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A14736	A coal from the altar, to kindle the holy fire of zeale In a sermon preached at a generall visitation at Ipswich. By Samuell Ward, Bach. of Diuinity.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.; Wood, Ambrose.	1615 (1615)	STC 25039; ESTC S103052	29,222	94

it in diuerse places of the land to be seene I had almost said in my haste and heate there is none that hath zeale no not one there is no courage for the trueth but that I remember that Eliah was checked for ouershooting himselfe in his too short and quicke computation I hope the Lorde hath his fifties amongst vs though but thinne sowne in comparison of the swarmes of professed recusants and Church-Papists of profane Atheists key-cold worldlings and luke warme professors The bodies of our many seuerall congregations yea euen of the better sort whereunto haue they beene likened by our separated aduersaries but vnto the Prophet Hosea his cake halfe baked vpon the hearth hauing one side that is the one side to the world-ward in publike seruice scorched a little and browned ouer but the inside to Godward in priuate and family duties no better then dough many of them making indeede some shew as the out-landish fruites that are plashed vpon our walles but wanting heate neuer come to maturitie If wee should make good their resemblances how then should we please the stomacke of God who hath indeede brooked and borne vs a long time I doubt but wamblingly How neare were we going in 88. and in the powder treason Do we thinke he will euer digest vs in the temper wee are in which to confesse the truth of the fashionable Christian what is it but a state of neutrality indifferency or such a mediocrity as will iust serue the time satisfie law or stand with reputation of neighbours beyond which if any step a little forward do not the rest hunt vpon the stop If there hap to breake out a sparkle of zeale in any one house in a parish is not the whole towne in an vprore as when the bells ring awke euery man brings his bucket to the quenching of this fire If hell bee in an alehouse who cries out of it and as for our Sundayes Church seruice which is all that God gets at our hands how perfunctorily and fashionably is it slubbered ouer how are his Sabaoths made the voider and dung-hill for all refuse businesse diuided between the Church and the alehouse the may-pole commonly beguiling the pulpit what man would not spue to see God thus worshipped This want of deuotion makes the foule mouthed Papists to spet at vs this want of reformation makes the queasie stomacked Brownists cast them selues out of our Church and shall God alwaies suffer the land to beare vs But behold he stands at the door knocks by treasons by plagues by the hammer of dearths discontents fires inundations especially by the word his locks are wet with waiting Oh before he shake off the dust of his feete against vs and turne to some other nation more worthie let vs open the doore that he may come in and sup with vs if he loue vs he will purge vs and scourevs by one chastisement or other if hee haue no pleasure in vs he cannot but vnburden his stomacke of vs If all the land besides should turne the deafe eare yet let me intreat and charge you of my flock to heare his voyce be zealous Since my comming amongst you I haue handled some bookes of the olde Testament the Epistles to the Romanes to the Hebrewes of Saint Iames Peter Iohn out of them taught the doctrine of the Law of faith loue good works now in the choyce of this Epistle of Christ to Laodicea my desire was to boile vp the former to their iust temper in which worke I can willingly be content to spend my strength daies if God see it fit I cannot bee a better sacrifice then to God and for you if I waste my selfe so you may haue light and heat what else is the end of my life God hath giuen you a name your zeale is gone abroad and I hope you haue many names among you the Lord increase their number and zeale If but one of vs this day shall open this door of his heart with Iehoshua let others choose I and my house will serue the Lord more zealously then heretofore neither I nor he shall haue lost our labours A liuely picture casts the eye vpon euery one that comes near it such is the word with whom with which we haue to do Let him that is now cold grow colder and colder but let him that hath an eare heare what hath been said to the Churches And bee zealous and amend The Lord giue vs not onely vnderstanding but zeale in all things hee Baptize vs with fire hee breath on vs and inspire into vs the spirit of life and power c. So shall we runne the waies of his commandements FINIS Mat. 24. 12 1 King 1. 1 Act 26. 7 Psalm Loue. Hatred Ioy. Griefe Hope Feare Ser. 41. in Cant. 49 Act. 2 Heb. 1. 7. Oftentatiō Complementall Pragmaticall Censorious Cruell Variable and inconstant Be not ouer iust hath 7. expositions here 2. or 3. more hereafter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 14. 10 Arguments of cōmendation From Gods excellency whom zeale onely becomes vnworthily placed elsewhere From his spirituall nature Effects of zeale Reuel 12 Opus operatū Baptismus Plaminis Pluminis Reuel 12 Reuel 7. 3 Eze. 9. Exod. 12 1 Obiect Zeal is mad and makes men mad Act. 26. 24 1 Cor. Act. 2 Act. 7 2 Obiect A make-bate Tenterden steeple 3 Obiect Proud 4 Obiect They keep no meane 5 Obiect Vndiscreet Incentiues 1 Obiect Answer 2 Obiect Answer 3 Obiect Answer 4 Obiect Answer 5 Obiect Answer 6 Obiect Answer 7. Obiect Answer 8 Obiect Answer 9 Obiect Answer 10 Obiect Answer 11 Obiect Answer 12 Obiect Answer 13 Obiect Answer 14 Obiect Answer Doct. Hall Zeales extinguishers

