The Godly Man's Picture

2 A false zeal is a self-seeking zeal; Jehu cries, come see my zeal for the Lord, 2 King. 10. 16. but it was not zeal, but ambition, he was fishing for a Crown. Demetrius pleads for the Goddess Diana, but it was not her Temple, but her Silver shrines he was zealous for: Such zealots Ignatius complains of in his time, that they made a Trade of Christ and Religion, thereby to enrich^* themselves. 'Tis probable many in King Henry the eights time were forward to pull down the Abbeys, not out of any zeal against Popery, but that they might build their own houses upon the ruins of those Abbeys; like Eagles which fly aloft, but their eyes are down upon their prey: If blind zeal be punished seven fold, hypocritical zeal shall be punished seventy and seven fold.

2 A false zeal is a self-seeking zeal; Iehu cries, come see my zeal for the Lord, 2 King. 10. 16. but it was not zeal, but ambition, he was fishing for a Crown. Demetrius pleads for the Goddess Diana, but it was not her Temple, but her Silver shrines he was zealous for: Such zealots Ignatius complains of in his time, that they made a Trade of Christ and Religion, thereby to enrich^* themselves. 'Tis probable many in King Henry the eights time were forward to pull down the Abbies, not out of any zeal against Popery, but that they might build their own houses upon the ruines of those Abbies; like Eagles which fly aloft, but their eyes are down upon their prey: If blind zeal be punished seven fold, hypocritical zeal shall bee punished seventy and seven fold.

1. *[Greek or Hebrew]. Ignat〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Ignat