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A53292	The unconquerable, all-conquering, & more-then-conquering souldier, or, The successful warre which a believer wageth with the enemies of his soul as also, the absolute and unparalleld victory that he obtains finally over them through the love of God in Jesus Christ : as it was discussed in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England, on the day of the artillery-election there, June 3d., 1692 / by Urian Oakes ...	Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681.; Shepard, Thomas, 1635-1677.	1674 (1674)	Wing O24; ESTC W28467	45,642	48

Church of God the Woman mentioned Rev. 12. 1. is said to have the Moon that is all these changeable Earthly things under her feet Nay he overcomes Death it self which tramples upon and prevailes over other Conquerours Death stings kills ruines other men but cannot hurt a Christian because it cannot separate him from God Oh Death where is thy sting Oh Grave where is thy Victory 1 Cor. 15 55. Those words which are commonly translated the Gates of Hell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 16. 18. and are thought to import the Power and Policy of the Devil are rendred by Learned Camero the Gates of the grave or Death alledging that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth never but once in Scripture signifie Hell but either the Grave or the state and condition of a deceased person And he conceives the mind of our Saviour in that expression to be that though the Faithfull lye dead for a time as well as other men Death exercises a Dominion over them the worm feeds sweetly upon them they are imprisoned in the Grave and lye bound hand and foot with the Cords of death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…unes vel acerbissimi Cruciatus Mortis Psal. 18. 3. yet that the Power of Death and the Grave shall not finally prevaile over them Si quis saith that Learned man fi●…urat a ●…ac Loeutione significatum velit perituram omnem Mortis Sepulchri vim is demùm profecto a Spiritûs sancti mente mini●… è aberraverit The Abolition of the destructive Dominion of Death is intended by the Lord Jesus according to this Exposition Christiani saith Cyprian mori possunt vinci non possunt Christians may dye but cannot be overcome Death may kill them but cannot conquer them The victory of Believers over their Enemies is very glorious in this respect Glorious also it is in that a Believer conquers his Enemies by cor quering himself crucifying himself the Flesh with the Affections and Lusts Gal 5. 24. subduing his own Spirit beating down his own Body and bringing it into subjection 1 Cor. 9. 27. plucking out an offending right Eye cutting off an offending right Hand Mat. 5. 29. 30. Doing strange Execution upon himself in a way of Mortification which is both a noble and a strange way of Conquering He overcomes himself and thereby overcomes all his Enemies Moreover glorious it is in that he is so far from being separated from the love of God by the opposition which his Enemies make against him that he is thereby greatly furthered in the way to the perfect enjoyment of the Fruits of it His Enemies whether they will or no help him to a most Glorious Conquest For all things how adverse and opposite soever work for his good Rom. 8. 28. that is for his most Glorious Everlasting Triumph in the highest Heavens As the Afflictions and Troubles which happened to Paul in the course of his Ministerial Warfare fell out to the furtherance of the Gospel Phil. 1. 12. so the Opposition which a Believer meets with from all his Adversaries falls out to the furtherance of his victorious proceedings in the course of his Christian Warfare and of his After-Triumph and Glory Nay this Victory is Glorious in that he gives his Enemies a total Defeat and Overthrow at last He hath a perfect and absoute Victory and Conquest over them so as never to be molested with them more He passes to Heaven through the midst of his Enemies and gets out of the reach of their opposition or molestation and there Triumphs Gloriously to Eternity Concl. 6. Every Believer ob●…ains this Glorious Victory and Conquest through the Lord Iesus Christ. We are more then Conquerours through him that loved us that is through Jesus Christ or God in Christ which is the same thing The Apostle having discoursed excellently of this Spiritual War with one of the greatest Enemies that a Christian hath to do with namely In-dwelling sin issues all triumphantly in thanks to God through Christ for Deliverance and Victory Rom. 7. ult And having spoken of D●…ath the Grave very formidable Adversaries triumphed over them Thanks God who gives Victory through Christ 1 Cor. 15. 