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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	due_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	22	3	9.2301	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41135	A treatise of the affections, or, The souls pulse whereby a Christian may know whether he be living or dying : together with a lively description of their nature, signs, and symptomes : as also directing men to the right use and ordering of them / by that Reverend and faithfull minister of Gods word, M. William Fenner ... finished by himself.	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1650 (1650)	Wing F708; ESTC R9229	161,998	208

doth affect most How often is God in Scripture called the most High the most High Act. 7. 48. if he be the most high then the most high of every act and of every affection must be for him The very Heathen call God Deus optimus maximus God the most good and the most great so likewise he is the most terrible and the most holy and the most just and therefore the most of our affections must needs be due unto him Zeal is the most of every one of the affections and that only is sutable to God The affections must be sutable to the thing we affect but nothing of all the affections is sutable to God besides zeal for zeal is the most of every one of them Thirdly As zeal is the most of every affection so it is the peculiar pitch of every affection There cannot be two mosts The superlative degree cannot be two Doctissimus properly is a term peculiar to one body the most learned man in the world is a peculiar word peculiar to one There may be ten learned a thousand learned there may be many learned but most learned is a peculiar title So zeal being the most of the affections it must needs be peculiar to some one thing which cannot be any other but God Christ gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purchase to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2. 14. Those people that are zealous of good works ye see they are people peculiar to Christ They can be no other people but Christs people that are zealous of good works No people under heaven are truly zealous of good works but only his people This is peculiar to Christ to have such people because zeal is peculiarly due unto him Thou canst not possibly be one of Gods people if thou beest not zealous for God A zealous beleever and a zealous repenter and a zealous professor zealous in praying and zealous in hearing the Word Zealous people are peculiar people to Christ Under love and under joy and under hope and under fear are not peculiarly due unto God For I may love my health too and I may delight in the blessings of this life and I may fear a temporary evil I may lend mine under affections to some things else besides God but my zeal being the most of my affections must be given to God zeal is peculiar to him Thou art a worldling then thou art none of Gods if thou beest not zealous for him Thou art of thy father the devil thou art none of Gods unlesse thou be zealous to him Zeal is his peculiar Fourthly As zeal is the peculiar pitch of every affection so it is the most spending part of the affections A man must spend himself upon nothing but God nothing else will quit charges Now zeal is the spendingest strain of every affection It most spendeth the spirits it most busieth the body you may gather what a spending thing zeal is by the passage in the Psalmist David sayes thus My zeal hath consumed me because my enemies have forgotten thy words Psa 119. 139. David was so zealous for God that he did even spend himself to see how his enemies dishonoured his God A childe of God is like a faithful servant to his Master he is willing to spend himself in his service So he is content to spend himself in his employments for God Paul when God employed him for the souls of the Corinthians he sayes thus I will gladly spend and be spent for you why what was the reason I abundantly love you sayes he 2 Cor. 12. 15. that is he was zealous in his love to their souls God had employed him for the good of their souls and he was so zealous in this employment that he could even spend himself and be spent for them And indeed zeal it self is a very spending thing Thou art the devils Martyr that spendest thy self upon the things of this life thou art so wedded thereto that thou spendest thy parts and thy wits hereabouts thou spendest thy thoughts and thy time hereupon thou spendest thy self and thy spirits this way The voluptuous man spends himself as much at his sports as a Minister spends himself in a Pulpit as a godly man spends himself in good duties As for Gods Service thy prayers are so cold and so negligent that thou spendest thy self not at all in them Thy repentance is so overly it spends thee never a jot to go thorow it thou art so eager after thy pleasures they spend thee so earnest after the world that spends thee because thou art zealous about such things But it is otherwise with thee in the Service of God This is another strong reason why zeal is due properly to God because a man must spend himself upon nothing so much as upon pleasing of God and doing his will and seeking his glory It is true he may spend himself in his calling But the greatest part of the spending lieth in this that he may walk with God in his calling He spendeth himself in be labouring his heart to work in obedience to follow his businesses with faith to go about his earthly employments as before God to glorifie God in all his waies A man may ground himself upon nothing so much as upon God Zeal to God makes him a kinde of Martyr for Christ Fifthly As zeal is the spending part of all the affections so likewise zeal is the impatient part of all the affections It is true we may desire a good report among men but our affections must not be impatient if we cannot have it without bating an inch of a good conscience our desire must be patient without it We may grieve for a losse or a trouble but our affection must not be impatient if we see Gods providence hath sent it our grief must be patient under it We may affect these outward blessings of God but our affections must be patient of a privation but our affections must be zealous to God because zealous affections are impatient of the contrary We must so hate sinne against God as to be impatient to endure it so fear to offend him as to be impatient of any boldnesse that way So love the glory of God as to be impatient of any dishonour to his Name so zealous to reprove sinne in a neighbour as not to suffer sinne in him Thou shalt rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sinne on him Lev. 19. 7. that is thou shalt be zealous in rebuking A high look and a proud heart I will not suffer Psa 101. 5. that is I will be zealous against it I have not suffered my mouth to sin Iob. 13. 30. that is I have been zealous in the ruling of my tongue Zeal is the impatient part of all the affections look what thine affections do zealously affect they will not suffer the contrary And therefore the zeal of thine affections must be unto God Indeed