A20529:283
Four godly and fruitful sermons two preached at Drayton in Oxford-shire, at a fast,…Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast,…
Four godly and fruitful sermons two preached at Drayton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enjoined by authority, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispersed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalm. Whereunto is annexed a brief tract of zeal. / By I. Dod. R. Cleaver.Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enioyned by authoritie, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispearsed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalme. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe tract of zeale. / By I. Dod. R. Cleauer.
London: printed by T.C. for William Welbie, 1611
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.
A BRIEF TRACT CONCERNING ZEAL, wherein the properties of true Zeal are described, and the contrary discovered,
A BRIEFE TRACT CONCERNING ZEALE, wherein the properties of true Zeale are described, and the contrarie discouered,
Godly zeal is a virtue very requisite and necessary for all Christians: not so rare and seldom found: as precious and useful where it is found; as being the very life and soul of sound Christianity, and one of the principal Fountains & Well-heads, whence many other virtues of the spirit do spring and issue forth.
GOdlie zeale is a vertue very requisite and necessary for all Christans: not so rare and seldome found: as precious and vsefull where it is found; as being the verie life and soule of sound Christianitie, and one of the principal Fountains & Well-heads, whence manie other vertues of the spirit doe spring and issue foorth.
The excellency of this grace doeth appear, as by many other arguments, so by this, that the Saints are thereby described; where they are said to be a people [zealous of good works:] this is the end of their redemption,1 and this is one special effect and mark of their justification, that they do not only desist from their former evil works, and fall to the practise of the contrary good works, but that they are zealous, both to do them, and in the doing of them: they shake off the sluggishness of the flesh, and strive for the fervency of the spirit,2 in all duties that they owe either unto God or men.