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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

Heb. 10. 32. The World can put on two Faces and change its Countenance as occasion servs If feigned flattering smiles will not do then killing Frowns shall if it be possible The World hath Terrours to affright as well as Allurements to entice Believers out of the way of Happiness The men of the world are usually pricks in the eyes and Thorns or Scourges in the sides of Believers Briers and T●…orns are with them in the world as the Lord tells the Prophet Ezek. 2. 6 that will scratch the Face of their Reputation wound them in their outward Concernments and tear th●…ir Flesh yea they dwell among Scorpions that will put them to great torment and sting them to Death Aelian reports concerning the Lybians ocreatos dormire solere that they were wont to sleep with their Boots on lest the Scorpions their Country was infested with should sting them I am sure a Christian had need walk Booted and have his Feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace yea to be defended and ●…med in all respects or He will be in much danger of t●…●…any scorpions in ●…is way vid. Greenhil on Ezek. 2. 6. As beleivers have bodies of flesh and mortality that keep open House for sicknesses pains Dis●…ses and give Entertainment to them So they are exposed to the Rage and 〈◊〉 of u●…reasonable men They pass through an Enemie Country where they have many Affronts and Indignities offered them If lies and Calumnies Scoffs and Scorns angry looks and cruel threatnings opprobrious and injurious dealings or any kind of Cruelty may be likely to scare a Believer out of his way or force Him to a dishonourable Retreat or to run from his Colours by quitting his profession the malignant angry world will be sure if the Lord permit to prove Him in that kind In both the respects mentioned the world is an Enemy and makes Opposition to Believers in their way to Glory Furthermore a Believer meets with Opposition 3. From Satan the Prince and God of the World Eph. 6. 11 12. If a Christian were to try Masteries and contest only with Flesh and bloud whether we understand thereby his own Corruptions or Opposition from men like Himself He would have hot and hard service of it But this is his Case and Lot to meet with Opposition from Principalities and Powers the Rulers of the Darkness of this World and spiritual wickedness in High places He fights at great Disadvantage with Enemies that have the Hill and upper-Ground He combates hand to Hand with the God of the World as well as his Creatures the men of the world Satan is one of the Allies of In-dwelling sin and of Conf●…deracy with our own Hearts which are ready every moment if there be not a strict watch kept upon them to betray us into his Hands and deliver us up to Him A Christian had need look to Himself considering that Satan goes about dai●…y seeking to devour 1 Pet. 5. 8. A Believer will be sure to meet with this Lion in his way And our Flesh and Hearts as was intimated before are Satans Correspondents and Confederates against the Spiritual Life and Comfort and Happiness of our Souls ready to open to Him make a Surrender of all and comport with him in all his dangerous and destructive Applications of Himself unto us This Spiritual Leviathan is a p●…ercing Serpent and a crooked Serpent Isai. 27. 1. Sometimes he opposes the People of God by Force and then he is a p●…ercing Serpent Sometimes he circumvents them by craft and then He is a crooked Serpent Vel rectus venit vel tortuosus Satan opposes the people of God in a way of Fraud He playes the Dragon and deceivs them He is a Serpent yea an old Serpent Rev. 12. 9. and hath his Wiles Eph. 6. 11. and advantagious Devices t Cor. 2. 11. his methods of Deceit and h●…s Depths or deep Contrivances Rev 2. 24. and in a way of force and violence He acts the part of a Lion and rageth and he hath his venemous Arrows his fiery Darts Eph. 6. 16. and makes many violent On-sets upon the Children or God The Church of God or the Body of Saints and Called Ones in the world have the Gates of Hell Math. 16. 18. that is as it is commonly expounded the Power and Policy of the Devil and his Instruments and Under-Agents to oppose them in their way to Heaven though they sh●…ll not prevail in that Opposition Lastly 4. From Death it self which is the last Enemy 1 Cor. 15. 26. When all the rest are beaten cut of the field and a Christian is marching off and 〈◊〉 ready to make his Triumphant Entrance into Heaven Death encounte●… him This comes in by the Curse and the natural or direct tendency of it is to separate a Son of Adam from God for ever It is the great and g●… Executioner of the vindictive justice of God Here men enjoy some Fruits of at least the general and common goodness of God but when Death comes it pushes them away from God makes an everlasting separation between them and all the fruits of the goodness of God turns them into Hell where they must feed upon the bitter Fruit of their own wayes for ever When Death hath done its Execut●…on upon the Condemned Sons and Daughters of Adam God will then carry away all his goodness from them and never afford them so much as one drop of Water to cool their Tongues to Eternity That which makes Death so terrible is that in the ordinary course of it it makes a perfect and perpetual separation between the Sons and Daughters of men and all the Fruits of the Love and Goodness and Patience of the blessed God Death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5. 