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A02671	A sermon preached at Brocket Hall, before the right vvorshipfull, Sir Iohn Brocket, and other gentlemen there assembled for the trayning of souldiers; Sermon preached at Brocket Hall, before the right worshipfull, Sir John Brocket, and other gentlemen there assembled for the trayning of souldiers.	Harris, Edward, fl.1587-1590.	1588 (1588)	STC 12803; ESTC S119766	20,841	48

the people from that yeere 367. to the end of those thousand yeres S. Iohn aunswereth They shal be dead in sinnes and trespasses euery day more more through the ignorance of the trueth of Gods word but at the end of those thousand yerrs they shal reuiue againe With what resurrection shal they reuiue shal their bodies theÌ„ rise out of the graue No saith S. Iohn they shall liue againe by the first resurruction or rising of the man from sinne for at the ende of those thousand yeres 1. Anno domini 1367. the gospel shall breake forth againe and in doe de then VVickleiffe began to preach and men shall reuiue againe by the meanes of the true preaching of the worde that then shall be Some might further aske what shall Sathan then bÃ©e bound vp still after this time of one thousand yeeres expired that is after the yeere 1367 S. Iohn aunswereth no but he shall bee loosed againe and shall fall to persecuting of the truth then preached which persecution shal last for a little season verse 3. After all this to come now vnto our selues it might bee demaunded by whom Sathan should persecute the professors of the trueth that short time Saint Iohn aunswereth by Gog and Magog whome hee should at the last stirre vp to make warre against the Saincts Ye see now we are come deerely beloued vnto our owne time The Gospell which lay hidde as it were till the yeere 1367. than began to shine foorth againe by the preaching of Wickleife since that time which is but a shorte space in comparison the professors of the Gospell haue bene persecuted now Gog and Magog make warre against the true professors of Christianitie Who are meant will some say by Gog and Magog Concerning Gog looke Ezech. 38. and 39. and there you shall see that Gog is called the Prince of Mesech and Tuball by which Tuball are vnderstood the Italians and Spaniardes as the learned may see in Iohn Funcius his diuision of the world in his chronicle by Mesech the Turkes by Magog the Tartarians and wee doe all of vs knowe that these are they which at this time doe persecute Christianitie the Turkes in the Cast Church the Spaniards and Italians in the West and North partes of Christendome We see then who are God and Magog as also that our enemies which warre against vs that is to say the Italians and Spaniardes are a parte of them what comforte haue wee by this or how doth this put vs out of feare by shewing that the Lord will fight for vs that which followeth in the text will strengthen vs in the Lord. For the holie ghost telleth vs plainly that Gog Magog shall compasse the tentes of the Saincts about but fire sayth he came downe from GOD out of heauen and deuoured them verse 9. Whereby is meant either that God will plague punish and destroy them with most terrible indgements from heauen according to the phrase of the. Scripture Psal 18.12.13.14 Psal 11.6 Or els that the last iudgement shall come vpon them and take them in their wickednesse whilest they are warring against the Saincts and people of God both which are of force and sufficient to encourage vs. For if the Lorde will fight for vs with vengeance from heauen against our enemies against the Popish Italians and Spaniards by name which are a parte of Gog. what more auaileable to encourage vs against them Or els if the Lord will hasten his indgement and for the saluation and deliuetance of his people whom Gog and Magog hath compassed his Saincts about to destroy them wil oppresse them with that reuenging fire which shall accompanie that last iudgement of his what can bee a greater consolation then this that our brethren wheresoeuer and we shall not long fight and striue against these enemics of ours before the day of indgement shall come and vtterly destroy them O my brethren I beseech you in the name of Christ Iesu let vs not once faint nor be afraide ye see the times agree the enemies are named the trouble is begunne in some places a good while since let vs not doubt but the Lorde which neuer deceiueth will performe his promise in due time take vengeance on our enemics In y meane season let vs be couragious for our people for our true religion for the cities of our God let the Lord do that which is good in his eyes 2. Sam. 10.12 For the persons hetherto let vs now weigh the comfort and consolation which we haue by the causes for which they assayle vs and in confidence wherof we prepare and addresse our selues against them It appeareth deerely beloued by that which is written Iud. 20. how they which set vppon any to destroy them should haue a good cause otherwise they cannot hope and looke for the helpe and assistance of the almightie The rest of the Tribes when they make themselues readie to battaile against the Behiamites it is for want of reformation and punishing of men which had committed most shamefull and detestable filthinesse with a Leuites wife neither that alone but moreouer had murdered her by that meanes Haue our enemies any such cause of warring against vs Uerely no. Wherefore then are they gathered together wherefore doe they threaten Fire and Sworde