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A sermon preached before the general and officers in the King's chappel at Portsmouth on Sunday July 24, 1692 : being the day before they embarqu'd for the descent upon France / by William Gallaway.
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Gallaway, William, fl. 1692-1697.
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Shipwrack if we do not lay hold and make use of it to save our selves we must sink into the bottomless Pit 'T is now offer'd to you 't is now in your choice to lay hold on the long-suffering of God he will speak Peace and Pardon if you will quit your Sins I will only add that we implore the Divine Protection in all our dangers and assistance in all our endeavours let our Prayers be made to God with the qualifications necessary to make them prevalent which are by a true repentance of our sins a settled and relying Faith an humble resignation to the disposal of his Divine Will Let us readily concur and vigorously co-operate with his Providence in order to our Temporal Preservation as with his Grace for our Eternal Salvation And last of all let us give God all the Glory for his past invaluable mercies and pray that he will preserve the Persons and prosper the Attempts of our gracious Sovereigns who seem to be the Instrument chosen to accomplish and perfect his Will against the common Enemy and Oppressor and whose past successes give a promising earnest if not prevented by our ungrateful sins of future and more considerable Atcheivments And now O Lord God of Hosts do thou go out with our Armies do thou protect and defend us and though we cannot but acknowledge our selves unworthy and undeserving of those mercies thou hast from time to time heaped on a wicked and ungrateful Generation yet O Lord let not thy hand be shortned towards us but let all the World see and know that thou alone art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer and give us once more by our success in this enterprize an opportunity of praising and magnifying thy holy and great Name not only with our lips but in our lives through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory both now and for evermore Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books to be Sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane STate Tracts Being a farther Collection of several Choice Treatises relating to the Government From the Year 1660. to 1689. Now Published in a Body to shew the Necessity and clear the Legality of the Late Revolution and our present Happy Settlement under the Auspicious Reign of Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War being a Journal of their Travels from Dinant in Britany to Thoulon in Provence and back again With a Description of the Scituation and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road and their Distance Of their Prisons and Hospitals and the number of Men that died under their Cruelty With the Names of many of them and the Places of their Death and Burial c. The Speech of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Gray of Grooby c. at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Leicester at Michaelmas 1691. His Lordship being made Custos Roâ—â—lorum for the said County by the late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal A Project of a Descent upon France By a Person of Quality A New Plain Short and Compleat French and English Grammar whereby the Learner may attain in few Months to Speak and Write French Correctly as they do now in the Court of France and wherein all that is Dark Superfluous and Deficient in other Grammars is Plain Short and Methodically supplied Also very useful to Strangers that are desirous to learn the English Tongue For whose sake is added a Short but very exact English Grammar The Second Edition By Peter Berault Truth brought to Light Or The History of the First 14 Years of King James the I. In Four Parts I. The Happy State of England at His Majesty's Entrance The Corruption of it afterwards With the Rise of particular Favourites and the Divisions between This and other States abroad II. The Divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex before the King's Delegates authorized under the King 's Broad Seal As also the Arraignment of Sir Jervis Yelvis Lieutenant of the Tower c. about the murther of Sir Thomas Overbury with all Proceedings thereupon and the King 's gracious Pardon and Favour to the Countess III. A Declaration of His Majesty's Revenue since he came to the Crown of England with the Annual Issues Gifts Pensions and Extraordinary Disbursments IV. The Commissions and Warrants for the burning of two Hereticks newly revived with two Pardons one for Theophilus Higgons the other for Sir Eustace Hart. A Faithful Account of the Renewed Persecution of the Churches of Lower Aquitain in France in the Year 1692. To which is prefixed A Parallel between the Ancient and New Persecutors or the Protraiture of Lewis XIV in some of his Cruelties and Barbarities With some Reflections upon the unreasonable Fondness of a certain Party amongst us for the French King Europe ' s Chains Broke Or A Sure and Speedy Project to Rescue Her from the present Usurpations of the Tyrant of France Bibliotheca Politica Or a Discourse by way of Dialogue Whether Absolute Non Resistances of the Supream Powers be enjoyned by the Doctrine of the Gospel and was the Ancient Practice of the Primitive Church and the constant Doctrine of our Reformed Church of England Collected out of the most Approved Authors both Ancient and Modern Dialogue the Fourth Printed for R. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane near the Oxford Arms where also may be had the First Second and Third Dialogues Vtrum Horum Or God's Ways of disposing Kingdoms And Some Clergy Mens Ways of disposing of Them The Devout Christian's Preparation for holy Dying Consisting of Ejaculations Prayers Meditations and Hymns adapted to the several States and Conditions of this Life and on the four last Things viz. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell The Memoirs of Monsieur Deagant Containing the most Secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richlieu To which is added a particular Relation to the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which happen'd the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully translated out of the French Original The Gentleman's Journal Or the Monthly Miscellany By Way of Letter to a Gentlemen in the Country Consisting of News History Philosophy Poetry Musick Translations c. July 1692. Printed for Rich. Parker and are to be Sold by R. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane Where are also to be had Journals for January February March April May and June
