A20529:317
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.
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,3 Christ looked on Jerusalem, with an hatred to their sin, and yet with pity of their misery which was at hand, which appeareth ⟨p. 96⟩in that he wept over it.
Heere is an excellent and infallible difference betweene godly zeale and fleshly heat, viz when our anger for our brothers falling doth not feed it self vpō the party, because of our wrath, but vpon his sinne, because of our zeale; we still retaining a tender affection towards the person of the offender. When our Sauiour Christ went about to heale the man that had the withered hand, the Pharises that stood by murmured, because hee would heale on the Sabbath day: herevpon it is said, that he looked about him angerlie, & yet it is added, that he sorrowed for the hardnes of their harts. Marke here in this notable example,1 how anger and sorrow meete together: Anger, that men should haue so little knowledge of God, and loue of ther brother: sorrow, that through ignorance they were so foulie ouerseene.2 So likewise in zeale of his father,