he will at thy entring into Heaven bring forth the best Robe and put it on thee a Ring on thy finger and a Crown on thine Head and thou shalt be array'd in Purple and fine Linen Thou shalt be brought to the Tribunal of Christ by the hands of thy late Martyr'd Sovereign for whom thou hast suffered and He in the head of all the murdered Royallists Renowned Montross and Heroick Capel Valiant Lucas and Fighting Lisle Reverend Hewet and Honest Vowel Hardy Slingsby and Thee Sweet Andrews Faithful Penrudduck and Loyal Grove these shall conduct thee to the Tribunal of the Lord Jesus and it shall there be proclaimed before all the Saints This is he that was faithful to the death that durst be good when others were base that did own the righteous Cause of God and his Anointed when others were Neuters Rebels Cowards or Apostates this is he that stood firm and unshaken when others proved false and treacherous Come put the Crown upon his Head he hath been Faithful to the death and he shall now receive a Crown of Life Which brings me Fellow Souldiers to your Pay which I 'll dispatch immediately for you shall have it all in Crown pieces A Crown of Life That 's your Pay The words are Emphatical sp'ritful lively words able to put metal into a Coward Life is the best of all Natural things And a Crown is the best of all Civill things Here is the best and the best 'T is true a good man hath his Crown here St. Paul had one but it was an Apostolical one He tells the Philippians You are my joy and my Crown Every good Christian hath a Crown here a good Conscience is a continual Feast that same is a Crown This was it that Job bound about the Temple of his head Job 27.6 My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Oh blessed Crown poor suffering Royallist cannot you live upon this a while Nay every believer hath his Crown here his Faith and Profession is his Crown Rev. 3. Hold fast that thou hast that no body take thy Crown And here every Faithful Souldier shall have a Crown Crowns were the Rewards of Conquerors Cups Garments and Crowns were the rewards of such as won the prize at the Olympick Games But yet so poor they were that if a Horse did but run a Race and won he had a Crown or a Cup given him and therefore the Poet Theocritus could say See what poor things the world glories in the Conquerors are Crown'd and so are their Horses But this Crown is not composed of withering flowers 't is not a Crown of Ivy or Oke of Grass or Laurel of Gold or Stars but a Crown of unfading unperishing Glory a Crown of Life a Crown that never fades This is the true Noble Honour Here Honour is but a shadow fading glory like the crackling of Thorns under a Pot like the Triumphs of the Caesars splendid indeed but quickly over and forgotten But with thee O Lord there is substantial solid essential Glory a massie ponderous substantial Crown 't is an exceeding eternal weight of Glory which no rust shall corrupt and which no Thieves shall ever bereave us of A Crown of Life 'T is Honor maximus the greatest Honour there is nothing higher in the estimation or admiration of men Then a Crown it is the Appendant of Majesty Kings are Supream Excellent Majesty was added to King Nebuchadnezzar all Nations and Tongues are said to have acknowledged him their Superiour and Sovereign Lord yet all this Honour and Glory of the world is but dark and powerless in respect of the Crowns of Heaven There is no Crown but hath its Cross thorns there are cares and troubles that grieve the bearer of it But this shall never cumber or molest thee here is that which will recompence all our labours and sufferings for the righteous Cause of God and the King A Crown of Life Rouse up then Valiant Souldiers Remember you fight not for the Parliament half Crowns nor for Crowns of Gold but for a Crown of Life which will never be spent The afflictions of this present life are not worthy to be compared to the Glory that shall be revealed in us What are our expences to the receiving 'T is the expence but of a little suffering for the receiving of an immortal Crown of life How much will wiced men suffer to enjoy their lusts And shall we do nothing for this incorruptible Crown of Glory Demosthenes quickned up himself to his Studies by the example of a poor Blacksmith what a shame is it for me to lie in my bed and the Blacksmith to be at his work he that is to make but a few Horse-shooes and nayls and I that am to make an Oration to all the Wits of Greece and Asia So do you say what a shame is it for me to see men compass Sea and Land to get a little muck in the world to weary and beat their brains and expend all they have to give satisfaction to their lusts and shall I be lazie and idle slothful and negligent and do nothing for the security of my Soul and towards the attaining of everlasting happiness I am