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The fire of the sanctuarie newly vncouered, or, A compleat tract of zeale. By C. Burges
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Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.
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sometimes to be so zealous in Holy Dauid by this Rule was a sound Zealot indeed Hee often burned in spirit when he suppressed the flame from the view of man God onely discerned the vent hee gaue it I was dumbe with silence I held my peace euen from good and my sorrow was stirred My heart was hot within me while I was musing the fire burned Then spake I with my tongue Lord make mee to know mine end c. His heart was first on fire before the flame was in his tongue and when hee opened the tunnel it did after the nature of fire ascend and shewed it selfe first vnto God This Zeale of his did not make him fiery onely in a point or two for he saith of himselfe e Psal 119 128. I esteeme all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate euery false way On the other side we may see the Zeale of the Pharises discouered for counterfeit They tooke great paines to set out a glorious outside and a painted face of Profession but within were no better then painted Sepulchers or the Sumpters of f See Speeds Chron. Cardinal Wolsey If you looke vpon their outward carriage it is with as much austerity and rigour as may be Behold their very pots and platters Math. 23. you shall see them bright without but looke not within least the filthinesse annoy you they being filled to the brim with extortion excesse Outwardly they appeare righteous vnto men but within they are full of hypocrisie and iniquity To this must bee added that euen in their outward Actions their Zeale is not vniuersall They are more carefull for Mint and Annis and Cummin then for the weightier matters of the Law iudgement mercy and faith For these haultings our Sauiour brands them with the Hypocrites marke ouer and ouer three times together Hypocrites in graine If then a Minister set himself in great heat against some sins and not against all The Triall If he presse many duties on his flock and performe few or none himselfe denounce terrors with a thundring tone but not comfort the broken spirit inueigh against Conformers on the one side or Puritans on the other and yet liue like an Atheist let his pretence bee what it will his End is not Gods glory for then his Zeale would be Vniuersall I do not say that he should at the same time do all things at once There is a time to launce and cut as well as to bind vp and heale All Texts afford not al points al sorts of applicatioÌ„ All Anditories require them not But I speake this onely to this end that a constaÌ„t zealous temper must bee shewed in performance of euery particular duty throughout so oft as opportunity and occasion are offered and that as well in life as in Preaching or any other Ministeriall Seruice If he be not thus proportionable in all he is not truly zealous in any So for a Magistrate to be very sharpe against some outrages committed by meane and contemptible persons but letting alone such as offend as highly in other kinds perhaps in the same kinds too if they be persons of Qualitie or otherwise can make him by friends To bee hot against strangers but cold enough in punishing such as are vnder his owne roofe to seeme zealous for God and the King onely to prosecute with more violence such as they beare a secret grudge vnto to boast of impartialitie and yet giue no countenance to Religious men but rather for this very cause that they labour to liue strictly in the sense of the Apostle g Ephe. 5.15 although they bee euery way conformable to the Lawes of God the Church and Common-wealth to haue a preiudicate opinion of them and a secret heart-burning against them this is not zeale but furious passion blazing onely that way which the wind driues it and flaming as the base affectation of windie popularitie which God abhorreth shall happen to blow it vp Iehu was so sicke of this disease that he was not ashamed to be his owne Herald to proclaime it vnder the name of zeale fathering his bastard furie vpon zeale for the h 2. King 10.16 Lord when none but the base ambition of his owne false heart begat it He must needs call Iehonadab to witnesse his zeale when Gods Spirit discouered it to be but an hypocriticall ladder to ascend the Throne Could that be zeale to grub vp Ahabs stocke by the roots for his sinne against God that could yet suffer those monuments of Idolatry in Dan and Bethel to remaine as quiet as much esteemed as much adored as euer before in Ahabs life and that by Iehu himselfe How is it that the Lord complaines Iehu tooke no heed to walke in the Law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart i Ibid. ver 31 c Here is euidence enough to proue his zeale to be counterfeit and to giue all men notice how little the Lord cares for such flashes of lightning in stead of a solid fire of heauenly zeale Such also who being in inferiour offices take occasion then to crie quit with some that heretofore did offend them and present a few poore snakes letâ—ing more escape vnobserued that deserue punishment more cannot so bleare the eyes of the world as to be taken for zealous They will be discouered by the most blincking drunkards to be malitious reuengers of their owne priuate passions and that it is not conscience of an Oath but other respects that make them so busie Finally by this all ciuill Professors and formall hypocrâ—tes may find themselues empty of zeale for Gods glorie in the best actions they performe What shall the zealous fastings k Isai 58.3.4 and sacrifices l Cap. 66.3 of hollow hearted Christians who want zeale to kindle them gaine at Gods hand but reproofe and loathing That is not zeale that brings men to Church on the Lords day and yet suffereth them to liue like Diuels all the weeke after that will make a man pray in the Church or in his familie in the morning and yet neuer put him in mind to any purpose of God all the day after vnlesse to blaspheme his terrible Name that will make men seeme deuout in the duties of the first Table and yet suffer them to be very deceitfull couetous and corrupt in their dealings with men that will carrie them with violence against an oath but not against iugling and lying for their owne aduantage 2. Rule zeale is moued by sinne not by priuate iniuries or profits 2. True zeale is set on worke by the consideration of sinne against God and not by iniuries or profits of our owne Zealous Lot doubtles suffered much and long vnder the vncleane vnnaturall barbarous Sodomites Yet we heare of no fretting or impatience at their vnneighborly dealing Nay when he was in perill of his life they readie to offer violence vnto him and to pull his house
