Kingdome, and who would not straine hard for such a booty, which once obtained, will more then countervaile all our care and cost,, uip. our zeale and violence for it. The heathen man thought it great reason to offer violence even to Justice and Conscience, if it were for a Kingdome. In other things he would have respect to just and right, but if a kingdome lay at the stake, and might be won, he held it no discretion to be over conscientious, I commend not his resolution in this, our Rule is, Fiat Justitia & ruat caelum, let Justice be done, though the heavens fall; we must be violent to keepe faith and a good conscience, not to put them from us, and this is the way to make us all Kings and Priests unto our God; they are of the family of heaven, and of the blood Royall, that are thus affected, Revel. 19.26. Christ at his last comming to destroy Anti∣christ, is said, to have his Name written, not onely upon his vesture, but upon his thigh too, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: Whats this a name Written upon his thigh: somewhat an unproper situation; what should a man do with a name written upon his thigh? But tis the place of generation; Jacobs 70. soules are said to come out of his thigh, and those choyce violent spirits, that fol∣low Christ,Vid. Riberam. Jesuitam in Com. ad hunc to∣cum. in his warres against Antichrist, as those Armies of hea∣ven did, spoken of before vers. 14. They all came out of his thigh, were discended and propagated from him, by a divine worke of Regeneration, the Spirit of Jesus Christ refines the blood of the meanest persons, and creates them a Regall pedegree., Arist.3 Its an honourable thing to be violent for the honour of our God and the good of a whole Kingdome; to do good to one is honourable, said the Philosopher, but to do good to a City or Na∣tion, this is heroicall, how much more, when the honour of God and the happinesse of three Kingdomes, that I may not say of Chri∣stendom too, is infolded in one another.Saint Paul saies, Its good to be alwayes zealously affected in a good thing, Gal. 4.16. Alwayes good, It was intended no doubt as a marke of honour, that Name which our Saviour for this cause im∣posed upon one of the Apostles, when he called him Simon Zelotes, Luke 6.15.Het. doum pro∣ume eo um quiregabunt etem. Christo, Aug. The more zeale we have, the more honourable we are at all times, but to be zealous for God, as Elias was in evill times, to owne his cause in an adulterous and sinfull generation, this is honou∣rable indeed; yea, and I had almost said meritorious, but howse∣ver tis thank-worthy to be sure, in an eminent degree, Luk. 22.28, 29 0