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CHAP. XX. The ſixth Symptome continued. The tenth head. The Deceits of Zeale.
10. The deceits of zeale.I Have reſerved to the laſt place the conſideration of counterfeit zeale, becauſe I have here many men to deale with, and many caſes. The moſt beautifull have moſt ſuitors. Zeale is a flouriſhing grace, of a freſh and lively complexion; the pure and cleare flame of that fire which is kindled by the ſpirit. Many therfore pretend to this, and would be counted, and would be called zealous ones, eſpecially when zeale in Religion is growne into credit again, when it comes to be the faſhion that moſt men weare, when it is for a mans reputation to be a forward Profeſſour, as now (God be thanked) it is. For faſhions they have their viciſſitudes, their ebbs and their returnes againe. Old faſhions laid a ſide come ſometimes in requeſt again; as this that we are now ſpeaking of. About an 100 yeares agoe, the profeſſion of Religion according to Gods pure word was in ſuch requeſt, that it was a faſhion, and they expreſt it in the faſhion of their cloaths, the Princes and Noble-men and Gentle-men in ſome parts of Germany, cauſed theſe five Letters, V. D. M. I. Ae. the firſt letters of theſe words, Joh. Wolf. lect. memor. To. 2. ad An. 1549.VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM, The Word of the Lord endureth for ever, to be wrought or imbroydered or ſet in plate, upon their Cloakes, or upon the ſleeves of their Garments, to ſhew to all the world, that forſaking Popiſh and humane Traditions, they were Profeſſours of the pure word of God. 2 Kin. 10.16.It is growne to that paſſe now, men ſay, Come and ſee my zeale for the Lord: But here's the danger; when the waters are out, the ſtreame carries all with it: Hypocrites will ſwimme downe the ſtrong tide. And as then many that wore thoſe letters upon their Coats, did not receive the power of the Word into their hearts; ſo all that now vote for Religion, are not religious: but as empty Carts run apace (much faſter then the laden ones) and keepe a great ratling upon the ſtones; ſo doe theſe counterfeits make the greateſt clamour for that which in truth their hearts leaſt care for.
To deſcend unto particulars. 1. Some have a pretended falſe complying zeale. They are zealous in what they know will be well liked. They prevent Reformation by authority, where they know Authority will approve the fact. So ſome have taken down Crucifixes, removed Altars, and the like, not it may be out of a ſpirit of any great diſlike, but to manifeſt their forwardneſſe in that which they know or probably gather to be in deſigne and project. Whereas right and genuine zeale contends with difficulties, and though it dare doe nothing in oppoſition to Authority, Rom. 13.1.to which it knowes the Scripture hath ſubjected every ſoule, yet it will doe that which is a neceſſary duty, MS Addit. to Goodw. Catal. by Sir Io. Harr. in Grindals life.though it meet with frownes. Of which true Zeale Arch-biſhop Grindall gave an evident teſtimony; who when an Italian Phyſitian bearing himſelfe upon the countenance of a great Lord at Court, though he had a wife living, married another Gentle-woman, he would not winke at ſo publick a ſcandall, but convented and proceeded againſt him by Eccleſiaſticall cenſures, for then it was not made felony, as it hath ſince beene by King James. This great Lord preſently writes to the Arch-biſhop to ſtay the proceedings, to tolerate, to diſpence or to mitigate the cenſure. When he could not prevaile, Queene Elizabeth was procured to write in the Doctors behalfe, but the Biſhop not only perſiſted like St John Baptiſt in his, foreign, It is not lawfull to have her to wife, but alſo in reverent manner required of the Queene an account of her faith, in that ſhe would write in a matter expreſſely againſt the word of God. Here was zeale encountring with danger for maintainance of truth. He was hereupon commanded to keep his houſe, and lay under diſgrace through the power of a malevolent party till his death.