55 56 57. And there is the like Reason as to all the Enemies of a Christian. A Believer obtains this incomparable Victory and Glorious Conquest over all through Christ. For 1. The Lord Iesus Christ hath procured and purchased this Victory and Conquest for Believers Therefore he hath Suffered and Dyed Satisfied and Me●…ted that his People might obtain a Glorious Victory over Sin Satan World Death and all their Enemies The Foundation of this Victory hath been la●…d by an high hand of Grace in the Death and Medi●… of the Lord Jesus Man having revolted from under the Government and ●…inion of Gods revealed Will and Law and thrown off his Obedience 〈◊〉 made Election of Sin and Satan for his Lords and Sovereigns The Holy God in Justice and Righteous Severity delivers him up to the Authority and Soveraignty of Sin and Satan and his Spiritual Enemies even Death it self and they put in their Claim to a Soveraignty yea and actually exercise a Dominion over Him So that man in this Condition is a Captive Prisoner Slave and cannot get his Liberty If He struggle sometimes and rise up to warre against them All his Contendings are vain He is overcome presently and held in bondage The Reason is because his Enemies are in a Sense as strong as the Law and Justice of God The strength of Sin and by pa●…ity of Reason of other Enemies is the Law I Cor. 15. 56. that is the Law broken and the Iustice of God offended But the Lord Jesus having satisfied and merited when there is an Application of that Redemption which is in Christ to any man Now Sin Satan World have no Right to exercise this Dominion they lose their Claim and Title to such Dominion and this is the Foundation of any man●… Conquest of them Hence though Sin may Tyrannise sometimes yet it shall not reign over them not have any of their Enemies any Right to Conquer or prevail as before Nay Christ hath paid 〈◊〉 great price and bought the Victory for them of Him in whose Hand it is to adjudge it unto them They overcome by the Bloud of the Lamb Rev. 12. 11. 2. He hath actually in his own person conquered their enemies for them Be of good Comfort saith our Saviour I have overcome the World Joh. 16. 〈◊〉 That is the Lusts of the world the men of the world the prince of the world the shares temptations terrours and evils of the World He hath bru●…sed the Serpents head Gen. 3. 15. destroyed the works of the Devil I Joh. 3. 8. Now saith the Lord Jesus with reference to the time of his sufferings is the judgement of this World now shall the Prince of this World be castout Joh. 12. 31. The Dethroning of Satan and destruction of his Dominion by Jesus Christ is

THE UNCONQUERABLE ALL-CONQUERING more-then-CONQUERING SOULDIER Or. The successful WARRE which a Believer Wageth with the Enemies of his Soul As also the Absolute and Unparalleld VICTORY that he obtains finally over them through the love of God in Jesus Christ. As it was Discoursed in a SERMON Preached at Boston in New-England on the Day of the ARTILLERY-ELECTION there June 3d. 1672. By Urian Oakes Pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge 1 Cor. 9. 26. I so run not as uncertainly so fight I not as one that beateth the Air. Ephes. 6. 13 Take unto you the whole Armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done or overcome all to stand Rev. 13. 7. And it was given unto Him to make warre with the Saints and to overcome them Rev. 12. 17. And they overcame Him by the Bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their Testimony and they loved not their Lives unto the Death Psal. 108. 13. Through God we shall do valiantly for He it is that shall tread down our Enemies CAMBRIDGE Printed by Samuel Green 1674. Christian Reader THat Title of the Book of the Wars of the Lord Numb 21. 14 may truly be ascribed to that best of Books the holy Scripture wherein accordingly after a short account in the first leaf thereof of the finishing of the Heavens and the Earth and all the Host of them the Lord of Hosts do●…h presently acquaint us with the enmity put between the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent 〈◊〉 3. 15. whereby 〈◊〉 is bid and which Word of the Lord hath in a sense g●…ven being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Battels that have been fought in the World for more then 5000 years even from the beginning thereof unto this day and whence it is also that this Earth shall be the continued Field and Stage of War ●…ill the last day witness the close of this bloody Scene in the Scriptures last prediction of the great Pitcht Fatal and Final Battel between the same Serpent the Dragon and his Seed in the Book of the Revelation The upshot whereof will be the last and amazing opening and so the eternal shutting of Heaven and Hell filled with the Combatants respectively for the receiving their Arrears therein The day of Iudgement doubtless will be the day of publishing and by sound of the left Trumpet the compleatest History of the whole fight from first to last in the interim the Lord General hath his many Heraulds at Arms to denounce his Wars and so proclaim also his Peace to the World both by Word of Mouth as by sound of Trumpet Isai. 58. 