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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14736	A coal from the altar, to kindle the holy fire of zeale In a sermon preached at a generall visitation at Ipswich. By Samuell Ward, Bach. of Diuinity.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.; Wood, Ambrose.	1615 (1615)	STC 25039; ESTC S103052	29,222	94

and serue the Lord in spirit and truth yet for their sakes is the name of zeale blasphemed all the day long Against these as then so now seuere caueats and cleare distinctions must bee laid lest such as haue not their senses exercised to put a difference mistake poisonfull weedes for wholsome hearbes to their owne destruction and for the sake of the one reuile the other to the wrong of God and his Saints It fares not otherwise with the soule thē with the body besides the natiue radicall heat the principall instrument of life there are aguish and distempered heats the causes of sicknes and death To discerne of those requires some skill and iudgement yet a good Empirick a Christiā of experience wil giue a shrewd guesse at them the easier and the better if hee marke these following signes and symptomes common to all the kindes of false zeale here also following First they are deeply sick of the pharisaicall humor they loue to be seene of men and say with Iehu Come and see how zealous I am for the Lord of hosts they proclaime their almes with a trumpet paint their good deedes vpon Church windowes engraue their legacies vpon tombes haue their acts vppon record Thus Comets blaze more then fixed Starres Aguish heates breed flushings are more seen in the face then natural warmeth at the hart Scholers count hiding of Art the best Art the godly man studies by all meanes how to conceal the one hand from the other in doing well hiding of zeale is the best zeale Secondly of Ahabs disease exceeding in externall humiliation affected gestures passionate sighs loudnesse of voyce odde attires such like These know how to rend the garment hang the head with the bulrush to whip and launce their skinnes with Baals Priests and yet strangers to a wounded spirit not but that true and hearty zeale doth lift vp the eyes knock the breast dance before the Arke Therefore this character may deceiue the vnwary Let Ely take heed of iudging Hannaes spirit rashly by the moouing of her lips yet hypocrites so vsually straine nature and without a cause exceed and that in publike and vppon the stage that for the most part their actions and affections are palpable as Iesuites Cappuchines c. yea in many histrionicall Protestants Horse-coursers iades wil bound curuet and shew shew more tricks then a hose well mettled for the rode or cart Thirdly you may knowe them by their diligence and curiosity in lighter matters ioyned with omission and neglect of greater wise in circumstance and carelesse in substance tithing mint straining at gnats c. In all cheape and easie duties prodigall niggardly slothfull in the waighty things of the Lawe these haue at command good wordes countenance yea teares from their eyes sooner then a farthing from their purse hauing this worlds goods and see their brother want these sticke vp feathers for the carcasse beguiling the simple coozening the world but chiefly themselues Fourthly these fires cannot keepe themselues within their owne hearths these spirites cannot keepe themselues within their owne circles True zeale loues to keepe home studieth to be quiet in other mens Diocess false zeale loues to be gadding is eagle eyd abroad and moule eyd at home In stead of burning bright and shining cleare like brinish lights they sparkle spet at others or like ill couched fireworks let fly on all sides onely out of their wisedome they know how to spare Agag and the great ones and bee sure they anger not their great Masters and meddle with their matches whereas it is the property of fire that comes from aboue to spare the yeelding sheath and melt the resisting metall to passe by the lower roofes and strike the towred pinacle as Nathan Dauid Elias Ahab Iohn Herod Ionas Niniuie c. Note also in all their proceeding with others in steede of wholsome seuerity which rightly zealous men neuer come vnto but by compulsion and not without compassion of the offender weeping with Moses and Samuel ouer the people beeing sory with the Emperour that they knowe how to write sentences of condemnation These delight in cruelty the brand of the Malignant Church feede their eyes with Massacres as the Queene mother No diet so pleasing to these rauening wolues as the warme blood of the sheepe They are they that cry fire and fagot away with them not worthy to liue their very mercies are cruelty especially in their owne cause they heat the fornace seuen times hotter then in Gods Lastly these Meteors and vapours haue no constant light or continued heat as the fixed starres euer like themselues but haue onely their aguish fits lunatick moods somtimes in aduersity they are good vnder the rod as Pharaoh again in prosperity like the fat kine of Bashan ingratefull and forgetfull sometimes in prosperity when the sun of peace shineth on them the fauourable influence of great ones they shoot forth their blade with the corne on the house top running with the streame sailing with the wind sometimes their zeale depends vpon the life of Iehoiada sometimes on the company of the Prophets commonly in the beginning they blaze like straw fires but in the end goe out in smoake and smother whereas in their entrance into profession they galloped into shewes and made some girds at hand they tire giue in and end in the flesh whereas all naturall motions are swiftest toward their end The vestall fires were perpetuall and the fire of the Altar neuer went out Spices and wefts of these euills may be found in the sincerest Christians but they suffer not these dead flyes to ly and putrefie in the precious boxes of true zeale of all these the preachers caueat may be construed Be not ouer iust thogh it may also admit other interpretations as after shall appeare These are the speciall notes and symtomes of strange fires the kinds also are many might be distributed into many heads but I will reduce them into three which are known by their names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 counterfeit zeale false fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 blind zeale smoakie fire or fooles fire ignis fatuus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turbulent zeale wild fire The first wanting truth and sincerity propounds sinister ends The second knowledge and discretion takes wrong waies The third loue and humility exceeds measure The first abounds amongst subtile crafty professors and is to be abhorred and detected The second amongst simple and deuout is to be pitied and directed The third amongst passionate and affectionate and is to be moderated and corrected The first is the meere vizor of zeale looking asquint one way and tending another pretending God and his glory intending some priuate and sinister end first either of honour and promotion as Iehu who marched furiously and his worde was the Lorde of hosts but his proiect was the kingdome Secondly at filthy lucre as Demetrius and his followers