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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

may I be imployed and laid out what is there in my head or heart in my soule or body in my treasury shop or house which may be of any use for the Lord most gladly will I spend and be spent for such a God in such a cause for such an end verily such a frame of heart is invaluable verily such a man to the State is more worth then his weight in Gold Quest But how shall we get it what Prometheus may wee send to heaven to fetch downe this sacred fire Answ. 1. It is true that from heaven and from heaven alone it must be fetched and thence wee may fetch it as Eliah did his fire by prayer When Solomon prayed the Temple was filled with smoake and the Apostles men of like infirmities to us while they were praying were baptized with this fire so let us pray for this holy heate and that God who breathed our soules into our bodies will breath this grace into our soule prayer and zeale mutually produce one another as water and Ice doe God hath promised to give his Spirit whose onely worke this is to them who aske it the meditation of the former motives will provoke to pray and the earnest and humble prayers of faith will obtaine it 2. When this fire is come from heaven wee must bee carefull to preserve it the fire of the Tabernacle was first sent from heaven but was nourished and maintained by fewell on earth so must wee doe This coale must bee fetched onely from Gods Altar but we must preserve it with fewell such as are reading hearing and meditating on Gods Word Gods Word is both fire and fewell let it dwell in our hearts lay it in our bosomes and it will warme and inflame us 3. Sermons also are bellowes for this purpose and are of great power to stirre up these coales experience shewes us that zealous preaching makes zealous people Peter and Paul who are compared to men of fire walking among straw made the people fervent in spirit who lived under their Ministry Despise not prophesying and Quench not the Spirit are joyned together 1 Thes. 5. 20. flie therefore like Doves to the windowes of Gods house waite at Wisedomes gate and the sparkes of grace will be blowne up into a flame 4. Communion with such as are zealous Iron sharpens Iron so doth the conversation of active zealous men their zeale will provoke others company hath a strange influence even a dull Jade will run for company a companion of fooles will learne folly and such as walke with the wise and godly will ere they be aware quickned up and their spirits fired and hearts glow as the two Disciples when they walked with Christ though they knew him not or as Moses face which shined when hee had beene with God though he were not aware of it Lastly beware of such things as extinguish zeale such as are sulstracting the fewell which should feed it neglecting attendance upon publicke ordinances omitting of family and closet duties or letting out our hearts after such things as are meere quench-coles as the study of such things as tend not to edification in truth and obedience or letting out the affections after worldly things this outward heat cooles our inward choakes zeale for God so doth the nourishing of any secret lust pride malice uncleannesse c. these wast consume make shipwrack of zeale are as a theefe in the Candle or a continuall dropping into a little fire grieves quenches the spirit Thus zeale and an unmortified lust a known sin chosen to be lived in though never so secret can no more dwell together in a heart then Christ and Belial Dagon and the Arke And bad company is as dangerous a quench-coale as any thing in the world they say he that lives with a Criple will learne to halt where iniquitie abounds mens zeale for God is in danger to grow cold Peter may warme his hands in the high Priests Hall but hee will coole his heart The time being more then spent I can onely point at these things Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things FINIS Ezek 24. 14 Jer 6. 29. Isa 4 4. Nehem 3 20. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Rom. 12. 11. Hab. 97. 37. 32 Tit. 2. 14. Josh. 1. 7. Revel. 2. 10. Revel. 3. 16. with 19. 20. Introduction to the Text Deut. 3. 21. 22. Numb 31. 16. Numb. 25. 2. And Parts of it Observ. 1. Application Obs. 2. I evit 26. 4. to 41. Amos 3. 1 2. Amos 3. 12. Ezek. 16. Dan. 9. 12. Zeph. 3. 7. Vse 1. Deut 9. 14. 3. Rom. 2. 17 18. 3. Deut. 32. 6. Obser. 3. Ier. 18. 10. Ier. 18. 10. Application 2. Part of the Text Whence first observe Doct. One man may save a whole kingdome Eccles. 9. 18. Ioshua 7. Iob 22. 30. Ier. 5. Application Doct. 2. Pacifying Gods wra●h removes any Plague Exod ●5 ● Namb. 16. 46. Ioshua 9. 20 2 Chron. 24. 18 28 11. 32. 16. Esa. 13. 5. Dan. 8. 12. Which is demon●trated 1. Dan. 6. Psal. 78. 23. 27. 31. 2. 2 Kings ● 2 Sam. 24. Ioel 2. 25. Application Therefore our greatest busines is to pacifie Gods wrath Esa. 13. 41. 54. ult. Ezek. 30. 24. Ier. 37. 56. 7. c. Wayes how it may bee done 1. Levit. 26. 40. 2. 1 King 8. 33. 35. 47. ●4 ●6 Dan 9 16. 3. Psal. 106. 30. The maine doctrine Zeale against sinne pacifyeth Gods wrath against sinners VVhich is proved by severall examples Read vers. 1. 2 3. 6. 2● Vers 7 8 9 10. Vers 20. 27 28 c. And severall promises Which is further explained shewing what zeale is And the properties and e●fects of it 1. 4. Numb. 25. 4. Exod 32. Nehem. 13. ●nd why reale able to doe Application First to lament the want of it Exhortation to it Motives to zeale See Matth. 19 29. Meanes to attaine it 1 King 8. Act. 2. 1 Thes. 5. 16. 20. Prov. 22. 24. 25 c. Luk. 24. 32. Exod. 34. 29. Heb. 10. 25. 1 Tim. 6. 4. 14. 7. 2 Tim. 2. 14. Titus 3. 9. Luk. ● 14. Ephes. 4. 29 30. 1 Cor. 5. 6. 2 Cor. 6. Matth. 24. 12.

