In this fit of nausea and disgust Dr. Trapp might be dismissed; but, before parting with him, another of his virulent outpourings must be noticed. Three months later in the year, the following was published:--"The Nature, Usefulness, and Regulation of Religious Zeal. A Sermon preached at St. Mary's, Oxon; before the Right Honourable Mr. Justice Fortescue Aland and Mr. Baron Thompson; and before the University of Oxford; at the Assizes held there, on Thursday, August 2nd, 1739. By Joseph Trapp, D.D., Minister of Christ Church and St. Leonard's, Foster Lane, London. Published at the desire of the Judges and the Vice-Chancellor." (8vo. 32 pp.) One extract from this highly patronized sermon must suffice. "No false zeal is more abusive than that of our _modern infidels_, on the one hand, and our _modern enthusiasts_, pretending to be the _only true believers_, on the other: _Christianity_ and _Christians_ by the _former_, and our _Established Church_ and _clergy_ by _both_; being outraged with such virulence and malice, such insolence and contempt, as was never heard of before; and would not be endured by any Christian _nation_ under heaven, but _this_ in which we live. Some _emotion_ in the affections, and in the blood and spirits, is both becoming and useful; but rage and fury is neither. The good Christian may have, and should have, some warmth and even heat; but not be like a red-hot iron, hissing and sparkling from the forge, and dropping fire wherever it reaches. A brisk gale at sea is one thing, but a storm is another. Let false zealots be like raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; but let the truly zealous Christian carefully avoid these exorbitances. Let Popery and Protestant enthusiasm, infidelity, and atheism, all leagued against Christianity in general and the Church of _England_ in particular, rage like a possessed pythoness; but let every good Christian know and consider _what manner of spirit he is of_, which is not such a _manner of spirit as that_." Public attacks like these were hard to bear; especially in the case of a young man of twenty-four, ardent, enthusiastic, ambitious, and somewhat overweening, like Whitefield. In his sermon on "The Marriage of Cana," Whitefield writes:-- "What a sad inference one of our masters of Israel, in a printed sermon, has lately drawn from this commendation of the bridegroom! His words are these: 'Our blessed Saviour came eating and drinking, was present at weddings, and other entertainments; nay, at one of them, worked a miracle to make wine, when it is plain there had been more drank than was absolutely necessary for the support of nature; and consequently something had been indulged to pleasure and cheerfulness.'[204] [204] Trapp's "Sermons on being Righteous over-much" (p. 17).