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A78224	Logos agōnios; or, a sermon of the Christian race, preached before His Maiesty at Christ-Church in Oxford, May 9. 1643. By Tho: Barton Master of Arts, and yet Rector of Westminster in Sussex. Whereto is added an advertisement to his country-men, who being misled disaffect the royall cause.	Barton, Thomas, 1599 or 1600-1682 or 3.	1643 (1643)	Wing B999; Thomason E106_17; ESTC R18899	11,289	33

ΛΟΓΟΣ ΑΓΩΝΙΟΣ OR A SERMON OF THE CHRISTIAN RACE Preached before HIS MAIESTY At Christ-Church in OXFORD May 9. 1643. By THO BARTON Master of Arts and yet Rector of Westminston in Sussex Whereto is added an advertisement to his Country-men who being misled disaffect the Royall cause 1. COR. 9.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vtilitas proximo gloria Deo Printed by L.L. 1643. TO The Right Worshipfull THOMAS COVERT LIEUTENANT COLONELL of a Regiment of Horse in His MAjESTIES Army at Oxford SIR I Forget not to pay the Honour left due unto your Ancestors Your emulation of thir loyalty and prowesse calls for an accompt from mee Nor can I make a full one without an euge to your inflection toward the royall Mine Persist then and be eternized in the justest cause of God and the King You shall not loose in such zeale nor I by the divine fuell that maintaines it Both will be gainers You may get enough and J keep in store to finish an everlasting monument Thereto subscribing I am ingaged before the World and delivering this to remember you enabled to acquit my selfe No lesse faithfull then affectionat THO BARTON Iun. 2. 1643. HEB. 12.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let us runne with patience the race that is set before us THe first word of this verse brings on from the former Chapter our resolution thus We have Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Sarah Isaac Iacob Ioseph Moses Rahab Gedeon Barac Sampson Iephthe David Samuel the Prophets in summe of whom the world was not worthy a cloud of witnesses Whereof there be such and so many Martyrs none may doubt the practice Who doe not enduring oppression will not abide depressures Exonerated of so much evill to our innate affliction is the corrosive The more then we suffer we are furthered the more Swifter our speed our constancy greater easier our race Tria sunt omnia our Pace our Patience our Path. Let us run with patience the race which is set before us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let us runne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 admits no Cessation A violent motion and continued Man is borne unto labour Iob. 5.7 as the sparkes fly upward That preceds there 's no other way to rest Action is the life of Christianity as obedience of service On we must too soon we cannot delay we may not Occasion slipt is hardly recovered Want of expedition is often the losse of great designes Naturally all runne so from life to death Criminally ill men doe from grace to sinne Spiritually true Christians only from sinne to grace Who are of the second I advise to amend the fault and with the third prevent the first 1. The first is like the course of a Ship under saile The body being once animated the whole man is suddainly transferred Our daies out run the post Iob. 9.25 2. The second as running of water into the Sea So sinners are by the eddy of humors carried unto the Mare mortuum of iniquities Their feet run to evill and they hasten to shed blood Prov. 1.16 3. The third Secundùm motum primi mobilis like that of the Sunne The just they cease not to runne in the exercise of virtues 1. First toward the West in a holy consideration of their naturall corruption dayly falls and death the catastrophe of all 2. Secondly toward the East subliming their thoughts and forcing all the faculties of soule and body to be conformable unto the will of God Who wait upon the Lord renewing their strength mount up with wings as Eagles Running they wax not weary nor walking faint Isa 40.31 Runners indeed nothing behind withdrawes nothing on the right hand inveagles and on the left nothing burthens them Avoyding all things that may hinder they be in heaven before the worldling is aware or themselves goe hence Yet so zealous keep affectum intellectum both will and wit Both for will without reason runs to a precipice We need not range abroad for instances there be too many thousands in this Kingdome God enlighten them that they may see whilest he enables us to withstand their folly Vnderstanding and affection these right produce zeale and zeale pleaseth God as love delighteth men No variable or halting or Snaile-like or Laodicean motion yet neither furious nor remisse A Lyon cannot stop no Circean dreg nor Orphean note divert it Among risings and fallings the same still As the Hound after the Hart or the Hawke after the Partridge she is swift to know to practice swift Alwaies devout but at occurrences most feruent David derided by Michal 2. Sam. 6.16 Judg. 16.30 will be more vile for the Lords sake And Sampson ever vexing the Philistims slew more at his death then in his whole life Foure things be little on earth the Ant the Conie the Locust the Spider yet are exceeding wise Prov. 30.24 25. Silly creatures condemne idle men and disorderly Statute-Protestants then and the lawlesse may goe to Heaven when the Pharises come from Hell Our Sauiour said I must work Ioh. 9.4 How excellent is it for the Disciple to be as his Master I am much taken that the Ministers of the Lord are busy in Sion and bold for the truth Nor is this all the people learne to leave any thing save their obedience That 's it that makes my exultation full So let our first love ever appeare and faith being tryed the Gospell will shine Prisons are shaken with devotion and 't is the nature of Christianity to flourish under the Crosse Rest was Moabs ruine but the Arke of God did safely passe through the swellings of Iordan If we enjoyed the former without holinesse the latter may sanctify us unto happinesse It may if we stand not when God bids us goe nor walke another way when he saith come nor lye downe when he commands us to runne But who runne and runne from him on them ira effundenda the vialls of his wrath are ready to be powred On the Heresiarchs whether Arrians Eutychians Nestorians or who ever runne desperately against the fundamentalls of Religion On the Schismaticks whether Brownists that wilfully runne to prophane the Temple and consecrated things therein or Anabaptists that insolently runne to spit defiance in the face of Gods annoynted and every one dignified under him or Aërians that runne headlong to demolish the Apostolicall structure of the Hierarchie On the Libertines that runne any way on the Neuters that runne no way on the Atheists that run from God to Nature But my charity much pittieth the simple throng that captived in a Smictymnuan snare by Iesuited Priests runne with a blind zeale to the effusion of their brethrens blood till they welter in their own Lord convert their leaders in thy mercy or to thy glory confound them in thine ire True Christians we know the Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence Forcing therefore into it our motion from the first terme to the last is impetuous Not to one side nor to another not forward

