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A34898	A cabinet of spirituall iewells wherein man's misery, God's mercy, Christ's treasury, truth's prevalency, errour's ignominy, grace's excellency, a Christian's duty, the saint's glory, is set forth in eight sermons : with a brief appendix, of the nature, equity, and obligation of tithes under the Gospell, and expediency of marriage to be solemnized onely by a lawfull minister ... / by John Cragge, M.A. ...	Cragge, John, M.A.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6783; ESTC R4552	116,039	199

he shot at rovers Zeal bended the Bow and drew the Arrow to the head Phinehas his heat of zeal contrary to the nature of heat stayed the Plague and cleansed the aire and by the fall of two prevented the fall of thousands on his right hand and ten thousands on his left David his zeal went through his bones like the fury of a hectick Feavour and brought him into a consumption Psal 119. 139. My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy word Mine enemies have forgotten thy word VVhat would he have done if his friends if himselfe had forgot it Psal 69. 9. The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up that is wasted me consumed me made me a Scheleton or Anatomy Come on and see Jehu's zeal against Jezabel for the Lord of Hostes whose zeal though not true if it be commended consider what true zeal would be Esay's terrible Trumpet was tipped with zeal sounding a retreat to Idolatrous Judah and Jerusalem Jeremiah's zeal did boyl more fervently then the seething pot he spyed in the North against the sins of the people Our Saviour the perfect pattern of zeal though as meek as a Lambe in his own quarrell yet zeal made him as fierce as a Lion in Gods and that sparkling in words Woe to thee Bethsaida in deeds to Peter in private Get thee hehinde me Satan to the prophaners of the Temple in publick You have made my Temple a den of theeves Zeal metamorphosed Paul from a Persecutor to a Professor a Preacher a labourer in Christs Vineyard one that laboured more then them all a Martyr indeed sacrificing his body for the truth and if wishes would have prevailed Anathema pro populo his soul also Neither could this heat of zeal be kept within him but like the fire of Aetna it burst out to others Tit. 2. 14. Be zealous of good works Rom. 12. 11. Be fervent in spirit fervency of spirit is but zeal dressed in other attire All those emblems in St. John's vision of a zeal-commanding Saviour are but so many motives to zeal seven golden Candlesticks burning with Lamps of zeal a golden Girdle about his Papps this Girdle as that Ephes 6. is Zeal Truth and Zeal must go together These Papps are the two Testaments from whence all truth flowes upon which altar all zeal must be kindled His eyes are a flame of fire these eyes are Knowledge this flame of fire is Zeal knowledge and zeal must go together His feet like fine brasse burning in a furnace This brasse is stability and constancy this burning brasse is zeal zeal and constancy must kisse each other In his right hand seven stars These Stars are so many Lamps giving light to others for they that have given up their names to Christ in Baptism must be like John Baptist lucernae ardentes burning lights lights burning inwardly within themselves shining outwardly to others Christians must be zealous And that this our Christian zeal may be distinguished from an ignis erra●icus or wandring fire of opinion an ignis fulminaris or frensive fire of rebellion let us examine the ground of this truth for all zeal is grounded upon truth and all truth upon Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Truth Hence it is that Christians should be zealous because for this cause Tit. 2. 14. Christ gave himselfe for us that he might redeem unto himselfe a peculiar reople zealous of good works That Angel that appeared unto Moses in the burning bush to the Prophets in a pillar of fire as speaking from God to Man became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both God and Man that Man for the glory of God might be zealous He bought our salvation with pangs and blood and sweat that we zealous of piety and purity might work out our salvation with fear and trembling He sweat blood in the Garden he was beat with cords and whips fainted under the Crosse in the way was fastned to it with nails pierced with a spear assaulted by Satan Hell and all our sins at once that we might be covered with righteousnesse as with a roab and cloathed with zeal as a garment The Turks are zealous of their Mahomet the Sidonians of Bell and Dragon the Priests of Baal of their Idoll the Papists for their Reliques Crucifixes Images the Jesuits of their Ignatius Loyola each Sect of their own superstitions Then shal not Christians be zealous for Christ who zealous of our salvation gave himselfe for us that we might be zealous of good works Secondly Christians must be zealous because zeal is the life and soul of Christianity that which the Bellowes are to the forge zeal is to the Soul an inkindler of grace that which naturall heat is to the body zeal is to the spirit a preserver of Grace that which Heroicall