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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

love-tricks to what his Soul endured O all ye that passe by the way behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow Alasse what can we see of thy sorrowes we can no more see thy pain than endure it only this we see that what the infinite sins almost of infinite men committed against an infinite Majesty deserved in infinite continuance of time all this Thou in the short time of thy Passion hast payed for to the full and we are bought with a price O dear Christians how ought these Earthy Rocky Adamantine hearts of ours rent in pieces at this Meditation What all these tears and pangs and groans are for us yea from us Shall the Son of God thus smart for our sins yea with our sins and shall not we grieve for our own How far were our soules gone that could not be ransomed with an easier price If thy Soul had been in His Souls stead what had become of it it shall be if His were not in stead of thine Go too now thou lewd Man that makes thy selfe merry with uncleannesse thou little knowes the price of one sin which made thy blessed Saviour cry out to the amazement of Angells and horrour of men My God my God why hast thou forsaken me But now we are bought with a price And if we be bought with a price then away with those Jubile Proclamations of Rome I mean the Supererogatory sufferings of Saints to pay forth this price a blasphemous and beggerly Principle as learned Fulk calls it Some modest Doctours of Lovain would have minced it affirming that the suffering of Saints are not truly satisfactory but only motives to move God to apply unto us Christs sufferingss but they were soon charmed by four severall Popes as their own Cardinall confesses and commanded to speak home with Bellarmine Passionibus Sanctorum expiari delicta that by the sufferings of Saints our sins are expiated and that by them applyed we are redeemed from those punishments we yet owe to God Blasphemy worthy of tearing of garments How hath Christ payed the price if we must supply the defect But we are bought with a price Take up then a Song of deliverance far more glorious than that of Moses Deborah or Gideon Art thou afraid of Satan Christ hath spoyled Principalities and Powers Art thou affraid of sin Christ was made sin that is a price for sin for thee Death Hell and the Grave are conquered that thou maist triumph Hell where is thy sting Death where is thy victory Nay this price hath payed for the abolishment of the Ceremonies of the Law Away then with New Moones Sacrifices and the rites of Judaism the vail of the Temple is rent That conceit of Theophylact is witty at least That as the Jewes were wont to rend their garments when they heard blasphemy so the Temple not enduring those execrable blasphemies against the Son of God tore her Vail apieces But that is not all The vail rent is the observation of the Rituall Law cancelled I say not that all ceremonies are cancelled by this price but the Law of Ceremonies and Jewish It is a sound distinction of the Antients that some are Typicall foresignifying Christ some of order and decency those are abrogated not these The Spouse of Christ cannot be without her laces and chains and borders But thou O Lord how long shall thy poor Church through contentious spirits finde her ornaments her sorrowes How much better were it to revive the sweet spirit of divine Saint Austine turning this contention into grar●dation glorifying God for these mercies which is the next Proposition and the last of the three Ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God All things ought to begin for to terminate in Gods glory which is the end of all our actions the centre of all our motions The Angells sounded this Trumpet at his Birth when the price was but offered shall not we for his pretious Death and Passion when it was payed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glory be to God on high This glory is Gods First a debito for we are his and that triplici jure by a threefold right of Creation as Men of Redemption as Sons of Sanctification as Saints Secondly ab integro from the whole we are composed of two parts Body and Spirit are Gods both in body and spirit therefore must glorifie him both in body and spirit Thirdly a lytro from the Ransom Empti sumus We are bought by a Synecdoche quasi redempti redeemed and re-bought and that by an Emphaticall Pleonasme pretio with a price And thus what one ought to have done a three-fold cord must move us to do to glorifie God We are Gods both in body and spirit Gods because we are redeemed both in body and spirit by the Son of God This is the main and cardinall reason let us prosecute it What mercy was ever like this for a God to sell his own Son that he might redeem his Enemies What more dear than a Son what more hatefull than an Enemy Yet oftentimes we see that the hate of an Enemy is drunk up of the love of a Son O my son Absalom would God I had dyed for thee Fulvius a Roman Senatour slew his Son for conspiring with Cateline but in Christ was no guile found Manlius adjudged his Son to die for violating the Law of Armes Christ kept the whole Law Aegeus sent his son Theseus to conflict with a Minotaur to free himselfe and his Country from deserved bondage God sent his Son to conflict with Satan Death and Hell who was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 free from all bondage The Israelites sacrificed their Children to Moloch Agamemnon his daughter Iphigenia to Neptune but they had more But God when he had no more gave his onely Son for a price Besides the infinite disproportion betwixt God and Man An act of mercy in Scripture in History not to be found the like unparallel'd unlesse a Type in Abraham and but a Type I know saies God to Abraham thou lovest me because thou hast not spared thine onely son Isaac And then shall not we O holy Father know thou lovest us that hast not spared but given thine onely Son Jesus Gods love to Christ was infinite Abraham's to Isaac but finite God gave his Son willingly Abraham as it were constrainedly God gave his Son to an ignominious death Abraham to a holy Sacrifice Isaac was in the hands of a tender Father Christ of barbarous enemies Isaac was but offered in shew Christ payed the price indeed O the infinite disproportion St. Chrysostome is rapt hereat and calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an excesse of love that is a pin to low Pareus calls it por●entum amoris a miracle of love that is yet too short St. Paul waft upon Seraphick wings styles it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 love surpassing knowledge that that 's it What can we do in lue but to the point in hand glorifie God like