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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

the fathers the acts and monuments of the Church haue a speciall vertue for this effect The very pictures of the fires and Martyrs cannot but warme thee If thou canst meet with any liuing examples followe them as they followe Christ frequent their company euen Saul amongst the Prophets will Prophecie No bangling hauke but with a high flier will mend her pitch the poorest good companion will doe thee some good when Silas came Paul burnt in the spirit a lesser sticke may fire a billet If thou findest none let the coldnesse of the times heate thee as frostes doe the fire Let euery indignation make thee zealous as the dunstery of the Monks made Erasmus studious one way to be rich in times of dearth is to engrosse a rare commodity such as zeale is now if euery they haue destroyed thy lawe It is now hie time to be zealous Consider and emulate the children of this generation to see how eager euery Demas is for worldy promotion How did that worthy Bishop disdain to see an harlot more curiously to adorne her body vnto sinne and death then he could his soule vnto life euerlasting It angred Demosthenes to see a Smith earelier at his Anuile then hee was at his Deske When thou hast thus heat thy selfe take heede of catching cold againe as many haue done and brought their zeale to deaths doore This fire may go out diuerse wayes first by substraction of fewell if a man forbeare his accustomed meales will not his naturall heat decay The Leuites that kept Gods watch in the Temple were charged expressely morning euening if not oftner to look to the lights and the fire He that shall forget at the least with the Curfeau-bell in the euening to rake vppe his zeale by prayer and with the day-bell in the morning to stirre vp kindle the same if not oftner with Daniel I cannot conceiue how hee can possibly keepe fire in his heart Will God blesse such as bid him not so much as good-morrow and good-euen He that shall despise or neglect prophecie must he not needes quench the spirit haue I not marked glorious professors who for some farme sake or other commodities haue flitted from Ierusalem to Iericho where the situation was good but the waters nought and their zeale hath perished because vision hath failed Such as reade the Bible by fits vpon rainy dayes not eating the booke with Iohn but tasting onely with the tippe of the tongue Such as meditate by inatches neuer chewing the cud and digesting their meat they may happely get a smackering for discourse and table-talke but not enough to keepe soule life together much lesse for strength and vigour Such as forsake the best fellowship and waxe strange to holy assemblies as now the manner of many is how can they but take cold Can one coale alone keep it selfe glowing Though it goe not out for want of matter yet may it be put out by sundry accidents when it is newly kindled it may be put out with scoffes and reproaches if Peter take not heed and fence himselfe well against them but if once throughly growne such breath will but spread and encrease it It is possible fire may be oppressed with too much wood and heat suffocated with too much nourishment ouermuch prayer reading and study may be a wearinesse both to flesh and spirit but it so rarely happeneth that I neede not mention it and yet the soule hath it satiety There be some such perchance ouer-nice men in this sense also who haue not learned that God will haue them mercifull to themselues It is oftner smoothered for want of vent and exercise Let such as vse not and expresse not their zeale bragge of their good hearts surely they haue none such or not like to haue them such If Nichodemus had not buried Christ by day wee might haue feared his zeale had gone out for all his comming by night Yet this is not so ordinary as to extinguish it by the quench-coale of sin grosse sinne euery man knowes will waste the conscience and make shippewracke of zeale but I say the least known euill vnrepented of is as a thiefe in the candle or an obstruction in the liuer I feare Dauid serued God but reasonably till hee published his repentance he that steales his meate though pouerty tempt him yet giueth thankes but coldly zeale and sinne will soone expell the one or the other out of their subiect can you imagine in the same roofe God and Beliall the Arke and Dagon Lastly and most commonly foraine heare will extract the inwarde and aduemicious heate consume the naturall The Sunne will put out the fire and so will the loue of the world the loue of the Father they cannot stand together in intense degrees one cannot serue both these masters with such affection as both would haue Seldome seest thou a man make haste to be rich and thriue in religion Christs message to Iohn holdes true The poor are most forward in receiuing and following the Gospell as thou louest thy zeale beware of resoluing to be rich lest gaine proue thy godlinesse take heede of ambitious aspiring least Courts and great places prooue ill aires for zeal whither it is as easie to go zealous as to returne wise Peter whiles he warmed his hands cooled his heart Not that greatnesse and zeale cannot agree but for that our weakenesse many times seuers them If thou beest willing to dy poore in estate thou maiest the more easily liue rich in grace Smyrna the poorest of the seuen Candlestickes hath the richest price vpon it The diligent practice of these courses will make easie the practice of this counsell Be zealous c. The sixt part Which little round fire-ball comming to hand as Dauids small stone by ordinary lot knowing the insufficiency of my owne I pray that God with his arme would scatter it farre and wide into those wide parts of the world without the pale of Christendome which lie so frozen and benummed in their Paganisme that they feele not the coldnesse of their religions as also in those regions that being within the Tropickes of the Church haue iust so much and so little heate as to thinke they haue enough and need no more Chiefly mine affections burne within me for the good of mine owne nation for which I would I had but so much zeale as truely to wish my selfe Anathema vpon condition it had heate sutable to the light For I must beare it record it hath knowledge I would I could say according to zeale But the spirit knowing that which is spoken to all to bee in effect as spoken to none directs mee what I would speake to Churches to speake to particular Angels Now the principall in our Church vnder that Archangel of the couenant I most willingly acknowledge to bee my Lorde the King as an Angel of light And why not that very Angel who by his writing hath begunne to poure out the fift viall vpon the

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