1. and by Writing also of some of whom especially it may be said as sometime of Lucan viz ut praelia videatur non canere sed committere tonare Classicum eodemque ardore arma scribe●…t quo Caesar tractavit they have not shunned to deliver the whole Counsel of God and that in the demonstration of the Spirit and with Power And blessed be the Lord for all the Alarms Lectures of War Instructions and Hortatory Speeches given from the Captain of our Salvation by any of his Commission Officers for the doubling and fortifying our spiritual Watch. Israel under the Law needed the Priests of the Lord in order to their 〈…〉 to found the silver Trumpets Numb 10. 2 9. that so blowing an●… A●… that H●… Camp might be remembred before the Lord their God and saved from their Enemies and the whole life of every Christian being that of a Man of War hence what may tend to aceomplish him in his Heavenly Military skill and encourage him in his spiritual conflict wherein that Cry is still heard as Exod. 32. 26. Who is on the Lords side yea wherein the E●…igent is such that he must either Fight or Dye and that the consequence is for no less then Eternity must needs be welcome to him and so without question will be this following VVatch-word and Exhortation delivered to the principal Artillery Company of this Land at whose request it was first published to the Ear and Heart of the Hearer and is now after not a little importunity to the Eye also of the Reader from one of our Leaders Heb. 13. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 under the Chief Leader 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 2. 10. Iesus Christ who is given for'●… Leader and Commander to the People Isai. 55. 4. this discourse being to animate each one thereof as a good Souldier of Iesus Christ to endure hardness giving us sure intelligence of the happy success of this Divine Militia the blessedness of every faithful VVarrier in being more then a Conquerer and though he may seem to be worsted in this or that Battel yet as to the whole war that he shall be yea in the language of Truth that he is an Overcomer and above an Overcomer A Christians victory is indeed like to that of his chief Commander Iesus Christ Col. 2. 14 15. and through that Blood and infinite Grace very strange and mysterious he is overcoming when i●… appearance overcome and triumphing when to the view of others he is a crucisied Captivs as dying and behold we live 2 Cor. 6. 9. A Paradox and incredible in other Combats and yet the wonder seems not so great that he should gain such a Victory over all his Enemies of this World when we consider him as one that hath with Reverence be it spoken conquered the Lord himself as is said of Iacob whom the Lord Dubbed with the Name of Israel Gen. 〈◊〉 20. because as a Prince he had power with God and had prevailed whence also that strange word from the Lord himself Cant. 6. 5. turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me thus do they sometimes come forth e●…arend from the dust Isai. 52. 2. and from their wrestling places of Prayer as Luther did with those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Faith vicimus vicimus and surely ●…uch as one may glory in the Lord and through him humbly boast even as soon as he hath put on his spiritual Harness because he is here well assured by the promise of the victory before he sometimes strikes a stroak and for which cause partly he may be said to be more then a Conquerer Every Victory was not celebrated with a Triumph to be triumphant is ●…orc ore then to be victorious There were and are the Battels wherein eve●… the victor hath no c●…use so much as to rejoyce of which sort ●…e may 〈◊〉 those of them who being not only visibly listed under the B●…er of Jesus Christ but have Christ in them the hope of Glory yet by whose Divisions and fidings and warrings one against the other through the hour and power of darkness and temptation prevailing the truth and peace is lost these are Bella nullos habitura triumphos and O that a most serious and wise consideration of their common danger from the Gates of Hell and the

