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Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls crossCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse
Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls cross, by the reverend father John Jewel late Bishop of Salisbury. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made upon that matter, in his cathedral church at SalisburyCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse, by the reuerend father Iohn Ievvel late Bishop of Salisburie. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made vpon that matter, in his cathedrall church at Salisburie
London: printed by Christopher Barker, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But the true and godly zeal proceedeth not from hypocrisy or intention, but is led and trained by understanding, and is molten into the heart, and the vehemency and heat of it, no man knoweth, but he that feeleth it. It taketh away the use of reason, it eateth and devoureth up the heart: even as the thing that is eaten, is turned into the substance of him that eateth it: and as iron whiles it is burning hot is turned into the nature of the fire: so great and so just is the grief that they which have this zeal conceive, when they see Gods house spoiled, or his holy name dishonoured. So saith Elijah, I have been very jealous for y• Lord God of hosts: for the 1children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, broken down thine altars, & slain thy Prophets with the sword, & I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away. So when Moses found that the people had forsaken God, and were fallen down before a molten calf, & did put their trust in the work of their own hands, his wrath waxed hot, & he cast the tables ⟨image 68⟩2out of his hand, & brake them in pieces beneath the mountain. His heart was so inflamed with zeal, that he considered not what he had in his hand, nor what he did. Jeremiah, when he saw the disorder of the people, and how they were not mended with his preaching, and would inwardly conceal the grief he conceived, and purposed not to make mention of the Lord, nor to speak any more in his name: yet could he not, for his zeal found way, and brake out, His word (saith he) was in mine 3heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, & I could not stay.
But the true and godly zeale proceedeth not from hypocrisie or intention, but is led and trained by vnderstanding, and is moulten into the heart, and the vehemency and heat of it, no man knoweth, but he that feeleth it. It taketh away the vse of reason, it eateth and deuoureth vp the heart: euen as the thing that is eaten, is turned into the substance of him that eateth it: and as iron whiles it is burning hot is turned into the nature of the fire: so great and so iust is the griefe that they which haue this zeale conceiue, when they see Gods house spoyled, or his holye name dishonoured. So saith Elias, I haue been very ielous for y Lord God of hosts: for the