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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54948	A sermon preach'd to the Artillery Company, at St. Mary le Bow, Septemb. 11, 1677, and at their earnest desire published by Thomas Pittis ...	Pittis, Thomas, 1636-1687.	1677 (1677)	Wing P2317; ESTC R10835	15,095	39

Sin 3. You must put Shooes upon your Feet as being ready for March or Battel Peace within your selves and Charity to others that Offences from without may not scandalize you and like sharp Stones grieving the bare Feet of a Traveller wrench your Joynts or cause you to desist from your Enterprize that you may run on with fury upon your Enemies when your Feet are thus securely shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace 4. You must take the Shield of Faith a firm Belief possessing your Minds both of the Promises and Threats of Heaven and this will quench all the fiery Darts of the Wicked This lifts the Soul above Difficulties makes it conquer in the midst of Thunder and though this may roul up and down the Clouds our Faith arms us against its Power and makes it break under our Feet The belief of the Promises will excite our Endeavours fully to possess them and an assurance that God's Threats are infallible will make us diligent and vigilant to avoid them This will help us to Conquer this World whilst it reaches to us the Glories of the next 5. You must assume the Helmet of Salvation which is the Confidence and Hope of it This like an Helmet will bear off the Blows of our Enemies that we may put to flight the Armies of the Aliens those Forreign Lusts which War against our Souls Keeps us free from Fearfulness or Despair and makes us persevere unto the end in hope of that Immortal Crown which hangs in our view if we believe and expect and shall certainly at last be in our Possession if we are not weary and faint in our Minds 6. You must take the Sword of the Spirit the Word of God which teaches us to possess our selves of the Weapons of our Adversaries and both to handle and secure our own It discovers the Force and Stratagems of our Enemies and no Ambush can be so closely laid to offer us any Injury in our Marches if we fix our Designs by these Rules We can with ease withstand Assailants when we receive them with a scriptum est and draw Directions and Arguments from Sacred Writ to obviate the Subtilty or Storm of Temptation Now lest thus accoutred we should go forth and fight in our own Strength and like the Wicked rage and be confident we must add to all Watchfulness and Prayer Vigilance that we are not taken by surprize and thus made Prisoners of War and Prayer too that the Lord of Hosts may joyn in the Encounter deaden all the Bullets of our Enemies and add a greater Power to our own And now that our Armour is thus fixed we must prepare and make ready for the Battel The Drums beat and the Trumpets sound and every Man must hasten to his Colours and put himself into his Rank and Order The World and the Flesh are Confederates with the Devil to Conquer and Lead you away in Triumph and their Vanguard begins to appear Remember therefore the Obligations of your Baptism De Sacramento Militari apud Rom. Macedon Lacedemon c. Vid. Alex. ab Alex Gen. dier lib. 1. cap. 20. Tertul. de Coronâ Mil. cap. 3. de Spectac c. 4. that Sacramentum Militare by which as the Romans in their Oath you are engaged to fight the Battels of your Leader to withstand all the Temptations of the Devil abandon all the Lusts of the Flesh and defie the Pomps and Allurements of the World Remember those that have gone before you who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises especially our Supream Lord himself who calls to you as Julius Caesar was wont to his Souldiers not go yonder but come hither and make your selves Partners in the Victory He himself has set you an Example engaged you by immense Issues of his Love and is gone to prepare Crowns for you if you remain faithful to the Death What he commands is highly reasonable tending to the perfection of your Natures and Godliness gives you the Advantages of this Life and the Glory also of that which is to come Pluck up therefore your Courage and Resolution Let Cowardise and Fear be ashamed and sneak and not appear in a day of Battel For as a small Levite of mean Parts and Spirit is fit only to carry Wisps of Hay to feed Calves at Dan and Bethel but has not courage enough to slay a Sacrifice nor knows he how to offer it to the God of Israel So if you do not abandon your Fears your Adversaries will easily win the Field and make you turn back in the day of Battel though you are harness'd and carry Bows are furnish'd with Arms to assault your Adversaries and defend your Selves Resolve then either to secure your Bucklers or as the manner was to be brought back upon them to endure any Hardships and Difficulties rather than to give ground or quit the Field 'T is not enough to boast and ruffle when you put on your Armour unless your Courage maintains your Honour till you come at last to put it off For a Hectoring Coward is but like an Hare in an Helmet or an Hog in Armour the one may Snuff and Grunt at a Storm but he lies down and sleeps in it and the other may make a frightful Appearance but runs presently before the Face of his Enemy A few Cowards are enough to disorder a whole Army their fear makes them full of mistakes they will create Light in the midst of Darkness and take the Sparks in their own Eyes for Fires in the Camp of the Enemy and if they are prevailed upon to fight they strike winking and like the old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ventilate only and beat the Air or fall upon their Friends and disorder the Host Carnal Fear therefore must have no place in the Christian Camp But yet our Courage must not advance to Rashness This creates Zeal in Religion without Knowledg and that will flame so furiously that it will not kindle only but burn up Devotion consume the Sacrifice and the Altar too Such a Man being cloathed in Fire belches Flame and speaks Thunder But though like the Horse in Job he smells the Battel afar off Job 39. and laughs among the Trumpets yet both equally distinguish the Sound and the Enemy only the Horse is capable of better management being to be held in with Bit and Bridle but the Zealot being blind though he does not know it lays about him without discretion whilst Chance only directs him to that which he encounters This makes him often assault Christianity with its own Weapons fight against our Saviour under his own Banner and whilst he thinks to win Heaven by Storm he makes the Kingdom suffer violence and endeavours to force it without a Metaphor Such a Man will kill the Apostles to do God Service refuse his Worship to avoid Superstition and rob the Church to escape Sacriledg No Bowls are so pleasant to Carouse in as those of the Temple