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A77155	Zeale for Gods house quickned: or, A sermon preached before the assembly of Lords, Commons, and Divines, at their solemn fast Iuly 7. 1643. In the Abbey Church at Westminster. Expressing the eminencie of zeale requisite in church reformers: / by Oliver Bowles, Pator of Sutton in Bedfordshire. Published by order of both Houses of Parliament.	Bowles, Oliver, ca. 1577-1646?	1643 (1643)	Wing B3884; Thomason E63_6; ESTC R9592	34,766	57

inability to help themselves in their passage from Babylon to Ierusalem So we being now upon a further progresse not from Babylon as some have unjustly slandered us but from the remnants of Babylon to the new Ierusalem our work is the Lord assisting to humble our soules before him in a more then ordinary way Oh that the Lord would put us into such a posture of abasement as might make both our persons and services acceptable before him so should we not doubt but the Lord Christ would be in the middest among us The words read unto you are for the latter part taken out of the sixty ninth Psalme uttered by David as a type of Christ as appears by this application of them Consider in the verse first the Scripture alledged secondly the meanes whereby it came to be alledged For the latter it was an act of a sanctified memory in the Disciples calling to minde what was written whereunto the fact done did serve as a remembra●cer Observe Observ That conscionable reading of holy Scriptures shall be attended with seasonable remembring That is conscionable reading when we take up reading the Scriptures in the severall seasons which the Lord commands as an act of obedience unto him this shall have seasonable remembring for so is the promise of Christ Iohn 14.26 The Comforter shall bring all things to your remembrance How industrious then should we all be in frequent search of Scriptures Are not they the Paradise of God wherein growes the Tree of Life Ambr. Ep. 42. and the leaves are good to heale the Nations Are not Scriptures as that Poole whereunto God hath promised a vertuall power wherein we may wash and be cleane Scriptures are that golden Mine wherein we may dig riches that may make us rich to God that enrich us to life eternall Luther in Gen. 19. So zealous was Luther to have the Scriptures read that he professed that if he thought that the reading of his Books would hinder the reading of the Scriptures he would burne them all before hee died But thus much of these things briefly the Scripture it selfe alledged being that which I intend principally by Gods help to insist upon And in this Scripture alledged in the Text three particulars offer themselves 1. The grace Zeale 2. The Object whereabout it was conversant Gods House 3. The Degree wherein it seized upon David and Christ they were eaten up with it Quest First then for the Grace it selfe What is Zeale Answ It is a holy Ardour kindled by the holy Spirit of God in the affections improving a man to the utmost for Gods glory and the Churches good Zelus est intensus gradus purae affectionis It is not so much any one affection as the intended degree of all Affections are the motions of the Will as carried out to the prosecution of good or avoiding of evill They are as the Philosopher speaks exitus animae the out-goings of the soule What the Wheeles are to the Cart the Sinewes to the Body Wings to the Bird the Wind to the Sailes spread such are the Affections to the Soule implanted by God to carry it hither and thither as the objects do more or lesse affect Man lies like a logge the soule moves not but as the Affections stirre For their order they are so placed in the soule as that they are subservient one to another the irascible to the concupiscible When the desiring faculties flag grow remisse by intervenient impediments then comes in the irascible faculties as removens impedimenta as taking away the impediments and is not this that which is properly called Anger This made Luther to say Ira suo loco est optimum Dei donum The second thing is the Object Gods House the house of God under the Law was all the externall pledges of Gods presence the Altars Temple Tabernacle Ark c. The house of God under the Gospel is as the people of God elsewhere so the Ordinances of God here The third thing is the Degree hath eaten me up a metaphor taken from men that receive nourishment and the meat after its severall concoctions is assimilated into the nature of them that receive it Zeale doth totally surprize us in what concerns God we so minde the things of God as if we minded nothing else What was said of Peter that he was a man made all of fire and of Saint Paul in respect of his sufferings that he was a spark of fire burning in the middle of the sea Flamma inextinguibilis in medio mari that may be much more said of Christ when he was upon the work of Church-reformation The Text thus opened this proposition offers it selfe Doct. That Church-reformation doth call for utmost zeale Our love to promote that work must be such Can. 4 12. as many waters cannot quench Our desires must be enlarged Ps 119 20 as those which break through all impediments admit of no deniall give me my request or I die Vers 171. our hope must be more longing our endeavours full of activity our hatred of the opposites more perfect our anger in removing the hindrances more violent These stirrings of the Spirit expell Lukewarmnesse induce Zeale Zeale sets on work the whole tide of our affections Psa 87.7 All my springs are in thee in promoting the good of Gods Church David had a spring-tide of his affections they all ran in that channell To what dangers hazards and censures did Christ here in the exercise of his zeale expose himselfe in the case of Church-reformation Davids zeale for the setling of the Ark how did it make him deny himselfe in his most necessary refreshings I will not goe into my house c. Psa 132.3 his house was no house his bed no bed his rest no rest so in his worldly credit I will yet for my Gods sake 2 Sam. 6.22 bee more vile So in those innumerable heaps of gold and silver 1 Chro. 29.3 which out of his earnest zeale he had prepared and set apart for the building of the Temple Nehemiah that Embleme of Reformers what a measure of zeale did he discover in leaving all his Court preferments putting himselfe in his owne person upon a hazardfull and tedious journey in the encounters and oppositions both open and secret he met withall in his expensefulnesse and that to prodigality as it may seeme for the common cause in his unwearied persisting in the work till it was accomplished How iron-like was the spirit of Elias how did he out of a spirit of zeale against the Idolatry of Baal set his face against Ahab Iezebell and all the Priests of Baal how was he driven to flie for his life some Geographers compute his journey at many hundreds of miles How great were the exigences he was put unto even near affamishment to a wearinesse of his life Iohn the Baptist of what an invincible spirit he was his encounter with a generation of vipers

