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A14736	A coal from the altar, to kindle the holy fire of zeale In a sermon preached at a generall visitation at Ipswich. By Samuell Ward, Bach. of Diuinity.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.; Wood, Ambrose.	1615 (1615)	STC 25039; ESTC S103052	29,222	94

they will the rather goe out to meet them Tell Nehemiah of Samballat hee answereth Shall such a man as I feare Tell Caleb there are Anakims and he will say Let vs goe vppe at once c. Let Agabus put off his girdle and binde Paul let him be told in euery City that bonds await him hee is not onely ready for bonds but for death tell Iubentius he must lay downe his life he is as willing as to lay off his clothes tell Luther of enemies in Wormes hee will goe if all the tiles of the houses were diuels The Horse neighs at the trumpet the Leuiathan laughes at the speare They that meane to take the kingdome of God by violence prouide themselues to goe through fire and water carry their liues in their hands embrace faggots they say to father and mother I know you not to carnall Counsellers and friendly enemies Get you behind mee Satan Zeale is as strong as death hot as the coles of Iuniper flouds of many waters cannot quench it Agar Pro. 30. speakes of foure things stately in their kinde I will make bold to adde a fift comprehending and excelling them all namely the zealous Christian strong and bold as the Lion not turning his head for any as swift as the greihound in the waies of Gods commandements in the race to heauen as nimble as the Goate climbing the steep and craggy mountaines of pietie and vertue A victorious King ouercoming the world and his lusts Salomon in all his royalty is not cloathed like one of these in his fiery Chariot To cut off the infinite praises of zeal let vs heare what honourable testimonies and glorious rewards it pleaseth God to confer vpon it Dauids ruddie complexion and his skill in musicke made him amiable in the eyes of men but the zeale of his heart stiled him a man after Gods owne heart and the sweete singer of Israel Abraham that could finde in his heart to sacrifice his Isaack was called the friend of God The same virtue denominated Iacob a Prince with God Elisha The Chariots and horsemen Paul A chosen vessell c. Neither doth God put them off with names and empty fauours but vpon these he bestowes his graces Dauid dedicateth his Psalmes to him that excelled God in dispensing of fauours obserueth the same rule To him that ouercommeth will I giue c. To him that hath shall be giuen Husbandmen cast their seede vppon the fertilest ground which returnes it with the greatest interest God giues most talents to those that improoue them in the best banke Ioseph shall haue a party coloured coate of all kinde of graces and blessings And because hee knowes this will purchase them hatred and enuy he takes them into speciall tuition if any will hurt his zealous witnesses there goeth out a fire out of their mouthes to deuoure their enemies A man were better anger all the witches in the world then one of these If God bring any common iudgements he sets his Seale Thau on their foreheads sprinkles their posts snatcheth Lot out of the fire who burned in zeale as Sodome in lust as men doe their plate whiles they let the baser stuffe burne In fine he taketh Enoch and Eliah in triumphant Chariots vp to heauen and after their labours and toyles setteth them in speciall Thrones to rest in glory The Apostles in their twelue the rest in their order according to their zeale And though hee may well reckon the best of these vnprofitable seruants yet such congruity not of merits but of fauour it pleaseth him to obserue in crowning his graces that the most zealous heere are the most glorious there Who would not now wonder how euer this royall vertue should haue lost it grace with the world how euer any should admit a lowe thought of it But what shall all the indignitie which hell can cast vpon it make it vile in our eyes or rather shall wee not reason from the opposition as Tertullian did of Nero That religion which Nero so persecutes must needs be excellent If zeale were not some admirable good the diuell and world would not so hate it yet lest silence should be thought to baulke some vnanswerable reasons let vs see how they labour to be mad with reason Let Festus bee the speaker for the rest for he speakes what all the rest thinke you know his mad obiection and Pauls sober answere in that place and the like 2. Cor. 5. 13. whether hee bee mad or sober it is for God and you This text bids vs be zealous and repent the word signifies be wise againe or returne to your wits The prodigall is said to come to himselfe when he was first heat with this fire We may well answer the world as old men do yong You thinke vs Christians to bee madde that follow heauen so eagerly but we knowe you to be mad that run a-madding so after vanity A Christian indeed is neuer right till he seeme to the world to be beside himselfe Christs owne kindred were afraid of him The Apostles are said to bee full of newe wine besides with these the world is madde they runne vpon Stephan like mad men Nichodemus such as he neuer offends them You know also what Ahab laid to the charge of Eliah with the Apology hee made for himselfe This is a stale imputation in all ages Haman accused Mordechaie and the Iewes of it The Apostles are saide to bee troublers of the whole earth In the Primitiue Church all mutinies and contentions were laide to the Martyrs True it is where zeale is there is opposition and so consequently troubles Christ sets this fire on earth not as an author but by accident The theefe is the author of the fray though the true man strike neuer so many blowes but the Ahabs of the worlde trouble Israel then complain of Eliah The Papists will blowe vppe the state then father it vpon the Puritanes It is not for any wise man to beleeue the tythe of the tales and slaunders which fly abroad of the zealous Leud men would fain strike at al goodnes through their sides You may remember also Eliabs vncharitable censure of Dauid I know the pride of thine heart So doe all worldlings measure others by their owne length if they see any forwardnesse in the peaceablest spirit they ascribe it either to vaine glory or couetousnesse the onely springs that set their wheeles on going but of this the knower of the hearts must iudge betweene vs. When slaundering will not serue then fall they to glauering cunningly glancing at zeale whiles they commend the golden meane wherein vertue consists But Christians take heed none spoile you through such Philosophy or rather Sophistry for true Philosophy will tell you that the meane wherein virtue is placed is the middle betwixt two kindes and not degrees And it is but meane virtue that loues the meane in their

