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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	stir_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	29	3	10.4518	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45208	Loves companion, or, A short treatise of the nature, necessity, and advantages of moderation being the substance of two sermons preached at Ousburne, By J. H. M.A. and minsiter of Ousburne.	Hunter, Josiah, minister in York.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3768; ESTC R221350	40,104	56

these times eminent was not altogether free from this halting between the Jews and Gentiles and therefore Paul withstood him to the face and told him openly of his dissimulation 2 Gal. 11 12 13. Only observe what I say I say that Moderation is not an halting between two opinions when the thorough beleeving of one of them is necessary unto Salvation Otherwise if the thing be not necessary unto Salvation it may be Wisedom sometimes in a moderate man to suspend his judgement in himself at least the declaration of his judgement unto others The like also may be said in matters of practice he is not a moderate man but a Newter that holds off from both when the Glory of God and the good of the Church or State doth require him to engage himself on one side Curse ye Meroz said the Angel of the Lord curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof 5 Jud. 23. because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the mighty vers 18. Whereas Zebulun and Naphtali are highly commended because they jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field Such a one we account not a moderate man but an immoderate lover of himself and his own private interest who stays in his Tent when God calls him into the field and cannot be drawn from the smoak of his own Chimney to quench a publike fire This is baseness of mind as far below Moderation in the defect as a proud and ambitious adventuring of a mans self beyond his calling and without a call is above it in the excess He cannot be taxed therefore for a man that exceeds the bounds of Moderation who being fully assured and convinced of the lawfullness in the general and the present necessity in particular doth freely engage himself though it be to the hazard of his life in the defence of the truth of the Gospel and the cause of God against Papists Socinians Anabaptists Atheists and prophane persons or whomsoever else of that same coin or stamp By what hath been said it is apparent that upright Moderation differs from halting Neutrality in two things in Sincetity and in Settledness the latter flows from the former for therefore is a moderate man setled because he is sincere for Truth is uniform and alwaies like to it self The Philosopher saith of a just man that he is like a Dye which is every way even and like it self turn it how you will it falls upon an equall botttome the like might be said of an upright man But the Newter is like an unballasted ship that toples up and down in the Sea and bends sometimes to one Shoar sometimes to another but Lands no where not but that the Ground is good to land on but he is not resolved yet on which side he had best to land and therefore he sails between both and to keep both in fair hopes he salutes them sometimes on one side sometimes on the other but he will Land on neither till he see he can make his own advantage The moderate man is not afraid or unwilling to interest himself in the necessary quarrels of the Church the Newter like a prophane Atheist will engage himself on neither but stands by and laughs at the dissentions of both parties and cares not much on whose side the Victory fall so it do but end in peace He much weighs not whether Truth get the better of Error in this quarrel so that Peace do but get the better of Dissention that he may lead a quiet for whether he lead a godly life or no he doth but little regard 2. This Moderation is not a Lukewarmness in those things wherein Gods glory is concerned here it is a true Rule Mr. Fuller loc supr cit Turpe est contra ardeuter perversa asserentes nos pro veritate frigidiores inveniri Rust Diac. lib. adversus Acephalos cited by Dr. Plafere in his Path-way to perfection Non amat qui non zelat and they that are thus lukewarm here shall be too hot hereafter in that Oven wherein Dough-baked Cakes shall be burnt And a great shame it is for us to be cold in defending the Truth when our Adversaries are so hot in opposing it Saint Pauls spirit was stirred in him when he saw the whole City given to Idolatry Acts 17.16 How earnest also was our Saviour when he drove the buyers and sellers out of the Temple then his Disciples remembred that it was written The zeal of thine House hath eaten me up John 2.15 17. was not Nehemiah zealous when he contended with the Rulers and said Why is the House of God forsaken and in those daies saith he I saw men working and bearing all manner of Burthens on the Sabbath day so I testified against them and I contended with the Nobles of Judah and said unto them what evill thing is this that ye do and prophane the Sabbath And when divers Merchants came and brought ware to sell on the Sabbath day I testified against them and said unto them why lodge you al out the Wall If you do so again I will lay hands on you In those daies also saith he I saw Jews that had maried wives of Ashdod Ammon and Moab and their Children spake half in the Speech of Ashdod and could not speak in the Jews language and I contended with them and cursed them and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair and made them swear by God saying Ye shall not give your Daughters to their Sons c. Nehem. 13.11 15 18 21 24 25. How zealous also was Asa in his Reformation where he spared not his own Mother but removed her from being Queen because she had made an Idol in a Grove and Asa cut down her Idoll and stamped it and burnt it at the Brook Kidron 2 Chron. 15 16. And the same Apostle that enjoins moderation in the Text tells us also That it is good to be zealously affected alwaies in a good thing Galat. 4 18. and (e) Nullum omnipotenti deo tale est sacrificium quale est zelus animarum Paulo post sunt mnita bona quae aguntur sacrificia sed holo caustum non sunt quia totam mentem in amore spirituali minimè incendunt Greg. super Ezechiel homil 12. Gregory saith That the zeal of the Soul is the most acceptable Sacrifice to God and makes other Sacrifices to become whole-burnt-offerings unto the Lord. God can less endure Lukewarmness than if a man were altogether cold for speaking after the manner of men saith he to the Church of Laodicea I would thou wert cold or hot so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spue thee out of my mouth Rev. 3.15 16. Will you say he is a moderate man who can hear the Glorious name of God and his Son Jesus Christ blasphemed and yet his Spirit not boyle within him with a mixture of anger and grief