necessity of that Brotherly union to which the Lord hath entailed the blessing by way of command even life for evermore might ●…ause a retreat to it in all quarters of the spiritual Camp sounded from those hazardous and w●…ful pursuits shall the Sword devour for ever will it not be bitterness in the latter end how will the uncircumeised rejoyce The most Warlike Christian Souldier will see one day that he had not any Military skill strength courage or weapon to spare wherewith to sight against Christ in waging any unbrotherly War against any of the called thosen and faithful followers of that Lamb. As for those of Christs Enemies sinful self the Devil and this evil World all Antichristianism fight agains●… them we should and not spare them the severe●… encounters cannot be too sharp no quarter must either be given or taken here for ever The Enemy is discovered and those Stratagems of Faith in the Blood of Christ proposed by the Reverend Author of the following Sermon whose praise is in the Gates as that b●… our right taking the Word not only victory may be gained but what is 〈◊〉 transeendent Thou hast here by one of the Lords Auxiliaries expert in warring the warfare of the service of the Congregation for such will the service of the Ministry be found Numb 8. 24 25. sent else from asar upon the relief to us and in such a day graphically represented to thy view the Church even Triumphant here on Earth more then conquering while it is in in●…ate Militant And though their ancient Triumphs were appointed for the General of the Army not for the common Souldiers yet in this Spiritu●… War the meanest of Christs followers shall Triumph with him and divide the Spoils an earnest and specimen whereof they that are sincere are not seldome acquainted with in this life whence there are erected in heart and life Trophies of the lesser victories gained and all to the Glory of him in whom when they are weak they are strong through the power of his might and may conclude before hand that they are more then Conquerers and shall abide s●… superlatively for ever roceiving those dona militaria which are to ●…e distribute●… to all such as are faithful unto death I will give thee saith the Lord Rev. 2. ●…0 the Crown of life There is the corona triumphalis not for Paul only a primipilar Champion But 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. which shall be given by the 〈◊〉 Iudge 〈◊〉 them also even to all them that fight the good fight finish their course and keep the faith and that love his appearing and that be would so come quickly O come quickly is the Prayer of The least of thy Fellow Souldiers desirous to serve under the Royal Standard of the Lord Jesus Thomas Shepard ROM 8. 37●… Nay in all these Things we are more then Conquerers through him that loved us IN these Words we have the Apostle Pauls not Ovation but Triumph not Triumph only but Something I know not how to word it Exhibited in the Name and on the Behalf of Himself and all true Believers Indigitating and Importing a more then ordinary Tryumph over all those Enemies that oppose themselves against the Progress and Advance of a Christian in his way to the Fruition of the sweet Fruits of the Everlasting Love of God in Jesus Christ. Having perspicuously copiously and demonstratively asserted and vindicated the illustrious Doctrine of Justification in a way of Free Grace by Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in the beginning of this excellent Epistle which is ingeniously stiled by the great Melancth●…n the Confession of the Reformed Churches he proceeds in the sixth Chapter to Discourse of the Fruits and Consequents thereof namely Sanctification and Obedience the Mortification of indwelling sin in Believers and the renovation or rather infusion of a new Principle of Spiritual Life and Holiness Now because this work is but inchoate and imperfect and in part only transacted in this World and there are remainders of sin in this life in the best of Saints and because Grace and Corruption are vigorous active operative Principles dwelling so near together under the same Roof in the same Soul yea in the very same Faculties there must needs arise a sharp and severe War in the Soul between these two Neighbouring and Opposite Natures the particular event●… and successes whereof are various and uncertain but the Victory is infallibly determined in the issue on the side of Grace Grace indeed i●… greatly beset hardly bestead much incumbred and almost overthrown at some reasons but it will certainly eluctari wrestle and recover it self out of all the dangers that threaten it Now there is a double War which is commenced and waged by Believers in this Life A War with the evil of sin and a War with the evil of suffrings or afflictions so far as they would imp●…e or do oppose them in their March to Heaven Of the War with sin indwelling sin th●… in-bred home-bred Enemy that Mother of all the A●…ominations that are brought forth in the lives of Men that Adversary that is ever molesting the peace disturbing the quiet and endangering the condition of the People of God the Apostle discourseth feelingly and at large in the seventh chapter of this Epistle where he finally adjudges the victory to Grace in the last verse of that and in the beginning of the eight Chapter also Of the War with Afflictions or the evil of sufferings from Satan or the World from what hand of what kind and howsoever conditioned and circumstanced he Discourseth Admirably at the seventeenth verse of this Chapter and ●…o forwards and he comes in the procedure of his Discourse to give unquestionable Assurance