the Arm of the Almighty and reflecting of what force the successful Consequences were to embolden and inspirit them against their Enemies upon the undoubted Consideration that God was on their side I shall now proceed to apply this Dehortation to you all Vigour and Cheerfulness being as necessary in the Promoters of any Design as well as in those who are to put it in execution Every man who loves his Country his Religion his Liberty and who doth not espouse a French Interest that is every honest Englishman and those engaged in our Interests being like to share either in the Miscarriages or Success And now would to God I could address my self to you with the same assurance of prevailing as the Priests of Levi did to the Israelites and tho it would look like too much presumption in me to declare any thing absolutely and positively yet I will endeavour and I am sure I may adventure to offer such Reasons to your Consideration as may raise your Hopes expel all Fears and strengthen your Faith that ye may stedfastly believe that the Almighty goeth with you to fight for you and to save you Therefore Let not your hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neitheir be ye terrified because of them Fear is properly distinguished into two sorts or kinds Fear and fearfulness the former The Affection or Passion of Fear as it is opposed to Hope 'T is a Diffidence or Despondency tamely yielding to or timorously flying from an approaching evil it hath its different symptoms and degrees according to the Object or Subject-matter it is concerned in The latter which I call fearfulness is a Vice as it is a defect or want of Fortitude It renders men either unwilling to undergo any hardships or to expose themselves to Hazards and Danger and causes them to shrink from and avoid what is the duty of a valiant man to perform this as well as the other hath its effects and degrees both kinds being comprehended in the sense of my Text exprest by Faintheartedness visible by its external or outward Symptoms such as a palpitation or beating of Heart trembling of the Joints paleness of the Face and hesitation of the Tongue arising by degrees to a Pannick or Punick Fear when men are over and above terrified by some approaching Danger For as the Israelites were to contend with the mighty Hosts of the dreadful Enemies the Race of Anak Gigantick men arm'd with the most formidable Weapons so Moses directed the Priests to encourage and animate them against those frightful Apprehensions they had entertain'd of them And though they were unequal both in respect of their numbers stature and strength yet this one convincing Motive or Reason that the Lord would be on their side was sufficient to support their fainting Hearts and raise them to such a degree of assurance as was of force to inspirit their benum'd Bodies and expel all the damping Fears and Terrors they might be possess'd with But to return As there is a Vicious so there is a Virtuous and Religious Fear too mention'd by Solomon in these words The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom that is an awful dread of God when we have a reverence for his Name and Word And here I cannot but reflect on those who are guilty of blaspheming the Holy and tremendous Name of God in their common Discourse if any such there should be here to them I am sure I might have spared this Dehortation from fear for certainly those who do not fear who dare provoke the Anger and Detestation of the Almighty by their Imprecations and foolish Oaths cannot fear the weak weak Efforts of mortal men can any man be more daring than he who calls upon God for Damnation Certainly Death in all its frightful Shapes cannot be terrible to him who slights and despises the imminent Danger of Eternal Flames and Everlasting Torments And as the fear to offend God by disobeying his Commands is the beginning of Wisdom that Wisdom which as the Apostle saith will make us wise unto salvation so also the fear of God is the beginning of Fortitude 't is that which lays the sure foundation of Courage For 't is almost impossible that he that doth not fear God should be fearless of Man There may be other Motives indeed which may oblige a man not to misbehave himself or play the Coward such as Honour Duty and Interest but these are accidental and from without But on the other side if he fears God his Courage is rais'd from a nobler Principle Dangers become insignificant Death hath lost its Terrors because his passage out of this Life is but to a better and he hath a hopeful prospect of future Rewards So that if we take care to secure an Interest in the next World I presume the way thither will prove far easier by a Sword or Bullet than by the lingring Deaths of the Gout or Stone or by the acute Disease of a burning and raging Fever And now give me leave to enquire into the nature and causes of Fearfulness and shew how little reason any man hath to fear who is engaged in this Honourable undertaking 'T is an infirmity incident to the nature of Man to fear so long as we are clothed with corruptible flesh we are and shall be subject to passions the Stoicks indeed with insensibility enough maintained the contrary but their Opinions have been sufficiently derided and exploded yet the strength of natural courage in some men hath made the same difficulties easily superable by them which others have trembled at Use and Custom which is a second and more powerful nature makes men gain so full a mastery over fear that they willingly undertake and easily perform the most dangerous enterprizes So that when I reflect that many of you here have been well acquainted and long accustom'd to hazards and have conquer'd them with bravery and resolution I may easily affirm that no danger can shake that rooted habit of courage you are masters of And I dare also be confident that those who have had little or no experience animated by your examples will attempt to equal if not out do the pattern you shall set them It may not perhaps be an unjust or improbable conjecture to think that there are some degenerated false-hearted as well as faint-hearted men among us who call themselves English-men and Protestants as there were Israelites of old who frighted their Companions with the stature and strength of the Anakims there are I fear too many bribed and unthinking men who industriously make it their business to discourage us by lessening our actions magnifying and aggrandizing the conduct and courage of our enemies It must be confest that we have to do with powerful and subtle Enemies and 't would be imprudent as well as unsafe to undervalue and despise them yet at the same time 't is true that we are upon equal terms with them in every respect and 't will be no