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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	sinner_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	14	3	8.5573	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17270	The fire of the sanctuarie newly vncouered, or, A compleat tract of zeale. By C. Burges	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1625 (1625)	STC 4111; ESTC S115748	142,700	534

with some contrary Hence is it translated to expresse that fierie heate in the seuerall passions of the soule vehemently extended to their seuerall obiects and proiects Such was that burning fire c Ier. 20.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the bones of Ieremie Such that feruencie of spirit d Rom. 12 11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Saint Paul exhorted the Romanes vnto And such those coales that Timothie was to blow vp e 2 Tim. 1.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Opposite hereto was that Luke-warme f Reuel 3.16 temper in distempered Laodicea of which she was zealously warned to repent to grow more hot Sect. 2. Sect. 2. Of the vse of the word in Scripture We see the nature of the word behold how it is vsed The Scripture attributes it to God to man First to God to signifie sometimes his iust indignation and direfull vengeance smoaking against sinners and burning g Deut. 32.23 vnto the lowest hell Sometimes the extreame heate of his loue expressed in protecting his Church afflicted Thus himselfe setteth it out by the Prophet Zacharie h Zach. 8.2 I was iealous for Sion with great iealousie and I was iealous for her with great furie that is with a zealous affection for her defence Secondly the Scripture attributes zeale to man and so either in a bad i Aug. de Ciuit. dei lib. 20. cap. 12. sense to denote some euill in him or in a good to signifie some vertue Zeale taken in the bad part is vsed in a fourefold sense First sometimes for enuie and spleene at anothers well-doing or being the disease of those pining and selfe-macerating Priests and Saduces at the Apostles of our Lord. k Act. 5.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in this sence that cankred enuy of the Patriarckes which moued them to that tyrannicall sale of their naturall brother Ioseph in this only faulty because more loued is stiled Zeale 2. l Act 7 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sometimes for Iealousy m Pro. 6.34 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of some person suspected of doing wrong to a man in something neere vnto him and intimately loued by him 3. Sometimes for a quarrelous contentious disposition n Iam. 3.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. that vpon euery trifling occasion breaks out against all that are neere 4. Lastly for counterfeit iealousie o Gal. 4.17 which some seeme to haue of others they pretend great loue vnto and care of for feare they should doe amisse whereas this faire shew is but a shew to hold the others the faster in their nets for the better compassing of their owne sinister ends and to make them more willing to stoop at their Lure Zeale taken in the good sense as it is attributed to Man importeth three things viz. First an emulation to ouertake outgo others in goodnesse without enuying those a man striues to outstrip Such was the zeale of many in Macedonia p 2. Cor. 9.2 vnto liberalitie prouoked thereto by those of Achaya and particularly of Corinth the Metropolitan Citie Secondly Godly iealousie ouer some we loue for feare they should sinne against Christ their husband The affection of Saint Paul for his beloued Corinthians and termed by himselfe in opposition to the bad q 2. Cor. 11.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 godly iealousie Thirdly an extreame heate of all the affections for and towards one we esteeme burning in our loue to him our desire of him our ioy in him our indignation against all that speake or do any thing against the honour and good liking of him thinking nothing too good too deare too much to bestow vpon him whether we make man r 2. Cor. 7.7 Gal. 4.15 Num. 11.28.29 or God ſ Psal 69 9. Ioh. 2.17 himselfe the obiect hereof Sect. 3. Sect. 3. Of the acceptation of zeale in this Treatise These being the chiefe acceptations of zeale that the Scriptures mention among them all I pitch on the last and the definition thereof I thus expresse Zeale Zeale defined is a spirituall fire inflaming all the affections of a Christian for preseruation and aduancement of the glorie of God Zeale considered according to the rules of Art is a Qualitie and such a qualitie as Logicians call an Habite which must be defined by the generall nature Obiect and Endes of it All these are expressed in this definition Spirituall fire is in roome of the Genus and declares the generall nature of it to which I adde by the way for plainnesse sake the subiect and state in which it is viz. all the affections of a Christian Gods glorie is the principall Obiect * Obiectum cui it lookes at the aduancement and preseruation whereof is the highest End it tends vnto First for the Genus or generall nature of it 1. The generall nature of it I tearme it a fire a spirituall fire A fire not a heate onely which is in some degrees found euen in Luke-warmenesse wherein yet coldnesse is the predominant qualitie and this makes it faulty Zeale hath heate as hot as fire therefore so is it called by Ieremie in Analogie to Elementarie or materiall fire And in this respect is it spirituall which in this definition is put in not as intending a specificall difference betweene this and culinarie fires but to shew the subalternate generall nature of it as the word spirituall comprehends all analogicall fires in mans passions which are diuers some lawfull others irregular and vnlawfull some holy others impure There is the fire of lust t Rom. 1.27 and the fire of the tongue u Iam. 3.6 as well the fire of zeale Adde hereunto that zeale is kindled by the Spirit and therefore is it spirituall also Howbeit the spiritualitie of it can be no specificall note to distinguish it from other graces they being all in this respect spirituall This spirituall fire hath for it hearth to burne in Subiectum in quo all the affections and passions of a Christian as they serue or may be of vse for aduancement of the glorie of God Nor doth zeale onely inhabite the affections and worke in them but vpon them too they are not onely the hearth to burne in but fewell to kindle on Thus zeale set all Dauids affections on fire which in his holy poeticall raptures we may see blazing In his loue * Psal 119.97 we may find him transported beyond expression In his desire extreamely thirsting and panting x Psal 42.1 and this heate by an Antiperistasis droping downe teares in such plentie as if he were to make them his meate z Psal 42.3 Yea his griefe proues a Moses rod to smite the rocke of his heart that riuers of water gush out at his eyes a Psal 119.136 And as for his anger that so burned that it consumed him vp b Ibid. ver 139. Nay his zeale did not omit to inflame his very hatred making him