writers and fruitfull in all manner of wickednesse wherein the Pope got up on horseback What saith a good writer of the Clergy of that time What do we Ministers who are so much the more inferior to others in holinesse of life as we are more eloquent in words who stirring up others fall asleep our selves Ansb. in Apoc. lib. 5. c. 11. holding out light to others are so much the more darkned in our selves So when did Antichristianisme and Mahometisme grow to their full maturity An. Dom. 1300. Hug. in Ps 104 was it not then when the Prelates became I doll shepherds when the Pastors became Wolves and the Angels of the Churches Devills Was not the wickednesse of the Priests a principall in-let of the Saxons to expell the Brittains out of this land Brittany Vide Gild. a p. 58. ad finem saith a good Author hath priests but foolish ones they understand not Pastors as they are called but indeed Wolves ready to slay the soules of the people not seeking the good of the people but the fulnesse of their owne bellies c. So for matter of Doctrine when the Saxons invaded this land Beda lib. 1. c. 7. the Pelagian heresie had with a filthy contagion defiled the Brittaines faith Should not zeale bestirre it selfe when such evils as these overspread a State The second Head to be considered is what influence zeale ought to have into Reformers First Zeale will and must doe her work throughly It is Gods work men must not halve it there is danger least corruptions grow againe unlesse pull'd up by the roots Experience hath taught what sad persecutions a partiall reformation hath made way for What hope doth such an imperfect proceeding give to the enemies that wee will come on to them againe Secondly Zeal must and will summon all the powers of soul and body and all that we can prevaile withall to further the work God delights in men of activity he cares not for the dull Asse to be offered in Sacrifice the neck of it was to be broken It was earnest Baruch that had the prayse above the rest The twelve Tribes did serve God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Neh 3.20 Act. 26. What should wee be earnest for if not for God and his cause Wilt thou be earnest for thy friend thy profit thy pleasures and cold for thy God Thirdly Zeale after she is convinced of the justice of the cause over-looks all dangers though never so great So Caleb when hee heard of the difficulties resolves Let us goe up at once So Esther If I perish I perish So Saint Paul What doe you weeping and breaking my heart It also treads under foot all allurements all hope of great things God doth now as good as say That which I have planted Ier. 45.4 5. I will pluck up and seekest thou great things for thy selfe 2 King p. 26. Is it now a time to receive money and to receive garments and Oliveyards and Vineyards and sheep and oxen Fourthly Zeale helps a Reformer against the tentation of being alone This prevailes much especially where the devill and our carnall friends carch us at an advantage and amplifie the discouragement How have the mighty been here overthrown Zeal takes notice for the support of her selfe of Ioshua his resolution Chuse yee whom yee will but I and my house will serve the Lord So of Elias his complaint that he was left alone 2 Tim. 4. Vnitos est fundamentum numeri So of Paul At my first answering no man assisted me Zeale takes notice that numbers begin in one and had there not beene one first there had never been two Fiftly Zeale commands perseverance and holding out in the work Many begin in the spirit but end in the flesh how many brave worthies that blossom'd faire come on as promising great things yet have split them upon the rock of an unfound heart withered away if not in the end proved false to God and their Countrey worthy Patriots for a time but their hearts failing them they prove 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as relinquish their station In Christianis non initia sed fines laudantur He only receives the Crown that overcomes That heat in a Reformer that is from heaven will hold out not that which is meerely adventitious set on work from outward causes The third Head how zeale must bee qualified 1 It must bee founded in knowledge the understanding is the eye of the soule As mettall is dangerous in a blind horse so zeale when not directed by a judgment well informed zeale as fire must have light as as well as heat It is Hell where there is heat and no light but utter darknesse The minde and so zeale cannot bee good without knowledge The Jewes zeale defective in that not according to knowledge This zeale must not be conjecturall Rom. 10.1 probably seeming such only as wee have received from others without examination Nothing more ordinary then plentifull allegations of Scripture to carry a cause it matters not how specious and frequent quotations of Scripture there bee as what they prove upon found tryall You whom God hath betrusted with this work take not all for gold that glisters 2 It must bee ordered with wisdome zeale must bee wary as well as warme Fire is good but in a wise mans hands that will not put it into the thatch fire is good in the Chimney but if it catch the rafters of the house it sets all on fire Sapientis est videre non quid debeas solùm sed quid possis In the encounter with vice to bee Reformed wisedome will not have a Reformer to set upon the Reforming Quando necesse id ut sit impar vitio that will but enrage vice more Many mischiefes men that meane well are subject to even their good endeavours Eccl. 10. but wisdome is profitable to direct Beware here of that overwary discretion that destroyes reale 3 It must bee tempered with love zeale is apt to bee harsh but love lines the yoak and makes it easie to bee borne fit zelus said my Author but non immoderate saeviens August in 6. Galat. c. Love takes us off from all bitternesse to mens persons Dilige dic quod voles love and say what you will Love allowes us to be warme sharp home in our reproofes but not scalding hot The stomack admits not that which burnes the lips nor the eare that reproofe that is contumelious Love calls upon us as to bee zealous for the truth so to make it our work to endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Ephes 4.3 What should rend and divide us one from another whom the Lord hath united with so many bonds as to meet in one God one Christ one Spirit one Faith one Baptisme one Heaven Farre be it from us on whom the Apostle hath laid so many charges if any consolation in Christ Phil. 2.1 if