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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

that Gods vengeance should doe I say zeale in its place and for its part doth that which Gods vengeance came to doe What need God come in vengeance to cut off sinners Zeale is doing it to his hand Phinehas is slaying of them Moses is thrusting them through zealous men are endeavouring to exterminate all things that are evill and when the Lord seeth some pleading his cause and doing his worke hee will gratifie them to spare the rest for their sake As when David thought all of Nabals family against him hee would cut them all off and not a man of them should live but when hee findeth there was an Abigail that was of his side and pleaded his cause this cooleth Davids heate So is it with the Lord Jer. 4. 5. Run saith he finde out a man who executeth justice and judgement and I will spare it finde mee a man who is doing the worke my justice and vengeance comes to doe and I will forbeare doing it my selfe and else-where I looked for a man to have stood in the breach to have saved mee a labour and when I could finde none I did it my selfe I then poured out my wrath upon them Give mee leave to make two or three uses of this lesson and I shall dismisse you First then if this bee so what wonderfull cause have wee to mourne and tremble before God to thinke how few are to bee found in any place or any ranke or societie of men who are to bee numbred among them whom God will make saviours unto a people who else are like to bee destroyed Verily it is a sad thing to thinke how few can anywhere bee found in whose hearts there is this grace of zeale kindled of whom the Lord may Say such and such are zealous for my sake In your owne thoughts survey almost all publike places or orders of men and think among the Nobles or the Commons in the Citie among the Aldermen among the Common Councell men among the severall Wards goe into the Ministrie the severall degrees of men and doe but thinke how few there are whose hearts are truely zealous for the Lord if this bee zeale that I have opened unto you truely if I should enter or put my finger into this Ulcer I might make your hearts sad and tremble have wee not abundance that live this day in London and about London if not in the Parliament not onely those that are at Oxford that turne Cavaliers who pretend to bee our friends who have a zeale against zeale who are with all the heat that can be kindled in them set on fire against zealous men casting all the opprobrious nicknames on them that can be branding zeale for God with madnesse with turbulencie with indiscretion with haire-braindnesse who with Festus thinke men beside themselves Act. 26. 24. who with Ahab count every zealous Eliah a troubler of Israel and esteeme of them as they did of the Apostles Act. 17. 6. to bee men who turn the world upside downward who brand them to bee Puritans Precisians factious any thing which a vile heart can thinke and foule mouth utter Yea how many are sad to see men lay out their strength and state for a good cause and with Tobia and Sanballat are grieved to thinke that any goe about to build up the walls of Gods house or any Moses or Elijah take vengeance on Gods enemies A sad thing there should bee any such among us but more sad that any among us should bee like Catiline who was all fire perdere rempublicam to undoe the Commonwealth where hee lived drive designes make factions doe any thing in the earth that Religion might not thrive These are miserable and accursed men these men are factors for hell Satans Boutefeus and as the true zealots are set on fire from heaven so these mens fire is kindled from hell whither also it carries them What abundance are there that are wholly lukewarm if not key-cold that have no mettle no heate in the world for God Ah deare friends how many others are there that are ingaged in Gods cause who make Religion a and the publike cause a meere vizard to serve their owne ends who lay out the heat of their zeale all their strength to feather their owne nests by getting some imployment in an Army in a Navie in a Commitree in such a place in the Citie And the thing they drive at is to advance themselves or their friends to provide for this child to stop such a gap c. And so out of the publike pressure of Gods people draw out that which may inrich themselves and further then that let become of Gods cause what will how little such mens zeale is like to helpe us yea how abominable they and their zeale is to God you heard before And how many are there among our selves that protest they owne this great cause that is now in hand will vow and take the Covenant and sweare too if you will give it them an hundred times over that they will adhere to this cause with all their might and yet doe no more for it then honest men may doe with a good conscience who live under the enemies quarters that is let their goods bee taken from them because it is in vaine for them to make an head if an officer come hee must have it c. part with what is laid upon them and there 's an end But to bee willing to say Let me go let my child goe here is my money my spirit my life let all goe rather then this cause sinke you had as good wring water out of a Pumice stone you may as soone wring water out of a Flint stone as bring men to that as if they were yet to seek where the truth lay or which the true cause were that God would own God knoweth there are abundance of such that with the Samaritanes if the cause thrive well on the Parliaments side they are cordiall for them but if it goe on the other side then they are casting about how they may save themselves especially if they could but settle their owne estates whether Religion should be setled whether Idolatry shall bee extirpated whether there should be any reliques of them left whether any of them should bee punished whom if wee punish not God will punish us for them and our life shall go for theirs whether justice should be executed upon any Achans or Zimries or any such should be made examples these are things they never trouble their thoughts about all matters wherin the glory of God is concerned are to them as indifferent as that Controversie Acts 18. whether Pauls Doctrine or the Jewes blasphemy prevailed whether the Greeks beat Sosthenes or Sosthenes beat the Greeks whether as the Proverbe is the Dog catch the Hare or the Hare the Dog he was indifferent Gallio cared for none of these things and so verily is it with most men so their owne houses bee furnished it matters

