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love_n	right_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	40	3	8.9820	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77155	Zeale for Gods house quickned: or, A sermon preached before the assembly of Lords, Commons, and Divines, at their solemn fast Iuly 7. 1643. In the Abbey Church at Westminster. Expressing the eminencie of zeale requisite in church reformers: / by Oliver Bowles, Pator of Sutton in Bedfordshire. Published by order of both Houses of Parliament.	Bowles, Oliver, ca. 1577-1646?	1643 (1643)	Wing B3884; Thomason E63_6; ESTC R9592	34,766	57

any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfill my joy that ye be of one accord and one mind Doe not our Adversaries studdy to make rents among us shall we gratifie them weaken our selves Doe not they cry out that if they can but devide us they shall conquer us It is memorable what is reported of Iulian Amian Marcell de Julian lib. 22. that hee did nourish dissentions among Christians ut non timeret postea unanimem plebem Vse 1 If zeale bee so requisite a grace in him that God calls to bee a Reformer then we must give diligence that our zeale may be of the right stamp As every grace so zeale may and often hath its counterfeit as First If it want a true light There be false lights that mislead men over bogges and dangerous places we are exceeding apt to be misled when prejudiced by mens persons their learning or holinesse antiquity or novelty as if we were necessarily to receive a thing because ancient or to reject it because new a Inter iuvenile Iudicium s●nile praejudicium perit veritas by a hasty engaging of our judgments before we be able to judge and an unwillingnesse to retract when we have judged by an b Non tam an licet quam ut liceat undue enquiry when we rather seek that things may be lawfull then whether they bee lawfull or not when transported by selfe conceitednesse of our owne opinion it is onely the eye-salve of the spirit by the Word must guide us To the Law and to the Testimony Esay 8.20 Secondly If it suffer not it selfe to be ordered by wisedom This takes in right meanes as conducing to a right end there is a precipitaney in zeale whereby hee that hasteth in his matters sinneth There is a spirit of deliberation and counsell consider consult then give sentence Eccl. 10.25 then practise A good cause often miscarries by indiscreet bandling The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them because he knoweth not how to goe to the City Ignorance of the right meanes tires out men in their endeavours to no purpose Thirdly If it easily fall into wrangling and quarrels Love that is and ought to bee the orderer of zeale suffereth long 2 Cor. 13. beareth all things endureth all things love knowes that a little breach will quickly bee a great one It prevents them or speedily makes them up It gives the water no passage no not a little zeale for God is tenderly respectfull of mens persons It is wild-fire and not zeale Dan 5.15 Acts 26.24 that casts fire-brands and arrowes and deadly words and sayes I meane no harme Prov. 26.18 19. Fourthly If zeale bee right she will not bate ought of what lies under the command of God no not a hoofe its false zeale that cryes neither mine nor thine but let it hee devided that makes nothing of small matters True zeale drives on the work of Reformation so as it leaves not the least remnants of Baal removes all high places as considering that great persecutions have been raised upon small matters and that conscience is a tender thing as the eye the least moat troubles it Fifthly If our zeale bee only flashy like those unnaturall heats that come and goe by flushings it is not right wee have many that begin well are hot and eager while in such a company while they have such props while carried on by such hopes while not assaulted with such-tentations while they thought the cause would goe thus they were hot and eager in the work of Reformation but as things alter from without they alter from within even to the totall remitting of their zeale Sixthly If true zeale as that which hath the cause of God in the eye then tract of time multitude of discouragements falsenesse of men deserting the cause strength of oppositions will not tire out a mans spirit zeale makes men resolute difficulties are but whetstones to their fortitude it steeles mens spirits with an undaunted magnanimity Vse 2 If zeale be so necessary in a Reformer then wee are all first to blesse God for that fire of zeale the Lord hath kindled in many of your hearts right Honourable and beloved whereby you have been willing to spend and to be spent for the common cause We may read your zeale in your unwearied paines in your deniall of your selves in matter of profit and pleasure in the many hazards you have runne even of all you are have or may expect in the railings and speakings against of men Have not we cause to be thankfull for that zeale of yours whereby you have taken off unsufferable burthens from our backs for the many snares from which you have for the discovery of and delivery of us from most dangerous ruining plots for the many precious Ordinances of Parliament that have issued out for the common good Have not many unworthy scandalous and soule-starving Ministers been displaced and good ones placed in their roome Hath not the Lords day been restored to its pristine sanctification and by burning the book of Sports with other Commands for the better sanctifying of the day been vindicated from all those former unsufferable profanations How have superstitious monuments been defaced secret Idolatries suppressed Seducers of the people been banished the Land For all these and many more everlasting honour shall be upon the head of you our Reformers Goe on and prosper You Noble Parliament Worthies doe worthily in our Ephrata and be famous in our Bethlehem so shall the Lord make your names as a savotry ointment crowne you with his best blessings make your Families flourish when you are dead and gone remember you according to all the good you have done for Gods cause But above all that you have found out a way in these distracted times wherein Religion it selfe groanes under the wantonnesse of our people loathing the Manna and hunting after Novelties under the uncouth and irreligious opinions crept in among us under the bitter divisions that overspread City and Countrey to call an Assembly of able and Worthy Divines with whom you might advise for the settling of Doctrine Worship and Discipline Oh that this work had been sooner in hand Not only have you found such a way but you have embodied many worthies from among your selves with us Have not we a double benefit hereby first you by this your association put honour upon us who should without you in the eyes of many carnall men have been very despicable secondly by this happy conjunction you both help to order us who are ignorant of the nature of such meetings and withall by a seasonable interposall may stay divisions among us Only wee have a double suit to you 1 That you would not suffer the work to be either spun out beyond what is meet or yet hastily slubber'd over Not the first for that the enemy is sowing tares and much harme may be done

