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A59072	God, the king, and the church (to wit) government both civil and sacred together instituted ... and throughout all, the Church of England ... vindicated : being the subject of eight sermons, preached ... / and now published by George Seignior ...	Seignior, George, d. 1678.	1670 (1670)	Wing S2417; ESTC R19835	158,466	284

they who they will it cannot be good it may be a zealous affection or affectation rather But it is not well And so I pass to the second thing In which Zeal is reprehensible and that is in relation to the Subject when the affectators of this kind are not rightly qualified as to affection or intention 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They zealously affect but not well The question was cautelously put by Jehu however he was afterward mistaken in the management of his zeal when Jehonadab the son of Rechab came forth to meet him and salute him 2 Kings 10.15 Is thy heart right as my heart is right and he answered it is then was it a fit opportunity to call him up to him into his Chariot that he might see his zeal for the Lord of Hosts unless the heart be right zeal degenerates into hypocrisie and he that strains himself to act a passion upon the Stage for that while is as great a zealot as such a one who would fain make the world believe that he is transported upon the account of his Religion when neither his affection is real nor his intention sincere 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are Zealously affected but not well whose affection is not real such whose Zeal is rather Jealousie than love and this seems to be the proper import of the Phrase in the Text sumpta Metaphora a Procis Zelotypis Zelotypiae causa Paulum rivalem pseudo-apostoli non patiebantur Beza in loc The false Apostles who disturbed these Galatians in their Faith were jealous of St. Paul as their Rival lest he should too much win and gain upon the affections of the People and therefore they must needs be Zealous too and preach Christ out of strife and envy supposing so to add affliction to the other persecutions of this Blessed Apostle We find in Ezekiels Vision chap. 8.3 That in the same place where was the Image of Jealousie that prevoketh unto Jealousie behold the glory of the God of Israel was likewise there Sad it is that there should be cause to invert the Prophets Vision thus The Glory of the God of Israel is too much pretended where there are nothing but Images of jealousie erected and by uncharitable surmises and suspicions strange provocations unto Jealousie are fomented Thus in the words of a late excellent pen Zeal is many times both a Fire and Fan unto it self being blown by the ambient airy desire of applause out of a fond conceit of some selfish excellence and an evil eye upon the gifts and happy endowments of another True indeed we may covet earnestly the best gifts yea and especially that of Prophesie but then our emulations in reference to these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ordinary gifts of the holy Ghost bestowed by vertue of their Mission upon such as are diligent in the work of the Ministry ought not to be with a soure and a supercilious eye upon the better parts or more happy success of our Brethren covet we may and that earnestly the best gifts but yet says the Apostle shew I unto you a more excellent way 2 Cor. 12.31 and that is Love and Charity which is the Bond of all perfection Should we have the tongues of Men and Angels and yet want charity we are like a sounding brass and a tinckling Cymbal what is the gift of Prophecy the understanding of all mystery and of all knowledge without charity it is nothing charity envyeth not vaunteth not it self is not puffed up seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things since then there are some whose Zeal has burnt up their Love they are so suspitious lest others should go before them that they overshoot themselves we may pity them because they are in a distemper and wish that they will return to a right and a sober mind but we cannot at all approve of such jealous ardors as these which spend themselves only that they may make a greater braze then is at their neighbours fire in such a case the Affection is not Real and therefore the Zeal is to be suspected 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is not well 2. Men are Zealously affected 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not well when the Intention is not sincere and this is the result of the former where the heart is not right void of a true affection there the main drift and scope of any action must needs be amiss A Man may shew a Zeal to himself in his earnestness for his Religion when it is more out of love to himself then to the thing which he professes as in the Text being willing that you should affect them Nay though it be a sad aggravation of the sin yet there is just cause to fear it that many are Zealous out of a Designe to Subvert and Supplant Religion when it is not established according to their humour and to bring an evil report upon the way of Godliness Such are they who decry Prophaneness and Debauchery so much that they forget Rebellion and Disobedience to be a sin who attribute the immoralities that are in mens lives to a certain Discipline restored in the Church and Government in the State and not to the general corruption of humane nature unhappily worse depraved amongst us from the Principles of Libertenisme in the late days of Rebellion first raised and since too much fomented So that these zealots have no reason to reproach us that the former days were better than these as if it were possible that God and his glory could be then more regarded when Tyranny and Usurpation was in the Throne Sacrilege and profane invasion in the Church Robbery and Oppression in every Street Sequestration and unjust Possession almost in every Estate And yet now we are Governed by a Law of Love every man sits under his own Vine and Figtree with great delight and our God is or may be worshipped in his Temple and there in the Beauties of his holiness now there is a King in Israel every man doth that which seemeth good in his own eyes Pudet haec opprobria Sad it is I confess that there should be any in the strength of such restored and renewed Mercies who provoke a Gracious God to anger and give occasion to the adversary to blaspheme but this does not excuse their malice who upon this account are ready to seek opportunity to themselves of shewing their Disaffection to the Government both Civil and Ecclesiastical rather then their Zeal for Piety and Holiness To these I have only this to say notwithstanding their pretended sanctity they cannot bragg over much of their honesty even to this day we observe it that they are a subtil crafty and a supplanting Generation And to all the world I do here profess it that upon thorow search and examination amongst all the divisions and separations that are in the midst of us could I but any where

