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A62382	The royal-pay and pay-master, or, The indigent-officers comfort delivered in a sermon preached before the honorable the military company at St. Pauls Covent-Garden, July 25th, by William Sclater ... ; and now printed at their earnest intreaty.	Sclater, William, d. 1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing S921; ESTC R34026	17,196	38

THE ROYAL-PAY AND PAY-MASTER OR THE Indigent-Officers Comfort Delivered in a SERMON Preached Before the Honorable the MILITARY COMPANY at St. Pauls Covent-Garden July 25th BY WILLIAM SCLATER D. D. Minister of St. James Clerkenwel And now Printed at their earnest intreaty Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito London Printed by Rich. Hodgkinson and are to be sold by E. Brewster at his Shop at the Sign of the Crane in St. Pauls Church-yard 1671. To the Right Worshipful Sir ROBERT PATON PRESIDENT Mr. JOHN CANNON Mr. JOHN GARDINER Mr. RICHARD COOPER Mr. STEPHEN BURKS Mr. EDMUND BRACE Mr. ROBERT WHITE STEWARDS of the HONORABLE The Military Company And to the STEWARDS Elect Capt. GRATIAN LINCH Capt. JOHN PERRY Capt. SAM BOUGHEY Lieut. GEORGE CLARK Lieut. JOHN BADHAM Lieut. THO. CURTISE Worthy GENTLEMEN T Is not truly any ambition that I have to be known in the world who have too much cause to wish my self out of it that occasioneth the publication of this Discourse I pretty well know the fortune of those that dare appear in publike but it was your kind acceptance of this Sermon when it was preached and your earnest desire since that I would let it come abroad and here you see your Commands are obeyed and so let it take its fortune it cannot suffer much having so many valiant Champions to defend it The principal Subject that is commended to your practice is the Noble Principle of Loyalty and Fidelity that 's our duty to the great Captain of our Salvation whose Souldiers we are and have taken our Oaths in our Swadling-clothes to be true and faithful to him unto our lives end Treachery and Falshood as well as Cowardize is the highest Crime that can be laid to a Souldiers charge To betray his Trust and run from his Colours and take part with his Generals Enemies is not to be expiated but by the death of the Traytor Therefore Noble Souldiers Consider how many great things Christ your Captain and General hath committed to your charge He hath trusted you with an immortal Soul which can never die with the Reprobate nor perish with the vertuous parts of mortal men but must have a Being either in Eternal Bliss or woe Oh! do not betray this precious Jewel into the hands of her deadly enemies Abstain from those fleshly lusts that fight against her and deliver her out of the hands of those that gape for her destruction Be saithful unto her in preserving her in the Love of God and in obedience to his will that when God shall call for her you may deliver her up pure and spotless into his merciful hands And say with thy Great Captain Father into thine hands I commit my Spirit He hath entrusted you with his Word which is the best weapon in the world to defend you from your Ghostly Enemies Do not let it lie and rust by you as Swords Halberts Armor doth in Gentlemens Halls But buckle it about you and handle it lustily When you are tempted to Infidelity to Drunkenness to Whoredom or the like draw out thy weapon and fight against them it is written Rev. 21.8 That the fearful and unbelieving the abominable drunkards murtherers whoremongers lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Hide his Word therefore in thine heart always that thou may'st never sin against God He hath intrusted you with his truth and with a pure Religion Oh! do not betray either of them fight for Truth against Error And stand for thy Religion to the death Live as thou professest to believe Nothing will uphold dying sinking Religion like a holy and a heavenly conversation Practice is the best Syllogism and Argument we can use to prevail with others for he that lives a debauch'd wicked life is an Apostate from the truth and a Traytor to his Religion 't is not a pin matter what side a wicked man takes for he will bring a curse where e'r he comes Let your light then so shine before men that they may see your good works that the world may know that you are Loyal Subjects indeed true Noble Royallists not by your damning and sinking not by your whoring and drinking but by your temperance chastity soberness and devotion do not betray so good a Cause and so holy a Religion by your vicious lives and conversations He is the faithfullest Subject to his King and the truest friend to his Religion and the greatest lover of his Countrey that lives soberly righteously and Godly in this present world Be not Hector'd neither out of the holy Principles of the Reformed Profession some have changed sides on purpose to live more losely thinking that's the surest Haven to put into where they may sin and yet be safe Be not fool'd out of it neither for a song for delicate Musick or ravishing Voices for fine shews and pretty nacks but stick fast to the gravity and sincerity of the Catholick Church of England which is a most safe way unto salvation and where you will surely find rest unto your Souls And this Fidelity will cause the great Rewarder to look upon you and to bless you your pay shall be certain part in hand and the rest in reversion in being Faithful and keeping his Commandments there will he and is great Reward Vertue is a reward to its self and Godliness hath the promise of this life And that which remains to be received shall be surely paid you he hath promised it who is the Amen the faithful and true witness who is Yea and Amen God blessed for evermore To whose Gracious Protection I commit you and am Worthy Sirs Your Faithful Servant in Christ Jesus W. SCLATER From my House on Clerkenwel-Green Aug. 17. 1671. THE ROYAL-PAY AND PAY-MASTER OR THE Indigent-Officers Comfort Revel 2. part of the 10th verse Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a Crown of life WIth what reluctancy and unwillingness I appear to day in this place those can best bear witness who pressed me to this service not considering those heavy afflictions I now lye under which wet my cheeks too often nor yet how unfit a Man of peace who seeks it and pursues it who loves it and prayes for it and fain would live in it not considering I say how ill such a person is qualified to make a Military Oration to expert Commanders and valorous Souldiers And therefore seeing you have overborn me by your importunities I hope you will accept the will for the deed and chide your selves if you goe away disappointed of your expectation Versa est in luctum cythera mea organum meum in vocem flentium The weapons of our warfare are not now carnal but spiritual And though my self amongst others might say with the Prophet Jeremy 4.19 My bowels my bowels I am pained at my very heart my heart maketh a noise within me because O my soul thou hast heard the sound of the trumpet and the

