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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

might be his owne iudge If most might be heard there is too much of it but the contrarie will appeare if the right markes be taken and the true rules of triall and conuiction be obserued and the heart thereby examined 6 Zeale generally handled will break as lightning in the aire and seize vpon no subiect Application must set it on mens harts exhortation warme this old and colde age of the world chiefly this temperate climate of our nation First part It was said of old that zeale was an Intention of loue of late that it is a compound of loue and anger or indignation The Ancients aymed right and shot neere if not somwhat with the shortest The moderne well discouered the vse and exercise of more affections then loue within the fadome and compasse of zeale but in helping that default went themselues somewhat wide and came not close to the marke which I ascribe not to any defect of eye-sight in those sharpe sighted Eagles but onely to the want of fixed contemplation And to speake truth I haue oft wondred why poore Zeale a vertue so high in Gods books could neuer be so much beholding to mens writings as to obtaine a iust treatise which hath been the lot of many particular vertues of inferiour worth a plaine signe of too much vnder-value and neglect He that shall stedfastly viewe it shall finde it not to be a degree or Intension of loue or any single affection as the Schools rather confined thē defined zeal neither yet any mixt affection as the ●●ter rather compounded then comprehended the nature of it but an hot temper higher degree or intension of them all As varnish is no one colour but that which giues glosse and lustre to all So the opposites of zeale keye-coldnes and luke-warmenesse which by the lawe of contraries must bee of the same nature are no affections but seuerall tempers of them all Paul warrants this description where he speakes of the twelue Tribes They serued God with intension or vehemency The roote shewes the nature of the branch Zeale comes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word framed of the very sound and hissing noise which hot coales or burning iron make when they meete with their contrary In plaine English zeale is nothing but heate from whence it is that zealous men are oft in Scripture said to burne in the spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that doth moderately or remisly affect any thing may be stil'd Philemon a louer He that ernestly or extreamely Zelotes a zelot who to all the obiects of his affections is excessiuely and passionately disposed his loue is euer feruent his desires eager his delights rauishing his hopes longing his hatred deadly his anger fierce his griefe deepe his feare terrible The Hebrewes expresse these Intensions by doubling the word This being the nature of zeale in generall Christian zeale of which wee desire onely to speake differs from carnall and worldly chiefly in the causes and obiects It is a spirituall heate wrought in the heart of man by the holy Ghost improouing the good affections of loue ioy hope c. for the best seruice and furtherance of Gods glory with all the appurtenances thereof his worde his house his Saints and saluation of soules vsing the contrary of hatred anger griefe c. as so many mastiues to fly vpon the throat of Gods enemies the diuell his Angels sinne the world with the lusts thereof By the vertue whereof a Zealot may runne through all his affections and with Dauid breath zeale out of euery pipe after this manner for a taste How doe I loue thy law O Lord more then the hony or the hony combe more then thousands of siluer and gold Thine enemies I hate with a perfect hatred Thy testimonies are my delight I reioyce more in them then they that finde great spoyles more then in my appointed food Mine eyes gush out riuers of teares O that my head were a fountaine of teares because they destroy thy law Mine eyes are dimme with waiting how doe I long for thy saluation Thy iudgements are terrible I tremble and quake c. Look what pitch of affection the naturall man bestowes vpon his dearest darling what vnsatiable thirst the couetous worlding vpon his Mammon the ambitious vpon his honour the voluptuous vpon his pleasure the same the Christian striueth in equall yea if possible farre exceeding tearmes to conuert and conferre vpon God and his worship In briefe to open a little creuise of further light and to giue a little glimpse of heat Zeal is to the soule that which the spirits are to the body wine to the spirits putting vigour and agility into them Whence comes that elegant Antithesis in the Scripture Be not drunke with wine wherein is excesse but bee filled with the spirit Christ is said to lead his Spouse into the wine cellar which Simily Bernard delighting oft to repeat in two or three Sermons interprets of a speciall measure of zeale inspired into his Church Thus saith he Christ led his Disciples into the wine cellar on the day of Pentecost and filled them and the house with such zeal as they came forth like Giants refreshed with wine and seemed to the people as men drunke with new wine It is to the soule as wings to the foule this also is a Scripture embleme to picture the Angels with wings as in the hāgings of the Temple in the visions of the reuelatiō in token of their ardent and zealous execution of Gods will whence also they haue their name Seraphim he maketh his ministers a flame of fire To this fire and these wings which we in the Lords praier desire to imitate there is nothing in vs answerable but our zeale As wheeles to the chariot which makes vs not goe but runne the waies of Gods commandements and so runne that we may obtain As sailes to the ship and wind to the sailes to which alludes the phrase so frequent in Scripture Plerophorie As courage to the souldier metall to the horse dust to the ground which makes it bring forth much fruit yee an hundred fold viuacity to all creatures To conclude this this is that celestiall fire which was shaddowed out vnto vs by that poore element in comparison and beggerly rudiment the fire I meane of such necessary vse in the law which rather then it should be wanting the Lord caused it to descend from heauen that it might cause the Sacrifices to ascend thither again as a sweet incense vnto the Lord without which no burnt offering was acceptable The second part But now as then there are certaine false fires abhominable to God odious to men dangerous to the Nadabs and Abihues that meddle with them bringing thereby coales vpon their owne heades an ill sauour vpon all their seruices and not only so but that which is worse an ill report and surmise euen on those that offer the right fire

