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A66105	The man of war a sermon preached to the Artillery Company at Boston on June 5, 1699, being the anniversary day for their election of officers / by Samuel Willard.	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.	1699 (1699)	Wing W2284_VARIANT; ESTC R31017	12,138	38

did when the Spies told them of Cities walled to heaven and Giants to encounter Chap. 14. 4. They said one to another let us make us a Captain and let us return into Egypt Dulce bellum inexpertis Inconsiderate persons account it a fine thing to be a Souldier whiles they look only upon the bravery liberty ease and plunder which they promise themselves in it and how readily do they list themselves for Volunteers but when they come to meet with the hard Services of long Marches through thick and thin short fare difficult lodging watchings and wardings and cruel battels these unexpected things affright them and now they wish themselves at home again Know it if you will be of Christs Camp you must put on your whole Armour and put it off no more till death disbands you but March in it and Lodge in it you must stand continually in your ward all day and be set in your watch whole nights you must fight with the most powerful and malicious adversaries and that not at a distance but in the closest battels You must after one fight is over be prepared to engage in another nor may you in the greatest distress ever cry quarter If these conditions may content you come and welcome USE II. Let it invite all to come in to Christ and give up their names to him and be listed in the Muster-Roll of Saints The fore-going warning was not designed to discourage any but white Livered and slothful persons nor properly to discourage them from coming but to instruct all in the manner of the Kingdom In other Musters care is had or ought so to be that none but men and those also able of body be entred but Christ in the Gospel giveth order to beat up for all that will Men Women Children Young and Old none are exempted Why then are you so backward Why so small an appearance Do you not know that whether you will or no you must be Souldiers There are two Camps in the World Christs and the Devils and to one of these you must belong There are no neuters in this War Nay till you do come over to Christ you belong to some of Satans Regiments We are all of us either fighting for God or against Him Now think which is best to abide where you are or to fly over unto Christ You serve under a cruel Commauder who hateth you and pursueth your destruction whiles he flattereth you with fair promises he will put you upon the hardest Services and most desperate engagments and will leave you there to fall as Joab did Uriah And the more daringly you have served him here the more cruelly will he torment you hereafter You are engaged in a cursed cause which will certainly fall at last and all that have stood by it will be sent with their Leader to be with him in blackness of darkness for ever None ever resisted God and prospered But if you will give your selves up to Christ he will treat you honorably he will conduct you safely He is a tender and compassionate General He will be with you in every Battel to protect you and give you an assured Victory at the last He will bind up the Wounds which you receive in fight and that with his own Robes as Alexander once did by one of his Souldiers You will be on the surest side and if you should be worsted in any single fight yet you shall be Conquerours in the Warfare He will revive you if you faint and commend you if you be faithful and resolute and say to you Well done Yea and he will provide for you a Triumphal Chariot in which you shall ride gloriously into the great City and there will he Erect for you Trophies and Arches for everlasting remembrance This Honour have all His Saints USE III. I et it be to excite all that belong to the Camp of Gods Israel to approve themselves good Souldiers of Jesus Christ Whatsoever is among men justly accounted Commendable in a man of War apply it Spiritually and do likewise Remember your great General is called Faithful and True and be you like Him following upon white Horses and Clothed in fine Linnen white and clean as it is represented in Rev. 18. 12 14. Study much the Holy Scriptures by which you may be furnished with the whole Discipline in which Christs Militia is to be trained Be much in the Exercise of all the Graces of the Spirit which are your Panoply and with which you must fight if you hope ever to overcome Entangle not your selves with the Affairs of this Life least you thereby unfit your selves for the Service of him who hath chosen you to be Souldiers 2 Tim. 2. 4. Get your hearts fortified with an heroick resolution never to flinch in your Service to desert your Post much less to fly from your Colours nor to love your lives unto the death so you may discharge the trust reposed in you Be not discouraged if you get a foil but reinforce the battel calling aloud for aid from heaven Nor be secure when you win the Field but be always ready for a new onslaught Remember you must have no discharge in this War for age or infirmity there are no Milites emeriti or rude donati in Christs Army till the War ends Remember you have potent enemies and very cruel to cope withal who are never wearied but ever engaged to do you the greatest harm Consider you are not fighting for Counters and Goats hair not for contemptible Crowns and fading Laurels but it is for your lives and for your Souls for an incorruptible Crown an eternal weight of Glory Remember your Cause is good and the issue is secured Consider That God and Christ and Angels look on and the voice from Heaven is Courage brave Souldiers yet a few skirmishes yet a battel or two more and the War is at an end and you shall rest from your labours and your works shall follow you You shall lodge your Colours and hang up your Shields in Heavens Capitol and exchange your purple and crimson Garments for the white Robes of Glory It is your faithful Leader who is thus animating of you be thou faithful unto the death and I will give thee a Crown of Life and makes that Proclamation to you To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throns even as I also overcame and am sat down with my Father on his Throne FINIS Advertisement THERE is now ready for the Press and may speedily be Published A Treatise concerning Spiritual Desertions from Psal 30. 7. By the Reverend Mr. Samuel Willard Printed for and Sold by Benjamin Eliot at his Shop under the West End of the Town House 1699.