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truth_n	religion_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	193	4	9.2549	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72180	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the thirtie day of May. 1591 By M. George Giffard, preacher of the worde of God at Maldon in Essex.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1591 (1591)	STC 11862.3; ESTC S124958	18,032	49

come downe vpon vs plenteously and flowe vnto euerie member we shall bring foorth fruite vnto God watered with heauenly dewes we shall haue that great and high blessing of God almightie vnto eternall life Therfore if it be not too late that the sinnes of this land haue prouoked the Lord to displeasure let all men lift vp their hartes and cry vnto the Lord that he will bestowe this precious iewell vpon vs that wee may be at vnity not in al manner of wicked vices nor in errors but in the Lord. And nowe who shall séeke this vnity who shall studie to aduance it This may be in question I answer euen all states and degrees of men priuate persons rulers and teachers euen all and euery one that will looke for any part of Gods blessing must aduance it Euery man I say must looke vnto the heauenlye truth of the holy religion and imbrace the same with all loue and harty affection Euery man ought to bee zealous in spirite of the glory for Christ For if a man haue not the zeale of religion hee cannot bee a good man whether he be ruler or priuate man though he séeme to be neuer so peaceable but as the Lord saith to the Angell of the Church of Laodicea Reu. 3. Because thou art neither hot nor colde I will spew thée out of my mouth God dooth reiecte all such dull and drowsie Atheistes and irreligious persons which are so earthly minded as that they regarde not the heauenly graces which are offered in the Gospell Let all men therefore stirre vp their harts to be feruent in gods truth and let not Godlie zeale be quenched Thē further as I haue also shewed before wee must ioyne the practise of this holye word as the Apostle S. Iames willeth be doers of the word not hearers onely deceiuing your selues Ia. 2. ve 19. for the great disturbance of peace and the greeuous breaches of vnity and all bitter dissentions do chéefely arise from hence that all sorts degrees of men do not walk in the rules which God hath prescribed vnto them in his word We must therefore enter more particularly into this matter that wee may sée how each man is to further this blessed vnity I beginne with the priuate person for whom there are rules prescribed in Gods word for him to obserue if he wil be a true member of the Church and a séeker and preseruer of this vnity and so a partaker of Gods blessing vnto life euerlasting One rule is touching subiection reuerence vnto rulers and gouernous both Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall for God hath commaunded to honour and obey them Submitte your selues vnto all manner ordinaunce of man for the Lordes sake whether it be vnto the king as vnto the superior or vnto gouernours as vnto them that are sent of him for the punishment of euill doers and for the praise of them that doo well 1. Pet. 2. v. 13.14 Also of this obedience and subiection for conscience sake of this reuerence and honour to bee rendred S. Paule writeth Rom. 13. ver 1.2.3.4.5.6.7 Likewise obey them that haue the ouersight of you and submit your selues for they watch for your soules as they that must giue accountes c. Hebr. 13. ver 17. The neglect breach of this rule euen the denying of obedience reuerence and honour vnto the rulers gouernours and teachers disturbeth ouerthroweth the vnity which is here praised If then a man wil not make conscience to perform this duty in obeying the holy doctrine of the lord what is he other thē an enemy vnto the true concord a dissoluer of vnity peace But what if rulers offend Pastors gouernours faile and come short in some duties and thereby séeme vnworthy to be regarded I say if they do they shal answer before God for it but yet priuate men are not set at liberty they are not discharged from this obedience rendring honour vnto them for it is vnto the authority vnto Gods ordinance that they do it and not in respect of mā God hath not prescribed the duties of men which are to be don vnto others vnder this condition if they performe all that which they ought to doo on their partes or if they be such manner of men as they ought to be But he hath prescribed euery mans duty absolutly If an other faile in his he shall answer as I said for it before God thou hast no warrāt hereby to depart from the rule which God hath set vnto thée For thou art tied in conscience vnto God to obey his will not in regard of man or of thine own benefit to do this or that for by that doctrine of the blessed Apostle we sée that christian subiects faithful seruantes are commanded euen for conscience to giue honor vnto heathen Princes and infidel Maisters Rom. 13.1 Tim. 6.1 we must then from this expresse word of God obserue that when gouernours do amisse men haue not their tongues set at libertie to reuile and to reproch them or to dishonour them with euill speech séeing it is also writen Thou shalt not cursse the ruler of the people Exod. 22. ver 28. But contrariwise prayers and supplications are to bee made vnto God for rulers and teachers of the Lords people When they offend it is with great hurt to the Church and therefore men are to lament and mourne for it and not to make themselues mery with iestes and reproches Let all euill spéeches of disgrace then be turned into prayers and the laughter into teares for this shall be more pleasing vnto God Let no mā beare him selfe in hand that he is not guiltie of the breach of holy concorde when he obserueth not the rules of this doctrine of submission of reuerence and honour to be giuen vnto gouernours Another rule is giuen by the Apostle in these wordes That ye studie to be quiet and to meddle with your owne businesse and to worke with your owne handes c. Thess 4.11 as God hath distributed vnto euerie man and as the Lord hath called euerie one saith the Apostle so let him walke and so ordaine I in al churches 1. Cor. 7. ver 17. God hath ordained the seuerall places and callings hee hath giuen gifts of abilitie to men to performe the thinges he requireth in the same he hath also set the boundes and limits within which euerie one is to keepe himselfe and to walke orderly medling with that which appertaineth vnto him This is an holy thing and comely a preseruer of vnitie But it is much broken and great euil ensueth thereof for there be many priuate persons which would seeme verie religious and to seeke the holy vnitie aboue others which leaue the dueties of their places and callings and busie themselues wholy with those matters which do not belong vnto them For as if the matters of their trades and sciences were too base or as if the care of their familie were a thing ouer vilde they set