vertue is to Morall vertues the same is zeal to all divine and heavenly vertues the perfection of grace Zeal is the quintessence of Graces distilled the marrow and life of Religion the height and hyperbole of Holinesse Faith without zeal is but historicall Charity without zeal is but hypocriticall Profession without zeal is but carnall Patience without zeal is but Stoicall Apathie Mercy without zeal is foolish sympathy Hope without zeal is but impudency Love without zeal but lechery VVisdome without zeal but folly Martyrdome without zeal but murder These two reasons of the Poynt we have but poynted at because zeal is a Grace that is grounded upon reason yet in the heart practicall therefore we omit any further reason and come to Application First inquiring what true zeal is Secondly the severall kindes of zeal Zeal is defined by the Philosopher to be a mixture of anger and love when we are angry at the party or thing that injures that which we love These two affections as fire and oyle met together in Moses he loved God hated Idolatry therefore he was angry at that Idoll that was enmity against God Antient Divines have described it to be a mixt affection of griefe and anger flowing from love Griefe is an affection of the heart that wounds the soul for some present evill thus Jeremie mournes for the misery of the daughter of Sion Anger is mixed of sadnesse and a desire of revenge Esau was sad for the losse of his Birthright his heart boyled with revenge against his supplanting Brother These were the territories the Antients tyed zeal to who all shot near yet missed the mark for true zea● neither consists in hatred nor love nor sorrow nor a desire of revenge alone a channell too narrow for zeal to run in which like Nilus overflowes the whole soul the higher the fruitfuller But true zeal either consists in a mixture of all the affections or is a high and heroicall pitch of any affection that makes Heaven suffer violence A high rapture of spirituall joy is zeal that like St. Paul rapes us up into the third Heaven The Scheme in Paul's Rhetorick was zeal when he said Rejoyce in the

Lord alwaies and again I say Rejoyce By this zeal John Baptist leapt in his Mothers wombe at the presence of Mary conceiving By this zeal Simeon's trembling armes received heat to embrace our Saviour By this zeal the Angels rejoyce in heaven at a sinners conversion Surely it was a high pitch of affection and no affection but zeal that lift the soul of Diagoras of Chylon the Lacedemonian of the Roman VVidow off the hinges this affection was joy And as a high pitch of joy so strain the pegg of sorrow and it will prove zeal Joy a rapture for the present good sorrow a pressure for the present evill Rachell's sorrow for her Children Mourning and weeping and great lamentation Jeremiah's mourning for the captivity of the people Come and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow may make up the tale of zeal David's mourning all the day long watering of his couch Ezekiah's chattering as a swallow or crane in the desert is the fruit of zeal Hope when it is wafted with full sailes towards the Haven and like the Heliotrophium spreads it selfe towards the Sun of righteousnesse is zeal It was this zeal of strerched forth Hope that put this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or full assurance in Paul's mouth I am perswaded that neither death nor life c. shall be able to seperate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8. 38. And as hope so fear when it is a Graduate in the University of the Soul puts on the habit of zeal this fear must be filiall Such zeal as this was the fear of Martyrs which feared God more then thousand deaths and burnings This zealous fear of God wrought in Ignatius this heavenly resolution Fire gallowes wilde beasts breaking of my bones quartering of my members crushing of my body and all the tortures of hell come upon me so that I may enjoy my Lord Jesus and his kingdome Anger when in the forge of the affections it receives a heat more than ordinary becomes zeal In this zeal Moses broak the Tables when he saw the golden Calfe set up Phinehas in this zeal thrust through the Adulterers Samuel slew Agag Hatred when it growes inveterate and headie Aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus is zeal This is the zeal that all Saints have towards sin Satan corruption Love when it is elevated to the height is zeal such love such zeal was that of Jonathan's love stronger than death stronger then the love of a woman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rejoycing at anothers hurt when it is fixed upon the right object in a high measure is zeal that object must be malum poenae the evill of punishment not malum culpae the evill of sin In this zeal Moses and the Israel●tes sung a song of deliverance for the overthrow of Pharaoh Barak and Deborah for the death of Sisera This zeal wings David's Apostrophe to God VVash thy footsteps O Lord in the blood of thine enemies and laugh at their destruction Thus you see zeal consists not in anger love or sorrow alone but in a high pitch of all the affections or any of them In the second place we