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A88882	St Pauls challenge, or The Churches triumph: in a sermon, preacht at the Fort-Royal March 3. 1643. By Jer: Leech. And now published at the request both of the generous; and his much honored friend captaine George Dipfort.	Leech, Jeremiah.	1644 (1644)	Wing L905; Thomason E49_25; ESTC R11552	19,697	26

verse 35. None shall be able either to doe the one of these or the other not sin not Satan not the Law not our own consciences Let them attempt what they will what they can none of them shall prevaile against us No nor any bodily enemies neither Those that he afterward musters up Tribulation distresse persecution famine Nakednesse perill sword These though they may infest and endanger the body threaten to make conquest of us that way yet when they have done all they can doe in stead of conquering us we shall conquer them nay we shall be more then conquerours over them saies the Apostle through him that loves us in the 37. verse of the chapter He goes a step higher yet joynes bodily and ghostly both together bids defiance to them all heroically resolves that none of them all shall prevaile neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to com nor height nor depth nor any other creature let them make what confederacies they can joyne all their counsells and forces together yet they shall never be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus Thus you see who they are against whom the Apostle makes his challenge 2. Observe for whom or in whose behalfe he makes it That 's in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vs who against us Which you may either understand to be generally meant of the whole Church or particularly of every Member of the Church Against the whole Church first of all Mat. 7.25 Psal 125.1 none shall ever prevaile It is a house built upon a rock Let the raine fall let the windes blow let the flouds rise her foundation is impregnable and as the Psalmist of Mount-Zion shall never be moved T is true The Church is sometime like a Ship upon the Sea Isai 54.11 afflicted and tossed with tempests Like the Ship that the Disciples sayl'd in fill'd with water and cover'd with waves and the passengers Mat. 8.26 all ready to cry out Lord save us we perish We have had the sad and woefull experience of it in all ages And even of late dayes what pressures the Church hath suffered in most places of Christendome how the ploughers have ploughed long furrows upon their backs how her fields have been sowne with the bodies watered with blood of Gods Saints the Goshens and Edens of it that were sometimes as the Gardens of God turn'd now into Aceldemaes and Golgothaes I would I could say that we in our owne land had not beene made to drinke deepe of this cup whose heart bleeds not to thinke of it Certainly in many places the Enemies have mightily prevailed I but yet for all this though they have prevailed over some part of the Church over the whole Church they shall never prevaile though over the persons yet never over the cause She shall have an Vbi still a hiding place to rest in though it be in the wildernesse God will still reserve a remnant to himselfe even in the worst times that shall worship him in sincerity and not kisse the Calves in Bethel nor bow the knee to Baal Againe Though the Churches Enemies may now and then prevaile in some places yet like the Sea as one saies what they gaine in one place they lose in another And so the Church for her part what she loses in one place she gaines in another As what she lost among the Jews when they rejected the Gospell of Christ she gain'd among the Gentiles when they received it So what she lost in the Easterne parts of the world she gained in the Westerne what she lost in Garmany she gain'd in the Netherlands what in Italy and Spain she gain'd in France and England God still so provides that what her Enemies doe against her in one place he does for her in another and though they prevaile against some part of the Church yet against the whole Church as I said they shall never prevaile Nay they shall never prevaile neither against any one member of the Church Every childe shall inherit the same blessing with the Mother What Christ said unto Peter is shall be verified upon every Disciple of Christ Luke 22.31 Satan hath desired to winnow thee as wheat is winnowed but I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not faile Peters Faith never utterly faild T is true It was shaken indeede but though concussa yet not excussa as Theophylact sayes though it were shaken it was not shiver'd Mota sed non amota moved it was but it was not removed Coepit arescere sed non exaruit It withered at the top but it dyed not at the roote In 2. Tim. 4.8 St. Paul speakes of a Crowne of righteousnesse that he sayes he knew the Lord would give him Marke what he adds He sayes he would not give it to him only but to every one that loved his appearing Had not every Christian this priviledge his condition were uncomfortable But our happinesse is that what ever God or nature hath intended for the safety and conservation of the whole shall be communicated and distributed to every part If therefore no Enemie shall ever prevaile against the whole Church I being a member of the Church my confidence and comfort is that none shall ever finally prevaile against me Let 's assure our selves they shall not Though they may prevaile over our lives they shall not prevaile over our spirits Though they may reproch our names and plunder our estates and mangle our bodies they shall never doe any violence to our soules No the Devill himselfe shall never lay hand upon them unlesse he could pluck them out of Gods hand He may bruise them with tentation but he shall never bring them to destruction God has made us invincible though he have not made us invulnerable So thus you see the second point For whom or in whose behalfe the Apostle makes this challenge In the third and last place Observe the matter about which he makes it About the enemies being against the Church Who can be against us saies the Apostle That 's the challenge he makes And how against us he specifies in three particulars 1. In the 33. verse Quis accusabit Who shall accuse Gods elect or who shall lay any thing to their charge None shall be able to doe that He tells you why Because it is God that justisies us God is the Judge of all and it is in the Judges power to pronounce those that are accused either guilty or innocent If God being the Judge therefore will justifie us to be innocent no accuser can make us guilty Then in the 34. verse Quis condemnabit Who shall condemne None shal be able to doe that neither He tells you why Because Christ is dead and ris●n againe for us Christ by his death and resurrection hath acquited us from the sentence of condemnation He became surety for us and paid the debt that we