a a Christian and believe I have an immortal Soul shall wicked men do so much to fulfil the pleasures of sin and shall not I endure a little hardship for this immortal Crown of life Oh! Then Courage Brave Souldiers let us fight on and press forward towards the mark for the prize of our high Calling let us hold out courageously and valiantly against all our spiritual Enemies that we may live one day before we die to sing that Triumphant Song Oh my Soul thou hast trodden down strength Let me dismiss you with those Spiriting words of Seneca in his Chorus to Hercules Oetaeus Nunquam Stygias fertur ad umbras Inclyta virtus vivite fortes Nec Lethaeos saeva per Amnes Vos fata trahent sed cum summas Exiget horas consumpta dies Iter ad superos gloria pandet True Noble Heroick Renowned Faithful Virtue is never brought to the Stygian Lakes Live Live Oh ye valint Men neither shall the cruel Fates ever waft you through the Lethaean streams those Rivers of forgetfulness But when the consumed day shall cut off your latest hours when death shall beat a Retreat to your stiff Limbs Glory immortal Glory shall open you a way unto the Gods Be faithful then to God to your Religion to the interest of your immortal Souls Be faithful to your King to your Countrey and to one another love each other speak well of one another and promote each others interest Resist unto blood striving against sin Be faithful unto the death and I will give thee a Crown of Life Which the Almighty grant c. FINIS
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
or cunning or valiant or learned or rich but Well done good and faithful Servant enter thou into thy Masters joy And here in my Text is the same Proclamation Be faithful unto the death and I will give thee a Crown of life In the words we have but these parts to consider First here is the word of Command Be faithful Secondly Here is the stint and extent of our duty unto death Be faithful unto death Thirdly Here is a promise of Reward where we will consider 1. Our Pay-master and that is Christ I will give 2ly The Pay it self and that is a Crown with this addition a Crown of life Be faithful then c. First then I begin with the Word of Command Be faithful Fidelity is required of all Christians Faith in Christ must be seconded with faithfulness unto Christ As we must have faith in Him so we must keep faith to Him For those are onely His true Souldiers who are elect called and faithful I have received mercy of God to be faithful cries St. Paul 'T was of Gods mercy to be kept faithful to the righteous Cause of God and the King when there were so many temptations to withdraw us from our Loyalty Be faithful And the necessity of this will appear First From the terms of Relation that are betwixt Christ and us Fidelity and Loyalty is in a more especial manner required in a Subject towards his Soveraign in a Souldier towards his Commander in the Wife towards her Husband 'T is treason in a Subject to fight against his Soveraign 't is death for a Souldier to forsake his Colours 't is an unpardonable crime in a Woman to be unfaithful to her Husbands Bed But Christ is our Lord and Master You call me Lord and Master and you say well for so I am Matth. 23.8 He is the Captain of our salvation Heb. 2.10 He is our Husband and every Christian soul is His Spouse Hosea 2.19 I have espoused thee unto me in much mercy and fidelity And therefore 't is all the reason in the world that we should shew all loyalty and fidelity unto this our Prince Captain and Husband Consider-seriously with your selves these Relations and then tell me what he deserves that breaks faith with Him Secondly The Faith that must save us must be a Faith unfained What 's a Souldier good for except he will fight To take pay and quarter and plunder the Countrey and when it comes to blows whip my Gentleman 's gone Such a person is onely fit to be ram'd into the mouth of a Cannon and shot into a Field of Corn to affright the Crows So Faith severed from Fidelity is no Faith but a meer fansie Fides enim ab eo dicitur quia id fit quod dicitur Faith without faithfulness is a false glavering counterfeit Faith like Copper Coin that hath the lustre but not the worth of gold It is a faithless Faith and a Trust without truth You trust in a lie saith the Prophet Jeremy 7.8 For a man to repeat all the Articles of his Christian Faith to profess with his mouth to believe the Resurrection of his body the General Judgment and the Life everlasting and to live like a Devil and swear like a Turk and yet hope to goe to Heaven with a little of the Extream Unction and a few Ave Maria's Oh foolish people and unwise this pretended faith without practice is no better than a Musket charged only with powder which will give a great report but doe no execution at all Men trust in a Lye when they expect