Sect. 46. (Book 43)
Preaching brought Religion in, and hath carried it out of the world; some think all Religion in the ears, and none in the hands; to see Christ in the flesh, Jerusalem in her glory, and an Augustine in a Pulpet, was esteem'd a wish of a pious transc••ndency: may we feel Christ in the spirit; see Jerusa∣lem the holy City of his Church in her glory; whose walls are of precious stones, piety, chastity, meeknesse, and temperancy, &c. adorn'd with all the glories of Celesti∣all virtues, and I could be content without satisfying the itch of my ear, though with a Saint Austine: A Boniface could be a traytor to his Prince; a coal of Hell; an incendiary of mischief, by blowing the flames of contention, and raising a combu∣stion in his Country; yet neither the beams of light, effluxions of piety, streaming from this great luminary; nor the living water issuing from this great Fountain in Gods Church could quench the flames of ambi∣tion, or kindle zeal in his so pass••onate an Auditor. A master would think that servant distracted, who would desire to hear his will often, and alwaies do his own: yet such is the madnesse of the world, if they