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WE must bee zealous, we must not bee fu∣rious: It is in matter of religion, as with the tending of a still; if we put in too much fire, it burnes; if too little, it workes not; a mid∣dle temper must bee kept, an heat there must bee, but a mo∣derate one; we may not be in our profession, like a drowzy Iudge upon a Grecian Bench,
who is fayne to bite upon beanes, to keepe himselfe from sleeping;* 1.1 neither may we bee like that Gre∣cian player, who acted mad Ajax, upon the stage; but wee must bee soberly fervent, and discreetly a∣ctive; S. Paules spirit was stir∣red within him, at Athens, to see the Idol-altars amongst those learned Philosophers; & it breaks out of his mouth, in a grave re∣proofe; I doe not see him put his hand furiously to demolish them, and if a Iuventius and Maximinian in the heat of zeale,* 1.2 shall rayle on wicked Iulian at a feast, hee justly casts their death not upon their religion, but their petulancy: It was a wel-made de∣cree in the Councell of Eliberis,* 1.3 that if any man did take upon
him to breake downe the idols of the heathen,* 1.4 and were slaine in the place, hee should not be rec∣koned amongst the Martyrs. There must be then, two mode∣rators of our zeale; Discretion, and charity, without either, and both of which, it is no other then a wilde distemper; and, with them, it is no lesse then the very life blood of a Christian, or the spirits of that blood; From the common acts of both these, joyned together, shall result these following maximes, as so many usefull rules of our Christian mo∣deration.
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Theodor. l. 3 cap. 15.
Cancil. E∣liber. c 60.
Miles q. prae∣sidiarius Rom▪ felem quam Aegyp∣tii colebant. ut Deum in∣terfecit hinc tantus exor∣tus tumul∣tus ut 7000 militum Praesidiario∣rum truci∣dati sint. Melanct. Postill. Fer. 2. post advent. ex Diodoro Sic.