The want of Zeal in the cause of God, reproved, [ 970]
IN the sacking of Troy,* 1.1 Aeneas is said first to have exported 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, then 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to have carried out his gods, even before his dearest father. Look up∣on the Turks eagernesse,* 1.2 in defending and propagating that their Law, Non dis∣putando, sed pugnando, as Mahomet their Prophet hath taught them: Or if Chri∣stian instances may be more operative, look upon the Romanists, their Iesuites own expression, shall evidence their earnestnesse: Campian in his Epistle to the Councill of Queen Elizabeth, Quandiu unus quispiam •• nobis supererit, qui Tiburno vestro fruatur, &c. saith he,* 1.3 That so long as there was any one Iesuite of them remaining, to enjoy Tiburn, any one of them left for the gallowes, torment, and imprisonment, they had vowed never to desist,* 1.4 endeavouring to set up that Reli∣gion in the Nation. Shall Turks then, and Heathens, and Papists, solicite their bad cause so earnestly, and we our good cause, our Go••'s cause, so faintly? O let it not be said, Acri••s ad pernitiem, quàm nos ad salutem, that they should drive like Iehu, fiercely, and we like Egyptians with their wheeles off, heavily; they clamour out for their woodden and breaden god, and we by our sluggishnesse, prejudice and be∣tray the cause of our great and glorious God.