A20529:316
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.
Another most excellent and glorious property of §9pure zeal is,1 to be humbled in our selves for those sins which we espy and censure in others, and so to nourish an holy compassion towards them.
Another most excellent and glorious propertie of §9pure zeale is,1 to be humbled in our selues for those sins which we espie and censure in others, and so to nourish an holy compassion towards them.
- 1Compassion to be joined with zeal.Compassion to be ioyned with zeale.
Here is an excellent and infallible difference between godly zeal and fleshly heat, viz when our anger for our brothers falling doth not feed it self upon the party, because of our wrath, but upon his sin, because of our zeal; we still retaining a tender affection towards the person of the offender. When our Saviour Christ went about to heal the man that had the withered hand, the Pharisees that stood by murmured, because he would heal on the Sabbath day: hereupon it is said, that he looked about him angerly, & yet it is added, that he sorrowed for the hardness of their harts. Mark here in this notable example,1 how anger and sorrow meet together: Anger, that men should have so little knowledge of God, and love of there brother: sorrow, that through ignorance they were so folly overseen.2 So likewise in zeal of his father,