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A90512	Gospell courage, or Christian resolution for God, and his truth. In a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Margarets in Westminster, at a publique fast, the 31. of May, 1643. / By Andrew Perne Master of Arts, sometimes fellow of Katherine Hall in Cambridge: now minister of Wilby in Northampton-Shire.	Perne, Andrew, 1594-1654.	1643 (1643)	Wing P1577; Thomason E55_12; ESTC R16176	18,919	39

and Religion but for ever and ever One phrase only I conceive needs opening which is this What it is to walke in the name of a God and it stands under divers senses First to bee called by his name as Wives Children Disciples are called by the Names of their Husbands Parents Masters So here all Nations will tryumph and will be willing to owne and not be ashamed of the Name of their God and wee will not be ashamed of our glory Deut. 28.10 and all the People of the Earth shall see that thou art called by the Name of the Lord the 2 Chron. 7.14 If my People that are called by my Name c. Secondly to goe furnished with the divine Authority of God Mar. 11. Blessed is he that commeth to us in the Name of the Lord and so the 1 Cor. 5.4 In the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ when ye are gathered together and my Spirit c. 3. To walke in the Power and strength of God the 1 Sam. 17.45 Thou comest to me with a sword and a speare and with a shield but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of Hosts saies David to Goliah which is in the strength of God Fourthly to walke in the scare Lawes Ordinances and whole worship of God And this I conceive to be the proper meaning of this place The Doctrines are many We shall therefore play the Travaller passe by some Townes though good call in at others and make our stay in that that is most convenient Doct. 1 There is a GOD. This truth we read in the Booke of nature that lies continually open before us written in so great and Capitall Letters that one though stone blind if he have other senses may read it And Conscience within teaches this All Nations agree in it There is a peradventure indeed in every mans heart that there is no God and according to the strength of this in the soule so is the life God lesse But there is a semi-certainty in every soule that there is a God and when this prevailes then a Man will be devoute in his way And therefore saith the Heathen Menciuntur qui dicunt se non sentire esse Deum they lie in their throats that say they thinke there is no God But we leave this Severall Nations have severall Gods Or there are many false Gods in the World In the 1 Cor. 8.5 There be Gods many and Lords many No truth so generally and universally granted as this That there is a God but none so much controverted as who the true God is Man brings into the World with him notions and sure apprehensions of a deity Education and Custome do specificate and shape these generall notions of a GOD and a Religion to that God and into that Religion that the Countrey accounts the true From hence he that is borne in Turkey is a Mahumetan In Italie a Papist in England a Protestant So soone as Men are borne they fall a groaping for a God and for a Religion One there is but who and which wee know not and that that is first put into our hands by our Parents and Governours that we close withall And this is the State and condition of all Men living the best and dearest Saints of God are thus by nature and would have beene Turkes and Papists had they bin borne there till God seized upon them by his grace regenerated them and reveal'd himselfe unto them Yee were without God in the World as well as others A God then there is but who and what 〈◊〉 one the People and Nations of the World cannot agree and therefore how many have the Nations who are left unto the light of nature set up for Gods that had Country Gods and Citie Gods and houshold Gods and particular personall Gods Gods for all places for Heaven and Hell and Sea and Land for all occasions for war and peace and plenty and health and sicknes the number of their Gods as some of their own Authors have summed them up was above thirty thousand The Papists in our dayes have more If yee say what 's the cause of this that the World should be thus out in so great a point Reas 1 All have lost the knowledge of God in Adam that was our great losse for his sin God hath withdrawne himself hid himself in secret will not fully sufficiently or savingly reveale himself by the Creatures to the sons of men but hath chosen a new way to vent himself which is by Iesus Christ Mat. 11.27 No Man cometh to the father but by mee saith Christ and so Ioh. 11.6 No man knoweth the Father but the son and he to whom the Sonne shall reveale him There is not in all the Booke of Nature one Iota or one hint of Jesus Christ Many nations are without the Gospell few persons know Jesus Christ I pray God you may looke to your selves and therefore are wilde and vaine and various in their Imaginations of God It comes from the infinite disproportion that is between God and Man Reas 2 What House will yee build mee saith God I fill Heaven and Earth the Heaven of Heavens are not able to containe mee So what thoughts will yee reare up to entertaine the great God in How will yee doe to stretch those narrow Soules of yours that the King of glory may come in It is impossible for a Camel to goe through the eye of a needle but how impossible for God to come into his Creature The sences which are the Lanes or Gates which lead to the soule neither is there any thing in the understanding but it is first in the sences these are all too narrow God is invisible and cannot be seene Thou canst not see my Face sayes God to Moses and yet he had and could see great and dreadfull things but had hee seene this his soule would have ran away He is ineffable bigger then all definitions and descriptions greater then words can tell It s peculiar to God to exceed knowledge And therefore the Logicians have wisely excluded him out of their Predicaments ubique prosens sed latens nothing more present then God and nothing more unseene Obj. If you say but this Reason shuts out all Men yet there are that doe know him Answ It doth indeed shut out all from any naturall knowledge of him by naturall meanes the knowledge of God is a supernaturall grace bred onely by the spirit of God in the hearts of the Men of his good will This Spirit doth supernaturally stretch out the narrow soule of Man doth in large and widen it and raises it up about its own nature to conceive aright of God This Spirit lifteth up the doores and sets open the Gates that the King of glory may come in And because the faculties cannot bee wound up to infinitenesse that they may hold proportion to the immensity of God therefore the spirit does two things First it creates an eekening in the soule which

