Truth and innocence vindicated in a survey of a discourse concerning ecclesiastical polity, and…

I know, says he, but one single Instance in which zeal or a high indignation is just and warrantable: and that is when it vents it self against the Arrogance of haughty peevish and sullen Religionists, that under higher pretences of godliness supplant all principles of Civility and good Nature; that strip Religion of its outside to make it a covering for spite and malice; that adorn their peevishness with a mark of piety, and shroud their ill nature under the demure pretences of godly zeal, and stroke and applaud themselves as the only Darlings and Favourites of Heaven; and with a scornful pride disdained all the residue of mankind as a rout of worthless and unregenerate Reprobates. Thus the only hot fit of ⟨p. 36⟩zeal we find our Saviour in, was kindled by an indignation against the pride and insolence of the Jews, when he whipped the Buyers and Sellers out of the outward Court of the Temple; for though they bore a blind and superstitious reverence towards that part of it that was peculiar to their own worship, yet as for the outward Court, the place where the Gentiles and Proselytes worshipped, that was so unclean and unhallowed, that they thought it could not be profaned by being turned into an Exchange of Usury: Now this insolent contempt of the Gentiles, and impudent conceit of their own holiness, provoked the mild Spirit of our blessed Saviour to such an height of impatience and indignation, as made him with a seeming fury and transport of Passion whip the Tradesmen thence, and overthrew their Tables.

I know, sayes he, but one single Instance in which zeal or a high indignation is just and warrantable: and that is when it vents it self against the Arrogance of haughty peevish and sullen Religionists, that under higher pretences of godliness supplant all principles of Civility and good Nature; that strip Religion of its outside to make it a covering for spight and malice; that adorn their peevishness with a mark of piety, and shrowd their ill nature under the demure pretences of godly zeal, and stroke and applaud themselves as the only Darlings and Favourites of Heaven; and with a scornfull pride disdained all the residue of mankind as a rout of worthless and unregenerate Reprobates. Thus the only hot fit of ⟨p. 36⟩zeal we find our Saviour in, was kindled by an indignation against the pride and insolence of the Jews, when he whipped the Buyers and Sellers out of the outward Court of the Temple; for though they bore a blind and superstitious reverence towards that part of it that was peculiar to their own worship, yet as for the outward Court, the place where the Gentiles and Proselytes worshipped, that was so unelean and unhallowed, that they thought it could not be profaned by being turned into an Exchange of Vsury: Now this insolent contempt of the Gentiles, and impudent conceit of their own holiness, provoked the mild Spirit of our blessed Saviour to such an height of impatience and indignation, as made him with a seeming fury and transport of Passion whip the Tradesmen thence, and overthrew their Tables.