you have heard what was the cure hee pacisied Gods wrath now wee are to inquire what was the balme which recovered their hurt the medicine which cured their sicknesse it was Zeale hee was zealous among them for the Lords sake wherein although time will allow me to handle but onel lesson I shall briefly inquire into two things First what the thing was that Phinehas did as a meanes to pacific Gods wrath Secondly the manner how hee did it The thing that hee did was the execution of justice and judgement taking away some grand delinquents whom God would not have to live so the Psalmist saith whereas God saith here Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar pacifieth his wrath the Psalmist saith then stood up Phinehas and executed judgement and that stayed the plague hee did an act of justice in cutting off some notorious Delinquents 2. And the manner how hee did it zealously hee did it fervently And both these together doe afford this lesson viz. That zeale for God against sinne is the greatest meanes to pacific Gods anger against sinners I say our zeale for God against sinne is the greatest meanes to pacific the fire of Gods wrath against sinners as one fire will draw out another so the fire of our zeale may extinguish the fire of Gods wrath And for the clearing of it I shall indeavour these three things First I will shew you plainely out of the Scripture that so it is That zeale against sinne will extinguish Gods wrath against sinners Secondly I will indeavour to open what I meane by this What this zeale against sinne is and how it will appeare Thirdly I will shew you whence it commeth or what reason there is that mans zeale should have such an influence upon the extinguishing of Gods wrath And then make some application of it For the first The Lord saith it here in expresse words Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar hath pacified my wrath how while he was zealous for my sake among them Phinehas being zealous in this act of his God protesteth it pacifyed his wrath I will name you but three or foure examples more at the utmost Moses for one you shall find In the 32. of Exodus you shall there find three fires successively kindled three sorts of fire all of them very hot There you first have the people inflamed with their lusts with the lust of Idolatry so on fire that Aaron saith they were mad upon it they would have a golden calfe They gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him Up make us Gods which may go before us and all the people brake off the golden ear-rings which were in their eares and brought them to Aaron to make a Calfe And when it was made They rose up early on the morning and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings and rose up to play and they were set upon this mischiefe there the people were on fire inflamed with their lust And in the next place you have God all on a flame too hee saith to Moses Let mee alone I will destroy every man of them and spake it very bitterly against them They have corrupted themselves they have made them a golden Calfe it is a stiff-necked people let mee alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them there is the second fire And thirdly you have Moses on a fire too and hee commeth downe and there hee sheweth his zeale in two things First in being Gods Champion against sinne for when he saw the Golden Calfe hee stampeth it to powder made the Israelites drinke of it calleth the Tribe of Levi to him biddeth every one goe and sheath his Sword in the bowels of his nearest kinsman that had a hand in this sin as if hee had beene distracted and when hee had plaid Gods Champion against these their sins and the ring-leaders of the sinners hee then playeth their advocate to God and prayeth him to blot his name out of the booke of life rather then to destroy them And this heate cooled both the other heates this heate brought them to repentance and pacified the Lords wrath that hee would not cut them off as hee did otherwise protest hee would have done There you see zeale for God against sinne will pacifie God against sinners though hee bee never so angry The like you find in Eliah though it did not take so well because they were past cure Eliah hee riseth in an Apostaticall time when the people had desperately forsaken God and hee doth all that hee could and was like a man on fire when hee came to God hee saith I have beene very zealous for thy sake and so hee had for hee had slaine I know not how many hundreds of Baals Prophets and had pulled downe Baals house and had made the people in a manner enter into Covenant with God O Lord saith hee I have beene very zealous for thy sake though I have beene left all alone as if hee had said Lord I have done what I could to save them I confesse my great Sheat Anchor is come home I now despaire of it but my zeale if it could have had any effect at all would have done it yea the Lord professeth it so Bee pleased also to note these two places I told you of in the beginning in the fift of Jeremiah Runne saith the Lord through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seeke in the broad place thereof if you can find a man c. What meaneth hee by a man First hee meaneth a good man that no man doubteth of But every good man would not serve the turne find mee a man that executeth judgement and justice In a word hee describeth a Phinehas find mee but that man and I will spare all the Citie for his sake So in the 22. of Ezekiel at the latter end when the Lord had spoke of all the villany that the people had lived in their blood their Idolatry uncleannesse a conspiracie of the Prophets Priests and Princes in all kind of ungodlinesse so that the fire of his wrath was kindled against them then saith hee I doe looke for a man what man A man that might have stood in the gap to have made it up alluding to Moses another Moses If I could have found but a Moses or a Samuel I would have spared them all Thus you see God professeth when hee can but finde zealous men that shall burne against sinne it shall quench Gods wrath that it shall no longer burne against the sinners But beloved I must in the second place a little come and discover to you what this grace is It is a thing of mighty consequence that I have undertooke to make good That this grace of zeale may save a Kingdome that it may reach to heaven and extinguish the fire that is kindled in Gods brest wee had need therefore know what it is and have it rightly discovered To this end

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.