to the good Souldiers of Jesus Christ of the full and final decision of this grand Controversie and the happy issuing of all these hazardous conflicts whether with sin or sufferings in a glorious and absolute victory Insomuch as having made sure of God on the side of himself and Believers he doth in his own and their Name make an open Challenge and bid defiance to all opposite and adverse powers ver 31. If God befor us who then can be against us He ●…ids Sin Satan and an evil World do their worst against Believers that are thus entrenched in and walled about with the Love of God thus fortified and defended aided and assisted by the Almighty one the Lord of Hosts And having laid his foundation in Gods Predestination and Christs Mediation he superstructs upon it and plainly asserts the invincibleness of every sound Believer notwithstanding the Relicks of sin that incumber him the Temptations of Satan that molest him and the afflictions and evils of the World that set themselves in Battel aray against Him He represents to us the Christian as a person that may be opposed combated and contended withal but never routed run down totally defeated or overthrown in any Engagement Now this invincibleness of the Christian

Combatant the Believing Champion that in the Name of the Lord defies all the Hosts and Armies of Earth and Hell that come against him notwithstanding the Remainders of sin the greatness and unavoidableness of his Afflictions and Sufferings is expressed 1. Negatively ●…er 35. Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ The Argument stands thus if nothing can separate a Christian from the Love of God in Christ then nothing can conquer him but he is invincible But nothing can make that woful destructive separation which he proves by an enumeration or induction of particulars shall tribulation or distress or persecution c. therefore he is invincible This negation is clearly imported in the interrogation For though it may be a stale yet it is a true and useful observation that interrogations affirmatively exprest in Scripture are wont to ●…arry in them the force and signification of vehement negations The meaning of the Apostle in plain terms is that neither Tribulation nor Distress nor Persecution nor Famine nor Nakedness nor Peril nor Sword nor any thing else of an ●…imical nature can possibly separate a true Believer from the dear love of Jesus Christ. 2. Affirmatively in the Words of the Text Nay in all th●…se things we are more then Conquerours through him that loved us A●… if he should say●… we are so farre from being worsted and prevailed over by the Enemies of our Salvation that warre against us from succumbing under the L●…d they are laying upon us and losing our Interest in the Fruits of the Everlasting Love of God in Christ by Reason of the opposition that is made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our way that we carry the Day and are sure of a very glorious victory In this Verse we may remark these two things 1. A singular Priviledge And that is Uictory Conquest which is illustrated amplified 1. From the Extent and Vniversality of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all these things such as he had mentioned before or what else can be mentioned and imagined by us 2. From the transcendent incomparable Excellency of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we are more then Conqu●…rours or do more then overcome It is a Victory with Surplusage and Advantage a Victory and somewhat more then a Victory a Superlative and incomparable Conqu●…st and Victory that is obtained 3. From the Foundation of this glorious Victory o●… the great and only means of acquiring and obtaining it And that is Th●… Lord Jesus Christ. Through him that loved us saith the Apostle m●…ning Christ or God in Christ Iesus 4. From the first grand impulsive ●…use of it the proegumenical Cause of this glorious Victory which i●… infallibly obtained and that is the Love of God in Christ. The special love of God in his Son Jesus Christ is the first Cause of these victorious Atchievmen●… More then Conquerours through Him that loved us 2. The Persons that are thus Priviledged or invested in this great priv●…ledge that have Victory Triumph ascertained to them We are more the●… Conquerours Not only the great Apostle Paul himself that renowned Warriour and brave Champion of the Lord Jesus Christ But all true Believers also universally He ranks Himself with and discourseth of Believer●… in general that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Believing Justified and Sanctified men and women They are not exempted or Secured from violent Onsets furious Assaults hazardous and desperat●… Conflict●… with their mortal Enemies that warre against their Souls But they have this admirable Advantage above all other men that they are assured of a glorious Victory The Intendment of the Apostle in