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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	save_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	26	3	9.7217	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49262	The zealovs Christian taking heaven by holy violence in severall sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ...	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1653 (1653)	Wing L3185; ESTC R31563	89,088	190

had been slain by it as slaying in my bones Moses vvas a man very meek in his ovvn vvrongs Numb 12. 3. Moses was very meek above all the men that were upon the face of the earth but in the cause of God Exod 32. he carried himselfe as if he had been a man made up all of passion he broke the tables of stone So Jesus Christ vvas famous for his gentlenesse he vvas a lambe for meeknesse and yet in the cause of his Father he applied that to himselfe The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up John 2. 17. 2. He never thinks that he began to serve God soon enough or did him work enough Psal 63. 1. Early will I seek thee and v. 8. My soul followeth hard after God Act. 13. 22. God gave David this testimony and said I have found David the son of Jesse a man after mine ovvn heart vvhich shall fulfill all my vvill Psal 119. 6. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect to all thy commandments 3. He is desirous to glorifie God by suffering as vvell as by doing to follow the lamb whitherscever he goes to the vvildernesse as vvell as to paradise to a prison as vvell as to a palace Jer. 2. 2. I remember the kindeness of thy youth when thou wentest after me in a land that was not sowne Cant. 8. 5. Who is this that cometh up from the wildernesse leaning upon her beloved from the wildernesse of afflictions Matth. 8. 19. A certain Scribe came to him and said Master I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest He would follow Christ in doing but not in suffering as cloth doth last in wearing but shrink in wetting for when Christ told him The foxes have holes the birds of the air nests but the son of man hath not where to lay his head verse 20. his courage was abated 4 He lookes more after duty then reward and complains more of his defects in it then for want of expected returnes to it Many men are content to follow God so long as there is any advantage in so doing they wil do their duty but they do not care for duty but upon expectation of rewards Remiss spirits follow God as a dog doth his master till he comes by a carrion then he leaves his master and turns aside to it So wicked men follow God till they come at a carrion till they meet with some stinking lust some occasion or object of sin but then they depart from God and close with it But on the contrary David followed after God and thirsted for God even then when he was in a drie and thirsty land where no water was Psal 63. 1. Had we been in Davids case we should have said O Lord give me drink had we been in a barren land we should have said O Lord give me food but David in a barren and thirsty land cries O Lord give me thy self That is the spirit of a man that is truly zealous after the Gospel 5 Difficulties and opposition do rather quicken then abase his endevours what adventures will he not make what paines will he not take what hazards will he not run for God And as it is with the fire in the Smiths forge● that growes hotter and more violent when the water is sprinkled upon it or as fire burnes the most vehemently in a cold and frosty day So that opposition that is made against a zealous man doth but make it the more eager and fervent by a holy Antiperistasis Thus it was in the dayes of Christ the harder it was to get to him the more violent and restlesse were they till they came to him They trod one upon another being an innumerable multitude of people Luke 12 1. Some forced their passage to Christ as we say hunger doth to meat through stone walls Mark 2. 4. And when they could not come nigh unto Christ for the preasse they uncovered the roof where he was and when they had broken it up they let down the bed c. Such was the temper of that Syrophenician whose zeal vvas not quenched but increased by opposition though even Christ did set himselfe against her as an adversary When Christ said It is not meet to take the childrens bread and give it to dogs Mark 7. 27. Here is cold vvater one vvould think enough to quench the zeal of many a professour but the fire of her zeal made fuel of this cooling expression She answered Yet the dogs under the table eat of the childrens crumbs verse 28. One compares a violent Christian to a burre the more paines you take to get it off it sticks the faster on So a zealous Christian the more you endevour to pull him from God he cleaves the closer to him This vvas Davids disposition vvhen he danced before the Lord vvhen Michal despised him and reproved him and fell foul upon him for it he ansvvers I will yet be more vile then thus will be base in mine own sight for it was before the Lord 2 Sam 6. 21 22. And thus much for the third particular the discovery of this holy violence I novv come to the fourth The fourth particular is the difference betvvixt an heady and rash and an holy and religious violence Novv I shall shevv that in 10 particulars 1 It is most seen in triviall and circumstantiall matters Such vvas the violence of the Pharisees about vvashing their vessels and their hands before meat but they never lookt after the vvashing of the heart So the Prelaticall party shevved much heat and violence about ceremonies vvhereas they vvere lukevvarm yea cold in more substantiall matters the observation of the Sabbath and the strict exercise of holinesse c. They were very violent for the linnen Ephod though it may be there was a leprous skin under it they took great care to have railes about the Communion-table but never took care to make a rail to keep prophane persons from the prophanation of the Sacrament but now a godly man is most conversant about that which may be most advantagious to him which will bring him neerest heaven which will be of most use to him to glorifie God and to save his soul 2 It is kindled by passion and vain glory in the one by a zeal and holy indignation in the other Thus many men are zealous in the broaching of errours when they cannot get glory by holding the truth then they will give up themselves to vent errours Whereas true violence comes from a better principle and aimes at an higher end The fire of the Altar was to come from heaven Levit. 9. 24. And when Nadab and Abihu offered sacrifice with strange fire it was not accepted nay they were slain in their enterprize Our zeal should be a fire from heaven God accounts that strange fire we fetch from our own hearts 3 Violent rash zeal makes a man go beyond the bounds