Zeale

[Greek: pikros zêlos], _turbulent Zeale, wilde fire_.

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Zeale is a good servant, but an ill master: mettle is dangerous in a head-strong horse.

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[Greek: pseudozêlos], _counterfet Zeale, false fire_.

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What I have done, is out of Zeale to God and his Church.

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Zeale is every where spoken against it hath many enemies and few friends: the world can no more abide it, then beasts can the elementary fire, the rebukes of many have falne upon it, the Divell weaves cunning lies to bring downe the honour of it.

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And to speake truth, I have oft wondered why poore _Zeale_, a vertue so high in Gods books, could never be so much beholding to mens writings as to obtain a just treatise, which hath beene the lot of many particular vertues of inferiour worth; a plaine signe of too much under-value and neglect.

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Zeale is as strong as death, hot as the coales of Juniper; flouds of many waters cannot quench it.

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Zeale will cut of the right hand, if it cause to offend; much more to pare the nayles and superfluities: it consumes the strongest, dearest corruptions; much more will it singe off such haire and drosse as these:

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Zeale hath been little practized, lesse studied: this heavenly fire hath ever beene a stranger upon earth.

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Zeale hath in this our earthly molde, little fuell, much quench-coale, is hardly fired, soone cooled.

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