2. Again, Many are zealous in the Religion maintained, whereas if the ſtreame ſhould turne and runne the other way, God knows how they would keepe their breath againſt tide. T'is no tryall of a mans ſincerity to cry out againſt Papiſts, An. Sax Mon. Preface. Sect. 3.when a Parliament is vigilant and ſevere in ſetting Lawes on foot againſt them. I ſhall ever honour the memory of that learned Gentleman, one of our beſt Saxon Antiquaries, Mr Liſle, who publiſhing ſome Saxon Monuments againſt Popery, ſome yeares ſince, when t'was thought by many that the face of things look'd towards Rome, foreign, &c. Theodor. Hiſt. l. 2. c. 29. Non niſi in volucris obtectam proferebat mentem ſuam. Noſter Chriſtopherſonus vertit ſuam ex occulto promit impietatem, foreign vel ut, Chriſtopherſ. & Scalig. foreign (vel ut Chriſtopherſ. emendat foreign Sozom biſt. l. 2. c. 28. Hiſt. eccleſ cent. 16. l. 3. c. 28.profeſſed that he did the rather then ſhew his zeale of the truth, and make knowne to the world what profeſſion he was of, partly becauſe the Papiſts hoped and looked for a day, and partly becauſe he ſaw ſo many ſo covert, and bearing themſelves ſo warily, as if they would be ſtill ready for a change. For this is indeed the right guiſe of hypocrites, in uncertain times to walk without diſcovering themſelves how they encline, and to deliver themſelves in generall and ambiguous termes, which may admit a faire ſence either way, to ſerve their turnes, accordingly as things may fall out; which was the Councell which Eudoxius Biſhop of Constantinople, a notable hypocrite, a cloſe heretick, gave to Eunonius another Biſhop of the ſame ſtampe, That he would hide his opinion and not ſhew it to ſuch as would accuſe him from his words, but waite a time. Which counſell he obſerved, and thence forth, foreign, He expreſſed his impiety darkely and in the Clouds, with ambages and perplexed phraſes, ſo ſome render the Text in Theodoret. This very cunning had before their time been practiſed by Arrius, of whom when the Emperour Conſtantine required the confeſſion of his faith, he was able to lap it up handſomely, he diſſembled his impious opinions, and cited Scriptures cunningly after the manner of the devill.
I know not whether I ſhould credit Lucas Oſiander, a zealous Luther an Divine indeed, but one (as I obſerve in all his writings) of an implacable hatred againſt all that follow Calvins doctrine, who leaves a ſuſpition of ſuch like jugling in reverend Beza and Farell. He ſaith that they being ſent by the French Churches, to obtaine an Interceſſion from the Protestant Princes in the behalfe of many poore priſoners perſecuted for Religion in France, came to Wormes and there gave in writing unto Melancthon, duplicate page duplicate page Brentius and other Divines, who were met there for a publick conference with the Papiſts, a confeſſion of their Faith, in which among other things they confeſſed, That the very ſubſtance of Chriſts fleſh is exhibited in the holy Supper, and that they diſſented not about the thing it ſelfe, but only concerning the manner of his preſence; and in generall ſo expreſt themſelves, that their Confeſſion ſeemed rather to be Lutheran then Calvinisticall. Oſiander ſaith, hee ſaw and read the very Originall Writing ſigned with Beza's and Farels own hands. Clam apud ſe, in ſcrin…o pectoris ſui, duas voces, per …idem & ſpiritualiter, retinuiſſe.And moreover, that when the Tigurine Divines reproved them for it, they both anſwered, That it was needfull to uſe ſome good deceit to helpe their brethren; and that in that Confeſſion of theirs, they did reſerve ſecretly in their own breaſts, theſe two words, by faith and ſpiritually. Truly if this relation be all current, there was aliquid humani, there was ſome halting and unſoundneſſe in this point and buſineſſe, in thoſe good men.
3. Others there are that have a zeale in ſome things, but in others they are cold, careleſſe and remiſſe. Now as wee know that the ſweat of the whole body is a ſigne of health, but the ſweat of ſome one part onelyonly, ſhewes a diſtemper. Jo. Fernel. de ſebribus l. 4 c. 19.And therefore phyſitians doe reckon ſuch a ſweat to be Symptomaticall. Such is the zeale of many, who are ſharpe ſighted in corruptions Eccleſiaſticall, but winke at Errours politicall, and having nothing to ſay againſt the rapines and oppreſſions of their Patrons; that are zealous againſt Popery, but have no further care of Religion, which that reverend and worthy man Mr Calvin obſerved in Geneva; Beza in vita Calvini.for when he lay ſicke, and all the Miniſters came together upon the 28th of April to viſit him, he gave them a farewell Exhortation, among other things that he ſpake to them, he told them that when he came firſt to Geneva to preach, he found things much out of order, as if Chriſtianity were nothing elſe but the plucking downe of Images. Such a Religion juſt as was among ſome with us here in England in good King Edward the 6th. dayes, and perhaps in ſome in theſe dayes of ours. They were ſuch who in the ancient Church brought a blemiſh upon Religion, Apoſtaſie of laſt times, p. 148.and provoked Eunapius a Pagan Writer to blaſpheme (as I receive the teſtimony from Mr Mead, for I have not ſeen the booke it ſelfe) He ſpeaking of ſome Monkes in Aegypt, calls them, Men indeed for ſhape, but living like ſwine, who yet took it for a piece of Religion to deſpiſe the Temple of Scrapis; for then (ſaith he) whoſoever wore a black-coate, and would demeane himſelfe abſurdly in publick, got a tyranicall authority, to ſuch an opinion of vertue had that ſort of men attained.
