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lord_n	affect_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	36	3	9.6229	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44826	The benefit of a well-ordered conversation as it was delivered in a sermon preached June 24th. 1682. On a day of publick humiliation. As also a funeral discourse upon the three first verses of the third chapter of Isaiah; occasioned by the death of the worshipful Major General Denison; who deceased at Ipswich, Sept. 20. 1682. By Mr. William Hubbard. To which is annexed an Irenicon or a salve for New-England's sore: penned by the said major general; and left behind him as his farewell and last advice to his friends of the Massachusets.	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.; Denison, Daniel, 1613-1682. Irenicon.	1684 (1684)	Wing H3208; ESTC W9576	81,919	262

so strong of injustice cruelty and oppression he is ready to pull up the hedge of his Protection and lay them wast or leave them to final extirpation T was said the cry of the sins of Sodom ascended up to heaven and it was so loud a cry that they pierced the very seat of the Almighty and pulled down vengeance from Heaven and what were their sins Pride which is the mother of Contention and Cruelty marches in the van the filthy Lusts of intemperance bring up the Rear so as righteous Lot and his Family are almost crushed between them as between two Mill-stones Gibea and Benjamin are ripe for judgment when they will go about to maintain iniquity by a Law instead of seeing Gods Salvation they and all their Confederates shall feel his indignation and know that the righteous Lord loveth righteousness As before when in the dayes of the old World the Earth was fill'd with violence viviter ex rapto their unrighteousness opened the Flood-gates of Divine vengeance which carried them all away with a Flood And not long after when in the dayes of Nimrod the great Grandchild of Noah the Inhabitants of Shinar proclaims War with the Almighty and bid defiance against Heaven God blasts their vain enterprizes and makes them see their own confusion instead of his Salvation 4. The next Branch of a well ordered conversation is that which concerns our selves viz. Sobriety and Temperance which according to the assertion of the Apostle Paul is part of that Doctrine which brings Salvation along with it wherever it is put in practice As we find it expressed Tit. 2.12 And here lies the greatest danger of a professing People Open unrighteousness is restrained by the severe Laws and Edicts of civil Nations where Intemperance and Prophaneness may appear with open face upon the stage Injustice in civil affairs as it is obvious to humane and common observation so is it more apt to be restrained and punished as standing in direct opposition to the commerce and traffick of Nations every one will be ready to bring a stone to fling at an Oppressor Thief or Robber but now the Lusts of Intemperance are more secretly and silently carried on undermining those Banks that seem to keep it in and insensibly by degrees like the Ivy sucking out the heart and life of the Religion of those whom it seems to compass about and embrace These Lusts of the Flesh secretly eat out the life of holiness and damps the heat of our zeal They are also the more apt to prevail upon the minds of the uncautelous because they are seated in such things as for the matter of them are not unlawful yea are both natural and accessary which made one sadly complain In licitis perimus omnes When Israel could neither be enchanted by Sorcery nor corrupted by Idolatry yet they may be charmed by the Syren of sensual delights for when the people had committed carnal Fornication with the Midianitish Women they are easily led on to commit spiritual Adultery with their Idols Solomon might speak it by experience as well as by observation of the strange Women that strong men have fallen down wounded by her When the Devil came to assault our Saviour he found nothing in him to fasten his Temptations upon there was no combustible matter for his fiery Darts to sieze upon but when he comes to David though never so holy a man he finds something to fix upon especially when he lay at an open Guard having ungirt himself and laid aside the Armour of light A chast conversation coupled with fear is the best security against those Lusts of the Flesh that war against our Souls The seeds of Piety and vertue are in as much danger of being choaked with these Weeds of Intemperance as by the Thorns of Covetousness and other Lusts of like nature 5. There are other Branches of a well ordered Conversation very necessary to bring about this Salvation of God Sometimes Prophaneness and Impiety may get such an head in places that it is not possible to suppress or bear them down without an eminent degree of zeal God was so provoked with the sensual lusts of Israel at Baal-peor that if it had not been for the zeal of Phinehas that Generation as commendable as they were had seen but little of the salvation of God it was his zeal that stayed the Plague from consuming the People If our zeal be not as hot as fire it will easily be quenched by these Fleshly Lusts Eli did not want a principle of holiness and the fear of God but he wanted the holy passion of zeal to actuate and exert it No man had ever more experience of seeing the Salvation of God than David and what man did ever declare more zeal against sin and for the Glory of God and casting off the works of iniquity doth he not engage that a vile person shall not tarry in his sight and him that telleth lies he would cut off If such be suffered saith Solomon by the Ruler all his Servants will be mislead Then farewel Gods Salvation The Church of Laodicea lost her dignity for want of zeal and is severely threatned for this defect Be zealous and repent or else I will spue thee out of my mouth Rev. 4.16 a cold dull un-active luke-warm spirit will in a little time lose the very life of godliness when in the primitive Church the love of many began to wax cold it was a presage of their Desolation which soon after came to pass But here we must look to our zeal that it be not mingled with too much wild-fire for the wrath of man will never work the righteousness of God The Lord Jesus was as became the Lamb of God meek and lowly of heart yet was admirably zealous against Hypocrisie and secret iniquity T is good to be zealously affected in a good matter sayes the Apostle And so also in a good manner The Disciples were zealously affected against them that did not follow them this was not in a good matter nor was their zeal to be commended that forbad them bringing little Children to the Lord Jesus And if the Angel that contended with the Devil about the body of Moses had brought rai●ing accusations there had been a defect in the manner Zeal is an holy affection and will thrive best in a meek and quiet spirit No man so meek upon the face of the Earth as Moses and yet no man was found so zealous as Moses in reforming the Idolatry of the People when he set every man against his fellow that was gulty of the fact and at last grinding the Idol to powder that they might drink it down that so eagerly had drunk down that cursed Worship The zeal of Moses was far more acceptable to God than that of Jonah or Jehu It is not the hot fiery curst tempers in a place that will maintain and keep up the purity of Religion and good order so well as that which proceeds