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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	hate_v	hatred_n	1,155	5	10.0548	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

consider this description Some describe it to bee an intense degree of love some a compound of love anger and indignation others call it imensus gradus purae affectionis But a little more largely take it thus Zeale it is a spirituall heat kindled by the Spirit of God whereby all the affections are drawne out to the utmost for God this is zeale First I call it a worke of the Spirit the holy Ghost is the author of it it is named among the fruits of the Spirit Ephes. 5. 18. Be not drunken with wine wherein is excesse an excesse of heat is wrought by wine avoyd that but be yee filled with the Spirit and such are said to bee baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire Matth. 3. 11. Act. 2. 34. Secondly I adde it is a spirituall heat The word in the originall is to burne or hisse as burning coales when water falls on them and zealous men are said Rom. 12. 11. to bee fervent in spirit And zealous Apollos was said to bee fervent in spirit Act. 18. 25. Moreover the sinnes opposed to zeale luke-warmenesse and key-coldnesse Revel. 3. Thou art lukewarme I would thou wert either hot or cold doe sufficiently shew that the nature of zeale is a spirituall heate Thirdly the seate or subject of this grace you have in these words all the affections the affections are the motions of the will the outgoings of the soule a mans soule moves little or nothing in prosecuting of good or avoyding of evill but as the affections stirre now all the affections are the proper seate and subject of zeale See all of them in David whom the zeale of Gods house had eaten up his love Oh how I love thy Law more then hony more then thousands of gold and silver his hatred Doe not I hate them that hate thee yea I hate them sore I count them my enemies it made him flie in their faces his joy My soule is satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse his desire My soule is ravished with desire his griefe Rivers of waters run downe my eyes his hope My eyes are dim with waiting his feare I tremble at thy judgements c. Fourthly I adde that which is indeed the formalis ratio the very soule of zeale it drawes out all the affections to the uttermost sets them on worke to the uttermost and therefore they are said to doe it with all their soule all their strength all their might The twelve Tribes with intention of spirit served God night and day Acts 26. 7. What Hezekiah did for God hee did it with all his might 2 Chron. 31. 21. So did Josiah 2 King 23. 25. he did it with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his might In a word looke what pitch of affection a worldling bestowes upon Mammon an ambitious man upon honour a voluptuous man upon pleasure that doth zeale draw out for God Yea looke what an edge is to a Razor look what wine is to a mans spirit what the soule is to the body wings to a bird winde to sayles what mettle is to a horse looke what vivacity and vigour is to any creature that is zeale to a Christian It is that that acts his soule the vigour activity the fervency of his affections that is zeale Then I adde that all this must be for God as they are drawne out to the utmost so they are drawne out for God that is for some thing or other that belongeth to God in order in relation to God and Gods Glory Gods Sabbaths Gods Sacraments Gods Worship Gods Children or against Gods Enemies those that rise up against him things that God hateth his owne word If you will carry it all away in a short Sentence A zealous man is a man of mettle for God As we say of a man that is all spirit he is a man of mettle so that man that is a zealous man is a man of mettle and spirit for God But because I have not yet satisfied my selfe in making it so cleere as I would before I come to any application or to make you understand why it should have that influence upon Gods wrath to pacifie it give me leave to open five remarkeable properties and effects that doe evermore accompany this grace of holy zeale The first is this I pray know that zeale is not the substance of a Christian it 's onely the edge And therefore if you know rightly where zeale is to be found you must enquire what the mettle is upon which this edge is most to be set As for example bring me an Instrument that hath never so delicate an edge that will cut an haire off the back of a mans hand if the mettle be Lead or Iron if it bee not Steele the edge is not worth any thing enquire we therefore what the mettle is upon which the edge is set Know then that the mettle of the heart that is for God is sincerity sincerity and uprightnesse is the substance and ground-worke of a servant of God and zeale is but the edge of his sincerity Now then here I lay downe my first conclusion That no man can ever be zealous for God that is not sincere unto God This sincerity is the applying of a mans heart to God for Gods end zeale is the doing of this fervently with strength of affection take but away sincerity that the heart be not upright to God what zeale soever you find in any of them it will either prove blind zeale like mettle in a blind horse that will never doe any good or you will finde it corrupt zeale counterfeit zeale that a man may come and appeare mightily as if for God but this is but a vizard and in the meane while his owne gaine his owne preferment his owne ease or some other carnall thing is that which he aimeth at Like Demetrius and his company Acts 19. 22. who pretended great zeale for Diana went up and downe crying Great is Diana of the Ephesians but this was but a vizard the true cause of all their heat was nothing but this Sirs you know that by this craft we have our living and now this craft is like to be set at naught Such a zealot was Jehu who was fierce against Baal and pretended much for Jehuvah Come see my zeale for the Lord but the bottome of all was the setling the Crowne upon himselfe Further then that hee tooke no heed to walke in the wayes of God 2 King 10. And such another was Judas John 12. 56. who pretended zeale for the poore Quorsum haec perditio This oyntment might have beene sold for much money and given to the poore But it was the satisfaction of his covetousnesse he aimed at Thus Doeg would be detained a whole day before the Lord with a mischievous intent against David and the Priests This zeale which thus maskes it selfe and makes Gods honour but a stale and lure is so farre from pacifying Gods wrath