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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89564	A divine project to save a kingdome: Opened in a sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen, of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Munday, Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods word at Finchingfield in Essex. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M752; Thomason E47_31; ESTC R20669	34,916	50

consider this description Some describe it to bee an intense degree of love some a compound of love anger and indignation others call it imensus gradus purae affectionis But a little more largely take it thus Zeale it is a spirituall heat kindled by the Spirit of God whereby all the affections are drawne out to the utmost for God this is zeale First I call it a worke of the Spirit the holy Ghost is the author of it it is named among the fruits of the Spirit Ephes. 5. 18. Be not drunken with wine wherein is excesse an excesse of heat is wrought by wine avoyd that but be yee filled with the Spirit and such are said to bee baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire Matth. 3. 11. Act. 2. 34. Secondly I adde it is a spirituall heat The word in the originall is to burne or hisse as burning coales when water falls on them and zealous men are said Rom. 12. 11. to bee fervent in spirit And zealous Apollos was said to bee fervent in spirit Act. 18. 25. Moreover the sinnes opposed to zeale luke-warmenesse and key-coldnesse Revel. 3. Thou art lukewarme I would thou wert either hot or cold doe sufficiently shew that the nature of zeale is a spirituall heate Thirdly the seate or subject of this grace you have in these words all the affections the affections are the motions of the will the outgoings of the soule a mans soule moves little or nothing in prosecuting of good or avoyding of evill but as the affections stirre now all the affections are the proper seate and subject of zeale See all of them in David whom the zeale of Gods house had eaten up his love Oh how I love thy Law more then hony more then thousands of gold and silver his hatred Doe not I hate them that hate thee yea I hate them sore I count them my enemies it made him flie in their faces his joy My soule is satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse his desire My soule is ravished with desire his griefe Rivers of waters run downe my eyes his hope My eyes are dim with waiting his feare I tremble at thy judgements c. Fourthly I adde that which is indeed the formalis ratio the very soule of zeale it drawes out all the affections to the uttermost sets them on worke to the uttermost and therefore they are said to doe it with all their soule all their strength all their might The twelve Tribes with intention of spirit served God night and day Acts 26. 7. What Hezekiah did for God hee did it with all his might 2 Chron. 31. 21. So did Josiah 2 King 23. 25. he did it with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his might In a word looke what pitch of affection a worldling bestowes upon Mammon an ambitious man upon honour a voluptuous man upon pleasure that doth zeale draw out for God Yea looke what an edge is to a Razor look what wine is to a mans spirit what the soule is to the body wings to a bird winde to sayles what mettle is to a horse looke what vivacity and vigour is to any creature that is zeale to a Christian It is that that acts his soule the vigour activity the fervency of his affections that is zeale Then I adde that all this must be for God as they are drawne out to the utmost so they are drawne out for God that is for some thing or other that belongeth to God in order in relation to God and Gods Glory Gods Sabbaths Gods Sacraments Gods Worship Gods Children or against Gods Enemies those that rise up against him things that God hateth his owne word If you will carry it all away in a short Sentence A zealous man is a man of mettle for God As we say of a man that is all spirit he is a man of mettle so that man that is a zealous man is a man of mettle and spirit for God But because I have not yet satisfied my selfe in making it so cleere as I would before I come to any application or to make you understand why it should have that influence upon Gods wrath to pacifie it give me leave to open five remarkeable properties and effects that doe evermore accompany this grace of holy zeale The first is this I pray know that zeale is not the substance of a Christian it 's onely the edge And therefore if you know rightly where zeale is to be found you must enquire what the mettle is upon which this edge is most to be set As for example bring me an Instrument that hath never so delicate an edge that will cut an haire off the back of a mans hand if the mettle be Lead or Iron if it bee not Steele the edge is not worth any thing enquire we therefore what the mettle is upon which the edge is set Know then that the mettle of the heart that is for God is sincerity sincerity and uprightnesse is the substance and ground-worke of a servant of God and zeale is but the edge of his sincerity Now then here I lay downe my first conclusion That no man can ever be zealous for God that is not sincere unto God This sincerity is the applying of a mans heart to God for Gods end zeale is the doing of this fervently with strength of affection take but away sincerity that the heart be not upright to God what zeale soever you find in any of them it will either prove blind zeale like mettle in a blind horse that will never doe any good or you will finde it corrupt zeale counterfeit zeale that a man may come and appeare mightily as if for God but this is but a vizard and in the meane while his owne gaine his owne preferment his owne ease or some other carnall thing is that which he aimeth at Like Demetrius and his company Acts 19. 22. who pretended great zeale for Diana went up and downe crying Great is Diana of the Ephesians but this was but a vizard the true cause of all their heat was nothing but this Sirs you know that by this craft we have our living and now this craft is like to be set at naught Such a zealot was Jehu who was fierce against Baal and pretended much for Jehuvah Come see my zeale for the Lord but the bottome of all was the setling the Crowne upon himselfe Further then that hee tooke no heed to walke in the wayes of God 2 King 10. And such another was Judas John 12. 56. who pretended zeale for the poore Quorsum haec perditio This oyntment might have beene sold for much money and given to the poore But it was the satisfaction of his covetousnesse he aimed at Thus Doeg would be detained a whole day before the Lord with a mischievous intent against David and the Priests This zeale which thus maskes it selfe and makes Gods honour but a stale and lure is so farre from pacifying Gods wrath