What I ſay of the demoliſhing of Images, I may apply to the earneſtneſſe of ſome in ſome points of controverſie. Some gallants of diſſolute and debauched behaviour, and ſometimes Miniſters of ſcandalous life and obnoxious, will declaime earneſtly againſt ſome errors of opinion. And me-thinks 'tis a pretty reaſon that one gives of this, Jufrif, fa…th, Sect. 1. c. 15. p. 283.That ſuch men are afraid to looke upon themſelves without a foyle, and ſeeing they can hardly find others of life and converſation much fouler, they propoſe unto themſelves theſe opinions to declaime againſt, as a ſalve unto their ſore conſciences, and that they may be able to ſay as the Phariſee, Lord we thank thee that we are not as other men, not as theſe miſhapen hereticks. Thus it may be poſſible they may rayle againſt others faults with much earneſtneſſe, to hide their own, like the Hoſt in Guzman. I have obſerved this experiment among others in one man eſpecially, a man of a private condition, who ſet himſelfe eagerly againſt his Miniſter for one paſſage delivered, which he conceived to tend to Arminianiſme; to the wonder indeed of all, Life of Guzman, p. 50. Acts 18.17.that knew him to be a Gallio that cares for none of theſe things, a man mindleſſe of Religion, and otherwiſe vitious. This made Abraham Bucholzer a great Divine in Germany, Melch Adam. Vit. Theol. p. 558.to decline all Theologicall conflicts, becauſe he ſaw many controverſies ſtir'd up in the Church of Chriſt, by thoſe who were not warmed with the leaſt ſparkle of Gods love; as is noted by the writer of his life. I know we cannot too much, too earneſtly contend for truth, for ſaving truth's; but yet we may overſtrive for truths leſſe neceſſary; Briefe Tract of z…ale, p. 89.as Mr Dod obſerved, that many are hot about matters of ceremonie, but altogether cold in matters of ſubſtance. 'Tis the great commendation of Andrew Knophius that he preacht at Riga the Doctrine of Chriſt painfully and faithfully; but he had a turbulent Colleague, one Sylvester Tegetmeir, D Clytrae. Saxo. i.e, l. 10.who went furiouſly to worke to caſt Statues out of the Churches, and remove Tombeſtones and Monuments; wherein Luther writes gravely to that City, That Chriſtian piety conſiſts in true faith, in ſincere love to our neighbours, &c. and not only in the aboliſhing of humane and external rites, which may be tolerated without impietie and ſcandall. Melc. Adam. in vita Luth. p. 123.And Luther alwayes ſhewed this temper, being offended with the buſie humour of Caroloſtadius and his doings at Wittenburg, for when he return'd after his retirement, and ſaw what worke he had made there in his abſence; he took occaſion in his Sermons every day, to ſhew what he liked, and what he diſallowed in thoſe alterations that were made, and blames them for many things, Luth. Tom. 2. Epiſt.not that they had done wickedly, but not in order: and as himſelf writes in one of his Epiſtles, It diſpleaſed me that Caroloſtadius laboured only in Ceremonies and outward circumſtances, neglecting in the meane while true Chriſtian doctrine; for by his vaine manner of preaching, he brought the people to that paſſe, that they thought themſelves Chriſtians only if they refuſed confeſion, broke down Images, &c.
