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The Holy Fire of Zeal and Other Works, by Samuel Ward (1577-1653)
With a Memoir of the Author by J.C. Ryle
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Samuel Ward (1577-1653) is a Puritan unknown to most readers of English theology today. Most of his writings are not available; the ones which have been collected in this volume have not been reprinted for almost two hundred years. Ward’s life was spent in Suffolk, England and he seldom left his own pulpit in St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich. His time was spent in preaching, and writing occasionally. The merits of these writings were highly thought of in times past (such as in the day when the first reprint took place in the time of J.C. Ryle), and have received the recommendation from very competent judges such as Fuller and Doddridge. Doddridge comments that Ward in his preaching and writing was proper, elegant, well thought out, and happily illustrated.
Samuel Ward’s works contained in this volume are his most valuable, such as “A Coal from the Altar: the Holy fire of Zeal,” “Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience,” and “Jethro’s Justice of the Peace,” as well as his treatises on the “Life of Faith,” and the “Life of Faith in Death,” among others. Ward’s regular purpose in preaching was to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ as high as possible, to cast down man’s pride, to expose the sinfulness of sin, to spread out broadly and fully the remedy of the gospel, to awaken the unconverted sinner and alarm him, to build up the true Christian and comfort him in Christ.
This work is newly typeset for easy reading and retains the original English of Ward’s day.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION 7
A Memoir of Samuel Ward by J.C. Ryle 9
CHRIST IS ALL IN ALL. 27
“Christ is all, and in all.”—Col. 3:11. 27
THE LIFE OF FAITH. 45
Chapter 1: The Just Shall Live by His Faith. 47
Chapter 2: Christ the Fountain. 49
Chapter 3: The Third Kind of the Life of Faith. 52
Chapter 4: The Use of Faith. 54
Chapter 5: The First Use of Faith to New–born Babes. 57
Chapter 6: The Use of Faith to Young Men in Christianity. 61
Chapter 7: An Enforcement of the Former Use, With a Reproof of the Neglect and Disuse of Faith. 65
Chapter 8: The Use of Faith to a Grown Christian. 69
Chapter 9: An Objection Answered, and Passage Made to the Life of Sanctification. 73
Chapter 10: How Faith Sanctifies and Mortifies. 76
Chapter 11: How Faith Vivifies. 81
Chapter 12: How Faith Upholds Life in Affliction. 84
Chapter 13: An Epistle to the Reader, Pressing the Use of Faith. 90
A TREATISE ON THE LIFE OF FAITH IN DEATH 97
THE LIFE OF FAITH IN DEATH 99
The Living Speeches of Dying Christians 103
Part I. 103
The Second Part. 107
The Third Part. 113
Come and See: The First Sermon 124
Come and See: The Second Sermon 143
A Letter from Mr. Ambrose Wood 157
A COAL FROM THE ALTAR TO KINDLE THE HOLY FIRE OF ZEAL. 158
The First Part. 161
The Second Part. 165
The Third Part. 173
The Fourth Part. 181
The Fifth Part. 187
The Sixth Part. 191
BALM FROM GILEAD TO RECOVER CONSCIENCE 201
To The Reader 203
JETHRO’S JUSTICE OF PEACE 244
The First Part. 248
The Second Part. 253
The Third Part. 272
The Fourth Part. 277
The Fifth Part. 279
A Letter from Nathaniel Ward to His Brother 282
A PEACE OFFERING TO GOD 284
Preface 284
A POSTSCRIPT TO THE READER 307
A THANKFUL MAN’S CALENDAR 309
WOE TO DRUNKARDS 312
THE HAPPINESS OF PRACTICE 335
A POSTSCRIPT 359
