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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44148	The true reformation of manners, or, The nature and qualifications of true zeal in a sermon preach'd in the parish church of Bridgewater : occasion'd by a more than ordinary concourse of dissenters there, upon that pretence / by Matth. Hole ...	Hole, Matthew, 1639 or 40-1730.	1699 (1699)	Wing H2414; ESTC R8060	15,367	34

THE True Reformation of Manners OR THE NATURE and QUALIFICATIONS OF True Zeal IN A SERMON Preach'd in the Parish-Church of BRIDGWATER Occasion'd by a more than ordinary Concourse of Dissenters there upon that Pretence By MATTH HOLE B. D. And Vicar of Stokegursy in Somersetshire 2 King 10.16 Come with me and see my Zeal for the Lord. OXFORD Printed by L. Lichfield for Henry Clements 1699. TO THE READER THE design of the ensuing Discourse is not to hinder but promote Reformation by directing to the true way and means conducing thereunto Neither is there any thing in it to Reproach but only to Regulate our Zeal which derives all its Goodness from the Object or End to which it is directed and like Fire is either useful or dangerous according as it keeps or leaves its due place and bounds I know 't is hard and perhaps improper too to treat coldly of this Subject which is apt to excite a Warmth in the Speaker and to enkindle also some Heat in the Hearers And therefore 't will require no small Skill to know the true limits and measures of this Vertue and likewise no less Care to observe and keep within them For private Persons to be very solicitous about the amending their own Ways and reforming their particular Errors and Vices is a very commendable Property and Duty of a good Christian But for such to be over-busy and clamorous about the Reforming others is many times to go out of their Station and to meddle with things that appertain not to them True Reformation like Charity begins at home and makes Men more careful to correct their own Faults than to pry into and censure the Manners of others Such Censores morum had need have not only sufficient Authority but an exemplary and unspotted Integrity lest their own Miscarriages should upbraid the forwardness of their Zeal and confute their goodliest Pretences They that can allow themselves in the hainous Sins of Schism Division and Disobedience may indeed talk and pretend much to Reformation but can never be true Reformers Such a preposterous Zeal hath commonly very bad Designs conceal'd under it and 't is well known what direful Evils have been contrived and acted under this mask of Reformation So that we are concern'd to watch our Zeal as we do our Fire lest it grow headstrong and exorbitant and set not only whole Houses but whole Kingdoms in a Combustion that we be not twice deceiv'd by the same Artifice I hope this warm Subject hath not transported me beyond the Bounds of Reason and Meekness in the handling of it and that no wise Reader will see any just cause to complain of it as Satyrical or Sarcastical To rectify a mistaken Zeal and prevent the Danger of it were the sole Ends of Preaching this Sermon and to answer the Requests of some and remove the Prejudices of others were the true Reasons of its Publication FAREWEL A Sermon c. GALAT. IV. Part of the 18th Verse It is good to be Zealously affected always in a good thing THE occasion of these Words was from some false Teachers that had crept into the Churches of Galatia with a design to destroy the Credit of the Apostle and the Doctrine deliver'd by him To which end they preach'd up Circumcision and other Rites and Ceremonies of Moses's Law on purpose to undermine the Truths of the Gospel In this Attempt they prevail'd so far as to shake the Faith of many who began to decry the Apostle and to cry up those deceitful Teachers above him This put St. Paul in this Chapter upon reasoning the Case with them ver 16. Am I become your Enemy because I tell you the Truth i. e. Am I become vile and despicable in those eyes which you would not long since have pluck'd out and given to me How comes this change to be made in you that the great Love you lately bore to my Person and Doctrine is thus of a sudden turn'd into a Hatred of both Why he found that an Enemy had done this i. e. Those false Teachers taking the opportunity of his Absence had planted their Tares to hinder the growth of that good Seed he had sow'd among them and therefore with great earnestness cautions these Galatians against them as the great enemies of their Faith and Salvation leting them know that whatever shew they might make of Zeal towards GOD or Affection towards them there was nothing under it but Falshood and Hypocrisy They Zealously affect you saith he ver 17. but not well There is no Sincerity in their goodliest Pretences and in all they say or do their Love is not to you but themselves Yea They would exclude you saith he that you might affect them meaning that they would shut you out from the true Faith that you might affect their Persons and embrace their Errors Wherefore he wills them to beware of them and to shun them as Cheats and Impostors and from their false and counterfeit Zeal takes occasion to recommend True Zeal to them in the Words of the Text But it is good to be Zealously affected always in a good thing In treating of which Words I must enquire First Into the Nature of Zeal and shew what it is to be Zealously affected Secondly I must speak to the two Qualifications of true Zeal mention'd in the Text the one respecting the Time of its continuance which must be always the other the Object about which it is to be employ'd which is a good thing Thirdly I must shew the Goodness or Excellency of true Zeal from those Words It is good to be Zealously affected c. Fourthly I must lay open some of the Mistakes and Miscarriages of Zeal and then conclude with an Inference or two from the whole I begin then with the Enquiry into the Nature of Zeal that we may see what it is to be Zealously affected and here we may note First That Zeal in the general Notion of it is a warmth of Mind that carries it out in an eager pursuit of its Object accompanied with Indignation at any thing that opposes or lies in its way And this is sometimes in Scripture and other Authors taken in a bad fence for Emulations Wrath and bitter Envyings St. James makes mention of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bitter Zeal proceeding from an over-heated and exasperated Mind and is translated bitter Envyings Jam. 3.14 St. Paul reckons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is render'd Emulations among the works of the flesh Gal. 5.20 This is an inordinate heat of the Soul whereby 't is carried out too eagerly after some earthly sensual Objects or Designs But passing by this we are now to treat of a Religious Zeal which is a warm and powerful Inclination of the Mind after Heaven and Heavenly things For the better understanding whereof we must note 2ly That Zeal is not any one single Passion or Affection but a mixture or composition of more 't is made up chiefly of Love