the Conscientious man he knows they are but for a time transient and momentary Neither shall the Israelites live always under the Tyranny of Pharaoh or the Travels of the Wilderness he very well knows the more abundant in sorrows here the more abundant in joys hereafter his tears shall return in smiles his weepings in streams of pleasure Nor Death it self shall quail his Courage For he knows that will be his happiest day and his bridge from woe to Glory This was the Courage that bore up the heads of the Apostles and Martyrs this was it that kept the poor Royallists from sinking they believed above hope that there would come a day wherein the right of Causes would be cleared up and God should judge and plead for his people This made them say with St. Paul I am not only willing to be bound but to die for the Name of the Lord Jesus This made them leap for joy that they were so near their home dying often like Sampson among their Enemies more Victory attending their end than their proceedings And as the Courage of the Conscientious man is great and exemplary so his Fidelity is remarkable True Loyal Christianity knits more sure and more indissoluble than any other relation in the world It ties a knot that Alexander cannot cut in sunder How hath the Fidelity of the Primitive Christians and the Loyal Party been admired who have chosen to embrace the flames and die in silence rather than to reveal their Companions and Fellow-partakers in the same Cause Tyrants will sooner want invention for Tortures than they with Tortures be made Treacherous The League which Heaven hath made Hell wants power to break Oh! invaluable Fidelity Here in this one Conscientious man is met Courage and Constancie the one to withstand an enemy another to entertain a Friend Give me any Foe rather than a Resolved Christian Labour then to keep a good Conscience and this will make thee both Valorous and Faithful I 'll mention no more but this Consider the Motive in my Text The short time that this laborious course is required of us 't is but till death The continuance of this fight is short The Military age among the Romans was from 17 to 46 or in dangerous times till fifty The dayes of our age are threescore years and ten and in all this time there is no truce from War The Christian can never shut up the Temple of Janus Legionum filii nati we are all born in the field and sworn Souldiers in our swadling-Clouts bearing Arms against our common Enemy from our Baptism to our Burial and therefore we must put on the Resolution of valiant men aut sors aut mors either Death or Victory Victory shall begin my joy or Death shall end my misery so a Christian must say Aut cito mors veniet aut victoria laeta Either God will end our danger or our dayes 't is but a little time we have to fight 't is but a point or less and that imployment cannot be long that must end with it for what can be long in that which is not long in its self 'T is but till Death and that is a note of stint as well as of extent Not that our fidelity unto Christ shall not last longer but because that after death there will be no danger of disloyalty All provocations and temptations to the contrary being then utterly abolished 't is but a spurt and who would not for a short brunt endure any hardship to live at hearts ease for ever after Who would not serve even an hard and unkind Master with all Fidelity and diligence for a day or two that hereafter might be a Free-man and an happy one for ever It is not long and it is but light in respect of what is promised to us for this light hardship which is but for a moment shall work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory Be faithful then unto the death c. Which brings me now to your Pay-master and your Pay Your Pay-master is Christ and I hope you will not distrust him your pay is a Crown of life and I hope you will not grumble at that What if you have been defrauded here Perhaps your Arrears were so great that the whole State was not able to pay them or perhaps that little which was assigned you fell into the hands of them who did deceive you But here 's a Pay-master that is rightly qualified to give every one content Consider the Ability the Fidelity the Liberality of this great Pay-master Ability I will give that have Power to give that have Ability and Authority so to do The Devil told our Saviour he would give all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them with it but he had no power to make good what he said But he that speaketh here is able to perform what he promiseth All power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth And to him that overcomes will I give to sit in my Throne Fidelity Again I will give who am Amen the Faithful and True witness He that is Faithful to me shall find me Faithful to him I 'll never promise that which I will not perform 'T is at this Pay-master's hands that the Indigent Officer and Loyal Souldier must expect his Arrears This is the Cavaliers Pay-master he will not deceive them of that is their just due They have had but little for their sufferings here But I will give saith Christ I 'll be faithful to you that have been faithful to God and your King though you are not rewarded here you shall be crown'd hereafter though you starve here you shall one day be invited to the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb and drink your fill of those Rivers of pleasures which are at his right hand for evermore Live then the noblest lives of Christians live soberly righteously and godly in this present world hold fast the profession of your Religion and Loyalty till the end For remember he is faithful that hath promised he is not like Antigonus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who said he would give but never did But your Pay-master will not deceive you he will give and he hath given to a thousand of our dead Friends and we tread but in the steps of those that already have inherited the promises Liberality And not like a niggard a little snip or so he will not put you off with a moneths pay for six nor scotch you off with half your wages No he will give liberally and bountifully Though he oweth us not so much as thanks yet he will not for his Honour sake suffer Loyalty unparrall'd Loyalty and renowned Fidelity to beg in the streets and cry with that famous Captain Da obulum Bellizario he will not suffer Families to be undone and their blood to be spilt unrewarded for his sake No he will countenance and cherish such Loyal Souls he will prefer them to be near himself