The moderator

4 That even godly men, when they are ensnared into passions occasioned by injuries, will for small matters of private concernment, be sometimes set upon thoughts of revenge, take up destructive resolutions, and thereby forget the main end of their profession; for we see all this in the Apostles, and by Christs reproof of them, and his reason taken from the end of his Ministry, whereunto all his and their actions were to be subordinate, it appears that they are put in mind of what they had forgotten.

4 That even godly men, when they are insnared into passions occasioned by injuries, will for small matters of private concernment, be sometimes set upon thoughts of revenge, take up destructive resolutions, and thereby forget the maine end of their profession; for wee see all this in the Apostles, and by Christs reproof of them, and his reason taken from the end of his Ministery, whereunto all his and their actions were to bee subordinate, it appeares that they are put in minde of what they had forgotten.

Now as it was with James and John in this case, so it is with many godly men in like cases. For in these times of controversy, wherein divisions are heightened to the utmost, it doth often fall out, that men being of different parties, for far lesser causes then Jews and Samaritans were divided; yet look upon one another with no less animosity then did the Jews upon the Samaritans, and the Samaritans upon the Jews; that is, with so much prejudice, that if they find a man but looking towards that party to which they have set themselves in opposition, as the Samaritans found Christs face set towards Jerusalem, they will be ready to deal with him as the Samaritans dealt with Christ, and his Disciples, refuse him civility, use him inhumanely, and perhaps offer injuries both in deeds and words. These injuries will sometimes be taken as reflecting upon the Truth of the profession; sometimes upon the justice of the cause and the innocency of the party which we favour; and if withal (as oft-times it falleth out) some private concernment of our own is mixed with the public interest; that will mainly heighten the sense of those injuries, and transport us unto some excess of zeal: For when any degree of passion for self concernment doth meet in our affection with any object of true zeal, and a ground of public interest, to mix withal and raise it self upon; then it becometh a mighty one, and a giant-like passion; as when in the first world, the Sons of God came in into the fairest of the daughters