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A63825	Forty sermons upon several occasions by the late reverend and learned Anthony Tuckney ... sometimes master of Emmanuel and St. John's Colledge (successively) and Regius professor of divinity in the University of Cambridge, published according to his own copies his son Jonathan Tuckney ...; Sermons. Selections	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1676 (1676)	Wing T3215; ESTC R20149	571,133	598

Helias To this ignorant zeal referr rash zeal when without due consideration of particulars on the sudden men engage and rush upon action Moses anger we read waxed hot when upon his coming Exod. 32. 19. down from the Mount he saw the golden calf and the people dancing and though his sudden breaking of the tables upon it was ordered by God to convey a good Moral to us yet that passionate hastiness it may be had a touch of this Rashness or if not as some See Calvin in locum Chrysestom Hierom Ainsworth conceive it had not yet that of Israels sudden resolution of going to war against the two Tribes and half Josh 22. 12. and against the Benjamites Judg. 20. 8. had in it too much precipitancy Hitherto refer also all indiscrete zeal when not managed with sobriety and wisdom as Psal 112. with zeal v. 1. is joined discretion v. 5. but so weakly and indiscreetly with such antique looks and gestures such foolish attempts and actions as makes all ridiculous And can that which is so justly unsightly to men be in it self or make us pleasing in the sight of God No remember the four beasts Revel 4. 8. had alas oculatas their wings full of eyes which zelum cum scientia ac fide conjunctum designavit Mede as one well upon that place The wings expressed zeal but the eyes in them wisdom and knowledge to guide it as John Baptist was not only a burning but also a shining light John 5. 35. But yet more burning than shining Fervor ei quodammodo substantialior videtur as Bernard saith of him and this withal Serm. 3. de verbo Isaiae p. 68. Lucet Joannes tanto utique clarius quanto amplius fervet tanto verius quanto minus appetit lucere as when David● heart was hot yet his tongue was silent Psal 39. 2 3. there had need be light as well as heat else there will be more of the smothered heat of hell than of the kindly warmth of heaven in it especially if Secondly It wants sincerity as well as knowledge for the ground-work and carrying on of it as when in hypocrisy and out of design it 's wholly or in part counterfeit for our own sinister ends worldly advantage vain-glory and applause and accordingly managed with pride and ostentation In all which Jehu's zeal was grosly faulty when pretending God his eye was on a Kingdom and yet would have mens eyes on him as a great zealot Come and see my zeal for the Lord 2 Kings 10. 16. This the Pharisees zeal was also deeply guilty of that they might be seen of men and Matth. 6. ● 5 10. have glory of them of which also Luther accused the Monks and Friars of his time that were very loud and seemed to be exceeding zealous but it was rather for their Paunch than the Pope whilst he said of himself At non eram it à glacies frigus ipsum in defendendo Papam his zeal for his then-Religion was more plain and honest hearted whilst theirs was selfish and counterfeit which is so far from commending us to God as it justly makes us abominable both to God and Man Too costly a paint to be laid on so rotten a Sepulchre that zeal that noble spark which is the flower vigour spirit and quintessence of all the affections should be so debased as to be prostituted and made a stalking-Horse to such poor and low projects that divine flame to be only a torch to give them light more speciously to go about their works of darkness The Apostl● gave it too good a Name when he here called it dung not only to be lost but with detestation to be cast away that we may win Christ 3. And the like we may say of our zeal if it be not principled and guided with love pity meekness and moderation For how should love be absent from our zeal which is the chief ingredient of it It being intense love of God and our Brethren that should make us zealous for him and against any practice or person so that it should not burn up our compassion and meekness even towards them against whom we are so zealous The fine flower of the meat-offering in the law was to be baked we heard in the frying-pan which the Ancients I told you said typed out zeal but it was to be mingled with oil Levit. 2. 7. by which the same Authors would have us understand meekness and gentleness which should always go with our zeal the better to temper it as the hot heart in nature hangs in water the better to cool and moisten it And as our Saviour sent forth his disciples by pares so he suted them when he joined a zealous Luther and a meek Melanchthon together and so the hard stone and the soft morter built up the wall the sooner as before a zealous Elijah and a meek Moses were speaking with Christ in the Mount It 's into the Mount to a great height that we then get when such a Moses and an Elijah Matth. 17. 3. meet if we be meekly zealous especially if they meet and speak with Christ if they be truly Religious and Christian not only with whom but in whom a Moses and Elijah fully and transcendently met Highest zeal you 'l say when you see it eating him up whilst he whips the buyers and sellers out of the Temple John 2. 15 17. But you must say too and most compassionate pity and meekness at the same time when you read Mark 3. 5. that whilest he was most angry and you never expresly read him angry Exod. 32. 19. Levit. 10. 16. Numb 12. 3. Berengosius in Bib. Patrum Tom. 2. p. 556. but there yet even then and there you read too that out of compassion he was grieved for the hardness of their hearts as Moses we sometimes find very angry in the cause of God and yet the meekest man upon earth as the same spirit which appeared upon the Apostles in the resemblance of fire Acts 2. 3. descended upon Christ in the likeness of the meek dove Matth. 3. 16. If therefore on the contrary our zeal instead of love be imbittered with hatred and malice it 's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bitter zeal as the Apostle calls it James 3. 14. zelus amaritudinis non amoris as Divines speak the one of which is to be blown up but the other to be put out and quite extinguished Or if it be inflamed into discontent a touch whereof David had when his heart was hot and glowed Psal 39. 3. and Ezekiel when he went on God's errand but in the bitterness and heat of his spirit Ezek. 3. 14. or Rage and Fury that like Solomon's mad Prov. 26. 18. man it casts fire brands arrows and death Boanerges thunderclaps all devouring words and actions as zealous Jehu used to drive 2 King 9. 20. Luke 13. 14. Act. 5. 17 33. 7. 54. 13. 45. 22. 23. furiously and those