come to distinguish the severall kindes of zeal or by the touchstone of tryall to difference true from false All zeal is a fire and then true when like Eliah's fire it is from Heaven then false when like Nadab's and Abihu's it is strange fire such as God commands not False zeal may be fixed either upon the true or false object true zeal onely upon the right object When zeal is set upon the false object it may be great setting Churches and Commonweales in combustion but can never be good This wildfire is either Doctrinall in opinion or Practicall in conversation Doctrinall so the Turks are zealous for their Mahometan superstition and Alcaron the Ephesians for their Temple of Diana and silver Shrines the Church of Rome for their Popes Supremacy Images Indulgences the Brownists against the buildings of our Churches which they call Antichristian Synagogues Practicall in conversation when our zeal towards riches makes Mammom our God and things below that should be our Perspective-glasse to look towards Heaven proves our Looking-glasse when such is our zeal in Prayer that though we seem to petition first for spirituall things after for temporall our affections reads them backwards like figures valuing the latter ten times more than the former Again zeal may be false when it is fixed even upon the right object and that either in regard of the measure or means In regard of the measure either too cold which is remission or too hot which is superstition too cold and this is the temperature of carnall worldlings time-serving polititians formall professours that will seem to be Christians and yet will give no sheafe of their corn no penny of their talent no oyle of their cruse to the poor members of Christ Christians in name yet Devills incarnate indeed zealous for the smoak of their chimney's the watercourse of their channells the dust of their waies the bubble of their fame yet without any touch of conscience hear the name of God blasphemed see his Church profaned ruinated see the Fatherlesse wronged the Widow oppressed see the bleeding wounds of both Church and Common-wealth gaping Zeal upon the right object too hot which is superstition this zeale is either of them which are too hot for Ceremonies that they advance them into the chair of Substance punish the neglect of them as severely as blasphemy as murther as theft Too hot against Ceremonies that while they brand others with superstition surmount the highest Tower of superstition forsaking holy solemnities for a Ceremony the Sacrament for a gesture the Ministry for things of the least moment pay Tithe of Annise Mint and Cummine let passe the wonderfull things of God strain at a Gnat and swallow a Camell False zeal yet fixed upon the right object in regard of the means and ground upon which it is builded builded either upon ignorance our own ends or other men Ignorance of them that are hot in themselves a spur to others a censurer of all men that are slacker then they in duties that ought to be done yet they know no ground in Scripture no reason in Nature why This is false zeal the zeal of ignorant Romists to believe as the Church believes Zeal upon the right object for our own ends thus Judas was zealous for the bag the People in the Wildernesse for the Bread the Priests of Bell for the Wheat and Oyle those in Tertullian's time that went with the Christians to the Assembly of Prayer because they were commonly attended with Love-feasts This is false zeal because it is not a heat of the heart but of the stomack and may be so sincere as to arise out of the bowells yet it ends in the belly False zeal upon the right object when it is builded upon men zealous of the Word when it is

promised to be a Husband to the widow a Father to the fatherlesse a succour to the poor a guide to the stranger They that offer wrong to these strive to separate those whom God hath wedded to himselfe by holy affections by promises by his Son Jesus Therefore see what God saies Exod. 22. 22. Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherlesse child if thou afflict them in any wise and they cri● at all unto me I will surely hear their cry and my wrath shall wax hot and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shal be widowes and your children father lesse Lastly all filthy unnaturall and abominable lusts of the flesh these rebell against the spirit anger God the Father of spirits witnesse the adultery of David for which the sword never departed from his house those thousands of Benjamites that were slain for abusing the Levit's wife those Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah that were buried in the fiery flakes of brimstone Thus we have discovered a few of the chiefest of those sins that provoke Gods anger By these and all others let us examine our souls and sit an audit in our consciences whether we have any share in kindling of Gods anger or no. O that many mens consciences did not tell them without examination and that we did not see by daily experience that Hos 4. 