and the work is done This is one way I am sure to justify Gods most respected on earth and every one that fears the Lord and honours the King will be so justified A visible means to uphold the truth recover peace relieve our families and maintain plenty A signe too that we have our measure of grace here and shall have full happinesse hereafter The losse of temporalls in Gods cause fore-goes and immense weight of glory in Heaven 'T is plain I favour not the Priscillianists that wave this patience nor the Gnosticks that allow no patience for the name of God Nor intend I the desperate patience of the Patricians cutting their own throats to be quit of evill Nor the vain-glorious patience of the Donatists incurring the displeasure of Magistrates to stile themselves Martyrs Nor the compelled patience of transgressors who in the hands of justice will they nill they must suffer Nor the abused patience of the Papists in their voluntary superstitio●s of castigation by flagellation peregrination abstinence c. Nor the misled patience of our Catharists Separatists Novilists that most profusely expend their goods friends liberties lives to infringe the sacred Authority of our Soveraigne Lord the King and our holy Mother the Church The well informed patience I commend that and that only whereof Iesus Christ hath given himselfe an example Thereto conformeus Lord and stay us there so shall we be right Equally to thee at liberty and in thrall True Christians we inspecting the state of wicked men take care to prevent the like mischiefe in our selves We are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so mad to end in the flesh beginning in the spirit With our encrease of daies grace growes in us And such is her virtue that all things are subject to her patience Fire burning other places builds her house and death killing other things brings her life Gaudet patientia duris we by that heavenly influence have the property to be fatted with penurie In hazards best known whose courage may not be abated by difficulties When the right object is before us we are never impatient most violent alwaies against the wrong No obstinacy this nor a will that followes what it lists We want not so much discretion that our judgements should be therein questioned For runne we doe and ever let us with patience the race that is set before us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The race that is set before us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies bickering and a game whereat one endeavoureth to surpasse another Of this were five kinds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In use and in our dialect Dancing Quo●●ing Tilting Wrestling Running The last is here and translated stadium because a place where running is exercised It 's the eight part of a mile 125. paces each pace five foot At first invented by Hercules and called a stade because he runne i● at one breathing and then respirâsset simulque stetisset drew breath and staied Per metaphoram the life of a Christian which Iob termes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 warfare Iob 7.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 full of tryalls outward and inward 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without fightings within feares The inward are exanimations and temptations The first arise out of the infirmity of mind or weaknesse of faith as sadnesse of heart guiltinesse of conscience c. The second are inducements or allurements unto sinne which according to the diversity of princepall agents be three fold 1. Of the flesh the armies of lusts that muster themselves to beleaguer and batter the religious fortifications of the soule 2. Of the world such as under pretence of profit or pleasure entice man from himselfe that Satan lying in ambush may surprise the hold 3. Of the Divell those which be by his immediate insi●uation as murmurings distrust c. These are like the mutinous in a besieged Citty or the tr●cherous that by sedition or otherwise would deliver it into the hands of the enimy The outward agonismata or tryalls consist either in the affliction of the body as sicknesse imprisonment c. Or in the losse of goods by fraud extortion c. or in both by persecution Rebellion c. evills tolerated cryed up and under a supposed unerring Authority made familiar in these daies They are so but this is the misery of all the grand plunders of our lives and livelyhoods turne the sword of the spirit against the spirit of truth and the sword of justice against the justice of the Law As if the use of either to defend both were against both in us Thus assaulted Christianity may be justly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and we agonists Some therefore read let us runne to the fight that is set before us Running Fighting both imply much striving Yea others in certamine as if we should runne fighting like those that pursue their enimies in fight Ne Hercules contra duos is old and rife But every good Christian fights against the Divell the World the Flesh and their legions The first hath innumerable spirits to overthrow the second nets in every corner to catch and the third various concupiscences as flames of fire to consume us Nor is it sufficient to grapple with them we must 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be masters of the field For vincenti dabitur Rev. 2.10 though many runne and fight yet he only that conquereth wears the crowne A strange course this Ob. and to be victorious impossible Impossible to carnall minds Sol. but if we look unto Iesus who triumphed over Satan made the World his footstoole and subdued our rebellious flesh it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an easy yoke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a light burthen Mat. 11.30 Beleeve and all things are possible First resist the Divell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being strong in faith 1. Pet. 5.9 and he will fly Iam. 4.7 Secondly pretious and very great promises are given us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that through them ye should be partakers of the Divine nature 2. Pet. 1.4 5. Thirdly this is the victory that overcometh the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even our faith 1. Ioh. 5.4 But among so many enimies abroad and such Rebells at home no marvell if we sustain some dammage We may and gaine thereby For that losse discovers where the traitor is and he being cut off the officers sent forth by the understanding and affections become more wary and all our forces more valiant for the future So warie and so valiant that nothing may divide us from Christ-Not banishment wee find the Evangelists in Pathmos Not cutting in pieces Isaiah lay under the wodden saw Not drowning Ionah dived into the living gulfe Not devouring Daniel was in the sealed den among his terrible companions Not burning behold the three children walking in the fierie furnace Not stoning see the first Martyr under his heap of many grave-stones Nor beheading loe there 's the Baptists head bleeding in Herodias Platter Not the wedge of gold the