Good-Zeal

Lord Anger disguised himself as Good-Zeal.[3]

"There is another, who would repel the charge of 'anger;' but yet his spirit may be soured by prejudice and embittered by partiality; and in his very anger he may persecute, or betray, or even burn you. He calls it 'Good-Zeal;' but it is the spirit of 'anger' notwithstanding, and a sin. Sir Everard Digby, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Treason, wrote thus to his wife, after his condemnation:—'If I had thought there had been the least sin in the plot, I would not have been of it for all the world; and no other cause drew me to hazard my fortune and life but zeal to God’s religion.' (Hume’s History, chapter 46) It is respecting this deceptive sin that Jesus spake, when he said—'Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service,' John 16:2."[2]