12. And where it Reigns and Triumphs and is Victorious over any man and fastens its Sting in him as I may allude to 1 Cor. 15. 55. it destroyes him utterly by putting him into a condition of everlasting separation from God Now this is the last Adversary that the Believing Christian Souldier contends withal though upon more advantagious Terms then other men Thus much for the second Particular under the second Conclusion Every Believer meets with great opposition in his way 3. A Believer cannot possibly make his way through all these Enemies and ●…ar down all this opposition without fighting He skirmishes with these Enemies yea fights many a pitch'd Battel against them He must put on the whole Armour of God Eph. 6. 11. and keep it on and make use of the weapons of his Christian Warfare and his Faith and other Graces will be soundly put to it It costs him many a Bickering He runs and Wrestles and labeurs and strives and fights the good fight of Faith as we might demonstrate by many Scripture Instances By Fighting I mean a vigorous contending and conflicting with the Enemies of his Soul which is exprest variously by the Holy Ghost in Scripture

in the Confli●… as long as the Law prescribes and no man is to give over before the Time appointed He that is tired with a first or second Conflict and withdraws himself out of the Field before his Time will lose his Crown ●…erseverance in a Course of Running and Wrestling and Combating with Patience and Submission to the good will of God is the Duty of every Christian. But withall it is the Duty as well as Allowance of the Followers of Christ to have respect to the Recompence of Reward and the joy that is set before the 〈◊〉 and to wait with Hope and Desire all the Dayes of their Appointed 〈◊〉 or of their Warfare as the Original hath it 〈◊〉 th●…ir change come Job 〈◊〉 14. that happy great Change when their present Warfare shall be changed into everlasting peace and rest from trouble and their Helmets sh●…ll be changed into Cro●…ns of everlasting Ioy upon their Heads and their Swords and Spears not beaten into Flow-shares and Pruning-hooks as Isai. 2. 4 but changed into Palms in their hands in token of assured Victory and Triumph O therefore let all Christian S●…uldiers love and long for the ●…orious Appearance of Christ And when you are beset and encumbred and engaged in any hot dispute with your Enemies Look upwards and Sigh to Heaven as for present Assistance and Enablement so also for after perfect Deliverance Victory and Triumph which shall be brought to you at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. With this word I shou'd have concluded and issued the whole Discou●… and put an End to the present Engagement but that I conceive it may ●…e rationally expected that I should address my self in the close in a word ●…r two at least to the Military men the worthy and much Honoured Gen●…men that have pressed and called me forth to the Service of this Day I need not tell you that I am no Souldier Possibly mine ine●…t Usage of some Military and Mar●…ial phrases in the past Discourse may but too plainly ●…ll you that I am but little acquainted with the Military Science or Faculty I am no Friend to warre but an unseigned lover of Peace I long for an End of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Bloud-sheds the Destructions and Des●…lations that the poor world ●…lled withal O when will th●…s Ir●…n-Age expire ●…nd that glorious Morn appear that Lightsome Day dawn wherein the Nations shall be●…t their Swords into ●…lough-Shears and t●…eir Spea●…s into Pruning-Hooks 〈◊〉 shall Nation l●…ft up Sword against Nation ●…or t●…e So●…s of men learn 〈◊〉 any more The God of Peace will certainly put an end unto these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the mean time it is the wisdom and duty of the people of God ●…o improve all Advantages that are providentially put into their Hands to secure their peace and precious Enjoyments and to put themselves into a Posture and Condition of disputing it with those that may invade or assault them Military Sk●…ll is necessary in Military times and Martial Dayes and these Military exercises are not only Lawful and Allowable but Iaudable yea and necessary also and the persons by whom they are suppor●…ed and carried on deserve singular Commendation and Encouragement Davids Mar●…l mighty men are Cataloguised in holy writ as men of Renow●… and worthy to be had in Honourable Remembrance And surely the Gentlemen among us that are men of Skill and Conduct and expertness in Military affairs should not be s●…ghted or discouraged We live in times of great Commotions and doub●…ful E●…pectations How long we may sit under our Vines and Fig-trees and have none to make us afra●…d The God of our Pea●…e our great Protector only knows The Day may come upon us when we may wish there were many more worthy men of Martial Spirits and Military Accompleshments then yet appear among us True it is that I have not directed my Discourse to the Souldiers this Day Considering that I was not unless I mistook my Summons to make a Military Oration which is more proper for some Gentleman of that Profession but to preach a Sermon on a Military occasion that might be of Use if the Lord please to the whole Assembly I have weakly but designedly