A DIVINE PROIECT 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 JER. 5. 1. Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seeke in the broad places thereof if yee can find a man if there bee any that executeth judgement that seeketh the truth and I will pardon it REV. 3. 19. Bee zealous therefore and repent Imprimatur Charles Herle London Printed by Richard Cotes for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Popes-head-Alley 1644. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE The Lord Maior Court of Aldermen of the famous Citie of London LUke-warme Laodicea by some hath beene made Englands Embleme and sutably enough not so much to the cold climate and this coole evening of the world we live in as to the tepid spring of our reformation at first especially to the decaying Autumne which of late yeares wee were come to But as cold oft breeds an inflammation so this hath inkindled Gods wrath and it these sad combustions which we are already well-nigh consumed with what remaines now therefore but that fire should take out fire the kindly warmth of holy zeale the wofull heate of this devouring fire that it may not come to everlasting burnings Great is the honour that God in this kind hath conferred upon you and great the blessings which hee hath to this whole land conveyed by you Your Engines not more admirable to quench fire in your Citie then your care cost and blood freely usefull to the extinguishing of the generall scare-fire of this whole kingdome your zeale herein hath saved many provoked more hath under God beene as a wall of fire about us and will bee for ever a more sparkling Diamond in your Crowne then those stones of fire in the King of Tyres Diadem The Ministers Lungs some make the Prophets Bellowes to blow up a dying fire I desired that mine in preaching this Sermon might helpe to blow up yours to a yet brighter flame and if this further publishing of it at your request may any whit serve to keep still alive this holy fire on the Altar of your hearts whilst Incendiaries set on fire from hell are every where shooting fiery bullets to set all into a further combustion I am but subservient to my great Master in his present work who is now purging the blood of our Jerusalem out of the midst of it by the spirit of judgement and burning Fervet opus and then I know you will not coole It s reformation worke and the examples of Phinehas Elias John Baptist Luther Knox and those other great reformers tell us it requires zeale Baruch was a great repairer of Jerusalems walls but it is said of him that flagrante animo instauravit hee repaired fast but it was when hee was hot upon it It is Gods worke and they must be fervent in spirit that would serve the Lord who had rather wee should let his worke alone then see us freeze at it it is his zeale that must now doe all for us and therefore hee expects that our zeale should doe what wee can for him It is Christs worke and cause who is willing to redeeme us but that wee might bee a people zealous of good workes hee did not sweat that wee should freeze nor shed his blood out of his owne veines that it might congeale in ours It is finally a great worke and the oppositions against it are greater but as they said to Joshua Onely be couragious so I to you Onely bee zealous and then bee not discouraged Hannibal by fire made his way over the Alpes and you by zeale may make yours over greatest mountaines of opposition which without running up with full strength and speed will not bee gotten up to Palmes are the Embleme of victory but they love to grow in a hot soyle be warme and promise your selves the Palme nay God promiseth it and that not onely to Smyrna whose name smells sweet of warme incense that if shee will be faithfull to the death he will give her a Crowne of life but even to our cooler Laodicea that her whom hee was ready to spew out of his mouth whilst she was lukewarme hee will be ready to come into and sup with when she shall once be zealous and repent which is the humble and hearty prayer of your Servant for Christ STEPHEN MARSHALL A DIVINE PROIECT TO SAVE A KINGDOME Numb. 25. 10 11. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Phinehas the Sonne of Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel while hee was zealous for my sake among them that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousie IF you view this Portion of Scripture seriously you will find Right Honorable and Beloved that the businesse contained in it doth very nigh concern our selves In a few words The condition of the Israelites at the present time which this Text speaketh of was this They had indured a long peregrination in the wildernesse for forty yeares together God had visited former rebellions upon them and now their wandrings were well-nigh accomplished they were come almost to the skirt of the Land of Canaan God had begun to deliver the promised inheritance unto them by overthrowing and rooting out Sihon King of the Amorites and Og the King of Bashan and had given their Country into the hand of Israel and had told them hee would goe on and root out all the rest of the Canaanites before them that there should not a man be able to stand in their way As the Lord your God hath done unto these two Kings so shall hee do unto the other Kingdoms whither they passed they need not feare them the Lord their God would fight for them and would very shortly place them in that land which hee had long before promised to their fore-fathers And now when they were just upon entring into the Land they had like to have made ship wrack in the very Harbour and had brought down such a new Plague upon them that if there had not been a timely remedy put in they had perished every Mothers childe of them without any forain enemy striking a stroake at them And thus it was when Balaam could not obtaine leave from God to curse the Israelites hee taught Balak the King of Moab a trick how hee might make God himselfe curse them viz. If hee could by any wayes draw them to rebell against God Hee had told him plainly that while they kept close to God all the world would bee too weak for them but could hee but devise any way to make them fall out with God God would