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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

's a wonder to make the Sunne to blush My people have done this well what followes vers 14. Is Israel a Servant Is hee a home borne slave What 's become of Israels spirit Is he borne to vassallage and destined to slavery If he had any courage in him he would show it for his God Oh! let the resolutenesse of those that worship stocks and stones shame us that wee have so little spirit for the living God 4. God is and hath been resolute for you and for all his Elect his good will was set for you in the beginning hee then determined your good and nothing could change him He determines Salvation for his Elect but they sinne and make themselves uncapable of it but God will have them to it and will break through all difficulties and dangers Jesus Christ breaks through Death and Hell and meets the wrath of God in the open field to redeeme his people Esai 9.7 The zeale of the Lord of Hosts shall doe this God is set upon it and he will fetch them out of the hands of all their adversaries Zeale is the height of Resolution and is one of the pieces of Gods Armour with which he cloathes himselfe when hee fights for his Church Esai 59.17 And hee put on righteousnesse as a breast-plate and an helmet of Salvation upon his head and put on the Garment of vengeance for cloathing and was clad with zeale as with a Cloak With what stedfastnes and immovable resolution did our Saviour Christ goe through the worke of our Redemption when Peter would have called him off he calls him Devill for his paines And when set about bringing of his people out of Egypt hee tramples all difficulties under his feet He drove as under the Nations the everlasting Mountaines were scattered and the perpetuall hills did bow Hab. 3.6 Hee hath a will for his people it is very fit then that they should have a will for him Psal 68.22 I will bring again from Bashan I will bring my people againe from the depths of the Sea Be you resolute for God for he is for you 5 The Lord is able and will either deliver you from or carry you through the danger That made the three Children so resolute for God our God is able and he will If we served a God of dirt that could neither heare us see our misery nor help us we might forsake him and his Cause But when he is omniscient omnipotent omni-provident One who as he is good so he doth good as he is powerfull so he gives power and strength to the weak why should we then forsake him It is our own fault if we have not power either to scape the danger or be carried through it There is power in Heaven and we may have it for asking Esai 58.8 9. The glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward then shalt thou call the Lord shall answer thou shalt cry he shall say here I am What is it that is not in the power of God to give I 'le shut up all desiring you but to consider that place in the 6. Ioh. Our Saviour in the beginning of the Chapter preach't a Doctrine about eating of his flesh and drinking of his bloud which carnall hearts could not conceive of nor digest Whereupon many of his Disciples as you have it v. 66. went back and walked no more with him So in these daies there are many truths a foot which will not down with men of carnall and corrupt mindes Therefore they have forsaken Christ his Cause Our Saviour looking upon the twelve said v. 67. Will you also goe away give me leave to aske the same Question of you Will you also forsake Christ and his Cause and seeke great things for your selves with the ruine of the Gospell and Kingdome Let your Answer be that which Peter in the name of all the rest gave v. 68 69. Lord to whom shall we goe Thou hast the words of eternall life and we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ the Sonne of the living God I am perswaded that many of you do believe and are sure that these are the true and righteous waies of God and do lead to eternall life resolve therefore to live with them and in them and to dye for them FINIS

man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord. Vse 3 Are there many false gods in the world Then take heed that there bee none kept secretly in England it hath been with England as it was with Jacobs family and the Israelites in the dayes of Moses and Joshua though the true God was publikely acknowledged and worshipped in both yet there were private persons and families who kept Idols and false Gods and worshipt them and therefore when Jacob was to goe up to Bethel to build an Altar there unto God he first purges his family from Idols Gen. 35. And Joshua when he tooke his last leave of the children of Israel and caused them to enter into a Covenant that they would serve God exhorts them to put away the strange gods that were among them Josh 24.14 So how many false gods have there been still kept and worshipped in private families and houses here in England ever since the reformation Nay it hath been worse with us for the Romish superstitious nay idolatrous Crosses and Crucifixes have been upheld and deckt if not new built in the staring-Cheape in our Church-yards High-wayes and these have been worshipt and by these and some other things