after Phinehas had done that excellent act but God taketh no notice of that but the thing hee plainly layd downe was this that Phinehas had pacified his wrath hee had quenched and cooled his revenged justice which was kindled against them That was the cure And from this the lesson that I observe is this v●z That the pacifying of Gods wrath is the removing of the Plague whatsoever the Plague bee bee it the Sword bee it the pestilence be it famine be it wild beasts bee it what ever any people had experience of pacifying of Gods wrath is the removing of the plague the Lord himselfe saith that hee had pacified his wrath and thereby yeelds the case as granted on their side no further evill was to bee done against them now Gods wrath was pacified And I desire you that you would first see how plaine it is in the Scripture and then I hope it will bee a profitable lesson for this great Assembly That the pacifying of Gods wrath is the removall of every plague I need give you no other evidence then this That the people of God under all their judgements which at any time they have laine have never made any other suite to God but one that hee would turne his wrath away from them I might give you 40. severall examples of it when they have sometimes laine in captivitie sometimes under the Sword of an enemy pestilence hath raged c. their onely suite to God was this that hee would but turne away his wrath from them Psal. 80. 3. 7. 85. 4 5. Dan. 9. 16 17. c. Their onely suite was to this effect when they lay under most heavy plagues and judgements Lord cause thine anger to cease towards us wilt thou be angry for ever wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations let thine anger and thy fury bee turned away from thy Citie Jerusalem cause thy face to shine upon thy Sanctuary that is desolate cause thy face to shine upon us and wee are safe still begging at Gods hands this one onely mercy that hee would but meerely pacifie his wrath and there is all the cure they desired You shall likewise find that in Scripture all kind of judgments are called by the name of Gods wrath and his indignation and severall plagues are called the arrones of his indignation the weapons of his indignation and the end of a plague is called the end of the indignation In the 8. Dan. v. 19. I will make thee know what shall bee in the last end of indignation hee meant the end of the plague of Antiochus but hee nameth nothing but Gods indignation end the one and you end all and this you may clearely understand if you please but to weigh these two things with me First that the wrath and indignation of God is not onely the greatest plague of all other to Gods people as indeed it is but it is the onely cause of all other plagues sinne indeed is the meritorious cause but the wrath of God is the onely efficient cause the onely worker there is nothing that is imaginable to bee a plague upon Gods people that can come out of any other spring or storehouse from any other hand but onely from the wrath of God I say there is nothing that is worthy the name of a plague or that is a plague which can come from any other fountaine or storehouse but onely from Gods wrath from God it must come that is without all question Affliction doth not rise out of the dust nor originally from any creature all the devils in hell are not able to inflict one plague without God not kill a poore hog c. This no man who is not an Atheist doubteth of now if they come from God they must either come from his favour or from his wrath there are but these two Well-heads they are indeed acts of his power and providence but are done according to the counsels of his will either his good pleasure or his displeasure If they come from Gods displeasure there is wrath if not from that they all come from his love Now this I propound to your serious thoughts that whatsoever betideth any man in the world those self-same things that are unsufferable intolerable hard things when they come not in Gods displeasure they are all good things things to bee rested in to bee satisfied in if they come but from the good will of God As for example take m● a man to be hanged upon a Gallowes hee is a cursed man Cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree Yet take that man that shall die the death of the crosse and let it bee out of Gods love and good will the crosse is the greatest blessing to him The Lord never loved his owne Sonne better then when he hanged upon the Crosse Therefore doth my Father love me because I will hang on the Crosse for my people And though it were a curse in the eye of the world it was the greatest mercie that ever God shewed to the Church to take his Son and hang him on the Crosse Take a Lions Den let but Daniel bee put into a Lyons Den let there nor wrath goe with it the Lyons Dens is a blessing Take Paul in all his whippings his povertie his banishments his shipwracks his buffetings and all that ever betided him let there be no wrath in it set him in the stocks doe what you will let there be no wrath and there is no plague in any of them All Jobs afflictions let the fire come downe from heaven and burne up his cattell let the wind come from heaven and strike the house at the foure corners and knock out the braines of ten children all at a time let there be no wrath in it and there is no plague in it There is no plague where there is no wrath I could give you a hundred evidences of this beleeve it the selfe same thing which to others are plagues though they may remaine yet as one calleth them wittily and truely they are silken afflictions plundering povertie plague sores undoing of outward estates they are all silken afflictions as they come from love and there is no hurt in them There is an imagination of some men but the world shall never see the truth of it of a certaine stone they call the Philosophers stone which will as these men fancy turne Iron into Gold Gods love doth it That will turne Iron into gold all crosses into blessings Iron chaines into gold chaines it will turne death plagues povertie imprisonments banishments it will turne any of these all of them into invalluable mercies let them but onely come from Gods love and well enough let but God say to the man whose house hee burneth I burne thy house but I love thee let him say to him whose child hee kocketh in the head I take thy child away in my love there is no plague then In a word the