the fathers the acts and monuments of the Church haue a speciall vertue for this effect The very pictures of the fires and Martyrs cannot but warme thee If thou canst meet with any liuing examples followe them as they followe Christ frequent their company euen Saul amongst the Prophets will Prophecie No bangling hauke but with a high flier will mend her pitch the poorest good companion will doe thee some good when Silas came Paul burnt in the spirit a lesser sticke may fire a billet If thou findest none let the coldnesse of the times heate thee as frostes doe the fire Let euery indignation make thee zealous as the dunstery of the Monks made Erasmus studious one way to be rich in times of dearth is to engrosse a rare commodity such as zeale is now if euery they haue destroyed thy lawe It is now hie time to be zealous Consider and emulate the children of this generation to see how eager euery Demas is for worldy promotion How did that worthy Bishop disdain to see an harlot more curiously to adorne her body vnto sinne and death then he could his soule vnto life euerlasting It angred Demosthenes to see a Smith earelier at his Anuile then hee was at his Deske When thou hast thus heat thy selfe take heede of catching cold againe as many haue done and brought their zeale to deaths doore This fire may go out diuerse wayes first by substraction of fewell if a man forbeare his accustomed meales will not his naturall heat decay The Leuites that kept Gods watch in the Temple were charged expressely morning euening if not oftner to look to the lights and the fire He that shall forget at the least with the Curfeau-bell in the euening to rake vppe his zeale by prayer and with the day-bell in the morning to stirre vp kindle the same if not oftner with Daniel I cannot conceiue how hee can possibly keepe fire in his heart Will God blesse such as bid him not so much as good-morrow and good-euen He that shall despise or neglect prophecie must he not needes quench the spirit haue I not marked glorious professors who for some farme sake or other commodities haue flitted from Ierusalem to Iericho where the situation was good but the waters nought and their zeale hath perished because vision hath failed Such as reade the Bible by fits vpon rainy dayes not eating the booke with Iohn but tasting onely with the tippe of the tongue Such as meditate by inatches neuer chewing the cud and digesting their meat they may happely get a smackering for discourse and table-talke but not enough to keepe soule life together much lesse for strength and vigour Such as forsake the best fellowship and waxe strange to holy assemblies as now the manner of many is how can they but take cold Can one coale alone keep it selfe glowing Though it goe not out for want of matter yet may it be put out by sundry accidents when it is newly kindled it may be put out with scoffes and reproaches if Peter take not heed and fence himselfe well against them but if once throughly growne such breath will but spread and encrease it It is possible fire may be oppressed with too much wood and heat suffocated with too much nourishment ouermuch prayer reading and study may be a wearinesse both to flesh and spirit but it so rarely happeneth that I neede not mention it and yet the soule hath it satiety There be some such perchance ouer-nice men in this sense also who haue not learned that God will haue them mercifull to themselues It is oftner smoothered for want of vent and exercise Let such as vse not and expresse not their zeale bragge of their good hearts surely they haue none such or not like to haue them such If Nichodemus had not buried Christ by day wee might haue feared his zeale had gone out for all his comming by night Yet this is not so ordinary as to extinguish it by the quench-coale of sin grosse sinne euery man knowes will waste the conscience and make shippewracke of zeale but I say the least known euill vnrepented of is as a thiefe in the candle or an obstruction in the liuer I feare Dauid serued God but reasonably till hee published his repentance he that steales his meate though pouerty tempt him yet giueth thankes but coldly zeale and sinne will soone expell the one or the other out of their subiect can you imagine in the same roofe God and Beliall the Arke and Dagon Lastly and most commonly foraine heare will extract the inwarde and aduemicious heate consume the naturall The Sunne will put out the fire and so will the loue of the world the loue of the Father they cannot stand together in intense degrees one cannot serue both these masters with such affection as both would haue Seldome seest thou a man make haste to be rich and thriue in religion Christs message to Iohn holdes true The poor are most forward in receiuing and following the Gospell as thou louest thy zeale beware of resoluing to be rich lest gaine proue thy godlinesse take heede of ambitious aspiring least Courts and great places prooue ill aires for zeal whither it is as easie to go zealous as to returne wise Peter whiles he warmed his hands cooled his heart Not that greatnesse and zeale cannot agree but for that our weakenesse many times seuers them If thou beest willing to dy poore in estate thou maiest the more easily liue rich in grace Smyrna the poorest of the seuen Candlestickes hath the richest price vpon it The diligent practice of these courses will make easie the practice of this counsell Be zealous c. The sixt part Which little round fire-ball comming to hand as Dauids small stone by ordinary lot knowing the insufficiency of my owne I pray that God with his arme would scatter it farre and wide into those wide parts of the world without the pale of Christendome which lie so frozen and benummed in their Paganisme that they feele not the coldnesse of their religions as also in those regions that being within the Tropickes of the Church haue iust so much and so little heate as to thinke they haue enough and need no more Chiefly mine affections burne within me for the good of mine owne nation for which I would I had but so much zeale as truely to wish my selfe Anathema vpon condition it had heate sutable to the light For I must beare it record it hath knowledge I would I could say according to zeale But the spirit knowing that which is spoken to all to bee in effect as spoken to none directs mee what I would speake to Churches to speake to particular Angels Now the principall in our Church vnder that Archangel of the couenant I most willingly acknowledge to bee my Lorde the King as an Angel of light And why not that very Angel who by his writing hath begunne to poure out the fift viall vpon the