There is no doubt whatsoeuer bee pretended the setting vp againe of their Romish religion the suppressing of the Gospell now preached among vs the satisfying of the bloodthirstie minde of their proude Pops is altogether entended by this warre of theirs This ought then to turne vnto our comforte and setting all feare a parte to cause vs vnder hope of the Lorde his helpe and assistance to goe with couragious heartes against them They assault to driue vs from the the Lorde wee defende that wee may not bee seperated from him they fight to bereaue vs of the true preathing of the worde the onely comforte of our soules wee striue to keepe continue and entrease it amongst vs they bende themselues to fulfill the minde of Antichrist wee withstande to accompish the minde of Christe They warre to bring Poperie the stucke of all sedition and vngodlinesse amongst vs wee resist to keepe it out and to retaine trueth the mother of peace and godlinesse still in the lande Thus they fight for an euill wee for a good cause Then let vs boldly fight this battaile of the Lorde For seeing they doe not come out against our Soueraigne and against our Countrie for any Euill that they haue founde in them but onely rise vp to persecute vs and to seeke our soules for professing the trueth and doing after that which is right and equall let vs not doubt but The soules of our Soueraigne and of her people are bounde vp in the bundle of life with the Lorde their God and that GOD will cast out the soules of our enemies as out of the middle of a Sling 1. Sam. 25. Remember that worthic exhortation of Jesus the sonne of

Sirach chap. 4. of his booke Striue sayth he for the trueth vnto death and defend iustice for thy life and the Lord God shall fight for thee against thine enemies For why his delight is to defende his trueth and he taketh pleasure in maintayning the good cause of his children and chosen people These things being so Consider I beseech you deerely beloued the most comfortable examples of the holy Scripture written for this entent and purpose that wee being pressed in like case might haue hope to preuaile and ouercome in like maner Although the Lorde in great mercie hath sowne our land both with men and cattle he hath taught our handes to warre and our fingers to fight he hath not bene to vs as an heath or a drie vnfruitfull grounde but hath blessed vs plentifully with all things necessarie for our defence and the withstanding of our enemies Yet suppose that it were not so Let it be that wee were but fewe and our aduersaries many in number should that dismay vs which professe the trueth God forbid Did not Abraham with 318. men of his owne house and no more follow after and pursue foure wicked Kings with their whole retinue and came home againe from the slaughter of them with safetie Gene. 14. Did not Iosua with a small hoast in comparison subdue and vtterly destroy 31. Kings and all their people Iosua 12. Did not Barake hauing at his feete but tenne thousand men ouerthrowe Sisera his nine hundred Charets of yron and all his hoast with the edge of the sword Iudg. 4. Did not Dauid with foure hundred men alone set vpoÌ„ the hoast of the Amalakites and smot them from the twilight euen vnto the euening of the next morowe so that there escaped not a man of them saue foure hundred yong men which rodde upon Camels and fied 1. Sam. 30.27 Did not Adino a counsailer to King Dauid stay himselfe eight hundred at one time Did not Eleazar the sonne of Dodo one of the three worthies of Dauid defie the Philistines his owne selfe did he not arise and finite the Philistines till his haud was wearie and claue vnto the sworde by whose meanes the Lord gaue so greate victorie that same day that the people returned after him not to fight but onely to spoyle Did not three of the Captaines of the same Dauid when he longed to drinke of the water of the well of Bethelem breake into the hoast of the Philistines that was there and drewe water out of the well and brought it to Dauid 2. Sam. 23. Let it bee that there were amongst vs neither speare nor shield nor any weapon of warre should wee therefore shrincke backe at the fight and assaulting of these our Popish aduersaries GOD forbid Did not Shamgar with no better weapon then an Oxe goad destroy 600. of the vncircumcised Philistines and so deliuer Israel Iudg. 3. Did not three hundred persans and no more vnder the conducting of Gedeon by blowing the Trompets which they held in one hand and breaking the flaming pitchers which they held in the other discomfite the hoast of the Midianites Iudg. 7. Did not the Lorde with the sounde of Rammes hornes and the showte of mens voyces ouerthrow the high and huge walles of Hiericho Iosua 6. Did not Ionathan with his armour bearer alone what time the people of Israel had neither sword nor speare among them to helpe withall set vppon the mightie hoast of the Philistines and ouerthrewe them 1. Sam. 14. Let vs not feare then a small companie of the house of faithfull Abraham will scrue to put foure Antichristian Kings to flight one Iosua will be enough to subdue 31. Princes of Canaan Euery Adino will kill his eight hundred One Eleazar will ouercome the whole hoast himselfe c. An Oxe goad were weapoÌ„ enough in the hand of one faithfull Shamgar to kill 600. popish Philistines withall An Asse iaw will serue the Nazarite of the Lord to stay a thousand of them Neither thinke deerely beloved that these are such extraordinary examples as we may not hope in some measure to match theÌ„ in our selues For the promise of the Lord is generall to the godly and faithfull which warre in desence of his truth Fine of you saith he shall chase an hundred and an hundred of you shall put tenne thousand to flight Leuit. 