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In Living Zealously, Joel R. Beeke and James A. La Belle address the much overlooked topic of Christian zeal. Having mined the depths of Puritan wisdom on what it means to live earnestly for Christ, they explain it in a way that is familiar to our modern ears and applicable to our souls. Beeke and La Belle do us a valuable service by helping us see the importance of Christian zeal and encouraging...

which gives gloss and luster to all, [and as] the opposites of zeal, keycoldness1 and lukewarmness … are no affections, but several tempers of them all.”2 Likewise, Samuel Annesley (1620–1696), in his Cripplegate sermon on Matthew 22:37–38, said that zeal is “the boiling-up of the affections to the greatest heat.”3 And John Evans, also preaching on Revelation 3:19, argued that zeal “is not a particular grace or virtue by itself, but rather a qualification which should attend us in the exercise of
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