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A89564	A divine project to save a kingdome: Opened in a sermon to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen, of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Easter Munday, Apr. 22. 1644. at Christ-Church. By Stephen Marshall, B.D. Minister of Gods word at Finchingfield in Essex. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M752; Thomason E47_31; ESTC R20669	34,916	50

consider this description Some describe it to bee an intense degree of love some a compound of love anger and indignation others call it imensus gradus purae affectionis But a little more largely take it thus Zeale it is a spirituall heat kindled by the Spirit of God whereby all the affections are drawne out to the utmost for God this is zeale First I call it a worke of the Spirit the holy Ghost is the author of it it is named among the fruits of the Spirit Ephes. 5. 18. Be not drunken with wine wherein is excesse an excesse of heat is wrought by wine avoyd that but be yee filled with the Spirit and such are said to bee baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire Matth. 3. 11. Act. 2. 34. Secondly I adde it is a spirituall heat The word in the originall is to burne or hisse as burning coales when water falls on them and zealous men are said Rom. 12. 11. to bee fervent in spirit And zealous Apollos was said to bee fervent in spirit Act. 18. 25. Moreover the sinnes opposed to zeale luke-warmenesse and key-coldnesse Revel. 3. Thou art lukewarme I would thou wert either hot or cold doe sufficiently shew that the nature of zeale is a spirituall heate Thirdly the seate or subject of this grace you have in these words all the affections the affections are the motions of the will the outgoings of the soule a mans soule moves little or nothing in prosecuting of good or avoyding of evill but as the affections stirre now all the affections are the proper seate and subject of zeale See all of them in David whom the zeale of Gods house had eaten up his love Oh how I love thy Law more then hony more then thousands of gold and silver his hatred Doe not I hate them that hate thee yea I hate them sore I count them my enemies it made him flie in their faces his joy My soule is satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse his desire My soule is ravished with desire his griefe Rivers of waters run downe my eyes his hope My eyes are dim with waiting his feare I tremble at thy judgements c. Fourthly I adde that which is indeed the formalis ratio the very soule of zeale it drawes out all the affections to the uttermost sets them on worke to the uttermost and therefore they are said to doe it with all their soule all their strength all their might The twelve Tribes with intention of spirit served God night and day Acts 26. 7. What Hezekiah did for God hee did it with all his might 2 Chron. 31. 21. So did Josiah 2 King 23. 25. he did it with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his might In a word looke what pitch of affection a worldling bestowes upon Mammon an ambitious man upon honour a voluptuous man upon pleasure that doth zeale draw out for God Yea looke what an edge is to a Razor look what wine is to a mans spirit what the soule is to the body wings to a bird winde to sayles what mettle is to a horse looke what vivacity and vigour is to any creature that is zeale to a Christian It is that that acts his soule the vigour activity the fervency of his affections that is zeale Then I adde that all this must be for God as they are drawne out to the utmost so they are drawne out for God that is for some thing or other that belongeth to God in order in relation to God and Gods Glory Gods Sabbaths Gods Sacraments Gods Worship Gods Children or against Gods Enemies those that rise up against him things that God hateth his owne word If you will carry it all away in a short Sentence A zealous man is a man of mettle for God As we say of a man that is all spirit he is a man of mettle so that man that is a zealous man is a man of mettle and spirit for God But because I have not yet satisfied my selfe in making it so cleere as I would before I come to any application or to make you understand why it should have that influence upon Gods wrath to pacifie it give me leave to open five remarkeable properties and effects that doe evermore accompany this grace of holy zeale The first is this I pray know that zeale is not the substance of a Christian it 's onely the edge And therefore if you know rightly where zeale is to be found you must enquire what the mettle is upon which this edge is most to be set As for example bring me an Instrument that hath never so delicate an edge that will cut an haire off the back of a mans hand if the mettle be Lead or Iron if it bee not Steele the edge is not worth any thing enquire we therefore what the mettle is upon which the edge is set Know then that the mettle of the heart that is for God is sincerity sincerity and uprightnesse is the substance and ground-worke of a servant of God and zeale is but the edge of his sincerity Now then here I lay downe my first conclusion That no man can ever be zealous for God that is not sincere unto God This sincerity is the applying of a mans heart to God for Gods end zeale is the doing of this fervently with strength of affection take but away sincerity that the heart be not upright to God what zeale soever you find in any of them it will either prove blind zeale like mettle in a blind horse that will never doe any good or you will finde it corrupt zeale counterfeit zeale that a man may come and appeare mightily as if for God but this is but a vizard and in the meane while his owne gaine his owne preferment his owne ease or some other carnall thing is that which he aimeth at Like Demetrius and his company Acts 19. 22. who pretended great zeale for Diana went up and downe crying Great is Diana of the Ephesians but this was but a vizard the true cause of all their heat was nothing but this Sirs you know that by this craft we have our living and now this craft is like to be set at naught Such a zealot was Jehu who was fierce against Baal and pretended much for Jehuvah Come see my zeale for the Lord but the bottome of all was the setling the Crowne upon himselfe Further then that hee tooke no heed to walke in the wayes of God 2 King 10. And such another was Judas John 12. 56. who pretended zeale for the poore Quorsum haec perditio This oyntment might have beene sold for much money and given to the poore But it was the satisfaction of his covetousnesse he aimed at Thus Doeg would be detained a whole day before the Lord with a mischievous intent against David and the Priests This zeale which thus maskes it selfe and makes Gods honour but a stale and lure is so farre from pacifying Gods wrath

