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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.
But much more damnable and vile is their zeal to be esteemed, who against their knowledge and consciences, do violently and maliciously oppose themselves against the Gospel, and the professors thereof, and stand for falsehood and wickedness, and the practisers thereof: as did those wretched Pharisees that set themselves against our Saviour, and committed the sin against the holy Ghost.1
But much more damnable and vile is their zeale to be esteemed, who against their knowledge and consciences, doe violently and maliciously oppose themselues against the Gospell, and the professors thereof, and stand for falshood and wickednesse, and the practisers thereof: as did those wretched Pharises that set themselues against our Sauiour, and committed the sin against the holy Ghost.1
- 1We must know the thing to be good for which we are zealous.
A second rule is, that as the matter in which we are zealous, must be good in it self, so it must be known unto us to be of that quality. True zeal must begin ⟨p. 87⟩where the word begins,1 and end where it ends: for otherwise it cannot be of faith, which is ever grounded on the word; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin. We must not therefore content our selves with an honest meaning, and hope that we have a good zeal towards God, when we have no warrant for our hope: but must so acquaint our selves with the Scriptures of God,2 that our zeal may be according to knowledge.