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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	heart_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	30	3	11.4642	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89564	A divine project to save a kingdome: Opened in a sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen, of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Munday, Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods word at Finchingfield in Essex. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M752; Thomason E47_31; ESTC R20669	34,916	50

that Gods vengeance should doe I say zeale in its place and for its part doth that which Gods vengeance came to doe What need God come in vengeance to cut off sinners Zeale is doing it to his hand Phinehas is slaying of them Moses is thrusting them through zealous men are endeavouring to exterminate all things that are evill and when the Lord seeth some pleading his cause and doing his worke hee will gratifie them to spare the rest for their sake As when David thought all of Nabals family against him hee would cut them all off and not a man of them should live but when hee findeth there was an Abigail that was of his side and pleaded his cause this cooleth Davids heate So is it with the Lord Jer. 4. 5. Run saith he finde out a man who executeth justice and judgement and I will spare it finde mee a man who is doing the worke my justice and vengeance comes to doe and I will forbeare doing it my selfe and else-where I looked for a man to have stood in the breach to have saved mee a labour and when I could finde none I did it my selfe I then poured out my wrath upon them Give mee leave to make two or three uses of this lesson and I shall dismisse you First then if this bee so what wonderfull cause have wee to mourne and tremble before God to thinke how few are to bee found in any place or any ranke or societie of men who are to bee numbred among them whom God will make saviours unto a people who else are like to bee destroyed Verily it is a sad thing to thinke how few can anywhere bee found in whose hearts there is this grace of zeale kindled of whom the Lord may Say such and such are zealous for my sake In your owne thoughts survey almost all publike places or orders of men and think among the Nobles or the Commons in the Citie among the Aldermen among the Common Councell men among the severall Wards goe into the Ministrie the severall degrees of men and doe but thinke how few there are whose hearts are truely zealous for the Lord if this bee zeale that I have opened unto you truely if I should enter or put my finger into this Ulcer I might make your hearts sad and tremble have wee not abundance that live this day in London and about London if not in the Parliament not onely those that are at Oxford that turne Cavaliers who pretend to bee our friends who have a zeale against zeale who are with all the heat that can be kindled in them set on fire against zealous men casting all the opprobrious nicknames on them that can be branding zeale for God with madnesse with turbulencie with indiscretion with haire-braindnesse who with Festus thinke men beside themselves Act. 26. 24. who with Ahab count every zealous Eliah a troubler of Israel and esteeme of them as they did of the Apostles Act. 17. 6. to bee men who turn the world upside downward who brand them to bee Puritans Precisians factious any thing which a vile heart can thinke and foule mouth utter Yea how many are sad to see men lay out their strength and state for a good cause and with Tobia and Sanballat are grieved to thinke that any goe about to build up the walls of Gods house or any Moses or Elijah take vengeance on Gods enemies A sad thing there should bee any such among us but more sad that any among us should bee like Catiline who was all fire perdere rempublicam to undoe the Commonwealth where hee lived drive designes make factions doe any thing in the earth that Religion might not thrive These are miserable and accursed men these men are factors for hell Satans Boutefeus and as the true zealots are set on fire from heaven so these mens fire is kindled from hell whither also it carries them What abundance are there that are wholly lukewarm if not key-cold that have no mettle no heate in the world for God Ah deare friends how many others are there that are ingaged in Gods cause who make Religion a and the publike cause a meere vizard to serve their owne ends who lay out the heat of their zeale all their strength to feather their owne nests by getting some imployment in an Army in a Navie in a Commitree in such a place in the Citie And the thing they drive at is to advance themselves or their friends to provide for this child to stop such a gap c. And so out of the publike pressure of Gods people draw out that which may inrich themselves and further then that let become of Gods cause what will how little such mens zeale is like to helpe us yea how abominable they and their zeale is to God you heard before And how many are there among our selves that protest they owne this great cause that is now in hand will vow and take the Covenant and sweare too if you will give it them an hundred times over that they will adhere to this cause with all their might and yet doe no more for it then honest men may doe with a good conscience who live under the enemies quarters that is let their goods bee taken from them because it is in vaine for them to make an head if an officer come hee must have it c. part with what is laid upon them and there 's an end But to bee willing to say Let me go let my child goe here is my money my spirit my life let all goe rather then this cause sinke you had as good wring water out of a Pumice stone you may as soone wring water out of a Flint stone as bring men to that as if they were yet to seek where the truth lay or which the true cause were that God would own God knoweth there are abundance of such that with the Samaritanes if the cause thrive well on the Parliaments side they are cordiall for them but if it goe on the other side then they are casting about how they may save themselves especially if they could but settle their owne estates whether Religion should be setled whether Idolatry shall bee extirpated whether there should be any reliques of them left whether any of them should bee punished whom if wee punish not God will punish us for them and our life shall go for theirs whether justice should be executed upon any Achans or Zimries or any such should be made examples these are things they never trouble their thoughts about all matters wherin the glory of God is concerned are to them as indifferent as that Controversie Acts 18. whether Pauls Doctrine or the Jewes blasphemy prevailed whether the Greeks beat Sosthenes or Sosthenes beat the Greeks whether as the Proverbe is the Dog catch the Hare or the Hare the Dog he was indifferent Gallio cared for none of these things and so verily is it with most men so their owne houses bee furnished it matters