26. Though wee faile in these outward things yet there is a notable palce in the second of Daniel seruing to the great comfort of Christian men and such as haue renounced the trust and confidence in man to followe Christ Jesu alone The Prophet expouÌ„ding the vision of Nebuchadnezar sheweth how by the foure formed Image were vnderstood soure Monartchies of the worlde as by the head of golde the Chaldean Empire by the breast and armes of siluer the Persian kingdome by the belly and thighes of brasse the Maccdonian Monarchie by the legges of yron with feete partly of yron and partly of clay the Empire of the Romaines which as yron breaketh in peeces and subdueth all things so should that ouercome and subdue all other Monarchies of the world and be the last of the soure After this saith Daniel where as a stone cut out of the mountaine without hands smot the Image vpon his feete and brake them to peeces and destroyed all the meaning is saith the Prophet that the kingdome of Christ shall subdue the last or Romaine Monarchie and in that all the rest as for the kingdome of Christ it shal endure and stand for euer by the kingdome of Christ not vnderstanding the person of Christ alone but referring that worde to the whole bodie of his Church also Brethren let vs meditate on this to our comfort wee make no question nor doubt but that wee are of the Church and kingdom of Christ after whose name wee desire to be called not Catholiques but Christians and wee assuredly trust that wee are so as many of vs as doe faithfully belecue the Gospell now truely preached among vs. What then remaineth deerely beloued but that we assure our selues how the kingdome of Christ whereof we are shall neuer bee destroyed but shall become a greate mountaine and fill the whole earth as Daniel faith We see brethren the most parte of this prophesie fulfilled the 4. Monarchies destroyed the gospell set vp and preuailing euery day more more the nÃºber of true ChristiaÌ„s cuery where encreasing euen vnder the Crosse let vs not then doubt of the ende of these beginnings to wit that Christ shall preuaile more gloriously euery day by his Church till it hath brought the remnants of that last and Romaine Empire whereof our enemies that threaten vs are in a maner the summe to vtter and perpetuall desolation For Christ in his Church and kingdome that the Scripture may bee fulfilled must needes triumph ouer the Romaine Monarchie and the adherents thereof Some will say peraduenture why the Papistes also and our enemies say as much for themselues they boast how they

are the Church of Christ and Popedome Christes kingdome wherefore nothing letteth but that this may serue their turnes as well as ours The aunswer is easie deerely beloued Papistes are not of Christes kingdome The reason is manifest Christes kingdome is appoynted to subdue as al other so the Romaine Monarchie and Empire whether the beast or image of the beast doe the Papistes fulfill this Nay cleane contrarie they with their Pope and Catholike King doe all that they can to restore it and to bring againe that Romaine supremacie which Christ by his Church hath ouerthrowne into euery corner of the world Will the kingdome of Christ labour to build vp that which the kingdome of Christ hath destroyed No verely but whatsoevuer they bee which goe about that as out Popish and Spanish aduersaries doe they are out of all question of the kingdome of Antichrist To conclude therefore and to make an ende of this reason the kingdome of Christ wherof are as many as professe and practise the substance of our religion truely and whereof no Papistes are shall bruse the Romaine Monarchie in peeces till it become like the chaffe of the sommer flowers and the winde carie it away that no place be found for it any more saith the Prophet Daniel whervpon it must needes followe that they and all the eudeuours of them which labour to restore and set vp againe that Romaine suprematic shall come to nought I reason not of the maner how these things shall be done it is enough for vs to know that God will set vp Christes kingdome and make that it shall triumph especially ouer the Romaine Monarchie and defenders thereof or any that labour to restore it as these our aduersaries doe Thus ye see deerely beloued how the Lorde will fight for his seruants and by them that he will fight against them that haue shed the blood of his children as these our enemies haue done that he will powre his vengeance vpon the adherents of the whore of Babilon by the hand of those which hate her as I trust all true English men do that he will fight against them that are gathered against his Church at the prouocation of those croking Jesuites that he will fight from heauen with fire and most terrible iudgements against Gog Magog whereof these our enemies are a part as I shewed you Wherefore all these things considered and thought vpon crie vnto vs feare them not because the Lord which goeth before vs he wil fight for vs especially so manifold causes wherein he hath promised to helpe his being added Some Papistes will obiect peraduenture Nay but the Lorde he goeth before your enemies and therefore ye cannot stande Let vs therefore see what that phrase employeth to the entent