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First, ¹therefore touching the matter about which this holy zeal is to be exercised, it must be good: §1according to the saying of the Apostle: It is good always to ⟨p. 86⟩be zealous in [a good matter:] ²and it was before showed, that Gods people must be zealous of [good works:] otherwise, if the matter be evil, the more earnest any is, the more sinful: neither is such earnestness worthy the name of zeal, being nothing else but a devilish and fleshly heat, or rather a kind of frenzy and madness. Such was the zeal of I dolaters that would mangle and cut themselves, and that would offer their children in the fire in honour unto their gods. Such was the zeal of the Scribes and Pharisees, ³who would compass sea and land to make one a Proselyte: that is, one of their own sect.

First, ¹therefore touching the matter about which this holy zeale is to be exercised, it must be good: §1according to the saying of the Apostle: It is good alwaies to ⟨p. 86⟩be zealous in [a good matter:] ²and it was before shewed, that Gods people must be zealous of [good workes:] otherwise, if the matter be euill, the more earnest any is, the more sinfull: neither is such earnestnesse worthy the name of zeale, being nothing else but a diuellish and fleshly heate, or rather a kinde of frenzie and madnesse. Such was the zeale of I dolaters that would mangle and cut themselues, and that would offer their children in the fire in honour vnto their gods. Such was the zeale of the Scribes and Pharises, ³