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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87671	Orders given out; the word, stand fast. As it was lately delivered in a farewell sermon / by Major Samuel Kem, to the officers and souldiers of his regiment in Bristoll. Novemb. 8. 1646.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1646 (1646)	Wing K254; Thomason E366_3; ESTC R29849	10,638	28

and counsel you Especially upon the discovery of a late large and numerous Recruit on the Enemies Partie for the most part all consisting of such as have revolted from our own Partie and have quit their ground of truths The Commander in cheif of this Regiment is Error whose Colours are fresh and of glorious resplendency but changeable and therefore stand fast for his fairest quarter is ruine which appeareth by his free quarter in your families when his first actings are to division yea betwixt those of the neerest and deared relations and a house divided cannot stand I by Commission am ingaged for your relief and therefore for your future security I shal intreat you to strengthen your selves by this Recruit consisting of three Divisions First Fidelity or Constancy Stand fast in the truth quit your selvs like men be strong Second Spiritual Gallantry Stand fast in the truth quit your selvs like men be strong Third Unity Let all things be done in love The first of these wil keep you from being Routed The second from being Conquered The third from being Ruined The first wil argue you men The second wil report you gallant men or men of men The third wil demonstrate you holy and humble Christian men And therefore now beloved Officers and Christian fellow Soldiers take Courage take you the Field to scare not to face your Enemies and give me leave to shew you your General compleatly accoutred in Johns vision observe his ordering the Feild and give me leave leaving the issue to God to fal on First let Constancy in the Faith and all the Truths of Jesus Christ have the Battalia Secondly let spiritual Courage have the right wing Thirdly let Love have the lest and overcome all I shal adventure to fal on with Constancy second me with Courage and I beseech you that all may be done and suffered by the conquest of Love First of the first Stand fast that 's the Word Faith in the heart not in the head is the signal Stand fast not a while and then revolt or give ground To walk a while in the truth and after for any ends to desert it is base it argues not a Soldier to list his name and to purchase a feather shews are light things in military actings or wear a sword or to appear on the march if they either take hedge or windmil for a shelter or quit their ground or trust in the shock of Battail Truly we say a drunken man never made good Souldier nor a reeling headed man a good Christian Soldier Secondly In the Faith not in falshoods in the truths not shews zeal and stedfastnesse are right when the one is a sharp weapon for Truth and the other is stiffe and unbending for the Faith Now you are to know there is a two-fold Faith One by which wee beleeve Secondly Is that which is beleeved and this is called Doctrinall Faith Now when Christians are zealous resolute and will dye in the Truths and for the Truths of Jesus Christ this is to stand fast in the Faith Observation Standing fast to the Truths of Jesus Christ strenuously with constancy is a notable peece of spirituall Gallantry This you shal find hinted to the Angel of the Church of Smirnians Revel 2.10 Fear none of these things which thou shalt suffer for the truth and in the 11. verse and latter end Be faithful to the death and I wil give thee a crown of life The Spirit of God records this point of Gallantry in the Church of Pergamus verse 13. I know thy works where thou dwellest where Sathan hath his seat i. e. where wicked men are in authority and heresie prevaileth yet thou holdest fast my name and hast not denyed the faith even in those dayes wherein Antipas my faithful Martyr suffered c. Rev. 3.10 11 12. 1 Joh. 2.23 24. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning If that shall abide in you ye shal continue in the Son und in the Father now to be in God is to be Heroick indeed 2 Pet. 1.12 That ye be established in the present truth 1 Pet. 5.9 Whom resist stedfast in the Faith 2 Thes 2.15 Therefore brethren stand fast It was Gallantry in the Grecian women who when their sons put on their sheilds gave them in charge either to bring them back or dye It is storyed of Epaminondes that hee was so addicted to his buckler that he was wont to say I wil either hold thee or dye with the losse of thee It was the gallant resolution of a Roman Officer either to keep his ground or lose his life Truly Christian friends it is gallantry in you in these sad times of Alaruming Truth in its quarters and upon the several charges is given the men of truth daily to stand or fall with it in our hearts Quaere But Sir I pray what is truth one saith he is for truth and this is truth another says that is and is for it what is the truth you councel us to stand fast unto Solut. There are humane moral Truths rules in secular Arts such as Paul held fast until his conversion but then let go not the use of them but the abuse of them he left glorying in them counted all dung for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ. Secondly There are Divine truths called Scripture truths these are either Imaginary or Real I do not say it is gallantry to stand fast to all that every man delivers to you for truth or propounds or conjectures to bee so but such as Scripture determines to be so such as the word wil own and wil own the word upon demand in the evidence of his not our own spirits For truly it is with Truth at this day as with the Infant brought to Solomon the false mothers cry divide it and let every one share in that limb which his own conscience which indeed is no conscience guides him unto which is to profer themselves to posterity the founders of an intolerable Toleration of all Errors and by this way Antichrist himself against whom we have solemnly protested and before God so unanimously covenanted must be in equity admitted a childs portion The LORD direct our Solomons to that height of surpassing wisdome as to give the child of Truth to its own Parents that cry a whole and one or none To stand fast to this whole truth of God and for it is indeed Spiritual gallantry Athanasius and others of the Nicene Fathers would not add one jot about the Diety of Jesus Christ no not in any time Times may differ men may change and vary but Truth never whether in prosperity as in Constantines days or in adversity as in Neroes truth is the same The fixed stars shine in the coldest nights yea then brightest Josephus reports of the Samaritans that if any good befel the Jews then they would claim their kindred and boast that they came from Jacob but if in any misery or

