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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

they will the rather goe out to meet them Tell Nehemiah of Samballat hee answereth Shall such a man as I feare Tell Caleb there are Anakims and he will say Let vs goe vppe at once c. Let Agabus put off his girdle and binde Paul let him be told in euery City that bonds await him hee is not onely ready for bonds but for death tell Iubentius he must lay downe his life he is as willing as to lay off his clothes tell Luther of enemies in Wormes hee will goe if all the tiles of the houses were diuels The Horse neighs at the trumpet the Leuiathan laughes at the speare They that meane to take the kingdome of God by violence prouide themselues to goe through fire and water carry their liues in their hands embrace faggots they say to father and mother I know you not to carnall Counsellers and friendly enemies Get you behind mee Satan Zeale is as strong as death hot as the coles of Iuniper flouds of many waters cannot quench it Agar Pro. 30. speakes of foure things stately in their kinde I will make bold to adde a fift comprehending and excelling them all namely the zealous Christian strong and bold as the Lion not turning his head for any as swift as the greihound in the waies of Gods commandements in the race to heauen as nimble as the Goate climbing the steep and craggy mountaines of pietie and vertue A victorious King ouercoming the world and his lusts Salomon in all his royalty is not cloathed like one of these in his fiery Chariot To cut off the infinite praises of zeal let vs heare what honourable testimonies and glorious rewards it pleaseth God to confer vpon it Dauids ruddie complexion and his skill in musicke made him amiable in the eyes of men but the zeale of his heart stiled him a man after Gods owne heart and the sweete singer of Israel Abraham that could finde in his heart to sacrifice his Isaack was called the friend of God The same virtue denominated Iacob a Prince with God Elisha The Chariots and horsemen Paul A chosen vessell c. Neither doth God put them off with names and empty fauours but vpon these he bestowes his graces Dauid dedicateth his Psalmes to him that excelled God in dispensing of fauours obserueth the same rule To him that ouercommeth will I giue c. To him that hath shall be giuen Husbandmen cast their seede vppon the fertilest ground which returnes it with the greatest interest God giues most talents to those that improoue them in the best banke Ioseph shall haue a party coloured coate of all kinde of graces and blessings And because hee knowes this will purchase them hatred and enuy he takes them into speciall tuition if any will hurt his zealous witnesses there goeth out a fire out of their mouthes to deuoure their enemies A man were better anger all the witches in the world then one of these If God bring any common iudgements he sets his Seale Thau on their foreheads sprinkles their posts snatcheth Lot out of the fire who burned in zeale as Sodome in lust as men doe their plate whiles they let the baser stuffe burne In fine he taketh Enoch and Eliah in triumphant Chariots vp to heauen and after their labours and toyles setteth them in speciall Thrones to rest in glory The Apostles in their twelue the rest in their order according to their zeale And though hee may well reckon the best of these vnprofitable seruants yet such congruity not of merits but of fauour it pleaseth him to obserue in crowning his graces that the most zealous heere are the most glorious there Who would not now wonder how euer this royall vertue should haue lost it grace with the world how euer any should admit a lowe thought of it But what shall all the indignitie which hell can cast vpon it make it vile in our eyes or rather shall wee not reason from the opposition as Tertullian did of Nero That religion which Nero so persecutes must needs be excellent If zeale were not some admirable good the diuell and world would not so hate it yet lest silence should be thought to baulke some vnanswerable reasons let vs see how they labour to be mad with reason Let Festus bee the speaker for the rest for he speakes what all the rest thinke you know his mad obiection and Pauls sober answere in that place and the like 2. Cor. 5. 13. whether hee bee mad or sober it is for God and you This text bids vs be zealous and repent the word signifies be wise againe or returne to your wits The prodigall is said to come to himselfe when he was first heat with this fire We may well answer the world as old men do yong You thinke vs Christians to bee madde that follow heauen so eagerly but we knowe you to be mad that run a-madding so after vanity A Christian indeed is neuer right till he seeme to the world to be beside himselfe Christs owne kindred were afraid of him The Apostles are said to bee full of newe wine besides with these the world is madde they runne vpon Stephan like mad men Nichodemus such as he neuer offends them You know also what Ahab laid to the charge of Eliah with the Apology hee made for himselfe This is a stale imputation in all ages Haman accused Mordechaie and the Iewes of it The Apostles are saide to bee troublers of the whole earth In the Primitiue Church all mutinies and contentions were laide to the Martyrs True it is where zeale is there is opposition and so consequently troubles Christ sets this fire on earth not as an author but by accident The theefe is the author of the fray though the true man strike neuer so many blowes but the Ahabs of the worlde trouble Israel then complain of Eliah The Papists will blowe vppe the state then father it vpon the Puritanes It is not for any wise man to beleeue the tythe of the tales and slaunders which fly abroad of the zealous Leud men would fain strike at al goodnes through their sides You may remember also Eliabs vncharitable censure of Dauid I know the pride of thine heart So doe all worldlings measure others by their owne length if they see any forwardnesse in the peaceablest spirit they ascribe it either to vaine glory or couetousnesse the onely springs that set their wheeles on going but of this the knower of the hearts must iudge betweene vs. When slaundering will not serue then fall they to glauering cunningly glancing at zeale whiles they commend the golden meane wherein vertue consists But Christians take heed none spoile you through such Philosophy or rather Sophistry for true Philosophy will tell you that the meane wherein virtue is placed is the middle betwixt two kindes and not degrees And it is but meane virtue that loues the meane in their