are to be taken with such trifles Our Apostle telleth us No that Meat commendeth us not to God nor doth his Kingdom 1 Cor. 8. 8. Rom. 14. 17. Prov. 8. 21. consist in meat and drink but in those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost It is Christ who is substance that must make us substantially happy not zeal for trifles that can afford solid comfort 2. Sometimes our zeal is pitched upon that which is intrinfecally and sometimes notoriously bad and sinful So the smith sweats with making an Idol Isa 44. 12. So the Jewish Zelots Joseph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 4. cap. 11. Hammond on Matth. 10. Annot c. under that name committing all riots and bloudiness imaginable And you will think Paul's zeal here was not very well placed when it was so hot upon it in persecuting the Church Oh the hellish heat of many Sinners in their hot pursuits of revenge malice lust c. But will zeal not against sin but for sin commend us to God who hateth it perfectly and punisheth it in Hell-fire Eternally No they must be the sweet spices burnt that make the Exod. 30. 34 35 c. holy sweet perfume in his nostrils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It 's good to be zealously affected always if it be in a good thing Gal. 4. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 zealously affect the best gifts 1 Cor. 12. 31. and if we would be a peculiar people to God we must be zealous but then it must be of good works Tit. 2. 14. It was not for sin but against sin that Lot David and Paul were so zealous that 2 Pet. 2. 7. Psal 119. 139. 2 Cor. 11. 29. gained Gods approbation And when it 's only sin that condemns us surely zeal for sin cannot justifie us 3. Our zeal may be against sin and yet not rightly pitched when it 's only against other mens sins and not our own So Judah was all fire and tow against Tamar for playing the Harlot bring her forth and let her be burnt Gen. 38. 24. till by the staff signet and bracelet he came to know that it was himself by whom she was with Child and then we hear no more of it the fire was quenched presently And it 's said that Davids anger was greatly kindled against the man whilest he knew not that he was the man 2 Sam. 12. 5 7. and our Paul as exceedingly Gal. 1. 14. zealous as he saith he was yet it was against Christians and their sins as often it falleth out that what we are so zelous against in others in not sin but what we conceit and make to be so whereas there was enough in himself and rather than fail even that his misguided fiery zeal for him to have been zealous against which he rather applauded himself in But this makes such fire of our zeal to be like some scare-fires in which the fire leapeth over the next Houses and seizeth on those that are further off whereas in nature fire warms and burns that first and most which is nearest and so in Grace God over-heareth Ephraim bemoaning himself most bitterly Jer. 31. 18. And David when more awakened cries out of himself Is it not I even I it is 2 Sam. 24. 17. 1 Chron. 21. 17. Deut. 33. 9. that have sinned let thy hand be against me and against my fathers house And Levi when he was zealous for God acknowledged not his brethren nor knew his own Children The righteous man who is accepted by God as he is justified and liveth by his own faith so he hath most indignation against his own sins not as some who as the Lamiae have their eyes in their pocket while they are at home and only put them on when they go abroad to see and to be hot and angry against other mens sins and as I said such often as they will make to be sins but indeed are not and let me add though they be indeed sins yet out of a natural proud and pettish frowardness in our selves and want of love to others that which makes us so angry and as we think zealous in other mens sins is because it displeaseth rather us than God and rather thwarts our touchy humour or it may be outward design or interest than Gods holy Nature and will But this is a distempered heat and no true zeal Passion without Compassion which our Saviours zeal was ever happily tempered with as we read Mark 3. 5. when he looked upon the Jewes with most anger that he was withal grieved and that for the hardness of their hearts And thus in these and the like respects our even Religious zeal may be far from commending us to God if first thus misplaced and mis-pitched upon wrong objects Secondly if ill grounded for the inward cause and principle To which let me add and as ill guided in the undue management of it if not principled and managed with knowledge sincerity and love First If principled and managed without knowledge For this sharp knife need be in a wary hand and wisely handled So our Apostle tells us the Jews had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a zeal and that of Act. 21. 20. God a religious zeal but it was not according to knowledge as also Act. 22. 3. he himself had and acted acordingly but he saith he did it ignorantly 1 Tim. 1. 13. but therefore oftentimes the more headily and furiously as the mettled blind horse runs headlong Sedulius on Rom. 10. did minus dicere when he said Non multum prodest habere zelum non habere scientiam that zeal without knowledge did little good No rather knowledge without zeal doth little good but zeal without knowledge is in danger to do a great deal of hurt The one is like a Ship that hath a good Card and Pilot but without Sail and so stirs not the other hath a large sail but wants Compass and Pilot to steer it aright and so soon runs upon the Rock and here oftentimes the more blind the more bold and the less light the more heat more ignorant men are usually the more zealous This sometimes hitteth right as it hath been observed of the Martyrs in Queen Maries dayes the more unlearned men and the weaker women were more couragious in the cause of Christ than the greater Scholars the spirits of the one being more in their heads but of the other more in their hearts And here we may use Bernards words Bonum erat tibi si ignifer magis esses quàm lucifer But most commonly it falls out otherwise Serm. 3. in Isaiam that zeal without knowledge as in the Bores wars in Germany and our combustions at home proves most tumultuous and pernicious when he is most cried up as Calvin saith sometimes he was chosen as the best Preacher ut quisque clamosissimus erat stolido furore praeditus quem illi zelum vocant quo nunquam arsit