we may bee assured whether the Lorde goe before them or vs and so cousequently may bee farre of from fearing them as becommeth the true children of God When Mofes saith The Lorde goeth before them he meaneth that he was their guide by whoÌ„ they were conducted their Captaine whom they followed and vnder whose banner they warred which therefore would faue and defende his faith full Souldiers Doth this agree to the religion of these our enemies No verely Why so Consider the reason deerely beloued and you will easely finde it 1 They which will in no wise be content vnlesse they may haue a mortall man goe before them in the person of Christ and as his pretended Uicar in their Church they shewe that the Lord himselfe goeth not before them for what absurditie were it to haue a Liuetenant or Uicar where the Prince himselfe is not onely in presence but moleouer supplieth the office of going before his people Pet this doe our aduersaries for albeit Christ continually goe before his Church and people in his owne person yet they will not bee content vnlesse they may haue an ydolatrous person vnder the name of his Uicar bee their guide and goe before them in their Church which declareth that the Lorde Jesu Christ himselfe goeth not before them For then what needed a Uicar exercising such authoritie if the Lord himselfe fulfill the office and goe before them in his owne person Adde hercuuto that they pray vnto Sainctes deÃ»ring them to pray vnto the Lorde for them which were both needlesse and foolish if it were so that the same Lorde which calleth all his saith full vnto himselfe and not to the Sainctes were present and went before their Church and enery member thereof as wee deleeue be doth his true Church and euery member of it For what a straunge matter were it to desire a Sainct which is farre of and whereof one hath no sureite that hee heares him to speake in his behalfe vnto the Lorde who standeth by him and goeth immediatly before him that praieth hearing his suite 2 Moreouer the Scripture is plaine which teacheth vs that there is no agreement betweene God and Beliall with Christ and an ydoll so that there is no doubt but he withdraweth his presence where the idoll is adummced and goeth not before them before whome the idoll goeth Consider than of out enemies deetely veloued doe not they carric before them the ydolatrous hoast or masse-cake yea as the Israelites sayde to their golden calfe These are thy Gods O Israell which brought thee vp out of the land of AEgypt do not they say in like manner to their breaden God This is our very Sauiour O ye Catholiques which died for vs and deliuered vs from hell and damnation forasmuch then as that filthie Idoll goeth before them it is apparant that Christ our Lord who can not agree nor will not ioyne with Idols goeth not before them that he conducteth them not and that they fight not vnder his banner As for vs brethren we knowe and feele the effectuall presence of Christ our Lorde to bee such to vs ward so mightie so auaileable that we neither desire a visible Uicar generall nor flie to inuisible Saincts wee abhorre and detest their idolatrous Passe withall the whorish attire thereof and therfore trust that our Lord he goeth before vs especially if we flie from all other things which may prounke him to forsake vs and that he will fight for vs in such forte that we shall not neede to feare our enemies Let vs come to the second reason of Moses erbortation which as I shewed you before is taken from their former tryall of Gods protection in the land and deliuerance out of the land of AEgipt or is grounded vpon the right vse of Gods benefites and deliuerances which his children afore time haue receiued for verely God therefore deliuered his people at one time that they hauing thereby erperience of his good will and power might by faith resort vnto him another time and trust to his helpe and assistance and receiuing helpe praise him therfore That I may not vee tedious vnto you in this poynt I will bring one example and proofe which for the cleere euidence thereof

A SERMON PREACHED AT BROCKET HALL BEFORE the Right VVorshipfull Sir John Brocket and other Gentlemen there assembled for the trayning of Souldiers January 2 and 3. By Edmond Harris AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Orwin for Iohn Daldern and William Haw 1588. To the right VVorshipfull Sir Iohn Brocket Knight IT was no parte of my meaning right Woorshipfull to haue communicated to any that which I spake by waie of exhortation and encouragement to the Souldiers that shewed themselues before you the 2. and 3. of Ianuary Notwithstanding I could not resist the daily importunitie of my friends desiring to bee partakers of such matter as the Lord of his mercie did at that sodaine minister vnto mee for the comfort of thÃ© which heard Wherefore giuing my selfe to remember what I had spoken I deliuered them in writing so much as I could call to mind againe which they finding meanes I knowe not how to bring vnto the print and certifying me therof that duetie which for your goodneâ—â— to me warde I owe vnto your woorship caused me to present it vnto you and so much the rather because you were the onely man which when the Souldiers were readiero come before you admonished mee to employ my speache to such ende and purpose Wherefore I beseech your worship to accept of this my small present being a testimonie rather of my well meaning than a reward of your benefites The Lord encrease in