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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56453	More than conquerour a sermon preach't on the martyrdom of King Charles the I, Jan, 30, at Christ-church, Dublin : before his Excellency Arthur Earl of Essex, lord lieutenant general and general governour of the Kingdom of Ireland / by B.P.	Parry, Benjamin, 1634-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing P555; ESTC R31070	13,763	42

delight above toyes and trifles storms or misfortunes but divine love and a victorious faith a firm piety and a constant devotion these are the miracles of the world the joy and glory of mankind without which we had been still in darkness and the shadow of death heirs of sin and slaves to the Devil And therefore it is indeed a higher act of omnipotence and love to restore the soul than the body to redeem from hell than the grave to rouz the sinner than Lazarus from his tomb a greater miracle of goodness and power to be renewed for Heaven than awakened from our dust it cost more to ransome us from our selves and the Devil and renew the divine image than to make us live or form us out of earth and nothing But thus did God unlock his treasury and display the riches of his grace to let us fee That as nothing is too great for his power so nothing should be too dear for his love astonishing the heavens and amazing the earth and making the powers of hell shake at the wonders of our Redemption whilst the Angels sing and the Seraphims renew their flames and brightness at our Conversion and glory as if they themselves were made happier thereby Stand still ye Righteous and behold the salvation of the Lord the wonders and rewards of his Servants Piety through the World The 11 chapter to the Hebrewes is a Catalogue of all the Worthies that lived and dyed in Faith and the beginning of the next is a Trumpet to Rouze us up to the same glory Enoch walked with God the onely solitary Saint of his time that conversed with Heaven by the purities of a transcendent Devotion the first Hermit that went out of the way the common ordinary road of the World to walk with God and because there was no fit company for him on Earth the World not being worthy of him God was pleased to translate him up alive to himself that we might see what are the fruits of a Holy life the rewards of Piety and the raptures of Divine love Noah was a Preacher of Righteousness and when they who regarded not his Doctrine were buried with their Sins and Riots in silence together God provided him a Sanctuary to preserve his name and vertue and perpetuate his Memorial with his Church for ever Abrahams Faith renewed his years and made him fruitful in his posterity as well as his Graces he became the founder of Monarchies and Kingdoms but his noblest title of Honour was his being Father of the faithful that was indeed a blessing which Crowns and Scepters could not give he believed and it was imputed to him for Righteousness and that was Throne and Glory enough He staggered not at the promise and that establisht him for ever he enjoyed his Maker here on earth and conversed so familiarly with heaven before he came there that his very bosome hath been reckoned a place of Paradise ever since Such is the priviledge and happiness of the just who lives by Faith he cannot dye even when he is breathless for his life is hid with Christ in God and being dead unto the world he is alive unto God and speaks eternity in his graces he lives here by faith a life of secret and invisiible joyes for the life of nature is but a sleep and that of sense a Dream but that of grace is truly Vital made up of the choicest Spirits and a never-dying composure This is the life of a true Christian and the greatest glory of heaven upon earth when we become conformable to the Death of Christ Death hath no more dominion over us but we can triumphantly with our Apostle in another place cry out O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy Victory A heart replenisht with divine grace is not easily frightned with stripes and imprisonment hardship and want peril or the sword or whatever else may scare a meer animal or Coward but prepares to meet his God in what way soever he shall be pleased to call him 'T is true it is no mean talent no small gift to bear our afflictions with a chearful and pious submission to God's will It is not for every palat to endure the bitterness of this Cup but his that with David hath tasted how good the Lord is and that the end and fruits of his Cross are deliciousness and peace Storms and thunders are the tryals of a Christian he that can endure these and not be shaken or overthrown at Root is sit for Paradise and the regions of peace To follow Christ for the loaves and miracles in time of prosperity and triumph is no news they that crucified him did so but to keep him company in the desart or more formidable Garden and not shrink at the approach of Lanthorn and Souldiers the Traytor and the Trainband a midnight-terrour or an open distress To fall when we are in our Spring and be sacrific'd in the pride and strength of nature to submit to flames and Axes and be tormented at every Tirants pleasure to take up our heaviest cross and thus dye for the name of Christ is a temper as Rare as it is Happy the results of an invincible Piety and Faith the highest strength and glory of a Christian And therefore Secondly It is a mighty proof and argument of the Divinity of the Gospel That the Doctrine of the Cross should find so many worshipers and followers That men should at first be converted onely to afflictions and made Regenerate that they might suffer grow in love with their persecutions and rejoyce in nothing more than imitating the example of their Holy Lord. 'T is true we read of some Heathens That brag'd of their Valour and Courage in the midst of their misfortunes that they had acquired a temper of being above storms and could defie lightning and thunder by Lawrels of their own making and though nothing be more noble to Conquer our passions and be armed against the Casualties and Calamities of this World Yet examples in this kind are very rare few or none amongst them have ever done it for even the prowdest Stoicks and they that spoke biggest of themselves and vertue were Cowards to their own Rules and fainted under the flourish of their fine discourses and whatever their seeming bravery might be yet their hopes were vanishing and shallow neither satisfactory to the Soul nor durable in themselves and though some of them are said to have endured death rather than violate or falsifie their word and trust they are to be commended for so doing and it is no error or mistake to say that God might Crown them with more strength than ordinary as well to justifie a good cause as for the encouragement even of moral vertue in this life but yet these instances and whatever else can be produced in this kind are nothing to the List of diviner Heroes in the Church the multitude of victorious Sufferers of every Age and Sex who cannot