from Erasmus I learn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Tremellius renders it includere they would include they would comprehend both you and us and yet their zealous affection upon this account is not well And here zeal is reprehensible in those who care not much what a medly there is in Religious Observances so they and their party be included who are for meeting us half way in hopes to pull us after them a Generation who will never be contented with whatsoever Concessions are made them till they have again extirpated both root and branch Vt iis placeat quibus satis nihil est that they may be satisfied who will never have enough as the Orator These can be contented that there should be a halting betwixt God and Baal Baal-Berith that is in the signification of the Word a Seditious Covenant so long as they may be permitted a fire be it never so strange to consume their Sacrifice who are so indifferent in the Service of God that if they may be but Tolerated they care not how many Religions or wayes of worship there are besides These are such who tell us that their Moderation must be known unto all men but like the Devil they quote but half the Text it is not the Lord at hand For in God his Vnity is his Essence and as there is but One Lord so but One Faith One Church One Baptisme Speak they of an Accommodation what fellowship has light with darkness the Light of our Religion shining in the Candlestick of the Church by a glorious open and publick Profession of it With Darkness the hidden Mysteries of iniquity the cunning close contrivances of Schism and Sedition is there any Communion betwixt Christ and Belial that is as the words in their Etymology do import between Christ the Anointed of the Lord and Belial the Sons of violence and Disobedience It was an undeniable argument unto Solomon who had a most quick sagacious and discerning Spirit for the wisdom of God was in the Determination that the woman who was for Deviding the Child so that both might be sharers of it could not be the true Mother of it The Church of England like a pious and a holy Mother shews the truth of her affection whilst her bowels yern upon her Children in that she would by no means have them divided they prostitute both their Religion and Devotion neither have they the Bowels of a Mother who are so willing and sollicious that a Comprehensive Bill like a decisive Sword should sever their Profession in order to make an equal separation and so in any wayes to part stakes with those that are of another Perswasion True indeed difference in opinion should not breed difference in affection neither doth it in the Constitutions of our Church whilst we have a Brotherly Compassion for those that are seduced and do heartily pray that God would bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived But when Schism and Sedition once begin to pretend friendship with us and offers to shake hands without giving the Church any satisfaction for those sad Divisions which it hath already made so far from confessing or acknowledging what is past that it begins to plead its Merits that it has been so long quiet and has done no more mischief like that wicked Villain who when he had set a Temple on fire had the impudence to plead for himself that his Judges would be pleased to consider how many Temples he had left standing I say when once it comes to this that Faction must go hand in hand with nay demand the right hand of fellowship of Discipline Order and Vniformity farewel then the face of a Church in he midst of us and I pray God that be not the consequence upon such wicked Designs should our Candlestick be removed though our misery would be exceeding great yet our sin not so hainous as that now while it is fixed amongst us the Taper burning in it should be mangled and divided In the mean while let us not deceive our selves neither God nor his Church is to be mocked they who would divide the seamless coat of Christ are for a linsey-woolsey party-coloured Service amongst us what ever zeal they may pretend to Comprchension that they would take in all parties and make us so at Vnity amongst our selves certainly their Design is nothing but that approaching so near they might with the greater violence justle others down and so get up themselves and ride it is not so much a zeal for God and for his glory nor for the purity of the Reformed Religion as they would have us to believe but it is that they might ingross all respect and applause to themselves as if they only were left alone in the Kingdom who do sincerely serve the Lord they zealously affect but not well they would for a while include that so at an opportunity they might altogether exclude you or us that is separate you from us and us from you for in truth the whole Conspiracy is that you might affect them which is the Fourth and Last Observable wherein zeal is reprehensible and that again in relation to the zealots themselves when they would set the Church on fire to warm themselves by the flames of it by gaining Disciples not so much to their Cause as to their Party yea chiefly in this every private zealot may play a Game by himself alone distinct from the rest of his Company while they do many times supplant one another in gaining Proselytes to themselves being exceeding zealous that the People might affect them And this is the most remarkable Criterion as well as the truest impulsive cause of a bad zeal self-love and desire of applause together with an eager affectation of having many followers will transport a man that is Popular to many things that are not convenient and this is a Temptation to which the best of us all may be incident without a great measure of humility and self-denial But when this Spiritual Pride doth puff up a particular sort of men or in the same rank one man against another so that Simon Magus-like Act. 8.13 There should be here and there one and another whose business it must be to bewitch the people with their Sorceries whilst each one gives himself out to be the onely Power of God what is this but an overweaning Zeal that the people might affect and follow after them from the least of them to the greatest Nay as I have already hinted it is observable that seditious persons do many times supplant one another while some have a more winning that is whining way to out act the rest and are more crafty in stealing away the hearts of the unsettled and unstable multitude more out of a love to their persons than their own espoused Cause and this is chiefly then visible when the gap is made so wide by Division that the entrance is open though all hands were united

