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A62382	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 ... ; and now printed at their earnest intreaty.	Sclater, William, d. 1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing S921; ESTC R34026	17,196	38

Covenants with Him and not to keep them Let us take heed left being drawn away by the errour of the wicked we fall from our stedfastness and faithfulness to our Lord Jesus But say with the Kingly Prophet Psal 119.106 I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgments And because it is to little purpose to be informed how dangerous our unfaithfulness will be unless we be taught how to prevent the danger Give me leave to add three or four Rules of Direction which may help us to persevere in Christ and in those Religious courses which we have or yet shall enter and I will come to your Pay-Master and your Pay immediately First then Brave Souldiers would you continue faithful to Christ your Master and hold out in a Religious course unto the end Enter with Resolution A good Resolution is the most fortifying Armour that a Souldier can wear 't is no great matter for Back or Brest or Head-piece or Gauntlet Resolution is the only Armour of proof 'T is the only Marshal that can keep our wavering minds in order That which makes men Cowards is want of Resolution when I know my Cause to be good and just what should affright me from the vindication of it 'T was an ingenuous and resolved Answer which the Noble and Loyal Marquess of Worcester returned to the General of the contrary Party when he had lost Ragland and in it the richest Cargo that ever fraighted a Noble house His Petition was only for two tame Pigeons which used to sit upon his shoulder and to peck meat out of his hand that the General would give him a Protection for them for he was afraid when his back was turned his Souldiers would shoot them This was readily assented to and withal the General told the Marquess that he was glad to see his Lordship so merry I thank you saith the Marquess you have given me no other cause and before you are gone give me leave to tell you this Story Upon a time two Fellons went to Tyburn to be executed the one was very pensive and sad the other was as jocular and merry The merry Thief gave great offence to his disconsolate Companion insomuch that he check'd him and told him Ah saith he how canst thou be thus merry and frolick considering the business that we are going about Oh saith he Thou art a silly whining Fellow thou went'st a Thieving and Roguing and never thought'st what would come on 't but when I first took up the Trade I forecasted the worst so that nothing falls unexpected upon me 't was no more than I lookt for So my Lord said the Noble Marquess when I first took up Arms for the King I was resolved to endure the utmost that you could inflict upon me and that makes me so merry and chearful as I am What saith our Saviour Vnless a man in Resolution at least Forsake Father and Mother Wife and Children and his own life too he cannot be my Disciple The want of this Resolution makes many a one turn head and sail back again as soon as they see storms and oppositions begin to rise These men were never minded to go farther than they saw the way clear before them like those that go to Sea upon pleasure who no sooner find the Sea to begin to work and themselves grow sick but they presently cry out to make hast to the shore whereas the Merchant that is bound for his Port concerns not himself at all 't is no more than he expected he will not be driven back with a little foul weather or Sea-sickness but goes on through fair and foul until he hath made his Voyage and arrived at the Haven where he would be What did three or four Resolute men do but the other day for a Kingly Crown of Gold And had like to have carried it too if they had not been providentially disappointed And shall we do nothing for this Imperial Crown of life Shall they be more resolute to pilfer than we honestly to gain Oh! Lord Jesus thou hast a Crown in thy right hand and the Motto of that Crown is To him that overcomes Shall my base lusts conquer me and my vile corruptions enslave me so far that I dare venture nothing for thy sake or my Religion or the interest of my immortal Soul Shall I be valiant to do evil Resolute in mine own Revenges Peremptory to damn my self And shall I be a Coward in vertuous actions not dare to speak against vice nor to fight one stroke against thine and my mortal enemies Oh! Far be that from a Noble mind Let me Resolve to have but so much courage as poor Ruth had when her Mother-in-law beseech'd her to leave her afflicted Company Entreat me not said she to leave thee or returning from following after thee for where thou goest there will I go where thou liest there will I lie where thou diest there will I die and there will I be buried God do so to me and more also if ought but death part thee and me So let us be Resolved come what will come never to forsake our God or our Religion Let us Resolve though he kill us and starve us never to leave him or forsake him That 's the First Enter with Resolution Secondly Be careful to keep a good Conscience both toward God and all men Let the fear of God be fresh in thy Soul holding faith and a good Conscience Sin will make a man an errant Coward if not it will bring a curse upon his Courage God hath cursed the wayes of sin and is resolved no man shall prosper in the end that lives and wallows in it Many a good Cause hath suffered for the wickedness of them that have managed it 'T is not Damning and Sinking Whoring or Drinking that will at last win the day Hypocrisie will be better rewarded in this world than open prophaness Have a care then to keep close with God to fear his Name alwayes that it may go well with thee and that thy Soul may live There are two things wherein a Conscientious Christian excells all other men in the world And Those are in true Valour and Fidelity True Valour I say in a just Cause for in a wicked one there is none more timerous than he And indeed to shew courage in a bad matter is rather a token of desperate folly than any badge of a magnanimous mind But in a just Cause he is as bold as a Lion no thing can daunt his courage Not Infamy For in this the Christian knows he shares with his Master and while it is for his Names-sake he knows he is blessed If there be any Nectar in this life 't is in sorrows we endure for goodness And blessed be God this Cup of Nectar we drink for our draughts every morning Oh! that God we fight for is able enough to vindicate all our wrongs Not Afflictions They shall not daunt the Courage of

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