the words is Obvious and may be drawn into this Observation Doct. That all true Believers have a transcendent and incomparably glorious Conquest and Victory in all their severe ●…agements with the Enemies of their Peace and Happiness through the Love of God in Christ Iesus Believing Justified persons through the Love of God in Christ have the better by many Degrees of the Enemies of their Salvation and are m●…h too hard for them in all their sharp Disputes and Encounters with them All the●… h●…ve believed through Grace and are admitted into a st●…te of Justification and Accepration with the Lord a. c ' more then Conquerours successful and victorious beyond Expression or Comparison in their Combates and Co●…flicts with their Enemies those adverse powers that warre against th●…m through D●…vine Love in Jesus Christ●… This Proposition which we have laid down as the Subject of our present Ex●…rcise and which is evidently founded and comprized in the words of the Text hath a large Compass and a very great Circumference as you will readily apprehend We are now entring into a very large Field and might traverse a great deal of Ground if Time and strength would allow us to pace it over We have many Things before us to be discoursed for the due Explication and Confirmation of this observation The way of quickest dispatch and greatest Expedition as well as Clearness and Demonstration will be to cast all we have ●…o say to the Doctrinal part into Six or Seven grand Conclusions Concl. 1. Eve●…y true Believer is a Souldier and engaged in a Warfare I ●…ould it were reciprocally true that every Souldier amongst us is a true Bell●…●…am suee every Souldier ought to be a Believer and of all men Mi●… men when they are commanded out upon real Service to look Death and Danger in the Face and carry their Lives in their Hands had need of Faith and Grace and Interest in the Lord Jesus Christ and thereby the Con●…ition of their Souls well secured for Eternity But it is Infallibly and Universally ●…ue that every Believer is a Souldier in a spiritual Consideration The whole Body of Christians that walk by Faith in this lower World the ●…lace of Sin and Sorrow and Temptation and Absence from the Lord is apt●… and ●…uly called the Church Militant in Contra-Distinction from that ●…hich is Triumphant in the highest Heavens Those that are arrived at a ●…te of Glory have fought their fight and finished the Course of their Wat●…are and are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of pu●…h of Pike or Gunshot farre enough ●…moved out of the Reach of their Adversaries They are marched out of the Field and discharged from any further Service and enjoying their Reward But the people of God in this world are in a warfaring state and Condition The first moment that any man is effectually called and converted and sa●…ingly wrought upon He is engaged on Christs side against the world the Flesh and the Devil taken into Christs pay puts on his Armour and is prepared for the Battel For the Graces of Gods Spirit which are infused at a Christians Conversion are a Believers spiritual Armour Eph. 6. 13 14 c. Eve●…y Chris●…ian when he is new Born is born a Souldier It is said of Goliah the Philistine Champion that he was a Man of warre from his

He must strive hard that will enter in at the strait Gate Luk. 13. 24. ordinary seeking will not do it If the Believer put off his Armour lay by his weapons suffer the Sw●… of Faith to rust in the Scabberd and draw it not forth as there is occasion 〈◊〉 He hang down his Hands in Prayer sink in his Hopes cool in his Courage and stand still in a secure careless manner it will be impossible that he should b●…eak through those Legions of Devils those Armies of Temptations and make his way through those Adverse Powers that oppose themselves in his wa●… to Happiness 4. As the Opposition from at least some of his Enemies is perpetual in this life So the Believer hath no rest but hath work enough every day to contest with them A Believer hath a restless E●…my to contend withal as Hamibal said of Marcellus the Roman Consul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch Marcel Let him conquer or be conquered he would never be quiet nor give over neither give rest to his Enemy nor tak●… it himself he would be at it still and never have done So may we say much more of the Believers Enemies Satan never draws his Forces out of the Field Corruptions one way or other will be stirring and the Christian shall be exercised ●…ill with some Thorn in the Flesh and Buf●…etings of Satans Messenger The People in Nehemiab's time when they were Alarmd ' and afraid of their malicious and malignant Neighbours wrought with one hand and held a weapon in the other Nehem. 4. 