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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	touch_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	50	3	10.4356	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46878	A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel ... ; with an answer of the same authour to some frivolous objections against the government of the church.	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.	1641 (1641)	Wing J739; ESTC R16610	20,215	57

blasphemy and with any contempt of his holy name But as every man be he never so wicked yea even he that saith in his heart there is no God which is become filthy and abominable in all his doings yet in his talke outwardly saith he hath a God and that he believeth in him even so there is none so wicked or so forsaken of God in his heart but he perswadeth himselfe he hath the zeale of God and what he doth in selfe-love of his owne fantasie he will beare in hand he doth it for the loue of God The overthrowers wasters of the Church will seem to shew a speciall care for the Church dissemblers hypocrites despisers scorners even such as sin against the holy Ghost which deny the truth of God after they have knowne it which witting and knowing fight against the truth which say of Christ we will not have him to rule over us which worke that sin which will never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come yet notwithstanding will pretend and seem to have the zeale of God Thus the Scribes Pharisees set up their bristles against Christ thy Disciples keepe not the common fast thou sufferest them to pull and to eat the eares of corne thou sufferest them to eat with unwashed hands thou breakest the tradition of the Elders thou breakest the law of God which he gave us by Moses thou art a seditious teacher thou art a Schismatick thou art an Heretick They said We fast twice in the week we have Abraham to our Father we are Moses Disciples Therefore when they heard Stephen speaking those heavenly words Behold I see the heavens open and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God through zeale they gave a shout with a lowd voice and stopped their eares and ran upon him all at once When Christ had said Yee shall see the Son of man fit at the right hand of God and come in the clouds of heaven the high Priest through zeale rent his cloathes and said yee have heard the blasphemie this naughty man speaketh blasphemy against God he called a Councell the Scribes and Pharisees met together not one man amongst them but of themselvs they looked about them as if they only were the pillars buttresses of the Church and were only zealous and carefull for the house of God But their meeting was as David forespake and as Peter declareth and as We know against the Lord and against his anointed they were touched with the zeale of their own glory and not with the zeale of Gods truth they sought their own praise but not the praise which is of God they made cracks that they knew the Scriptures that they were the Temple of God that they had the consent of all Antiquity as others have done since that time and as wee see many doe this day in very deed these men have now even as much as they had then as by proofe and triall it will appeare There are others which have a feeling of God and a great care for his Church but such a feeling and care as cometh either of their own fantasies or of some opinion credit they have in their fathers which were before them not of the understanding of Gods pleasure Such are they which offend God not of malice or wilfulnesse but onely for lack of teaching understanding Such were they which withstood S. Paul in all his preaching for that they took him for an Heretique and thought his preaching was against God I beare them witnes saith he that they have the zeale of God but not according to knowledge Such a zeal have many who forbid that which God commandeth command that which God forbiddeth such a zeale had Paul himselfe I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an oppressor but I was receaved to mercy for I did it ignorantly without beliefe Such a zeale have they who think they doe God good service when they kill and murther the righteous and good servants of God Such a zeale have they who as saith Nazianzen defend Christ against Christ and defend the Church against the Church And these things doe they not of malice nor of wilfulnesse nor against their conscience but because they know not God the father nor his Christ whom he hath sent therefore they stumble at Christ and spurne away the Gospell of God and think ill and speak evill of the word of life because they know not the Gospell of God nor the word of life Thus they perswade themselves that they defend the Church that they honour the sonne of God that they doe God great service and that they have the zeale of God But this pride was ever in the heart of man and it appeared even in our grandfire Adam whatsoever liketh us well we think that cannot but please God Such is the opinion we fondly conceive in our fantasies in trust whereof whatsoever we doe we think our selves sure and safe Origen writing upon the place of the Apostle Zelum Dei habent sed non secundùm scientiam they have the zeale of God but not according to knowledge saith similiter potest dicere Apostolus de aliis quòd timorem Dei habeant sed non secundùm scientiam de aliis c. in like manner the Apostle may say of others they have the feare of God but not according to knowledge of others they have the love of God but not according to knowledge of another hee hath the faith of God but not according to knowledge and another may be said to fast but not according to knowledge And so in all things whatsoever we doe unlesse we have knowledge and understanding it may be said unto us that we have the zeale of a good worke but not according to knowledge I deo danda est praecipuè opera scientiae ne res nobis infeliciter accidat ut in fide pofitifrustremur à fide zelum habentes bonorum decidamus à bonis Therefore all heed is chiefly to be given to the attaining of knowledge least it goe not well with us least w● faile from our faith when we think we believe thinking we have a zeale of good works we be found void of all good works The wise man saith this was not enough for them that they erred in the knowledge of God but whereas they lived in great warres of ignorance th●se so many so great plagues they called peace The zeale that they had and the contentation of their hearts made them believe that all their superstition and idolatry and other enormities was Catholique unitie This zeale as on the one side it hath many tokens of goodnesse for that it hath a conscience and a feare and an obedience towards God so on the other side it is very dangerous because it lacketh knowledge even as a ship for lack of a governour is ever in danger of the Rocks and as the body which hath no