in strength to pull down the inclosure yet every mans hand shall be against his Brother who shall first go in and take possession of the Field It was the pious animadversions of our late glorious Martyred King upon the mutual dissentions that happened amongst his enemies when both himself and the Ark was taken Captive That those contentions were but the struggling of Twins which before One Womb had inclosed the younger striving to prevail against the elder what one sort hunted after the other sought to catch for themselves and hence the same Royal Pen gives us this remark what a benefit their accrues from Unity and Uniformity So impossible it is that the Lines should be drawn from the Centre and not to divide from each other so much the wider by how much the farther they go from the point of Vnion Brethren in iniquity are not long friends Herod and Pontius are onely reconciled against Christ when their interests come once to be different they will again divide and be insolent enemies there being nothing harder then to keep ill men long in one Mind they are loth to be eclipsed or out-done in one common design he that gets most of popular applause is looked upon with an evil eye by the rest whilst on the other side they who are the most expert in framing snares and gins to hold the Vulgar Credulity by seemingly pious stratagems do hug themselves in the conceit of their own ingenuity above their fellows and still they pretend nothing but zeal and affection to those with whom they converse and all that they may keep the Populacy fast to themselves They would that the people should affect none but them And thus I have done with the first part of the Text which is the account given us of a bad and a wicked zeal described to us from the object of it when it is of Persons not of things of men and not their graces and those either Clergy Laity or persons in a more mixed Relation a certain Juncto or Knot of acquaintance they zealously affect you from the Subject of it when the affectators are not rightly quallified as to affection or intention 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not well from the nature of the zeal it self when in its direct consequence it tends to a Shisme or Separation and Dis-union nay though the pretence be Comprehension yet the design is to exclude you or us separate us from you and you from us And lastly from the zealots themselves when their design is to warm themselves by the Church when it is one fire to gain Proselytes to their Party rather then to their Cause they would that you should affect them Application That we be careful lest we be drawn into temptation and a snare that we be not deceived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the slight of men as if the Dice were to be set upon us and we were to be hectored out of our Religion as too too many are out of their estates as it were by the cogging of a Dye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that we beware of the subtilty of the old Scrpent and the craft of a new Generation of Vipers who lie in wait to deceive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that we take heed of the cunning wiles the curious arts and Methods the industrious contrivances the ingenious sophisms of error and sedition By these two hints we may both examine our selves and be circumspect as to others know a false Zeal should either we be carried away with it or we may discover it in any one else should they seduce us by it And they are these Is not the Zeal pretended the product of Passion more than Piety the result of the Bodies Gonstitution more then a virtuous habit and frame of Mind and again is not the Thing for which there is so much Zeal more the Zealots interest then his Devotion Is he not a more laborious slave to his worldly profit than a diligent servant to his Gracious God First Is not the Zeal the product of Passion more then Piety the result chiefly of the Bodies Constitution rather then of a Virtuous habit and frame of Mind that Zeal which is the consequence of mans temper is to be suspect for choler as is moderation for lukewarmness which proceeds from an easie facil Disposition we are not to ascribe that to Piety says a late excellent pen which a man owes to his Complexion and think Religion makes him zealous when it is his Constitution Not by the way but that a Mans Natural Disposition may be Sanctified and God may and does make use of our tempers and inclinations in order to his service yet there is cause enough of suspition when the passions are not regulated or in the language of the Apostle rather then the Philosopher when we have not crucified the affections and the lusts that zeal is not kindled by a coal from the Altar in which iniquity is not done away the lips are still unclean when in other circumstances of life there are the same heats nothing but choler and anger and that violent and long continued upon every little or no occasion They whose hearts are a sacrifice of holy incense a pure flame a burnt-offering a sweet smelling savour acceptable unto God cannot spare any of their heat upon outward provocations they can pass by injuries unconcerned and be quiet so God may have his honour intire they value not their own they have not given up their understanding to their splene love and charity is the Rule they walk by amongst men and though many times they shew themselves concerned in the cause of God yet it is not so much a fretful humour running in their blood as the overflowing and circulation of Grace from the heart in a word it is a zeal for Gods House that it may stand not a design to promote their own house that it may be exalted higher which doth thus Consume them and that is the Second Note of distinction whereby we may know and beware of a false Zeal Is not the thing for which there is so much zeal more the Zealots interest then his Devotion is he not more a laborious slave to his worldly Mammon then a diligent servant to his gracious God And this is that which renders zeal though for a good thing it self to be bad The Devil thought it a sufficient Plea against Job that he did not serve God for nought none was like Job for prosperity which he knew to be the result of his Piety God hedged him in on every side no wonder if none were like him in all the earth for his integrity one that feared God an eschewed evil Had not they reason think you those who made Silver shrines for Diana to set the whole City in an uproar in the defence of their great Goddess in so much that nothing else could be heard for two hours together but this Out-cry Great is the Diana of the Ephesians whom not only