4. There is another deceit about this zeale and earneſtneſſe for opinion: when oftentimes the zeale is not ſo much for the opinion it ſelf, as for the reputation of the holder of it. Hence it is that there is ſo much violence, ſaltneſſe and cenſuring a mong people, that will like nothing in them, that hold not with them in all things; Col. 2.18. foreign.ſuch as the Apoſtle ſpeakes of, being opinionative, would Lord it over other mens faith, and would foreign, become mederators in other mens tenents, being vainely puft up in their fleſhly mind, or, raſhly puft up, as the Geneva tranſlates it; or, cauſeleſſely puft up, as our old Engliſh Bible; being in love with their own light, which they follow and boaſt of againſt all. There may be much of ſelf mixed in zeale, as it ſeems there was in Joſuah, Numb. 11.28. Luk. 9.14.by Moſes mild reproving of his envy toward Eldad and Medad who propheſied in the Campe. And Chriſt found it out and rebuked it in his own Diſciples; yee know not, ſaid he, what ſpirit ye are of. They pretended a tenderneſſe of the diſreſpect ſhewed unto Christ, but it ſeems they were alſo but too much ſenſible that they were in his company, and ſhared of the rudeneſſe of thoſe villagers. I will not ſearch too narrowly into it, what was the fault that Christ ſpied in them, ſeeing it is not plainly revealed. But in others, I can make the obſervation good by inſtances, that men may ſeeme zealous for God, when it is their own injurie that ſtirres them. When Sr Robert Mortimer an excommunicate perſon intruded himſelfe into a Proceſſion at Canterbury, Alan the Prior of Christ-church informed the Arch-Biſhop of it once and again; but when he ſaw he cognived at it, himſelf with ſtrong hand caſt the excommunicate perſon out of the Church. Who would not take this to be pure zeale after the eſteem of thoſe times? but peruſe the Record, and ſomewhat of ſelf may be diſcerned in this fact; Ms. Lib Eccl. Chriſti cantuar. ad an. 1181.Mortimer was excommunicate for withholding a pasture from the Church belonging to Depeham a Manour of theirs. So that the being ſo nearly concerned in his profits, we know not what to ſay of his zeale.
What ſhall we ſay of ſome that are very loud againſt corruptions? I will deliver my ſelf in reverend Mr Dods words, The Browniſts are ready to burſt their bowells with crying out againſt all diſorders abroad, Briefe Tract of zeale, p. 88.and yet never reforme their own ſoules at home. And he tells us in the place that I have noted in the Margin, of ſome wofull experiences, of ſuch who were zealous till they had what they expected, and then grew worldly and ſowed up their lipps. And in another page, p. 100.of many preachers who were zealous while they wanted livings. It is not likely that Dr Aylmer after he came to be Biſhop of London was of the ſame mind of which he was when he wrote; Come off ye Biſhops, Mr Elmer, his Harborough for faithfull.away with your ſuperfluities, yeild up your thouſands, be content with your hundreds. He himſelf would ſometimes confeſſe to his familiar friends that he had been of another ſtrain in his youth, Ms. Addit. by Sir Io. Harr. in life of Eleaz.and would anſwer them in the words of St Paul, Cumeſſem parvulus ſapiebam ut parvulus.
There are others that are zealous in reproving to get themſelves a name. It muſt be taken notice of that they dare ſpeake; See Turk. Hiſt. p 41.whereas they might more eaſily admoniſh in private, more ſeaſonably, and with better ſucceſſe. There was a Phariſee, one Eleaſar, right of this humour; who when Hircanus the Prince and high-Prieſt (a great Patron of that Sect) wiſht them to deale friendly and freely with him if at any time they ſaw any thing amiſſe in him; he preſently replied with much petulancie; R ſi gne your Prieſthood and be content with the Dukedom, for your Mother was a bond-woman. It was a falſe and unſeaſonable ſlander, Ioſeph. Antiq. l. 13. c. 18.and loſt the wiſhed effect, for this petulant zeale wrought much miſchief to the forward hypocrite and the whole ſect of Phariſe's.
