that an holy violence in religion is attended with troubles and dangers, and therefore it is best to be moderate in religion. There are many of these men in our dayes, otherwise religion had never come to so low an ebbe as now it is. It was the saying of one, ⟨p. 23⟩that men may be religious, but then they must not be too zealous: they must not be too violent for the wayes of God, for then they are called men of hot & furious spirits; Men (it seemes) must not love religion too much. Amama quotes Tarnovius, who mentions a sort of men that brought in an opinion, which he cals a new Gospel, that if a man perform the externall duties of religion, if he go to the Church, hear the word, pray, &c. it was sufficient for salvation. Of this temper Gallio was,