writers and fruitfull in all manner of wickednesse wherein the Pope got up on horseback What saith a good writer of the Clergy of that time What do we Ministers who are so much the more inferior to others in holinesse of life as we are more eloquent in words who stirring up others fall asleep our selves Ansb. in Apoc. lib. 5. c. 11. holding out light to others are so much the more darkned in our selves So when did Antichristianisme and Mahometisme grow to their full maturity An. Dom. 1300. Hug. in Ps 104 was it not then when the Prelates became I doll shepherds when the Pastors became Wolves and the Angels of the Churches Devills Was not the wickednesse of the Priests a principall in-let of the Saxons to expell the Brittains out of this land Brittany Vide Gild. a p. 58. ad finem saith a good Author hath priests but foolish ones they understand not Pastors as they are called but indeed Wolves ready to slay the soules of the people not seeking the good of the people but the fulnesse of their owne bellies c. So for matter of Doctrine when the Saxons invaded this land Beda lib. 1. c. 7. the Pelagian heresie had with a filthy contagion defiled the Brittaines faith Should not zeale bestirre it selfe when such evils as these overspread a State The second Head to be considered is what influence zeale ought to have into Reformers First Zeale will and must doe her work throughly It is Gods work men must not halve it there is danger least corruptions grow againe unlesse pull'd up by the roots Experience hath taught what sad persecutions a partiall reformation hath made way for What hope doth such an imperfect proceeding give to the enemies that wee will come on to them againe Secondly Zeal must and will summon all the powers of soul and body and all that we can prevaile withall to further the work God delights in men of activity he cares not for the dull Asse to be offered in Sacrifice the neck of it was to be broken It was earnest Baruch that had the prayse above the rest The twelve Tribes did serve God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Neh 3.20 Act. 26. What should wee be earnest for if not for God and his cause Wilt thou be earnest for thy friend thy profit thy pleasures and cold for thy God Thirdly Zeale after she is convinced of the justice of the cause over-looks all dangers though never so great So Caleb when hee heard of the difficulties resolves Let us goe up at once So Esther If I perish I perish So Saint Paul What doe you weeping and breaking my heart It also treads under foot all allurements all hope of great things God doth now as good as say That which I have planted Ier. 45.4 5. I will pluck up and seekest thou great things for thy selfe 2 King p. 26. Is it now a time to receive money and to receive garments and Oliveyards and Vineyards and sheep and oxen Fourthly Zeale helps a Reformer against the tentation of being alone This prevailes much especially where the devill and our carnall friends carch us at an advantage and amplifie the discouragement How have the mighty been here overthrown Zeal takes notice for the support of her selfe of Ioshua his resolution Chuse yee whom yee will but I and my house will serve the Lord So of Elias his complaint that he was left alone 2 Tim. 4. Vnitos est fundamentum numeri So of Paul At my first answering no man assisted me Zeale takes notice that numbers begin in one and had there not beene one first there had never been two Fiftly Zeale commands perseverance and holding out in the work Many begin in the spirit but end in the flesh how many brave worthies that blossom'd faire come on as promising great things yet have split them upon the rock of an unfound heart withered away if not in the end proved false to God and their Countrey worthy Patriots for a time but their hearts failing them they prove 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as relinquish their station In Christianis non initia sed fines laudantur He only receives the Crown that overcomes That heat in a Reformer that is from heaven will hold out not that which is meerely adventitious set on work from outward causes The third Head how zeale must bee qualified 1 It must bee founded in knowledge the understanding is the eye of the soule As mettall is dangerous in a blind horse so zeale when not directed by a judgment well informed zeale as fire must have light as as well as heat It is Hell where there is heat and no light but utter darknesse The minde and so zeale cannot bee good without knowledge The Jewes zeale defective in that not according to knowledge This zeale must not be conjecturall Rom. 10.1 probably seeming such only as wee have received from others without examination Nothing more ordinary then plentifull allegations of Scripture to carry a cause it matters not how specious and frequent quotations of Scripture there bee as what they prove upon found tryall You whom God hath betrusted with this work take not all for gold that glisters 2 It must bee ordered with wisdome zeale must bee wary as well as warme Fire is good but in a wise mans hands that will not put it into the thatch fire is good in the Chimney but if it catch the rafters of the house it sets all on fire Sapientis est videre non quid debeas solùm sed quid possis In the encounter with vice to bee Reformed wisedome will not have a Reformer to set upon the Reforming Quando necesse id ut sit impar vitio that will but enrage vice more Many mischiefes men that meane well are subject to even their good endeavours Eccl. 10. but wisdome is profitable to direct Beware here of that overwary discretion that destroyes reale 3 It must bee tempered with love zeale is apt to bee harsh but love lines the yoak and makes it easie to bee borne fit zelus said my Author but non immoderate saeviens August in 6. Galat. c. Love takes us off from all bitternesse to mens persons Dilige dic quod voles love and say what you will Love allowes us to be warme sharp home in our reproofes but not scalding hot The stomack admits not that which burnes the lips nor the eare that reproofe that is contumelious Love calls upon us as to bee zealous for the truth so to make it our work to endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Ephes 4.3 What should rend and divide us one from another whom the Lord hath united with so many bonds as to meet in one God one Christ one Spirit one Faith one Baptisme one Heaven Farre be it from us on whom the Apostle hath laid so many charges if any consolation in Christ Phil. 2.1 if