endeavoured to imitate and tread in the steps of our Blessed Saviour the Ca●…ain of our Salvation Heb. 2 10. with whom it was usual and Customa●…y in the Days of his Commoration and Converse upon Ear●…h to take the least Hint to make a Sp●…ritual U●…e and Advantage of Common Things and to improve obvious Occasions and Occurrences in a Pa●…abelical Alleg-rical and Spiritual way In like manner I have taken Rise and Advantage from the Military occasions of this Day to discourse as the Lord ha●…h enabled of the Spiritual and ●…stian Warfare Souldiers love to hear of Battels at Land or Sea of Victories and Triumphs and the Cons●…quents thereof the Sp●…ils the Plunder the Booty the Re●…ds of Gallantry and good Behaviour in such ●…ngagements And I have been acquainting you with such Th●…ngs in a Spritual way And I hope none of you will judge this wholly impertinent unless you have so sarre put on the Artillery man this morning that you have also put off the Christian Souldier I shall say further by way of Defence and Apology that what I have disc●…sed may be of great Use unto the Gentl●…men I am speaking to in their M●…tary Ca●…ity That which cond●…ces ●…o the making of men good Cori●…ns hath a general Influence into the due department of men in all Capacit●…es and 〈◊〉 That man that ●…th Conquered and Subdued Himself will know how to command how to obey much better then One that is a sl●…ve to Himself and his own perverse will and in Bondage to his own Lusts and Corruptions Such a ●…an will give serious and conscionable Attendance to the Improvement of all means affoarded him that may accomplish Him in a Military way and furnish Him with Skill and De●…terity whereby He may be enabled to fight the Lords ●…attels against I●…jurious and malignant Adversari●…s He will depend on that God that teacheth his H●…s to warre and his Fingers to sight Psal. 144. 1. and umpires or determines the success●…s and Events of all Military Engagements according to the Counsel of his own will sometimes contrary to the Law and Common Rule of second Causes So that the Battel is not alwayes to the strong but Time and Chan●…e some interveni●… providential Occurrences happen to this as well as other Affairs Ecc●…es 9. 11. He will go forth when God calls to the Defence of Civil and Religious Liberties in the strength of the Lord and not in his own might or Sufficiency having had such sensible and instructing Experience that all his Spiritual and grea●…er Conquests are acquired through him that loved Him He will be one of the Legio Fulmina t●… the thundring Legion that by their powerful and princely Prayers will obtain signal Victories over their Enemies He will be one of the Called and Faithful and Chosen that will follow the Lamb whithe soever he leads them He that through the Grace and st●…ength of Christ hath conquered Sin and Self and Satan and an evil World and is sure to conquer his last Enemy Death which is the happy Condition of a Christian Souldier will not fear the Face of any man in a Righteous Cause but have the Spirit and Courage and undaunted Resolution of a Souldier indeed He will say as Nehemiah in his Case Nehem. 6. 11. Should such a man a 〈◊〉 flee well may He be above Fear and Frights and Coward se and acqui●… H●…mself in all respects as a Magna●…imous Person who hath Deliverance from the fear of Death to the Bondage whereof all men are naturally Subject H●…b 2. 15. He that expects to gain by dying as that Champion Paul did P●…l 1 21. and therefore H●…es rather then Fears to dy will not be afraid of the ●…oint of the Sw●…d or mouth of the Canon or any other Instruments of Death when God ca●…s H●…m to adventure Himself If Alexande●… Iulius Caesar and others icc●…hed such great Things by their natural Courage and Valour walt wil●… not that man do that hath the Spirit and Valour of a Christian So●…ldier He will not be act●…d o●… the pride and Ambition and vain glorious Ham●…r or mercenary Spirit that other Souldiers are car●…ied with but will bear upon the Grea●…ness of his God and the Goodnese of his Ca●…s and so jeo●…ard Himself in the H●…gh pla●…es of the Field These and the l●…ke Thing●… considered my Discourse may not seem to be wholly Forreig●… or unaccommodable to the affairs of this day Whether it hath been perts●…at and proper to the Design and Business of the Day is lest to the judgement of my 〈◊〉 But sure I am that I have discoursed of the Best and 〈◊〉 Important Warfare and the most desireable and glorious Victory and 〈◊〉 And though I cannot but approve and commend and wish the prosperous Continuance of your Trainings and Artillery-Exercises Yet behold as Paul speaks in another Case 1 Cor. 12. 31. I have been shewing you a more excellent way Of all Souldiers the Christian Souldier is the best No Warre nor Victory nor Triumph can be comparable to His. He is more than a Souldier more then a Conqueror And happy will that man be that at the end of his Race and when he is marching out of the Field shall be able to say as that great Apostle and Renowned Souldier of Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. I have fought a good fight I have finished the Course of my Warfare and henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the Righteous Iudge shall give me at the Blessed Day of his Glorious Appearing FINIS This Sermon was Preached when the General Court was sitting and in the Audience of the much Honoured Members of it