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A78063 A sermon preached on the 30th. of January, 1683/4. Being an anniversary for the martyrdom of King Charles the First. / By John Buttler, B.D. Buttler, John. 1684 (1684) Wing B6274A; ESTC R173343 29,365 40

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Honours and to scorn Bribery and Flattery and could choose to be Poor rather then Dishonest how much more then shall Christians become Valiant in contempt of the World when Secret Influences of Grace shall inspire our Minds and Spirits with inward Courage and Resolutions Our Duty is therefore to consider the Vertue and Glory as well as the Necessity of the Work in setting our Affections on things above and so put our selves upon the means with all possible Diligence in the Practice and we shall soon find Experience enough of Divine helps giving Encouragement so as no Difficulty shall be able to dishearten 3. But then 3dly We must remember to have a care lest at any time our hearts be over charged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness Cares of this Life and so the day of Danger come upon us unawares Lu. 21. 34 35. For as a Snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the Face of the whole Earth Drunkenness and Whordom and Covetuonsness destroys more Countrys Citys Armies and Men then Plague and Famine and the most Cruel and Bloudy Wars For in all such cases Men have their Eyes in their Heads and as they see their Danger imminent so they exercise their Reason and Wits to prevent it and whether they Live or Die they make the best of their condition But in these cases wise Men do become and that by their own Act Sots and Fools and expose and lay open themselves to be baffled betrayed abased and killed and to become odious to God and Man a Prey to the Enemy and God shall nor pity them nor revenge their wrongs Now the Righteous do also become a Prey unto the Enemy many times by Gods Permission for Tryal of Faith and Patience and other Reasons but then here is their comfort 1st That it is not through their own default nor for want of Eyes or looking about them but meerly for that they were abused and they Suffer for Conscience and Truth and Righteousness 2dly That God will before or after Death be sure 1 Pet. 4. 18. to avenge their Cause But now if the Righteous scarcely be saved but have also their Hell even in this Life where shall the ungodly and the wicked appear Good Men have their Tryals of Affliction for a time and their Hell upon Earth for a while and Evil Men have their time to Glory in their Prosperity As our Saviour says the true Church Men shall Lament and Weep and the Joh. 16. 20. World shall rejoyce in their Surfeiting and Wantonness they have Loved the Creature above the Creator and the Pleasures on Earth beyond the hopes of Heaven and yet these brute Beasts are allowed to be Merry and to have the World at Will and truly careful and good Men must Suffer Tribulation But there is a time when Tribulation shall come upon a Land with an Universal 1 Thes 5. 2 3. Scourge like as a Theif comes in the Night And then when they cry Peace and Safety Lo then sudden Destruction will come on like a Woman in Travel But in that Day says Christ to all who are his their Sorrow shall be turned into joy For says he I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce so as Joh. 16. 22. Rom. 14. 17. no Man shall be able to take away Joy from you That is holy Men shall be comforted with secret cheerfulness from within in a quite different manner from all pleasures of the Flesh But Worldly Men whose God is their Belly and whose Glory is in their Shame shall be surprized like the five Foolish Virgins who for want Mat. 25. 1 c. of Oyl in their Lamps were shut out when the day came of the Marriage Feast and shall be taken as it were in a Net like ●he Men of S●dom or of the old World at which times Lot and Noab were preserved alone Fleshly Lusts War against the Soul by besotting and bewitching it into a Fond security which tendeth to 1 Pet. 2. 1● its Ruine To prevent therefore the emminent Danger of Publick Calamities we must shun Surfeiting Wantonness for they expose us into the very gulf of Miseries and prevent us of all means of escape But 4ly We must Watch and Pray always that we may be counted Lu. 21. 36. worthy to escape No Man can escape but by help of God Man cannot help in such a case 't is God only can do it And God helps none unless he have a worth in him and that worth must come by Christ there is nothing in our selves no not in the best of us Here lies the thing therefore we must be found in Christ that is as Men who have put off the ways of the World in Rioting and Drunkenness and Covetuosness and are experienced in the ways of Christ knowing the value of spiritual Joys hid Treasures whose worth the World knows nothing of And in order to compass these we must 1st Watch that is Exercise all possible Care and Diligence in taking heed to abstain from Sin and to increase in Vertue and Godliness take heed of Thoughts that are vain or Evil how they get ground of us of Evil Company lest it seduce us and above all of Evil Works lest they Gain an Habit upon us and to these purposes are we to Watch. And 2dly We must pray always that is use all possibly Godly means of Hearing Meditation Reading Godly Conference above all especially Prayer always in a continual course of Prayer and in frequent Act of Prayer and all to this end that we may be found in Christ and so when the Tribulations come and the Signs come and the Perplexity of all Nations shall come yet that we may be Safe Amen FINIS