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nature_n	love_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	15	3	9.6986	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86299	The parable of the tares expounded & applyed, in ten sermons preached before his late Majesty King Charles the second monarch of Great Britain. / By Peter Heylin, D.D. To which are added three other sermons of the same author.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1729; Thomason E987_1	253,775	424

Fathers of the Primitive times grapling with Hereticks pleading the Churches cause in their Apologeticks refusing to comply with those impieties which were obtruded on them by the secular powers and sinally in going to the Scaffold with no lesse a bravery then if some Actor had been hired to mount the Theater would surely have conceived them to be men of courage and 't was no wonder if the Church did then thrive and flourish when men of courage had the conduct of her chief Affaires The like may be observed of the times succeeding though somewhat colder in their love to the Lord our Saviour as something further off from the dayes he lived in The renowned Athanasius would not stoop to Arius though patronized for a time by the famous Constantine nor yield a Temple to the Arians although required by Constantius to give way unto it St. Ambrose was resolved not to submit his judgement in a point of faith to the decisions and decrees of a Lay-Tribunal though nothing but apparent ruine was to be expected on his refusal of the same Non tanti est Ambrosius ut propter se deijciat sacerdotium And when he was commanded to desert his charge and leave it to Auxentius an Arian Heretick rather then to betray his trust he would lose his life Prius est ut animam mihi quàm fidem auferant An equal courage unto which we finde in Chrysostom contesting openly with Gainus who then commanded all both in Camp Counsel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though he required but one Church only within the City wherein the Arians whom he favoured might have leave to meet Nor might these latter and degenerate Ages wanted examples of this kind Witness that stout and noble courage which appeared in Luther who being sent for unto Wormes by Charles the Emperor to render an account of his Faith and Doctrine and much disswaded by his Friends from that desperate journey returned this gallant and couragious Answer that go he would licèt contra se tot insurrecturi essent daemones quot in tectis aedium cernerentur tegulae though all the Houses in the Town were tiled with Devils It is a saying of Paterculus Eminentes viros magnis adjutoribus usos esse that the most eminent sort of men have commonly the ablest servants And it concerns them so to have they could not else go through with those great affaires which are incumbent on their places Josuah and Caleb Moses Ministers were they not men of faith and courage What notable exploit could Moses have atcheived against his Enemies or in the conduct of Gods People to the Land of Canaan if not so seconded and assisted And if we finde so many famous Victories obtained by David was it not that he was well served and followed by men of Valour and Renown his mighty men as they are called in holy Scripture Men of weak spirits are not fit for great undertakings as being neither constant to their principles nor resolute in their conclusions And therefore 't is to be observed in Almighty God that when he sent out any of his servants on some great design he used this Item most an end viriliter agite confortamini i. e. Be strong and of a good courage as the English reads it It seemes God doth not think himself well served when he findes it otherwise when those whom he employeth in his publick service had rather flie to Tarshish then go on to Ninive And being he is the Husbandman intended in the present Parable he could not chuse but take it kindly from his Servants that they expressed so great a courage as to make offer of their best endeavours for the promoting of his business vis imus Wilt thou that we go This sheweth that they were resolved upon the imus to go forth couragiously and not to sit down idly in a time of danger But to what end they would be going and what they did resolve to do when they were going forth that we shall finde in the Colligimus We had their courage in the imus their zeal comes next in the Colligimus vis imus colligimus ea Wilt ●hou that we go and gather them up my next particular Qui non zelat non amat Where there 's no zeal there is no love no sincere affection A truth so clear and evident in St. Austins time that it was grown into a Proverb however afterwards disputed amongst the Schoolmen In vain do they pretend to love who are not zealous in behalf of the thing beloved they love not God who are not zealous of his glory nor cordially affect the Church who have no zeal unto her peace K. David rightly understood the nature of it when he affirmed it of himself in regard of God Tabescere me fecit zelus meus My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words and in relation to Gods Church quoniam zelus domus tuae comedit me The ●eal of thi●e house hath eaten me This last kind of zeal I must needs say that either hath been much mistaken or not rightly practised the times being such wherein the zeal of some Reformers hath eaten up many of the Houses of Almighty God and doubtless will devoure the remnant of Gods dwelling-places if not stopped in time therefore to set the matter right that both the Text may be restrained to its proper meaning and zeal be regulated directed by the holy Text we will explain those words of David by these words of Austin What is the man saith he who is devou●ed or eaten by a zeal to the House of God Even he qui omnia quae fortè ibi videt perversa satagit emendare cupit corrigere who studieth to amend and rectifie whatever stands inneed of a Reformation the ordinary glosse makes the same glosse on it but with some little alteration of the words and Phrase Such was the zeal expressed by the Servants here No sooner had they seen the tares in fecissent fructum and by their Masters answer found from what seed they came but they were vehemently zealous to root them out They knew full well what mischief would ensue if it were not looked to both in relation to the Field in danger to be overgrown and mastered by them and to the Children of the Church who when they trusted to be fed with the bread of life might unawares be poysoned with the bread of wickedness In both respects no course more proper as they thought than ire colligere to go and gather them before they had destroyed the Wheat or by that Gods people This they resolved to do there 's no doubt of that Their imus colligimus make that plain enough but in what way they meant to do it hath been made a question Lyra conceives their purpose was to gather them to root them up in such a way as was peculiar to the Church