A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

Now the virtues and graces which arise and issue from love, are divers, as zeal of Gods glory, joy, and rejoicing in God, thankfulness and obedience. Zeal is the fruit and effect of our fervent love towards God, and as it were a flame arising from this divine fire, whereby we are made most careful and earnest in seeking Gods glory, both in advancing and furthering all means whereby it is furthered, and in opposing, hindering, and removing all the impediments whereby it may be hindered. And this is to be showed in all other virtues, as being the intension of them, and in all duties which we perform unto God. So the Apostle telleth us generally, that it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing. ¹Our love towards God, and hatred of sin, must be zealous and hot, and not cold or luke-warm; our repentance must be joined with zeal; Be zealous and amend. We must zealously worship and serve God, according ²to that of the Apostle; fervent in Spirit, serving the Lord. We must not ³only do good works, but be zealous of them. We must pray with ⟨p. 111⟩zeal exceedingly, and pour out our hearts like water before the Lord; with