17. But such is the case of a Christian that he must not only work with a Weapon in the other hand but he must actually use his Weapon whilest he is working ●…ghting with one hand and building or labouring with the other If his Enemies conquer they will be sure to prosecute their victory to the utmost and lose no Advantage if they be worsted and routed in any particular Engagement they will not fail to rally their Forces recruit and reinforce themselves presently and fall on again So that a Christian had need eat and drink and sleep in his Arms. He hath no time to put off his Armour to lay by his Weapons He will be hotly engaged till the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 3. 19. the times of refreshing and cooling shall come He can never be said in this world to be miles emer●…us or stipendia confec●…sse which were the Roman Phras●…s for them that were discharged from the Wars If a Christian live to threescore years of age or more he is not thereby superannuated nor can he plead Age or any thing else to excuse himself from the duty of a Souldier Verily there is no discharge in this Warfare on this side of the Grave There is no bringing of these Enemies to a composition no cessation to be made no League or Truce to be admitted in this Warfare A Christian must be constantly fighting and contending against●… the Enemies of his peace and happiness Thus much for the second Conclusion Concl. 3. A true Believer is never totally and absolutely conquered in any Engagemen●… with the Enemies that War against him To be Conquered sin the ●…se I take it here is to be separated from the Love of God and utterly deprived of the special fruits of it Who shall separate us saith the Apostle Rom. 8. 35 from the love of Christ that is who shall conquer us I am perswaded that neither Death ●…r Life nor Angel c. shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord Rom. 8. 38 39. Importing thus much that a Christian can never be totally conquered notwithstanding all the opposition that is made against him Let Enemies do what they can against him yet if he be not separated from the love of God he is not absolutely Conquered or defeated of his Happiness In this respect a Believer is never Conquered For 1. Nothing befals him in his Warfare notwithstanding what his Enemies attempt against him that turns away the Heart of God utterly from him Though Sin and Satan may prevail very far in some conflicts yet never to such a degree as to provoke the Lord to reject him and cast him out of his favour God may be provoked by the compliances of a Believer at some turns with Sin and Satan and the World to take away the manifestations of his Love to deny him some expressions of his Favour to visit his transgressions with a Rod and his iniquity with Stripes but never to take his loving-kindness utterly from him Psal. 89. 30 33. A Believer may be so foiled and worsted by his Enemies through the neglect of his watch or otherwise that God may be displeased with him that there may be a discontinuance of the sensible expressions of the love of God to him and an interruption of it as to manifestations and yet there is no intercision of the love of God to him as to the being of it His love to him is unchangeable and everlasting 2. Nothing fal●…s out in his progress or march that absolutely flops him in or diverts him f●…om his course of proceeding or moving towards the enjoyment of the sweet fruits of Divine Love A Believer may be wounded Lemed and retarded but not totally checked in his way and turned aside from it He may receive many a blow that staggers him that makes him reel and complain that wounds him in his Graces and comforts David had his Bones broken received deep and dangerous wounds that were long healing that s●…ank and were corrupt Psal. 38. 5. 7 8. Because he did not apply a timely Remedy unto them they were not presently searched and looked after He was knock'd down and lay in a swoon for a great while that those about him might be ready to fear he would never come to himself again but he revived and recovered at last Satan prevailed with him to commit Folly with B●…hsheba to murder and imbrue his hands in the Blood of Vriah to vent his pride and vain glorious humor in the numbring of the People and to incu●…re the displeasure of God thereby but all this did not ex●…uss and expel the Love of God out of his heart or divert him totally from prosecuting the enjoyment of it Take a Believer in his lowest condition when he is most worsted and prevailed upon by his Enemies yet at that time there is the Seed of God remaining in him 1 Ioh. 3. 9. that inclines 〈◊〉 carries him God●…ard There is a power of Grace and a work of the Spir●… upon his Heart that gives him an inclination bent tendency Godward cont●…ually and though temptations may turn him out of the way for a time and he may meet with many Rubs and Impediments in his Christian race yet there is the strong Byas of Grace the poize and impression of Gods spirit upon his heart that inclines and carries him Godward so that he will come