that God should keep Covenant with them when they have no care to keep promise with him Rabshekah's Argument against Hezekiah had been good if his words of Hezekiah had been true Esai 36.7 Little cause indeed could Hezekiah have to trust in God whose Altars he had taken down and whose places of Worship he had demolished How little Reason hath any man to hope that God should save him when he dies that hath no care to serve and please God whilst he lives Alas when we cease to keep Faith with God we free him from the performance of His Promise to us For however it be true that the Apostle says 2 Tim. 2.13 Though we prove unfaithful yet God abides faithful He cannot deny Himself Man's distrust and incredulity cannot annul God's fidelity 'T is a deplorable Position that the Romanists hold and cutteth asunder the sinews of Humane Society That Faith is not to be held with Hereticks Better said Heathen Tully Etiam infideli recte servatur fides even with the unfaithful Faith is to be kept Where Agreements between Party and Party are grounded on Conditions to be mutually performed on either side he that in such case breaketh first doth thereby absolutely free the other Party Unfaithfulness therefore it is not in God to deny to make his Promise good unto those that have no care to keep Covenant with Him Frustra sibi Fidem quis postulat ab eo servari cui fidem à se praestitam servare recusat They kept not Covenant with me and I regarded not them saith the Lord Heb. 8.9 Thirdly There is nothing among Generous Men more odious than Falshood and Treachery in Friendship To find them false to us whom we have trusted To be betray'd by those that we thought our surest friends This cuts a man to the very heart This made David complain Psal 55.12 'T was not an open enemy that didst me this dishonour for then I could have born it neither was it mine Adversary that did magnifie himself against me for then peradventure I would have hid my self from him But it was even thou my Companion my Captain and mine own familiar Friend Surely it wounded deep the heart of the Great Buckingham when he was betray'd by his Servant Bannister whom he had raised to a great Estate and it was a bitter ingredient which was put into the Cup of our late Martyr'd Sovereign to have those that eat of his bread to lift up their hands against him To see some of his own Domestick Servants whom he had fed and advanced to sit in that unjust Court to take away his Life So there is nothing that God takes more to heart or can worse endure than disloyalty and breach of Covenants by those which pretend to be in League with Him To acknowledge as we do all that in Him we live and move and have our being To take our Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacie to Him that we will serve Him faithfully and fight against the Devil the World and the Flesh and continue His faithful Souldiers unto our Lives end and yet notwithstanding break all these Obligations and never regard the performance of our Vows but basely betray our Trust and serve his enemies How can God endure this at our hands Will he not judge for these things and shall not his Soul be avenged on such perfidious wretches as we See how God complains
of this Jer. 3.20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband so have ye dealt treacherously with me saith the Lord. Jer. 5.23 This people have a revolting and rebellious heart they are revolted and gone they have dealt very Treacherously against me saith the Lord Woe unto them they have rewarded evil unto to their own Souls Here we may learn how to try the sincerity and soundness of our faith If our Faith and Confidence in Christ be accompanied with Fidelity and Faithfulness unto Christ if we be careful as well to observe what He requireth of us as to expect what He promiseth to us then we may be assured that our Faith is right The Romans are extolled by St. Paul that their Faith was spoken of throughout the whole world and yet more than once they are commended for their Obedience Faithful Obedience that 's the surest note of sound Faith Neither can it be true where that is wanting Then may we know our Faith to be sound when our Faith in Christ produceth in us a faithfulness unto Christ a carefulness to please Him a willingness to obey Him and to be guided by Him Then doth the Souldier shew his Loyalty and Fidelity when he doth not only list himself in service take Pay Quarter and the like but when he obeys his Captains Commands if to storm a Town if to charge up to the mouth of the Cannon But alas How many will be found to have no true Faith if they be brought to this Touchstone Every one is ready to say with him in the Gospel Lord I believe But all men have not Faith that make Profession of Faith Here many profess the Faith of Christ that are wholly estranged