2. by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing of adultery men break out that blood touches blood Thus much for the Use of Examination The next Use is of Enquiry if it be so that we have angered God how we may foresee and know the day of his anger Mariners desire to so see a storm diggers in Mines a damp souldiers would be forewarned that they may be fore-armed against the comming of their enemies The tru●h is God for the most part keeps the expresse day of his anger in his secret will to himselfe yet many times shewes that it is near and those are either such as must infallib●y come to passe as the last Judgment or are revealed to us with a condition as Niniveh shall be destroyed if they repent not Jerusalem shall be demolished if she will not know the day of her visitation Judas shall smart for it if he betray his Lord and Master and these events which are conditionally proposed to us may be known three waies First by the threatnings and menaces of Gods Prophets and Ministers for they are his mouth and as long as they speak his Word cannot lie If the Prophet tell Zedechiah that if he go to the Battle he must be slain tarry at home he must or die If Daniel tell Nebuchadnezzar that God was angry at the great Tree he must either give over his beastly lusts or live with the beasts So when Gods Ministers threaten a day of anger against any Nation Citie Family for their proud transgressions it must of necessity come to passe either here or hereafter be repented of here or for ever punished hereafter The second signe whereby we may know that the day of Gods anger is at hand are lesser plagues that he sends as fore-runners and harbingers of severer wrath like Tamberlain he first hangs out his Ensigne of peace then his red Crosse of justice and musters smaller plagues against us if then we return not and strike a League he hangs out his black Flag of implacable wrath skirmaging and massacring till neither Prince nor People root nor branch be left He is like a Man of war discharges a warning-piece at his enemies if they despise that quits the Hatches of them with a second strikes off their mani-Mast with a third and so sinks them He sends little flashes before the great thunder-crack come Hence it is that his anger is first compared to a smoak then to a kindling of fire then to a flame of fire then to a consuming fire then to an unquenchable fire He sent to the Egyptians Frogs Lice Locusts Murrain Blood Darknesse Hail Death of the First-born and lastly an utter Overthrow Christ Matth 24. having told Jerusalem of warrs rumours of warrs troubles famines pestilences earthquakes ends his speech with a nondum finis yet is not the end these are but the beginnings of trouble To apply What shall we think God meant by the late threatning of dearth and famine such streams of blood-shed in our neighbour Nations feavours and pestilences scattered abroad as though the destroying Angell were shooting at Rovers I will not conclude that his day of anger is at hand and that he will make us the Butt at which he will discharge his whole Quiver of Arrowes but this I say that either repentance or destruction must follow Neither is it the least signe that a day of vengeance is at hand and that the Lord hath a controversie with his people when he takes holy and religious men zealous Ministers from amongst them If a Seal be plucked from an Evidence it argues the whole Writing shall be torn assunder cancelled throwne in the fire burned Godly men are as a Signet on Gods hand Seales and Pledges that he will not destroy the righteous with the wicked A royall Priesthood whom he oftentimes takes away that they may not see the ensuing misery as Pearles pluck'd from Rings Wheat gathered from the Tares foretells the one must to the furnace to be new moulded the other to the fire to be burn'd As children taken from the breasts of mothers adjudged to die that they may not see their execution Thus God sent Lot and his Family out of Sodom and then rained down fire and brimstone upon them After God had taken away the godly King Iosiah what miseries and calamities like waves one in the neck of another pursued the Jewes till their utter desolation The third signe whereby to know that a day of God's anger is at hand is his suffering of sin long to raigne unpunished Vespasian had for his Ensigne an Anchor with a Dolphin painted in it an Anchor to signifie that he was slow in comming a Dolphin that he was fierce in taking revenge It is the Tree that continues unpruned that must be hewen down the Oxen that go in fat Pastures that must to the shambles So sinners if God feed them it is but to fat them for the knife if he preserve them it is but for further judgment This is not the least token that God hath sealed us up unlesse we repent for the day of his anger What heart though harder than Adamant would not bleed to think of the scourges of other Countries The streets running with blood the Cities burning with fire the children slain in the parents sight the old gray heads dyed in crimson blood the young led into captivity while while we are hedg'd about on every side with peace wallow in abundance and which is worse in unthankfulnesse in sin What good could we not yet promise this our Nation But when the Streets rings with swearing and profanenesse Markets