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A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man John Jewel…A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel…
A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man John Jewel ... ; with an answer of the same author to some frivolous objections against the government of the church.A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel ... ; with an answer of the same authour to some frivolous objections against the government of the church.
S.l. : s.n., 1641
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But the true and godly zeal proceedeth not from hypocrisy, or intention, but is led and trained by understanding, and is molten into the heart; and the vehemency and heat of it, no man knoweth, but he that feeleth it: It taketh away the use of reason: it eateth & devoureth up the heart; even as the thing that is eaten, is turned into the substance of him that eateth it; & as iron while it is burning hot, is turned into the nature of the fire: so great and so just is the grief that they ⟨p. 16⟩which have this zeal, conceive, when they see Gods house spoiled, or his holy name dishonoured. So saith Elijah; I have been very jealous 1for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, broken down thy Altars, and slain thy Prophets with the sword, and I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away. So when Moses found that the people had forsaken God, and were fallen down before a molten Calf, & did put their trust in the work of their own hands, his wrath waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hand, and brake them in pieces beneath the 2mountain: his heart was so inflamed with zeal, that he considered not what he had in his hand, nor what he did Jeremiah, when he saw the disorder of the people, & How they were not mended with his preaching; and would inwardly conceal the grief he conceived; and purposed, not to make mention of the Lord, nor to speak any more in his name; yet could he not: for his zeal found way, and brake out; His word, saith he, was in 3mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, ⟨p. 17⟩and I was weary with for bearing, and I could not stay.
But the true and godly zeale proceedeth not from hypocrisie, or intention, but is led and trained by understanding, and is molten into the heart; and the vehemency and heat of it, no man knoweth, but he that feeleth it: It taketh away the use of reason: it eateth & devoureth up the heart; even as the thing that is eaten, is turned into the substance of him that eateth it; & as iron while it is burning hot, is turned into the nature of the fire: so great and so just is the griefe that they