you and yours his spiritual graces and preserue you by faith working through loue vnto the kingdome of his sonne Your worships to commaund in the Lord Edmond Harris Dread not neither bee a fraide of them The Lord your God which goeth before you he shall fight for you according to all that he did in Egipt before your eyes Deut. 1. IT was my purpose right woorshipfull to haue gone forward in the exposition of S. Peter wherewith I began but coÌ„sidering how the occasion of this daies meeting required other exhortations than the words which were next to be expounded would minister unto us I thought good to choose out an other portion of Scripture agreeable to the present matter especiallie considering how some euill disposed persons goe about to weaken the hearts and hands of our countrimen as though we were not able to encounter with our Popish Spanish aduersaries that now threaten us with encomberance of warre in our owne land The Scripture which I have selected and chosen for this purpose is found written in the first of Deuteronomie The wordes whereof are these Dread not c. which containe in them a propheticall exhortation wherewith Moses the conducter of Israel encouraged the people of the Lord what time they seemed to faint for feare of their enemies For hauing beard sate how they should encounter with the sonnes of Anake men of giantlike stature who did cate by the Inhabitants of the land and in comparison of whome the valiant men of Israel were but as Grashoppers to looke too they tooke so sodaine discomfiture at these ridings that they rather desired never to see the promised land than to ioyne battaile with so strong and mightie aduersaries This Moses perceiuing coÌ„forted them with these wordes faying Dread not c. In which speech we are to obserue these two braunches whereinto the Scripture deuideth it selfe First an exhortation Secondly the reasons of that exhortation The exhortation is this Dread not neither bee afraide of them The reasons are two in number The first taken from the sauing presence of God among his people The Lorde your God which goeth before you he shall fight for you The second taken from their former experience and triall of Gods mightie protection to themwarde in the land of Egipt According to all c. Concerning the exhortation let vs obserue who are exhorted not to feare and whom they are exhorted not to feare where the holy ghost saith Dread not neither bee afraide of them he speaketh to the people of God to them that were sanctified and set apart to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe to such as were the true professors of Gods worde thereby teaching vs how Christians should not be faint harted in a good cause but couragious and bould as Lyons especially when they are to encounter with the enemies of true religion Neither doth Moses alone teach vs this but Christ himself also is of the same minde as may appeare Math. 24. 6. For speaking of those troubles which should come vpon the worlde in the latter age thereof he saith how They should heare of warres and rumours of warres but see that ye bee not troubled saith he to the faithfull and beleeuing as who should say that feare of the aduersarie were not comely in them that make profession of the true faith Marke this I beseech you brethren as many of you as feare the Lord Moses commaundeth such not dread neither to be afraide Christ commandeth such not to be troubled though they heare of warres c. Now therefore as men that professe the Lord to be your only stay and trust lift vp your hearts that it may bee knowne how you haue not professed in vaine and that you are the true Souldiers of Christ Jesu whom no force nor furniture of the enemie can feare no rumours of warre can dismay no hoastes of armed men can once abash or terrifie If your hearts bee weakened at any time with the reportes of our enemies preparation against vs knowe this for a suretie that whensoeuer you are dismayd therewith that day ye beginne to proclaime and shewe your selues men voyd of true faith For why such as are the true people of God by the iudgement both of Moses and also of Christ himsâ—â—â—â—â—ould not be afraide of these things Nay mar ã€ˆâ€¦ã€‰ one thing more Moses saith to his brethren ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ Israelites Be not afraide of them Of whom doth he meane It is manifest by the former verse he vnderstandeth the Anakins that is to say the Giants which enhabited the lande of Canaan whom he chargeth the people of God not to feare though they were men greater and taller than themselues Might not the schollers of Moses feare Giants and shall the schollers of Christ feare Spaniardes Farre bee it of from the least of vs brethren euer to feare these enemies of the Lord. To the intent that we may be the more couragious let vs consider of the reasons which Moses adioyneth to his exhortation The first reason is taken from the sauing presence of God among his people or from his effectuall power and strong hande which he stretcheth ouer his Church to defend his enheritance and to destroye the enemies thereof The Lorde your God saith Moses he shall fight for you therfore be not afraide of them As if hee had sayd They are sure to ouerthrowe their enemies in battaile whose parte the Lorde taketh and for whom he fighteth The Lorde himselfe be fighteth for you my brethren the sonnes of Israel therefore feare not but ye shall haue the

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