Their zeale is alſo much like this, who are earneſt in the Pulpit againſt the ſins of the abſent; who in plain country Congregations cry out againſt the pride of the times, and in the obſcure Churches of Country villages inveigh againſt the miſgovernments and errors of the State. 'Tis fit that theſe things be ſpoken againſt, when a people are to be undeceived, but it muſt be in the Kings Court, eſpecially in the Kings Chappell; but if Amaziah the Court Chaplain, Amos 7.12, 13.make the Chappell a Sanctuary (as the Hebrew alſo ſignifies) and ſuffer not plain-dealing, truth-telling Amos to preach there; yet why ſhould he ſend him to flee into other places and preach there? In other places a Prophet may mourne for and lament the fins of the Magiſtrate unto God; but it would be no true born zeale to fill the people with his declamations, unleſſe as I ſaid it be needfull to undeceive the people.
There are yet others that are zealous and cry out againſt the faults of ſtrangers, enemies, or men of another opinion, but cannot or will not ſee and find the ſame defects in their friends or men of their own party. Theod. Hiſt. l. 2. c 24.They preferre their own Sect though unworthy; and advance them to places; Thus Leontius Biſhop of Antioch of the Aetian Sect, but a notable diſſembler of the Orthodox faith, was diſcovered by his ſlighting of the ſound, and his frequent curteſies towards the Arrians, yea he conferred orders upon one Stephen and Placitus, men that way addicted, though they were known otherwiſe to be of diſſolute lives. Much after the ſame manner Eudoxius of Conſtantinople, who was of the ſame graine, ſhewed his ſpirit he was of by his cold and ſlow proceeding in cenſures againſt ſuch as were Heterodox, and convented before him for the ſame cauſe, as appeared in the caſe of Eunomius who was accuſed by the Citizens of Cyzicum, Lib. 2. c. 29.as it is related in Theodorets Eccleſiaſticall Hiſtory.
There are ſome that doe condemn thoſe of haereſie, that have the leaſt jarre with them in opinion, though concerning matters of greater difficultie then conſequence; and if any there be that joyn not with them in their vociferations, they cenſure him preſently to be backward in Religion and to comply with the adverſary; thus as he that obſerves the due time in ſinging ſhall be cenſured to be immuſicall and the authour of diſcord, becauſe his tone differs from all the reſt, who all ſing out of tune; ſo, he muſt either be mad with mad-men, or paſſe in their verdict for the only mad-man among them. If a man comply with ſome men, he may vent any thing, even the very lees of haereſie and blaſphemie, all goes down with them; but the moſt ſeaſoned and moderate diſcourſes of others, though delivered with the ſpirit of meekneſſe and with much ſinceritie and judgment, is yet diſtaſted by them.
Adde to theſe thoſe enforced and hiſtrionicall clamours againſt the times, by ſome who like hired mourners are lowder in lamentation then the very friends of the deceaſed, who haply can ſcarce goe for griefe. It may be ſome whoſe very ſouls bleed in the ſenſe of the publick corruptions, cannot make ſuch tragicall exclamations as are hired orators, and would little lay it to heart whatſoever ſhould become either of Peace or Truth. I have oft thought that ſuch like men have done the greateſt diſ-ſervice to our preſent Parliament.
Bſides, ſome hypocrites may complain much of the evill times, when it may be they are ſenſible only of their own evills. Like the Maids in Homer, that wept together with Briſeid, Hom. Iliad. 29. foreign. Vide inter Adagia Iunij. Cent. 6. ad 57.as if it had been for Patroclus who was ſlain, when it was for their own friends that were kild. 'Tis a notable diſcourſe to this purpoſe which Lipſius faignes between himſelf and Langius, and which will ſerve for a full diſcoverie of this kind of hypocriſie. Lipſius lamented to his friend the calamities of Belgia, Lipſ…de conſtant. l. 1 c. 8.and how nearly he was touched with him. But are you in earneſt ſaid Langius, for many cloake their private griefe under the publike. Oh 'tis for my Countries ſake only, ſaid Lipſius, for my Countries ſake that I am grieved. Langius a little ſhaking his head, examine thy ſelf well, ſaid he. If thou beeſt ſincere in it, I am ſure few are ſo. Moſt are like Polus the Stage-player, who when he was to act a weeping part, wept indeed over the aſhes of his own ſon. When a Town is on fire all are buſie to quench it, but 'tis their own private houſes that their care is for. Thou art troubled that Belgia is waſted with Warre: yet if thou heareſt of a cruell warre in the Indies, thou art not troubled. If thy ſorrow were for publike calamity, thou wouldſt be moved for that; but now thy trouble is that it is in Belgia, that is, becauſe it is neare thee, and thou art concerned in it. Tell me, if thou couldſt be aſſured and put out of all doubt, that thy houſe and money and all thy eſtate ſhould be ſafe in the generall loſſe and vaſtation; wouldſt thou yet grieve? What you would doe I know not; but many in ſuch a caſe would feed their eyes with delight in others calamities. At leaſtwiſe his griefe that ſtands ſafe upon the ſhoare and ſees a ſhipwrack, is nothing to his that hath loſt his goods in the wreake and is himſelf ſtrugling with the waves. There is one other particular which I will yet inſtance, the pretended zeale that ſome have for Reformation, when with all their hearts they could be content that nothing were reformed. Luther found this in the Pope, Melch. Adam. in vita Luth. p. 148.when he appointed a conſultation of ſome Cardinals about a reformation, at that time that there was much talk of a generall Councell to be held. Luther wrote a little book upon that occaſion in the Dutch-tounge, and prefixed a picture before it, the Pope ſitting upon an high throne, ſome Cardinals were pictured about him, who with fox-tailes tyed to long poles went ſweeping up and down. And in truth, that pretenſe proved but a foxe-trick, for the Reformation vaniſhed into ſmoake.