the Pope hath kept possession of our Kingdome Doe you cancell these cursed Evidences God lookes for it at your hands Downe with these high-places search England with Candles till you finde out all the abominations which are committed in secret and doe you in the name of England for your places will beare it say What have I to doe with Idols any more get you hence as filthy and uncleane things and instead of these send abroad those who may teach the good knowledge of the Lord may scatter the light of the Sunne of righteousnesse How many uncatechised darke corners are there in this Kingdome how many persons that know not God nor whether Christ were Man or Woman Helpe these to know their Maker 1. The greatest good that you can possibly doe this Kingdome is to helpe it yet more to the knowledge of God this is the end and the perfection of man herein his excellency above other creatures that he had a rationall soule given him fitted to sip a little of the knowledge of God this is the life and the liberty of the subject ye stand much for them and for ought I know cannot stand too much This is eternall life to know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent and this estates us into the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God 2. This is the greatest profit it will bring the Kingdome in more then all the Merchants of it Looke how much any doe know God and Christ so much are they theirs now a little of God is more then a great deale of the creature I desire to know nothing but Christ and him crucified sayes Paul if he could know him more hee should be more his 3. This would reforme the Kingdome better then all the Lawes that you can make knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men If wee can but get men to know God we may perswade them A good Minister will reforme a Parish better then a Iustice of Peace the weapons of our warfare are not carnall but spirituall yet mighty through God to cast down strong holds We spit fire into mens consciences and binde men over to the great Assizes of Quicke and Dead 4. God is the fountain of all the Mercies and Miseries that we meet withall if any should still bee sending of us kindnesses now and then a sweet child an Office change of Apparell Meat and Drinke and Sleep night and day one thing or another and sometimes should be reaching of us a smart blow a Feaver a fit of the Stone and Gout killing thousands in a weeke in our streets of the Pestilence bathing of his sword in our bloud how should we desire to know this person that we might know how to carry our selves towards him and to be at peace him Helpe England to know the God of Englands mercies and of Englands corrections Firstly We can neither goe any whither or doe any ●●ing without him In him we live and move and have our being Yea wee shall ever have to doe with him The knowledge of God would do a Man good in time of affliction when comfort will bee worth a World and what will Men doe in time of affliction if they know not God When the Soule comes to sigh it's last and to groane into eternity to goe to meet with a God it knowes not how sad a thing is this And you that know him labour to know him more for yee are not past this lesson nor ever shall It is Naturall with Men to bee peremptory for their God 3 Doct. and for their Religion All People will and wee will If a Nation consent together and chuse a King to Reign over them so long as he keepes the Paction and the agreement betweene them they will fight for him Ioh. 18.36 If my Kingdome were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jewes The God of the Nation is above the King and their Religion above their Civill Lawes and therfore men will be peremptory for them walke in them themselves and be glad of your company You cannot doe a Nation a greater kindnesse then to joyne and comply with it in its Religion and forsake your owne That temper is in all men to compasse Sea and Land to make a Proselite to their God and their Religion When nothing will procure liberty to a Captive yet this will to abdicate and renounce his Religion and to joyne with them that have taken him Contrarieties yea small differences in Religion doe breed the strongest opp osition But consent in Religion is the strongest sement in all the World The persecutions therefore that have beene among us of late have beene against the Law of nations The Turke Honours those that are the most strick't observers of Mahomet The Papists Saint those that are zealous for the Pope and yet wee have beene derided scorned persecuted and Courted for walking in the name of our God for keeping his Lawes for sanctifying his Sabbaths hearing his word which not onely our God but the very Lawes of the Land doe command us But wee stay not here The Church of God hath great cause to be zealous stiffe and resolute for Her God and Her Religion All Nations will and we will Why Their Rocke is not like our Rocke Our's is Jehovah as well as God a God that nath a being theirs have none but in fancy and imagination Our's is something but theirs are nothing an Idol as nothing sayes the Apostle 1 Cor. 8.4 All the attributes of God are the Reasons of this Point Reas 1 He is a Living God other Gods