Die Mercurij ultimo Maii 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Sir Christopher Yelverton doe from this House give thanks unto Mr. Andrew Perne for the great paines hee tooke in the Sermon he this day preached at the intreaty of the House of Commons at St. Margarets in the Citie of VVestminster being a day of publique Humiliation and that he desire him to Print his Sermon And it is Ordered that no man presume to Print his Sermon but whom the said Mr. Perne shall authorize under his hand writing H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. I authorise Stephen Powtell to Print my Sermon above named and no man else ANDREW PERNE GOSPELL COURAGE Or Christian Resolution for GOD and his Truth In a SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of COMMONS at Margarets in Westminster at a Publique FAST the 31. of May 1643. By ANDREW PERNE Master of Arts sometimes fellow of Katherine Hall in CAMBRIDGE Now Minister of Wilby in Northampton-Shire JER 6.16 Thus saith the Lord stand yee in the wayes and see and aske for the old pathes where is the good way and walke therein and yee shall find rest for your soules Josh 24.15 As for me and my House we will serve the Lord. Dan. 3.18 Be it knowne unto thee O King that we will not serve thy Gods nor worship thy Golden Image which thou hast set up LONDON Printed by G. Dexter for Stephen Bowtell at the Signe of the Bible in Popes-head-Alley 1643. TO THE HONOURABLE THE KNIGHTS CITIZENS and Burgesses of the COMMONS House of PARLIAMENT Noble Gentlemen THis Sermon lately preached before your Honourable Assembly I now present to your review if in the midst of so many important businesses of State which lie upon you and in such variety of farre more learned Discourses which daily offer themselves you can find any leasure to look on this You are my witnesses and the world may see here is nothing but the words of truth and sobernesse though many charge us unheard with Schisme Heresie Faction Sedition and what not I must seriously confesse I am conscious to my selfe of many wants and infirmities and have alwayes avoyded to be publike as judging them things too high for me contenting my selfe to approve my doctrine to God and the consciences of my deare people committed to me and if I might have pleased my selfe I should rather have bin found still in mine own private Cure and have devolved this taske to any other But I durst not refuse an Authority so high and sacred to which all honest and Religious hearts cannot but stoop in regard of that stamp which the great God hath actually set upon it even for the generations of after ages your command will be a sufficient Apollogie for me though not for the worke yet if the great God may have any glory or the poorest in the Church for for them only I conceive it fit any edification by my weake endeavours I shall never repent either the preaching or Printing of this Sermon however unwillingly I undertook both being over ruled therto by your request which is to me instead of a command Gentlemen I have but one suit to you and t is the summe of the ensuing Sermon be Resolute still for God and for his true Religion and you know who said it God is with you while you are with him Your Servant for Christ ANDREW PERNE A SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of COMMONS at their publike Fast May 31. 1643. MICHAH 4.5 For all people will walke every one in the name of his God and we will walke in the name of our God for ever and ever THE Prophet having shut up the former Chapter with the great Judgement that all the Prophets did threaten Jerusalem with to wit the Babylonish Captivity begins this Chapter with a prophesie of that great Mercy that all of them comforts her with to wit the coming and Kingdome of Christ But in the last dayes it shall come to passe sayes he ver 1. that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the toppe of the mountaines c. As if he should have said Though God will plough Zion rend and teare his people with affections make this famous Citie heapes of rui●● and this Mount which is so daintily kept shall b● overgrown with nettles dirt and dust like the w●●● hills of the desert yet the time will come when Christ is exhibited and the Gospell is preached that the Church of God shall not be obscurely confin'd and shut up in a darke corner of the world but shall be so eminently conspicuous and famously known that the Gentiles shall flow unto it for out of Zion indeed shall the word of the Gospell proceed but it shall spread it selfe over all Nations and it shall so calme and quiet their spirits that they shall lay down all hostile dispositions and as if they were composed of peace they shall turne their warlike infiruments into tooles of husbandry their Swords 〈◊〉 plough shares and their speares into pruning books every one shall be contented with and safely sit under his own vine and fig●r●e And then comes in these words which are either as an exhortation to the people of God that then were as ●●lvin hath it to stirre them up Ad invictam animi mag●nudinem ●●●sultent cunctis gentibus to an inconquerable mag●●●mity and to an holy insultation over all Nations in regard of their God or as a prophecie of the Gospel courage and Christian valour and resolution which shall be in those that live in the Gospel times and so of this And why not of you for the words are a solemne and serious protestation like whereunto you have lately taken and commanded all the Kingdome that with their li●es power and estares they should maintain the true Protestant Religion which is to walke in the name of our God against all Popery and Popish Innovations In the words you may observe first a generall consent of all Nations that there is and to have A God this is insinuated in the Text. 2. The diversity of judgement among the Nations concerning this God for though they all agree that there is A God and every one will have One but herein they differ who this true God is 3. The peremptorinesse of every Nation for Their God and for Their Religion All people will walke every one in the name of their God and we will walke c. 4. A blessed use which the Church maketh of this for her selfe and her God others will be stiffe and peremptory for their Gods and so will she for hers 5. The Eminencie transcendency and Excellencie of her God above theirs Theirs are Gods but hers is the Lord our God Ichovah a God that hath a Being of himselfe Theirs have none 6. Observe the time how long Not for a fit or a good mood while that lasts will the Church be thus peremptory for her God