I have been the longer about the examination of this grace, becauſe there is none ſo much and ſo ordinarily counterfeited: for though ſome errors of zeale ſhew themſelves in ſuch as are not otherwiſe ill affected but want knowledge, and are well meaning but ignorant, like the Batts that convert the Chryſt all in humour of the eye to make large wings, and ſo fly and flutter abroad, but are blind, and in others that have good affection, but have not digeſted things throughly, in whom there may be a ſickheate, Io Fernel. de Pebrib. l. 4. c. 19.according to the Phyſitians, who make that ſweat which is before concoction to be Symptomaticall: Yet of many we cannot otherwiſe conceive, that they ſerve their unworthy ends and deſignes by their pretence of zeale. And ſo much for the ſixth Symptom of hypocriſie from their ſeeming graces.
CHAP. XXI. 7. The Symptome of Hypocriſie, in reſpect of Tentations. Strong temptations diſcover the Inclination.
7. BEcauſe we are oftentimes deceived in men, Hypocrites diſcovered by ſtrong Temptations.who carry it fairely, having no occaſion to make them diſcover themſelves; I will offer this obſervation briefely, That an hypocrite is not able to reſiſt a ſtrong tentation. The influence and ſeaſoning of his education may carry him on a great way and a great while, that he may act the temperate man, the devout man, notably for ſome reſpects that he hath, till ſome ſtronger occaſion take him off. We have known ſome that for a monethmonth, for half a yeare, for a yeare, or it may be a longer time, have been reſtrained by the priſon of good ſocietie, and other regards, but at length could hold no longer, but have broken looſe and flowen out into all diſorder. 'Tis a witty and pleaſant Fable that Lucian hath of an Aegyptian King, who cauſed ſome Apes when they were young to dance and keep their poſtures with much art, theſe he would put into rich-coates, and have them in ſome great preſence to dance to the admiration of ſuch as knew them not, what little ſort of active nimble men the King had got; and of ſuch as knew them, that they ſhould be trained up to ſo manlike and handſom a deportment; but a ſuttle fellow that was once admitted to ſee them, brought with him and took out of his boſome an handfull of Nutts, which he threw among them; they perceiving that which they naturally loved, preſently left off their dance, fell to ſcrambling, tore one anothers rich coates, and to the deriſion of the beholders who formerly admired them, they ſhewed themſelves to be right Apes, though they had been cloathed, and taught their poſtures like to men. Throw in the nutts among hypocrites, and you ſhall ſoon diſcern what they are. They may act it handſomely while no better trade is open for them; and that they find religious correſpondencie to be their thriving way, their beſt gaine. But let ſome ſtronger love beſiege them, they run out unto it, forget their parts, and make ſport, or rather cauſe griefe in the godly minded that were deceived in them. 'Tis ſo in others too, that are men of ſmooth behaviour, and no harme to be diſcerned by them; but being Guns full charged with the powder of rancarous malice, and the bullets of a ſharpe, imbittered and boyſterous ſpirit, and hard rammed with habituated reſolution, diſcharg upon you with much violence, as ſoon as the fire comes to them: Let there be but a tentation, and ye ſhall ſee what is within them.