under a cloud with the state they gave out they had no relation to them Many there are that vary their respects to truth according to the savour the eminent persons in it set on it But give me the men that wil stand their ground on assault and make up the breach although they fal man by man in the gap yea under the sword own truth as Paul or in a Den of Lions or a fiery furnace that pish at all the barkings bitings frownings fawnings of currish hereticks that have Peters gallantry better managed Although all forsake thee I wil not Quaere I pray Sir inform us how we may quit our selves like men and stand fast to Truth Solut. First get a solid sound judgement so made by the light of a clear sanctified understanding of Scripture principles admit not of a reeling head a revolting Soldier is a base man unworthy the name or society of soldiers never to be trusted more Ephes 4.14 the Apostle exhorteth them that they be henceforth no more children tossed to fro with every blast of doctrine by the slight of men take heed of such a judgement as is carryed up and down with the current The Primitive times yeelded more sound judgements Athanisius held fast in his Judgement the diety of Christ against the Arrians Augustine the doctrine of grace against the Pelagians Truly I confesse it is an honor to a man to confesse an Error but a horrid shame to suffer for any self-ends any truth to bee supplanted by any Innovation or Errour Secondly Labour to have a stubborn and stout wil in relation to what is surely known to be the truth of God take heed of a flexible coming wil yea hold it fast in affection that which we love dearly we stick close too A child wil hardly be weaned from the brest it hath found sweetnesse and strength from and is experienced in nourishment you that have found God present with much sweetnesse in his Ordinances by the publick administration I beseech you do not now trample on them and despise them whilst they and theirs is the same for sweetnesse for holinesse Thirdly Stand fast to the Truth in profession Philip. 2.18 holding forth the word of life not only to beleeve Truths but to confesse them before men not with Peter to revolt and effect to say we know not the man Fourthly In conversation practise Truth Saint John cals it walking in the Truth when men hold on in the Truth against all discouragements although they lose by it apparantly yet they hold it forth couragiously Quaere But pray Sir why do you so far ingage us in this service in these days of Liberty Solut. It is worthy thy ingagement for it is more excellent then the excellentest of the creatures Prov. 3.14 15. you cannot pitch on such an excellency Revel 3.11 Hold fast says the Spirit let none take thy Crown the Crown is the top of Royalty who would not keep his ground if a Crown were the stake But its excellency wil further appear if you consider these two particulars First the holiness of it The more holy the more excellent Corruptions are diminutions of excellency the more mixt things are the more base they are as the mixture of Gold and Tin Wine and Water Silver and Drosse ever the more pure the more glorious Now the Truths of God are holy not as men with mixtures of Corruption but as the Light at Noon-day without any mists fogs mixtures of darknesse and although Truth may be in a fog as the Sun yet not foggy Secondly The more God is in any thing the more excellent but God is altogether in his Truth Hee is there in the brightness of his wisdom in the greatness of his power in the Riches of his mercy in the honor of his justice yea in this Word is his Christ and our Jesus therefore worth standing fast unto Thirdly Truth is made over to us under termes of Constancy and perpetuity and therefore in Scripture termed our heritage personal estates are often sold those that are out by descent hereditary ought to be kept for posterity God forbid said Naboath I should sel the inheritance of my Fathers Psa 119.111 They are my heritage saith David for ever Let me tel you posterity is worthy our thoughts and what we shal leave to them in point of Truth Fourthly God trusts us with his truths 2 Tim. 1.14 It is by the Apostle called the good thing committed to us to keep now in matters of trust we should be faithful It is the most vilest and unworthyest thing in the world to betray a Trust especially where truth is on their side In matters of trust we should be faithful to the death It is observable Trust must be redelivered 2. wholy not lesse then delivered 3. Only to the Truster and truly otherwise it is extreamly injurious to God For although they are ours for efficacy yet they are Gods for the authority Truths are Gods Jewels of trust and he will call all of us to an account what use wee have made of them what we have done with them what unto them what mixtures of our own heads with them Fifthly It concerneth you to keep your ground for your eternall wel-being dependeth on it You can no more live spiritually without pure truths then corporally without bread you cannot be convinced without Truth you cannot be contrite and have your corrupt hearts prickt but by the Truth Acts 2. When they heard those Truths they were prickt at their hearts c. Conversion is from Truth Psa 19.7 Converting souls c. Faith is brought into the soul by hearing the Truth Augmentation is from it in grace Jesus Christ is united to the soul by faith Perseverance is from it Rom. 1.16 2 Tim. 3.16 17. vid. Use 1. Information Of the unworthy walking of this age for the most part in relation to this duty of standing fast to the Truth yea of many that are eminently furnished with common gifts and excellent parts there is much slipperinesse and base unsetlednesse of spirit upon them even to truth it self both in doctrine and conversation for truth in doctrine we may complain as the Apostle to the Galatians in the 1. and 6. I wonder you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Jesus Christ unto another Gospel it is grown no wonder in our times for how do the most for most base ends quit their ancient grounds which they received and beleeved and gloryed in for truth and for preferment-sake shew truth a fair pair of heels and a foul heart The ancient Disciples left ships nets custome-house for to follow truth but now professed Disciples leave Christ for places of Excise and Custom-house Some turn sneaking Anabaptists some fal off to Socinian blasphemies some to Antinomians fancies and many Seekers Seek you any of you great things for your selves seek them not It is no time to be furnishing your Cabins when the