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Safety in war, or, The infallible artillery of a kingdom, fleet or army in sermons unto Their Majesties forces by sea and land / by John Whittel ...
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Whittel, John.
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1692
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Wing W2042; ESTC R38612
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Tempests raised by all the powers of Hell are presently Calm'd for ever doing such a one any Mortal hurt All the Creatures then pull in their Horns retire their Stings bite in their Poison Snubb'd and Awed by those Divine Impressions of their Creators Blessed Image stamp'd on such a Soul by the Holy Spirit of Grace and dare not offer any more Trouble or Vexation to it except it be upon a particular Dispensation for its Spiritual Good and Quickning than to the Apple of God's Eye hear his Holy Promise from his own Mouth Hos 2. 18. And in that Day I will make a Covenant for them namely his Servants with the Beasts of the Field and with the Fowls of Heaven and with the Creeping things of the ground And I will break the Bow and the Sword and the Battel out of the Earth and I will make them to lie down safely For I the Lord their God am their Confidence and I will keep their Foot from being taken For I will set every Man's Sword against his Fellow in the Camp of my Peoples Enemies as I did for my Servant Gideon and his Army Judges 7. 22. In the last place This ought to stir us all up in these times of War unto this grand Duty of Courage and Boldness in Fighting the Lords Battel and depending wholly and solely on him and Imploring his All-sufficient Aid and Almighty Help Oh let us down with the Mountains and up with the Valleys and know no Fears no Doubtings no Discouragements but like David's Worthies Which broke through the Host of the Philistines and brought him of the Waters of the Well of Bethlehem to drink So let us every one make our way through all the Reasonings and Disputings of Unbelief into those Everlasâ—â—â—â—â—rms of God's Free Grace and Endless Mercy in Jesus Christ For his Mercy and Assistance towards those that Fear him and Dread him is without all stint and limit like himself infinite so unmeasurable that it reaches from everlasting to everlasting So tender that it surpasses incomprehensibly the Compassionate Heart-Meltings of the Lovingest Mother Isa 49. 15 16. Can a Woman forget her Sucking Child that she should not have Compassion on the Son of her Womb Yea they may forget yet will I not forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the Palms of my Hands thy Walls are continually before me Let me tell you then that it is far more Generous and Christ-like for to Die a Martyr in the Cause of God and for his true Protestant Church if we are called thereunto than to Live and Moulder away our Time and Strength without doing one tittle of Good in our Generation Alas Within a little while the Grinders will cease of their own accord and the Windows of our Eyes will be darken'd and the Doors I mean those Pipes wherewith we draw our Breath shut up fast Alas The Pusillanimous Man considers not how eagerly and with what Industry the old Sexton Time with his sharp Spade throws up the Earth and digs a Grave where we all that are now here must one Day lay our Sins and our Sorrows together and sow these Mortal Bodies till they rise again in a Glorious or an intolerable Eternity Every Revolution which the Sun makes about the World divides between Life and Death so that all those Days which we have lived already are dead to us and we shall never live them over again Currit mortalibus aevum nec nasci bis posse datur fugit hora rapitque Tartareus torrens ac secum ferre sub umbras siqua animo placuere negat Poor Mortals we form our very Words of that which is most near and dear to us even the Breath of our Nostrils and therefore we have the less to live upon for every word which we speak hence saith the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 2. ult Cease ye from Man whose Breath is in his Nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of The Philosophers Taught That there was no greater Encouragement against all fear of Death than to consider we must needs Die There is now an absolute Necessity thereof or else we cannot obtain Life Eternal or come to the Glorious God of Life And this was St. Paul's Argument for to prove the Resurrection That which thou sowest is not quicken'd except it die So these Natural Bodies must be dissolved into Dust and Corruption before they can be made Spiritual and like unto Christ's Glorious Body Oh remember then that the very Heathens Taught That it was no small Honour to Die for ones Country But we Christians must confess that 't is the highest Honour to Die for the Faith of Christ and a good Conscience towards God And therefore let me bespeak you all 〈…〉 in Their Majesties Fleet and Army in the words of Joab 2 Sam. 10. 12. Be of good Courage and let us play the Men for our King and Queen for our People and for our Church of England and the Lord do that which seemeth good Fear not nor be afraid but Sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your Fear and let him be your Dread and he shall be a Sanctuary to you But for a Gin and a Snare and a Trap to the Adversaries of his Truth Would you have the Crown of Life Oh be you Valiant and Faithful unto Death Would you have the Great and Terrible God among you as your Strength and Defence Oh then let not Vain Thoughts Lodg in your Breast But cease to do Evil and learn to do well Would you be esteem'd Worthies by God and Their Majesties then break through the Babylonish Army and sink their Idolatrous and Superstitious Fopperies into the bottom of the Sea Would you have your Memories Blessed and your Names to be had in Everlasting Remembrance and the Generations to come for to Praise your Glorious and Noble Deeds Then be sure for to pull down some Monuments of Idolatry and Raze out some Relicts of Popery for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake and with Sampson Aveng your selves of your Enemies at once before you go hence and be no more seen Rebel not ye against the Lord c. Amen Amen Amen FINIS