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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

here is one salve for every soar made up by the Physitian of the Soul in this one Electuary Zeal If thy Grace be waining Zeal will increase it if thou be poor Zeal will present thee Gold tryed in the fire if thou be blinde Zeal is a Collyrium or Eye-salve to annoint thine Eyes withall if thou beest naked Zeal is a Garment to cover thy nakednesse withall if thy Soul be drowned with a deluge of carnall humours Zeal is a flame to drye it if thou be luke-warm Zeal is a fire to kindle thee if thy Heart be frozen Zeal is a heat to thaw it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be zealous It containes an Exhortation brought in by way of illation with this Illative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As many as I love I rebuke and chasten 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be zealous therefore God loves us therefore we must be zealous for zeal is more then an ordinary heat of love God who is infinite loved his Church infinitely the Church which is his Darling must love him fervently this fervency of love is zeal Because he rebukes us we must be zealous inkindled with zeal of anger at those sins that he rebukes us for moved with a zeal of love towards God for rebuking us with Words when he might afflict us with Swords Zealous because he chastens us with Rods and not with Scorpions sparkling with the fire of zeal at sin that chastises us but zealous of those sparks of Gods love and mercy that chastises and subdues sin in us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be zealous The word hath its name from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to seeth and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Greek Letter Z the sound that liquor makes in seething Seething presupposes boyling boyling heating heating fire This fire is affection the seething pot the soul Knowledge the fuell prayer and meditation the bellowes these inflame the heart and soul and conscience and every faculty of the inward Man neither staies it there but sparkles out into the outward Man the tongue is tipped with zeal the eye sparkles with zeal the hand brandishes the sword of zeal the feet are shod with zeal all are zealous at once for the Lord of Hostes This heat of zeal if it be right tempered in a fit quantity as heat in the third Degree is an Antidote against vice a Cordiall in afflictions a purger of corruptions But if it be too hot as in the fourth of fifth Degree it becomes a poyson a wild-fire that no waters scarce many waters scarce the milk of the Gospell will queneh It is a fire that burnes without knowledge as Ch●ysogonus his pot at Rome seethes without any fire of knowledge at all it is an ignis fatuus a blinde fire leading us in a blinde way this blinde way is the broad way that leads to destruction In briefe the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zeal generally taken is an earnest affection to any thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a thing indifferent neither good nor bad and yet either good or bad as the thing to which it is referred differences it When it soars aloft at Heaven and the Sun of righteousnesse then it is a Phoenix of vertues for this Phineas his Sword imitating the flaming Sword of the Cherubim and blind Samuel his zeal though not blinde zeal is commended By this one of the Apostles conquered more then he that was the greatest Conquerour Scipio by conquering Africk was called Africanus but Simon by conquest of Zeal was called Zelotes this Conquest was Heaven a greater than can be imagined in somnio Sc●pionis This Simon was not Simon Peter for his Motto was not Zeal but Love Simon lovest thou me But it was Simon the Canaanite not of the land of Canaan with Caph that comes from a Root that signifies he was made vile but written with Kuph comming from a Root in Pihel Kinne and signifies He was moved with zeal But Zeal when it lookes asquint and is not fixed upon the right object when Icarus-like it towers aloft without the wings of Knowledge when like an unruly flame bursting out of the Furnace it sets our neighbours house on fire it 's vitious bitter as Colliquintida for which St. James calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bitter zeal The zeal here meant is in Nature true zeal in regard of the object zeal according to knowledge in degree moderate zeal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be zealous The party exhorting was Zelotypus a zealous God out of whose mouth went a sharp two-edged Sword The parties exhorted the lukewarm Laodiceans whom neither sincerity had made hot nor hypocrisie would suffer to be cold The thing exhorted to is Zeal Zeal which when it is true drives out the distempered feavourish heat of opinion that brainsick frenzie heat of obstinacy and cures the senslesse security of that Lethargy of sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be Zealous It cannot be divided into many Propositions for it is but one and that implicite nor into many words for it is but one though explicite yet consisting of many Letters and that without superstition a sacred septenary which like the seven heads of Nilus meets all in one Chanell but here is the difference the heads of Nilus are scarce known the Head of zeal well grounded knowledge must be known Those that dwell near the heads of Nilus with the found thereof are made deafe and cannot hear but those in whose heads or rather hearts Zeal dwells are made more judicious and more quick to hear The word is one the Proposition one the Exhortation one the point of Doctrine it yields is also one Christians must be zealous Be zealous is as much as if he had said You Pastours you People must be zealous Though the Laodiceans Angell and Church be Christians in profession yet not spoke to them alone but to all Christians as the Oyntment poured on Aarons head runs down to the skirts All Christians must be zealous All Scriptures Prophets Apostles Saints Evangelists as so many Virgins with Oyle in their Lamps yield fewell to this Torch of Zeal by precept by practice Noah's zeal dryed the waters of the Flood which overtopped the Mountains and drowned the VVorld Lot's zeal by a more holy fire quenched the fire of Sodome and preserved his life in Zoar. The brightnesse of Moses his zeal was admirable outshining the brightnesse of his face Exod 32. 32. If thou wilt not forgive their sins blot me out of the book which thou hast written Blot me Does Moses his zeal as Eagles at the Sun flie at things impossible or does he wing his speech with Seraphick raptures to elevate his Rhetorick to Him that thunders in the Clouds Or is he rapt with St. Paul into the third Heaven where he conceives things unutterable and utters things unconceivable Or does he dart this by way of supposition that he would be contented with damnation upon condition of their salvation it is uncertain Yet this is most certain though

