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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	christian_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	13	3	8.8517	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44148	The true reformation of manners, or, The nature and qualifications of true zeal in a sermon preach'd in the parish church of Bridgewater : occasion'd by a more than ordinary concourse of dissenters there, upon that pretence / by Matth. Hole ...	Hole, Matthew, 1639 or 40-1730.	1699 (1699)	Wing H2414; ESTC R8060	15,367	34

Honour of our SAVIOUR if ever we hope to be sav'd by him He that denies me before Men saith Christ himself him will I deny before my Father that is in Heaven Now to disown the Truths of the Gospel or to refuse to appear in the defense of them when call'd in question is indeed no better than to deny him And what can such expect but to be for ever disown'd and deny'd by him at the last day Wherefore 't is both the Duty and Interest of all that are called Christians to be zealous for the Honour of Christ to vindicate his Truths and to adorn his Doctrine with a holy Conversation Thirdly To be zealous for the Church of GOD is to be zealously affected in a good thing And that as the Church is sometimes taken for the House of God and likewise for the orderly Constitution of Divine Worship perform'd in it both which are proper Matter to employ our Zeal That ardent Love we owe to God requires us to love the things of God and to have a due regard to all that belongs to him among which we are commanded to hallow his Sabbath and to reverence his Sanctuary David tells us that the Zeal of God's house had even consumed him Psal 69.9 He was so passionately affected towards the reverence and decency of those Places that he thought he could not better shew his Honour to God than by reverencing the place where his Honour dwells After that we read what time care and cost King Solomon bestow'd in building and beautifying the Temple by which he at once erected an Habitation for the Glory of his Maker and a lasting Monument of his own Honour But lest any should take this only for a piece of Old-Testament Zeal we find our Blessed Saviour so zealous for the honour of the Temple that he never discover'd a higher act of Indignation than against the Prophaners of it for himself whipp'd the Buyers and Sellers out of it who had made the House of Prayer a Den of Thieves overturning the Tables of the Money-changers and the Seats of them that sold Doves and that with an Indignation too so much beside his ordinary temper that the Disciples could not but call to mind and apply to him what was prophesied of him The Zeal of thy house hath eaten me up By this great example we learn that a true Christian Zeal may be well employ'd about the purifying of God's house and securing it from all profanation Moreover we find the Apostles extremely zealous for the Peace and Unity of the Church as also for the comeliness order and reverence of the publick Worship us'd in it So that to be zealous against Sacriledge which is the polluting of God's holy Temple and likewise against Schism which is the dividing the Body of Christ is a pious well-grounded and commendable Zeal Fourthly To be zealous in the Cause and for the Honor of God's Ministers is to be zealously affected in a good thing for these belong to him as his Ambassadors and therefore are to be lov'd and treated accordingly Let men so account of us saith the Apostle as of the Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God and for that reason to be counted worthy of double honor The Kindness or Contempt shew'd to them redounds to him that sends them for He that despises you saith Christ despises me and he that despises me despiseth him that sent me and therefore our Zeal for Christ and his Truth may and ought to be exprest by espousing the Cause of his Ministers especially when the great Contempt of Religion hath occasion'd too great a Contempt of the Dispensers of it Lastly To be zealous for the People of God that is for their Happiness and Salvation is to be zealously affected in a good thing Next to the Glory of God and our own Salvation we are to tender the Welfare and Salvation of others and this is to be done by our good Wishes hearty Prayers and best Endeavours for them we find Moses so far transported with love and desire towards the Israelites that he prefer'd their publick Happiness and Salvation before the private welfare of his own Soul praying thus in their behalf either blot out their Sins or blot out my name out of the book that thou hast written Ex. 32.32 Under the like transport of Affection we find St. Paul declaring that his Hearts desire and Prayer unto God was that Israel might be saved withal wishing himself accursed from Christ for his Brethren and Kinsfolk according to the flesh Rom. 9.3 which great Examples recommend to us if not so high a pitch of Zeal yet a most ardent love and desire of doing good to all men and especially to use our best endeavours to save their Souls which is the greatest good that we can do them herein we shall tread in the steps of our Blessed Saviour who went up and down doing good both to the Souls and Bodies of Men which is such a noble generous and beneficial piece of Charity as very well deserves our utmost Zeal and Vigour In a word To be zealous in the Cause of Religion against Atheism and Profaneness to be zealous for the Word of God against Deism and Infidelity for the House and Worship of God against Schism and Sacriledge for the People of God against Seducers that lay in wait to deceive is to be zealously affected in good things and is highly becoming all such as are called by the Name of Christ and would advance the Honour and Interest of Christianity which things require not only unwearied Diligence but undaunted Courage and Resolution to effect them and therefore to engage and encourage you to set about them I shall proceed to the Third thing to be consider'd in our Text viz. The goodness and excellency of true Zeal from those words It is good to be zealously affected c. 'T is good to our selves for thereby we become like unto GOD and imitate the Divine Goodness 't is good unto others for as one Coal kindles another so one man's Zeal helps to quicken another's and blows up both into a bright and useful Flame 't is good to a whole Church and Country who share in the benefit and reap the fruits of a well-guided Zeal yea 't is good in all the fences of Goodness for 't is Bonum honestum utile jucundum 't is pious profitable and pleasant 't is the top and perfection of all Vertue the beauty strength and ornament of all Religion and adds as I may say a Grace to all other Graces Indeed what Heat is to the Body that is Zeal to the Soul the very life health and vigour of it the source of all its activity and motion and as the Body without Heat is but a heavy lumpish Carcase so the Soul without Zeal is sluggish and unactive and little better than dead in trespasses and sins But the Goodness of Zeal may be best seen in the good Effects