with some contrary Hence is it translated to expresse that fierie heate in the seuerall passions of the soule vehemently extended to their seuerall obiects and proiects Such was that burning fire c Ier. 20.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the bones of Ieremie Such that feruencie of spirit d Rom. 12 11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Saint Paul exhorted the Romanes vnto And such those coales that Timothie was to blow vp e 2 Tim. 1.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Opposite hereto was that Luke-warme f Reuel 3.16 temper in distempered Laodicea of which she was zealously warned to repent to grow more hot Sect. 2. Sect. 2. Of the vse of the word in Scripture We see the nature of the word behold how it is vsed The Scripture attributes it to God to man First to God to signifie sometimes his iust indignation and direfull vengeance smoaking against sinners and burning g Deut. 32.23 vnto the lowest hell Sometimes the extreame heate of his loue expressed in protecting his Church afflicted Thus himselfe setteth it out by the Prophet Zacharie h Zach. 8.2 I was iealous for Sion with great iealousie and I was iealous for her with great furie that is with a zealous affection for her defence Secondly the Scripture attributes zeale to man and so either in a bad i Aug. de Ciuit. dei lib. 20. cap. 12. sense to denote some euill in him or in a good to signifie some vertue Zeale taken in the bad part is vsed in a fourefold sense First sometimes for enuie and spleene at anothers well-doing or being the disease of those pining and selfe-macerating Priests and Saduces at the Apostles of our Lord. k Act. 5.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in this sence that cankred enuy of the Patriarckes which moued them to that tyrannicall sale of their naturall brother Ioseph in this only faulty because more loued is stiled Zeale 2. l Act 7 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sometimes for Iealousy m Pro. 6.34 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of some person suspected of doing wrong to a man in something neere vnto him and intimately loued by him 3. Sometimes for a quarrelous contentious disposition n Iam. 3.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. that vpon euery trifling occasion breaks out against all that are neere 4. Lastly for counterfeit iealousie o Gal. 4.17 which some seeme to haue of others they pretend great loue vnto and care of for feare they should doe amisse whereas this faire shew is but a shew to hold the others the faster in their nets for the better compassing of their owne sinister ends and to make them more willing to stoop at their Lure Zeale taken in the good sense as it is attributed to Man importeth three things viz. First an emulation to ouertake outgo others in goodnesse without enuying those a man striues to outstrip Such was the zeale of many in Macedonia p 2. Cor. 9.2 vnto liberalitie prouoked thereto by those of Achaya and particularly of Corinth the Metropolitan Citie Secondly Godly iealousie ouer some we loue for feare they should sinne against Christ their husband The affection of Saint Paul for his beloued Corinthians and termed by himselfe in opposition to the bad q 2. Cor. 11.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 godly iealousie Thirdly an extreame heate of all the affections for and towards one we esteeme burning in our loue to him our desire of him our ioy in him our indignation against all that speake or do any thing against the honour and good liking of him thinking nothing too good too deare too much to bestow vpon him whether we make man r 2. Cor. 7.7 Gal. 4.15 Num. 11.28.29 or God ſ Psal 69 9. Ioh. 2.17 himselfe the obiect hereof Sect. 3. Sect. 3. Of the acceptation of zeale in this Treatise These being the chiefe acceptations of zeale that the Scriptures mention among them all I pitch on the last and the definition thereof I thus expresse Zeale Zeale defined is a spirituall fire inflaming all the affections of a Christian for preseruation and aduancement of the glorie of God Zeale considered according to the rules of Art is a Qualitie and such a qualitie as Logicians call an Habite which must be defined by the generall nature Obiect and Endes of it All these are expressed in this definition Spirituall fire is in roome of the Genus and declares the generall nature of it to which I adde by the way for plainnesse sake the subiect and state in which it is viz. all the affections of a Christian Gods glorie is the principall Obiect * Obiectum cui it lookes at the aduancement and preseruation whereof is the highest End it tends vnto First for the Genus or generall nature of it 1. The generall nature of it I tearme it a fire a spirituall fire A fire not a heate onely which is in some degrees found euen in Luke-warmenesse wherein yet coldnesse is the predominant qualitie and this makes it faulty Zeale hath heate as hot as fire therefore so is it called by Ieremie in Analogie to Elementarie or materiall fire And in this respect is it spirituall which in this definition is put in not as intending a specificall difference betweene this and culinarie fires but to shew the subalternate generall nature of it as the word spirituall comprehends all analogicall fires in mans passions which are diuers some lawfull others irregular and vnlawfull some holy others impure There is the fire of lust t Rom. 1.27 and the fire of the tongue u Iam. 3.6 as well the fire of zeale Adde hereunto that zeale is kindled by the Spirit and therefore is it spirituall also Howbeit the spiritualitie of it can be no specificall note to distinguish it from other graces they being all in this respect spirituall This spirituall fire hath for it hearth to burne in Subiectum in quo all the affections and passions of a Christian as they serue or may be of vse for aduancement of the glorie of God Nor doth zeale onely inhabite the affections and worke in them but vpon them too they are not onely the hearth to burne in but fewell to kindle on Thus zeale set all Dauids affections on fire which in his holy poeticall raptures we may see blazing In his loue * Psal 119.97 we may find him transported beyond expression In his desire extreamely thirsting and panting x Psal 42.1 and this heate by an Antiperistasis droping downe teares in such plentie as if he were to make them his meate z Psal 42.3 Yea his griefe proues a Moses rod to smite the rocke of his heart that riuers of water gush out at his eyes a Psal 119.136 And as for his anger that so burned that it consumed him vp b Ibid. ver 139. Nay his zeale did not omit to inflame his very hatred making him