3. How Zeale must bee qualified, that it may be kept within its bounds; zeale not confined is as wilde∣fire.For the first of these, three Reasons doe offer them∣selves as arising from the nature of the work in re∣spect of its1. Excellency.2. Difficulty.3. The destructive nature of Church-evills, if not reformed.The excellency of the work I argue three wayes. 1. In that the work of Church-reformation is one of Gods speciall favours, whereby the Lord would en∣deare his Church to him. Esay 1.25. When after the Churches sad sufferings, he would doe his people a speciall fa∣vour, he tells them that he will purge away all her drosse,Esay 54.11, 12, 13.and take away all her tinne. So when the Lord would expresse himselfe in the greatest declarations of his love to his Church. Ver. 13.Oh thou afflicted and tossed with tempest, I will lay thy stones with faire colours, thy founda∣tions with Saphires, &c. God will set up his ordinances in a more glorious way; all thy children shall be taught of the Lord. Accordingly in this latter age of the world, what is the great work, for which the Church blesses God with the song of Moses, and the song of the Lambe, is it not the victory over the beast, his name, mark, &c. all done by Church-reformation: Rev. 15.3, 4.Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, &c.2. The excellency of the work is argued jointly from the relations betwixt God and his Church, and the office which Reformers do. Cant. 4.12. The Church is Gods Garden, which being planted with all variety of flowers 0