building of it and hee built a house for himselfe that was not in the tenth degree comparable to the Temple and was 14. yeares building of it and why hee did Gods house with all his heart and with all his might and set fourescore thousand men on worke to have Gods house up but as for his owne house did it at leasure hee had Gods businesse to follow and that hee followed to the purpose and lets his owne house goe up by degrees as it would 14. yeares about that which is but a Cottage in comparison of Gods So is every man whose heart is truely zealous who in truth stands out for God hee resolves for himselfe or things that concernes himselfe to bee very moderate let the Lord dispose of him and his how he will 5. Last of all the last propertie of true zeale which indeed is conceived by many to be the very formalis ratio of zeale to be the very quintessence of it is this That it alwayes carries vindictive spirits against sinne and sinfull men because they are against God it is a grace that is full of vengeance and therefore some define zeale to bee affectus ad dei injuriam vindicandam affectus ad extermina dos Dei inimi cos vel zelotypia persequens sponsarum Christi adulteria vel eorum signa occasiones an affection that will take vengeance of injuries that are offered to God a temper of spirit that would extirpate or exterminate all Gods enemies and ordinarily in the Scripture where any mans zeale is taken notice of it is in exacting vengeance against sinne and sinners and some Criticks observe that the originall word though it signifie heat yet it is such a heat as shewes it selfe in opposition to its enemy as when hot Iron hisseth when you spit upon it or such a heat as makes water play and boyle in the pot such a heat zeale sheweth it selfe when it commeth to opposition and therefore Phinehas zeale made him stab this noble man strike him through with his Javelin Moses when hee was zealous hangs them up cuts off the heads maketh the Levites runne their kindred through So every where zealous men so farre as their authority reacheth so farre doe they flie in the face of their sinnes without any exception of persons Asa if his owne mother be the Queene Regent and have an Idoll hee puts her downe from her regencie shee shall have no regencie in his kingdome if shee will have an Idol Levi in the day of his zeale if his brother have a golden Calfe runnes his Sword through him he is no brother of his if he have an Idol and every where the nearer they are in the flesh the more abominable in the heart of a zealous man is their sinne against God He begins first with them if it be true zeale and what their authoritie reacheth not to extirpate that doth a zealous heart mourne for As Nehemiah when he had done all hee could teares the haire of their heads and taketh on against them and when hee hath done all he can he prayes the Lord to remember them who defiled the Priesthood And so David professeth hee would not leave a wicked man about his court or Jerusalem when he was King and yet when he had done all he could he sits him downe and weeps Rivers of teares runne downe my cheekes because men kept not thy Law hee had a heart full of sorrow for what his authoritie did not reach to extirpate Here you have as in a glasse set before you the man that is worth his weight in gold the man that may save a kingdome such a people a considerable number whereof will rescue a land wherein they live such a people are zealous for God whose hearts are sincere that doe to the utmost passe all difficulties without selfe respects doe all that they can for the rooting out of that which provoketh the Lord to wrath and indignation and so I have done with the first thing to shew you what this grace is and how it may be knowne The second thing considerable is whence it comes that this grace of zeale should bee able to pacifie the wrath of God whence it is I answer you in a word zeale doth not pacifie or quench Gods wrath meritoriously by any vertue that it hath that it may plead with God to doe it as if it had deserved it as if it could give him any propitiation No no It doth it onely by way of instrument the Lord blessing it and crowning it it is Gods free grace doth it onely you must know that the Lord is so delighted with his owne workes in the hearts of his people that hee loveth to set some crowne or other on the head of his grace as if the grace did doe that which hee himselfe worketh alone Thus hee crowneth the grace of faith that that shall justifie the sinner when it onely receiveth the pardon thus hee crowneth Humilitie that it shall bee a Temple where God will dwell whereas alas it is but a poore stie if God did not beautifie it And thus God crowneth the grace of zeale accepting of it gives this publike testimony of his delight in it that hee will put the glory of his owne worke on zeale as if it had done that which indeed God onely doth of his owne free grace zeale shall have the glory among men that people might learne to bee in love with it If you aske but why zeale hath this glory put upon it I answer zeale doth so much honour God therefore hee honours it and that it doth in three particulars First it is most like to himselfe most agreeable to his owne nature who is a Spirit a pure act all life to a man of spirit a sloathfull messenger is as Vineger to the Teeth hatefull and troublesome much more to God is a dull slothfull luke-warme cold servant which hee hath shewed by refusing to have the firstling of an Asse devoted to him hee abhorrs to have such a dull creature consecrated to his service hee had rather have the necke of it broken but on the contrary hee delights in active lively quicke and zealous instruments such shall stand about him his Angels are spirits and his ministers flames of fire 2. This grace of zeale is not onely sutable to his nature but it sets him up in his owne place for what ever wee lay out all the strength of our affections to that doe wee in so doing ascribe the height of all excellency wee know God deserves to have not onely some revolets or streames but the whole Ocean of our thoughts affections indeavours c. Now zeale thus carrying the soule doth evidently declare that hee alone as hee ought to bee is greatest in our hearts and in truth God can bee no more acknowledged in his owne place without zeale then a man can bee without reason but give him this and you exalt him 3. And beside it doth the worke