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Zeal of Heathens to their false Gods, condemning that of Christians to their true God. [ 1151]
THere is mention made of Five Men of the Tribe of Dan,* 1.1 that rushed into the house of Micah, and took away his carved and his golden Images; He followes them with a loud cry; The Danites ask him, What he ayles, where∣fore he made such a noyse; O, sayes he, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and what have I more? And, What is that you say unto me, What ayleth thee? Poor man! How sadly doth he bemoan the losse of his false Gods! And, what have I more, sayes he; concluding, that in taking away of them they had taken away all that he had: But which of us are so zealous for the true God, as he was for the losse of his false one? We daily lose the sight of his comfortable presence, Sin deprives us of him, Who layes it to heart? In losing of him, we lose all,* 1.2 and yet we are no more moved then if we lost nothing at all; One said of the Papists, I pray God that their charitable blindnesse do not one day rise up against our uncharitable knowledge; so it may very well be said of too too many, God grant that the ignorant zeal of Pagans and Infidels to their false Gods, be not matter of condemnation to those that are better instructed in the knowledge of the true and onely God.