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

mention without trembling Esau lost his Birthright for preferring a messe of Pottage before it the Jewes smarted for preferring Barabbas before Christ Judas felt Gods wrath for valuing our blessed Saviour at thirty pieces of silver In every sin we prefer the service of Satan before Gods service the pleasure of iniquity before the fruits of righteousnesse death before life our own will before Gods will The fourth Reason may be taken from the effects and execution of his anger we see symptoms of Gods wrath in some in their bodies as Oehazie's leprosie some in lack of liberty as Manasses some in their children as Eli some in the gripes of a yelling conscience as Cain Judas Achi●ophel and Saul some in taking away their reason as Nabuchadnezzar in some of suddain death as Belshazzar while he was quaffing Herod while he was boasting the people of Sodom while they were wallowing in their uncleannesse Dathan and Ab●ram swallowed quick to Hell while they murmured against Moses and Aaron and usurped the Priests office Lastly in all reprobates at the last judgment which will be a day of anger indeed where his wrath shall seaze upon them for ever Hitherto the Reasons the Uses follow First of Information And how God can be angry in opening of the Text we toucht to make way to that which followed Let us further enquire wherein it consists When anger is said to be a desire of revenge as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports to desire as ravinously as a hungry stomack does meat an inflaming of the blood about the heart a sorrow of the heart for the contempt that is done to us with an inkindling of indignation against the despiser Anger as it is thus described neither for the materiall nor formall can belong to God because he is a pure Essence free from passion all-sufficient in himselfe cannot be crossed in his absolute will Yet in a sense it is true that Anger is in God and that in these three respects First it argues his will and most just decree of taking revenge and punishing the injuries and contempt offered to him and his Church as Rom. 1. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinesse that is God manifests by punishments what he hath decreed from eternity Secondly it signifies the comminations and threatnings of punishments against sinners for when God threatens to bring plagues and judgments he is said to be angry Psal 6. 1. O Lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure that is do not punish me as thou threatens me according to my sins Thirdly it signifies the effects of his displeasure and the execution it selfe of those plagues and judgments which he had before decreed and threatned Thus you see God may be said to be angry because in his will he decrees in his word he threatens in his wisdome punishes This may serve to confute that Stoicall opinion that God cannot be angry because anger say they is a disease of the soul that cannot surprise a wise man Here they may see that it derogates not but suites with the wisdome of him who is wisdome it selfe Here the Epicures may see how blasphemously they dishonour God when they say he sits idle in Heaven takes care for nothing punishes none How neer unto these are all our carnall Worldlings that take their ease eat drink and saie in their hearts Tush God cares not Let them know that for all this though they escape a while unpunished he will bruise them in pieces with a rod of iron like a potters vessell The second enquirie is Seeing God in a sense may be said to be angry whether anger be one of those Attributes that are imitable and warrantable in us or no We are commanded to be holy as he is holy mercifull as he is mercifull But of anger it may be doubted because it blindes the understanding perverts the will disorders the affections The truth is anger is not onely warrantable but sometimes not to be angry is sin This may be proved by the example of Christ Joel 2. 7. The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up Zeal is a passion mixt of anger and love by his actions in driving the buyers and sellers out of the Temple by precept Ephes 4. 25. Be ye anry and sin not that is though anger in it selfe may be good yet the inordinatenesse of it makes it a sin and that is three waies First if we be angry rashly above measure for sleight or no causes Secondly if we be angry for private injuries and not for dishonouring of God Thirdly if we be angry more for the hatred we bear to our brethren than for their sins Otherwise to be angry at sin if the action be streaming in Christs blood may be a meanes to asswage Gods anger for sin Let the second Use serve to examine our selves whether we have provoked the Lord to anger or no And if by what signes we may know the day of his anger is at hand First whether we have provoked him to anger may be known from the cause which is the contempt and contumacious despight we offer to God in every sin I 'le onely name two or three which the Scripture often mentions as the greatest incentives of his anger First Idolatry a sin that puts God out of his Throne sets up Idolls in his place which is not only when we worship other Gods but when we suffer riches honour beauty pleasure to take up or soul which should be the holy Ghosts temple This is high treason against God therefore how often shewed he his anger to the Israelites in fiery serpents plagues pestilences dearth famine sword and captivity To this may be added tempting of God rebellion against God that sin of witchcraft blasphemy hypocrisie and profaning of the Lords Day The second way whereby we may know whether we have angered God is to examine our souls whether we have been dutifull to Parents obedient to Rulers reverent to our Betters The Scripture styles them Gods they that despise them despise God in as much as they are ranked among the cursed Deut. 27. 16. Cursed is he that setteth light by his father or by his mother and let all the people say Amen Nay so great is Gods anger that he threatens the Ravens shall pull out their eyes Thirdly Murderers and those that imbrue their hands in innocent blood offer injury and despight unto God with a high hand and therefore highly displease him He that stabbs but at the Grand Sultan's Picture is guilty of treason then how shall the blood of his brother crie for vengeance against him that defaces Gods Image in Man witnesse Cain's ghastly conscience David's broken bones Judas bursten bowells and the wrath of God against the Jewes who cryed His blood be upon us and upon our children Fourthly the wronging of Widows and Orphans oppressing the poor and strangers are sins that anger God He hath