A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale / In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich

A preacher argues for renewed spiritual zeal, diagnosing lukewarmness as a chief spiritual failing and urging its revival. The sermon distinguishes genuine zeal from counterfeit forms and hostile criticisms, describes its nature as an intense composite of affections rather than a single emotion, and identifies obstacles that quench it. It offers incentives, practical measures, and doctrinal argument to kindle and sustain fervor among believers, counsels careful discernment to avoid imprudent displays, and exhorts the assembly to apply these principles so communal and personal devotion may be revived and maintained.