not what becomes of Gods house So that Reuben may heare his owne flocks bleat and Asher keepe his owne Coasts safe let Deborah and Barack shift for themselves private interests and selfe-respects care of themselves and family have the whole of their soules and in these things they are in good earnest but no heart no spirit appeares in them for any cause of God they are like David in his old age no cloathes can warme them no motives worke upon them they drive like Jehu furiously in their owne businesse but in Gods like the Egyptians in the red Sea when their Chariot Wheeles were broken Ah beloved search and enquire whether there be not such among your selves such lukewarme Laodiceans such cold professors and if any of you be such give mee leave to tell you that your condition is wofull you not onely will be no Saviours to us in our distresses but for you and such as you are doth the Lord thus bitterly contend against us and be you assured that what ever he meane to doe with this sinfull Nation without speedy awaking and warming your hearts he will spue you out of his mouth Rev. 3. 15. The other use and so I will have done is for exhortation where I would provoke this City this Honourable City of London the Lord Maior Court of Aldermen Common Councell the residue that are here gathered together by your zeale for God to quench Gods wrath against us I confesse we have great cause to praise God for your zeale though I thinke you and others have had cause to bemoane the want of it for surely your zeale hath provoked many in the Kingdome and you have in great measure saved the Kingdome hitherto and it shall be a glory and a Crowne to you while this world standeth That in all this deplorable and forlorne condition we have beene in the zeale of the City of London for the more considerable part of it hath held up when others hearts have fallen and have stood for the Lord and his cause and we humbly blesse the Lord for it Let God have the glory It is Honour enough for you that God will accept any service frō you or kindle anything good in your hearts but I beseech you that you would abound more and more you who have done thus much already I hope are willing to save us if it lye in your power Now you heare what may save the Kingdome what may extinguish the fire of Gods wrath Zeale will doe it the laying out and drawing out the heart and affections to the uttermost for God will doe it O then lay out all your hearts and strength and affections for the Lord goe on with all your might with all your estates with all your treasure with what ever you have let God have it all in his cause if he need it and be you sorry that you have no more to part with doe it to the utmost shew your selves zealous in it and extend your zeale more against evill so farre as you can reach And you my Lord and Honourable Court and Gentlemen of the Common Councell may reach a great way this day your prayers your Counsels your Petitions and your purses may under God have any good thing done that you will put your hands to I say any thing that is good And therefore put to all your strength that Achans may be removed that all Idolatry may be rooted out that those delinquents upon whom God would have justice executed may be proceeded against doe you it upon such as are under your owne jurisdiction And by your humble Petitions if need be intreat justice may be done wherever God will have it done I am a Minister of Gods mercy and take no pleasure in pressing to such a worke as judgement and severity were it not that I am assured that if we should not doe justice where God requireth it to be done he will doe it without us and he will doe it upon us when Saul executed not Gods fierce wrath upon the Amalekltes 1 Sam. 15. he brought Gods fierce wrath upon himself when the King of Israel let goe a man whom God had appointed to dye his life went for the others life 1 King 20. 42. And certainly the Idolatry and blood and other crying abominations that some are guilty of in this Land I meane some of the chief Ringleaders in these evills who have made these wofull breaches be tween our Soveraigne and his people and thus violently promoted Idolatry and spoyle the Lord will have them reckoned with and let your zeale be laid out that way Doe it cordially and so as God may see it And to stirre you in all these things to be zealous for the Lord take these few Motives Bee you so against their sinnes I pray you though not against their persons First let me tell you That it is for a God that hath been very zealous for you So zealous that when he had but one onely sonne hee did not spare him but sent him purposely to be hanged upon a Crosse to save you it is for a Saviour who zealously redeemed you how zealously he prayed preached lived died for you to purchase you to be a people for himselfe zealous of good workes and his zeale hath preserved you and all yours all this while and all the good you have or hope for the zeale of God hath holpen you to it Secondly the cause you contend for is such a cause that lose this cause and you shall never have such another as long as you live lose your estate lose your wives lose your children lose your lives God can give you as good and better but lose this cause and never shall you bee tryed in such a cause againe while this world standeth Thirdly let me assure you your enemies want no zeale against you they have followed it what all the Popish party in Christendome could do against you hath bin done to destroy you and they want no ill wil at this day and I beleeve should the Lord for our sins but deliver London up to their hands since England was a Kingdome never was so sad a day knowne as they would make London to know such is their zeale against you Fourthly Consider as this doctrine makes it plaine this is the most certaine way to save this famous City this will preserve London this will keepe it as a Citie of God yea a few zealous men may doe it Oh that you could all be as Phinehas zealous for the Lord but if all should not the zeale of a few may doe it some Aldermen if all will not some Common Councell men if all will not a considerable number will prevaile with God yea who knowes how far the zeale of one man may prevaile therefore goe on in it to the utmost without any self-seeking Let offices goe let wife and children goe let estate goe be wholly for the Lord and say What may I doe wherein