A COAL FROM THE ALTAR TO KINDLE THE holy fire of Zeale In a Sermon preached at a generall Visitation at Ipswich By SAMVELL WARD Bach. of Diuinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AT LONDON Printed by H. L. for Samuell Macham and are to be sould at his Shop in Pauls-church-yard at the signe of the Bulhead 1615. To my Reuerend friend Mr. Samuel Ward Sir your Sermon which I copied partly from your mouth and partly from your notes I haue aduentured into the light encouraged by the approbation and earnest intreaty of such whose iudgements you reuerence and whose loue you embrace who also haue made bold heere and there to varie somethings not of anie great consequence if I can iudge I was loth to smoother such fire in my breast but to vent it to enflame others If you shall blame me I knowe others will thanke mee What I haue done is out of zeale to God and his Church Your affectionate friend Ambrose Wood. A necessarie Aduertisement from the Printer CVrteous Reader I thought meet to giue thee notice that one of the written sheets of this Sermon coming to our hands both misplac't and without any directory either word or Folio to the next ensuing the Compositor could not but set it in the same order or rather manner wherein hee receiued it whereas we vnderstand since it was meant that all the matter between the sixteenth line of the 51. page and the second line of the 61. page should haue followed in the beginning of the 43. page immediately after these words will not so moue as the meanest Orator Which I wish thee to note with thy penne To amend the Faults of the Press read thus In the Title page 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 9. l. 12. dung p. 41. l. 11 12. derision p. 68. l. 16. veine Reuel 3. 19. Be zealous THis watch-word of Christ if it be not now a word in season I knowe not when euer it was or will bee Would he now vouchsafe to bestowe a Letter vpon his Church here on earth should hee need to alter the tenour of this which being the last to the last of the seuen Churches why may it not saith an Ancient vpon this text typifie the estate of the last Age of his Churches the coldnesse whereof himselfe hath expresly foretold And if God should now send through the earth such surueying angels as Zacharie mentions chapter 1 Could they returne any other obseruation of their trauailes then theirs The whole world lies in lukewarmnesse which makes me often in my thoughts proportion these ends of time to the like period of Dauids age when no clothes were enow to keepe heate in him Faith I grant is a more radicall vitall and necessary grace but yet not so wholly out of Grace with the times as poore Zeale which yet if by any meanes it might once againe be reduced into fauour and practice before Time sets and bee no more I doubt not but Christ would also yet once againe in this euening of the world come and Sup with vs A fauour including all other in it My desire especially is that this our Iland might take it to it selfe as well as if it had by name bene directed to it what would it hurt vs to make an especiall benefit and vse of it Some of our owne haue so applied it whether out of their iudgements or affections I say not Learned Fulke maruells if it were not by a Propheticall spirit penned for vs others in their ●eare more resolutely haue made it a singular type of purpose for vs. Their warrant I know not especially if it bee true which all trauellers tell you That they finde more zeale at home then abroad Wee are I grant in sundry respects equall to Laodicea Euen the very names thereof as well the first and oldest in regard of the blessings of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods Darling as the latter in regard of good Lawes and Ciuility Laodicea How well do they become vs As rich as they and that in the very same commodity of woolles Abounding as they with many learned Zenoes and bountifull Hieroes Parallel in all regards I would I could say lukewarmenesse excepted But I must bee a faithfull and true witnesse and yet this is all I haue to say It was as I conceiue Laodiceas complexion and not her constitution her practice not her orders personall lukewarmenesse not legall which Christ strikes at That fault I find in my text the same I finde in our common Christians whose spirituall condition and state is too like the externall situation of our Country between the Torrid and the Frigid Zones neither hot nor cold and so like Laodicea that if wee take not warning or warming we may I feare in time come to be spued out of Gods mouth For this present assembly of Ministers could all the choyce time in the world haue better fitted me then mine ordinarie Lot If fire bee set vpon the Beacons will not the whole Countrey soone be warned and enlightened For my selfe also me thinkes it will better beseeme my yeares to heale then to teach my Ancients to enkindle their affections then to enforme their iudgements And whereas Paul bids Titus preach zeale with all authority though in mine owne name I craue your patience and audience yet in his name that is the first of the creatures and Amen I counsell him that hath an eare to heare what the Spirit saith to the Churches 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be zealous A Coale from the Altar Reuel 3. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be zealous ZEale hath been little practised lesse studied this heauenly fire hath euer beene a stranger vppon earth Fewe in all ages that haue felt the heat of it fewer that haue known the nature of it A description will rake it out of the embers of obscurity it may be that many when they shall knowe it better will better affect it 2 Zeale hath many counterfeits and allies There are many strange fires which hauing sought to carry away the credit of it haue brought an ill name vpon it from these it would be distinguished 3 Zeale is euery where spoken against it hath many enemies and few friends the worlde can no more abide it then beasts can the elementary fire the rebukes of many haue fallen vpon it the diuell weaues cunning lyes to bring downe the honour of it Oh that wee could raise and maintaine it by setting forth the deserued praises of it and challenge it from the false imputations of such as hate it without a cause 4 Zeale hath in this our earthly molde litle fuell much quench-cole is hardly fired soon cooled A good Christian therefore would be glad to knowe the Incentiues and preseruatiues of it which might enkindle it enflame it feede it and reuiue it when it is going out 5 Zeale in the worlds opinion is as cōmon as fire on euery mans hearth no mans heart without zeale if euery man