from the Life of Christ They profess much but practice nothing just like a treacherous Souldier that takes pay of one side and runs to the other that pretends to fight for you but when it comes to the push either fights against you or runs away and dares not fight at all but hides himself under some hedge or in some ditch or other Alas this is a false counterfeit faith and makes at the best but a counterfeit Christian But beloved if we desire to be accounted what we are called Let us approve the sincerity of our Faith in Christ by our fidelity and faithfulness unto Christ If we look He should keep Covenant with us let us be sure to keep Covenant with him Psal 25.10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and Truth to such as keep his Covenants and his Testimonies So Psal 103.18 The mercy of God is for ever and ever upon those that keep his Covenants and think upon his Commandments to do them Consider how unequal it is to expect he should perform to us when we no ways perform with Him How unreasonable were it for a wife to require maintenance from her husband when she liveth disloyly and keepeth company with another man For a Souldier to expect his Pay when he refuseth to fight or to obey his Commanders pleasures Nor hath any person any reason in the world to expect salvation from Christ who hath no care to keep Faith with Christ That 's the first we must be Faithful But how long must this last A day or two or so Oh no! This Command is like that heavy saying in Matrimony Till death us depart So long as life lasteth we must be faithful Fight it out to the last drop of blood in our veins like that famous Athenian Captain Cynoegirus who held a flying Persian ship with his right hand till that was cut off and then with his left till that was chop'd off and lastly with his teeth till his head was cut off So must we never give off till death Christian Fidelity must continue to the last Psal 119.112 I applied mine heart to fulfil thy Satutes always even to the end So Heb. 3.6 His house we are if we hold fast the profession of our Faith unto the end Knowing that he is faithful that hath promised For not to persevere is a maimed service such as God will not accept of To sight a little and then give over throw down our Arms and run away is base and cowardly That which was offered to God must have horn and hoof Nay it was not to want the very tayl Levitic 3.9 It being thereby intimated that no holy course of life is accepted if it be not concluded and closed up with a good end He was never a true Friend that ceaseth to be a friend nor was he ever truly Loyal to God and his King that ever leaves or gives over his Loyalty to them It is a Rule in the Civil Law that it is as nothing that holdeth not and nothing is held done as long as ought remains to be done A Will unfinished is no Will a Deed unless it be signed sealed and delivered is no Deed. The end of each thing is all in all Mark the perfect man and behold the upright the end of that man is peace And I saw the end of those men saith David Psal 37.37 that was satisfaction to him Every thing we say is well that endeth well And indeed the main end and aim of our whole life should be how to make a good end of our life that we may at the last be found holy and unblameable before Him in peace God Himself is Eternal from whom we expect our Reward and this Reward we look for is its self also Eternal But what hath levity and inconstancie to do with Eternity Our fidelity must therefore hold out to the last if we expect an everlasting Reward And most equall it is that we continue to the end who expect those joys that must last world without end Lastly It is perseverance alone that carries away the Crown Finis non pugna coronat 'T is the end that Crowns the action We must be faithful to the death or else there is no Crown of life for us He that persevereth to the end the same shall be saved and he that doth not loseth all that he hath done The former part of our life yieldeth to the latter and the latter part of our life carrieth it away from the former If the wicked man return from his wicked courses and do that which is lawful and right all his former wickedness which be hath committed shall be remembred no more So when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity all the righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespass that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned in them he shall die Ezek. 18. Be faithful then unto the death Be admonished to hold fast that we have that no body take our Crown to cleave to God with full purpose of heart to use all diligence to keep firm the assurance of our hope unto the end for it were better for us never to have entred into Covenant with God than to make
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