mooue the affections as well as inform the iudgement there is a doctrinall as som tearm it a Doctorly kind of preaching which is admired of some that vnderstand it not of others that could be content with the Masse againe because it was gentle and had no teeth in it And such Sermons I haue sometimes heard for matter void of exception but so deliuered as if one were acting a Part or saying a lesson by heart It hath called to minde a song which sometimes I haue met withall excellently composed full of sweete ayre surely and truely sung but with flat and dead voyces without spirit which hath marred the musicke Of such a Sermon and preacher the countrey mans verdit did well that said this man may be a great scholar but hee wants beetle and wedges to heaw our knotted timber withall our greene wood will not burn vnless it be better blowen you shall sometimes see an excellent horse of shape and colour hauing many of those marks Du Bartas describes in Cains supposed horse which yet wanting metall hath beene of little worth and lesse vse If there were no other preachers then these which hold themselues the onely profound and learned preachers I muse what should become of conuersion of soules which they that couet must come with the spirit of Elias to turne the hearts of the fathers to their children I may in trueth and I hope with modestie speake with the Preacher that in obseruing I haue obserued and haue found that diuerse great Clarkes haue had but little fruit of their ministery but hardly any truely zealous man of God though of lesser gifts but haue had much comfort of their labours in their owne and bordering parishes being in this likened by Gregory to the yron on the Smiths anvile sparkling round about And if for this any bordering neighbours whose cold labours work not the like successe shall accuse them of some kind I know not what of policie in bewitching the people they may well reply Behold our zealous affections are our charmes and zeale all our witchcraft as Latimer well answered one that accused the people of partiality for not affecting him that preached one of his printed sermons that he had indeed his Stick but wanted his Rosen meaning his zealous manner of preaching and liuing without which last all the former will doe but little good if a good ensample of life accompany not their doctrine as lightening doth thunder For there are some I speake it with sorrow of heart that seem to haue fire in their preaching but cary water in their life being notoriously proud couetous or debauched stained with odious vices Let vs heare the summe of all Doo we loue Christ more then ordinary would wee giue proofe of our trebble loue to him Let vs then feede his flocke with a trebble zeale expressed in our prayer preaching and liuing Let vs make it appear to the consciences of all that the top of our ambition is Gods glory and that we preferre the winning of soules to the winning of the world This title of Angels why may it not also be extended to Magistrates as well as that higher stile of Gods Sure I am that the scarlet robe of zeale would exceeding well become them Iethro maketh it their prime and essentiall character God and Moses their onely and sole in the charge and commission to Iehoshua so oft repeated Onely be of good courage And if Dauid were now to repen his Psalme I thinke hee might alter the forme of his counsell and say Be zealous yee Rulers and Iudges of the world and not wise and politicke or rather vnder the tearmes of wisdome he cōprehends indeed the zeal we call for the most now adayes being Gallioes wise onely for the matters of the common wealth not hauing a sparke of that spirit which was in Phineas Daniel and Nehemias c. for the Lord of hosts or to his lawes and commandements as if God had made Magistrates keepers onely of the second table gouernours of men and not of Christians guardians onely of ciuill societies and not of his Church and shepheards also of his flocke Are Idolatries blasphemies profaning of Sabaoths no sins Why then either haue not the lawes force and strength enough in them as somtime we are answered when we cōplain or why are they not executed for the suppressing of these raigning sins are not all they punished with death in the Scriptures as well as breaches of the second table Blood I leaue to the malignant Church and admire clemency in rulers as much as any but yet I know the profane dissolutenesse of the times requires a three stringed whip of seuerity to purge our Augean stable of the foule abuses whipt often with pennes and tongues but spared by them that beare the sword a man may say of many gouernours altogether in vaine for matters of religion Are not kings of the earth charged to rēder double to the bloudy strumpet of Rome Why then doth the hurtfull pittie of our times imbolden and increase their numbers Laodicea it selfe I doubt not for matters of mine and thine had as their name imports good ciuill iustice and iusticers but what was God the nearer for it doth hee not threaten for all that to spue them out of his mouth shall hee not curse those that doe his work negligently fearfully partially Our times complaine of two speciall canker-worms of iustice which eate vp zeale in Magistrates The first is couetousnesse which makes men of place to transgresse for a morsell of bread the zeale of their owne houses consumes the zeale of Gods house The building of great houses keeping of great houses matching with great houses raising and leauing of great houses behinde them makes them so rauenous that they deuoure so much as choakes all their zeale which would teach them to shake their laps of bribes and scorn to accept gifts though men would augment them for the peruerting of iudgement The other is cowardise and fearfulnes which how vnfit and base a quality did Nehemiah thinke it for a man of his place no better then shynesse in a fore-horse whose eyes men fense on both sides that they may lead the way and goe without starting vnto which zeale is answerable in Magistrates causing them onely to see him that is inuisible without casting a squint eye at men to sing to God onely of iudgement and mercy without runing their songs to mans eare to walke in the perfect way without turning either to the right or left hand for fear or fauour Oh that there were such an heart in our leaders how easily would our people follow what a spring-tide of zeale should wee haue if the Sunne and Moone would cast out a benigne aspect vpon them Doth it not flourish in all those shires and townes where the word and sword doe iointly cherish it In others which are the greatest number how doth it languish and wane away and hang downe the head where is