For 1. They perceive her in a passion, and they meet her with a sort of passion, What is your Beloved? whereof is your Christ made of more then ours? either enemies or believers, in so far as they are carnal or apt to mistake a spiritual state; so must the world say of Noah, who was just in his time,1 sure the world thought him too just; he'll build an Ark, and he'll have all the world to be drowned but himself and his house. Hence Jeroboam's word, 1 Kings 12. 28. It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Why? and the Lord commanded them; doth God command too much? is the Lord too strict? So Satan, Gen. 3. 1. yea, hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? that is a strict Law-giver who lays bands on your eating of fruit which he hath created to be eaten. The believing disciples, Matth. 15. 23. Send her away [Greek or Hebrew], ⟨p. 324⟩she cries and troubles us with her prayers. Were there not some godly who might think Daniel needed not cry his prayers out at his window? he might pray and not blow a trumpet? There is an Idol called discretion and moderation, pray, profess Christ leisurely, we think to be saved and come to heaven as well as you. O what precise lips were Davids! I will not name Baal with my lips, Psal. 16. 4. It's too great Morosity for Moses to say to a King Not a hoof shall bide in Egypt. What matter of cows, if the Church of God be brought out of the house of bondage? what if there were not one Israelites four-footed beast breathing on earth, so the Church live?
For 1. They perceive her in a passion, and they meet her with a sort of passion, What is your Beloved? whereof is your Christ made of more then ours? either enemies or believers, in so far as they are carnal or apt to mistake a spiritual state; so must the world say of Noah, who was just in his time,1 sure the world thought him too just; he'll build an Ark, and he'll have all the world to be drowned but himself and his house. Hence Jeroboams word, 1 Kings 12. 28. It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Why? and the Lord commanded them; doth God command too much? is the Lord too strict? So Satan, Gen. 3. 1. yea, hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? that is a strict Law-giver who laies bands on your eating of fruit which he hath created to be eaten. The believing disciples, Matth. 15. 23. Send her away 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ⟨p. 324⟩she cries and troubles us with her prayers. Were there not some godly who might think Daniel needed not cry his prayers out at his window? he might pray and not blow a trumpet? There is an Idol called discretion and moderation, pray, profess Christ leisurely, we think to be saved and come to heaven as well as you. O what precise lips were Davids! I will not name Baal with my lips, Psal. 16. 4. It's too great Morosity for Moses to say to a King Not a hoof shall bide in Egypt. What matter of cowes, if the Church of God be brought out of the house of bondage? what if there were not one Israelites four-footed beast breathing on earth, so the Church live?
- 1The Idol of moderation is an enemy to true zeal.
