His godlie zeale borne towards the aduancing of the christian religion well appéered in the building of the church at Winchester, where the bishops sée of all that prouince was then placed.
My zeale and ruth to see your graces wrong, Makes me lament, I did detract so long.
Thankes gentle scout, God mend that is amisse, And place true, zeale whereas corruption is.
He lov'd his Father; yet his zeale Tore not off his Mother's veile.
The desire of him that made this relations, hath bene with zeale to serue your excellencie; who therewithall desireth the Lord God to giue the successe.
First, zeale to Prince and State; then loves desires Burne in one brest, and like heavens two great lights, The first doth governe dayes, the other nights.
Thrice-happy sentence, which I do imbrace With a more fervent and unfained zeale Then an ambicious rule-desiring man Would do a Iem-bedecked Diadem, Which brings more watchfull cares and discontent Then pompe or honor can remunerate.
Is this then the reward of Innocense, Of goodness to our selfes, namely chast lyfe, Pietye to our parents, love to all, And above all our Christian zeale towardes heaven?
Fyrst then to showe my submisse willingnes And forwardnes withall: with as much charity As any new reformed man maye doo, I with a zeale and hart new reconsiled Thus humbly begge his love.
Yours was so cold and chaste, Whilst mine with zeale did waste, Like Fire with Water plac'd.
For he represented so great grauitie in his countenance, such modestie in behauiour, and so vertuous zeale to all godlinesse in his talke, that whatsoeuer he said was thought for the most part necessarie to be doone and followed.
The people of the countries thereabout, hearing of such zeale in him, to the maintenance of iustice, ministred to his armie victuals, and other necessaries, although by open proclamation so to doo they were prohibited.
Ile hire them that make their wafers or sacramentarie gods to minge them after the same sort, so in the zeale of their superstitious religion, shall they languish and droup like carrion.
These considerations, I saie, which the world suffers to slippe by in the channell of carelesnes, haue moued me in ardent zeale of your welfare, to forewarne you of some dangers that haue beset you & your barrels.
Where Zeale striues to content, and the contents Dies in the Zeale of that which it presents: Their forme confounded, makes most forme in mirth When great things labouring perish in their birth.
Manie works of great zealeand vertue are remembered by writers to haue béene doone by this Constantine and his mother Helen, to the setting foorth of Gods glorie, and the aduancing of the faith of Christ.
Shee was In heart a Lydia, and in tongue a Hanna, In zeale a Ruth, in wedlock a Susanna.
I confess I doe not like that super-zeale in the Canon Lawe, not to let alone there the bodys of heretiques.
I have not open'd my Designe to our brother, for in truthe I find no reason to truste him; his warm professions of Zeale for us seeme to me but Flams.
The letter continued: "I shall require of you cleare proofe of your profess'd Zeale in my service before I despatch any further Remittance.
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