and true and good meanes whereby that good thing which God hath wrought for us may be established And albeit there be many waies by which the kingdome of God may be maintained as the favour and countenance of the Prince which so comforteth and cherisheth the Church as the sun beames comfort and cherish the earth and knowledge and learning and discipline which are as the life the sinewes without which the Church must needs fall asunder at this time I will leave to speak of the rest only stay upon Learning which may truly be called the life or the soule of the Church and of Christian Religion How necessary a thing they have counted Learning to the setting forth of Religion the stories of our old Fathers of Heathens Christians in all ages doe witnesse They thought that neither Religion might stand without knowledge nor knowledge were to be esteemed without Religion Charles the great that he might the better plant Religion in Saxonie and Helvetia did erect many places for increase of Learning he knew well that there was no other way better to establish Religion The Cathedrall Churches before such times as ignorance and blindnes grew over all the world and brought in an universall corruption maintained Schooles of learning that the doctrine which was taught in those places might be defended against the gainesayers by such learned men as were there bred up The Princes of Germanie and the free cities after they had received the Gospell they dissolved their Monasteries which had been harbourers for such as lived in idlenesse and set up Schooles and Colledges which should be nurceries to breed up learned men that might be able to teach the people to maintaine Religion whereby it came to passe that in short time they had great store of worthy and learned men This did they well see that have been the enimies of Religion and therefore used all meanes to hinder the increase of Learning that they might have the better way to overthrow Religion For if Learning decay it is likely that Religiō cannot abide Beare with me if I speak that which may seem more fit for some other place then for this audience the best here understandeth me well Inother Countries the receiving of the Gospell hath alwaies been cause that Learning was more set by and learning hath ever been the furtherance of the Gospell In England I know not how it cometh otherwise to passe for since the Gospell hath been received the maintenance for learning hath been decayed the lack of Learning will be the decay of the Gospell Would God it were not so or that yet before the fault be incurable there may be some redresse Loath I am to speak yet the case so requireth that it is needfull to be spoken I trust I shall speak in the hearing of them that will consider it Maintenance of Learning whereby an able and sufficient ministerie may grow and bee established in all the Churches of this Realm is to be wished for The good estate of this noble Kingdome the comfort of posterity the stay of Religion the continuing of the Gospell the removing of darknesse hangeth upon it One asked sometimes how it was that in Athens so goodly and great a Citie there were no Physitions To whom this answer was made because there are no rewards appointed for them that practise Physick The same answer may be made for our times the cause why the Church of God is so forsaken is the want of zeal in them that should either for their cuttesie or for their abilitie be fosterers of learning and increase the livings where occasion is and give hope and comfort to learned men What said I increase nay the Livings and provision which heretofore were given to this use are taken away Have patience if any such be here as I well know there are whom these things touch suffer me to speak the truth it is Gods cause The livings of such as are in the Ministery are not in their hands to whom they are due all other labourers artificers have their hire increased double as much as it was wont to be only the poore man that laboureth and sweateth in the Vineyard of the Lord of hostes hath his hire abridged and abated I speak not of the Curates but of Parsonages and Vicarages that is of the places which are the Castles and Towers of fence for the Lords Temple They seldome passe now adaies from the Patron if he be no better then a Gentleman but either for the Lease or for present mony Such Merchants are broken into the Church of God a great deale more intolerable then were they whō Christ chased and whipped out of the Temple Thus they that should bee carefull for Gods Church that should be Patrons to provide for the consciences of the people and to place among them a learned Minister who might be able to preach the word unto them out of season and in season and to fulfill his Ministery seek their own and not that which is Jesus Christs they serve not Jesus Christ but their belly And this is done not in one place or in one country but throughout England A Gentleman cannot keep his house unlesse he have a Parsonage or two in farme for his provision O mercifull God whereto will this grow at last If the misery which this plague worketh would reach but to one age it were tolerable but it will be a plague to posterity it will be the decay and desolation of Gods Church Young men which are toward and learned see this they see that he which feedeth the flocke hath least part of the milke he which goeth to warfare hath not halfe his wages Therefore they are weary discouraged they change their studies some become prentices some turne to Physick some to Law all shun and fly the Ministery And besides the hinderance that thus groweth by wicked dealing of Patrons by reason of the Impropriations the Vicarages in many places and in the properest market-townes are so simple that no man can live upon them and therefore no man will take them They were wont to say Beneficia fine cura Benefices without charge but now may be said Cura fine Beneficio Charge or cure without Benefice I speak not this of myselfe many here present know I speak the truth and my selfe know the places which have continued still these many yeares without a Minister resident among them and have provided themselves as they might with their own mony Your Graces subjects had hope of amendment in your Graces late Visitation but yet it standeth still in case as miserable as it did before I know your Grace heareth not of these matters And I hope God will work in Your Gracious heart to provide some remedy against them For otherwise the Schools will be forsaken the Church desolate the people wild and dismaied the Gospell discredited otherwise we shall see that wrought against the house of God that never