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A07775	The shielde and revvarde of the faithfull. Or a meditation vpon Genesis 15. chap. vers. 1. Written by Philip of Mornay Lord of Plessis-Marly and faithfully translated according to the last French copie	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669.	1620 (1620)	STC 18154; ESTC S120356	17,740	81

the meteors arme themselues together against vs against the Church let vs say with Dauid t Psal 46.3.4 Though the waters thereof roare and be troubled though the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof there is a riuer the streames whereof shall make glad the city of God The infirmitie and basenes of the Church contemptible to the eyes of vaine men a smal brooke in comparison of these impetuous torrents the current of the Ocean shall not cease to subsist nor omitt to streame and runne on The faithfull shall strengthen and harden himselfe a gainst their stirrings or rather trembling for the wise man saith u Ecclesiast 34.16 God is his mightie protection and strong stay a defence from heat a couer from the sun at noone a presernation from stumbling and a helpe from falling Yea the Lord himselfe saith x Isa 43.2 When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the riuers they shall not ouerthrow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt For I am thy Sauiour His prouidence in a word is vnto him both a counsell and a rampier against all accidents against all cases and haps because there are no chances in respect of God Let the tirants of the world insence themselues and rage the people murmur mutin thunder the Ilāds the ends of the world conspire against the Church the Lord will speak to the soules of his seruant y Isa 7.4 Feare not neither be faint hearted for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria and of the sonne of Remaliah It shall not come to passe the Lord shall gather the hearts of the Kinges and Captaines of nations when and as he listeth All the z Psal 78. choler and anger of man is to him but as much subiect and matter of glory and fame The nations conspire a Isa 8.12 Let them take counsell together and it shall come to naught Let them combinde and band themselues together and they shall bee crusht and bruised onely let vs sacrifice vnto the Lord of Hoasts let vs serue him and let him be our feare and not the fury of these mortal men b Isa 51.12 of these men of grasse as the Prophet speaketh that cannot subsist against him that hath stretched forth the heauens and laid the foundations of the earth whose hand wee haue so often felt to our comfort and his arme for our deliuerance For saith the Lord c Cha. 13. Where is the fury of the oppressour And hast thou not seene the endes of the world to tremble my people not withstanding haue gone their way in peace and hast thou not seene them fall before my face before my sword as dust before my how as stubble Yea let the powers of the aire the principalities of the world the rulers of the darkenesse of the world the spirituall wickednesse in high places d Ephes 6. With whom the faithfull are to wrastle euery day saith the Apostle let them come shall wee yeeld our selues shall wee faint and leese courage but rather we will say the Lord is with vs what neede wee feare e 1 Cor. 10.13 He is faithfull who will not suffer vs to be tempted aboue that we are able He will strengthen vs against the deuill he hath f Colos 1. created all things that are in heauen and on earth visible and invisible whether they bee thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him let vs bouldly say and therefore for vs and therfore for his Church Let vs therefore oppose the thrones and celestiall dominions against the powers of the ayre the armies of Angels against the legions of Sathan against their malicious practises the holy conduct of the Angels whom God causeth to campe about his children to assist them in their way in all their paces yea the most slipperest that they stumble not against the gates of hell against the deuils that can nothing against the faith of Christ against his members that haue no power vpon Iobs Cattle vpon the hogges though they roare neuer somuch but as much as God vnbridleth them But let vs say ouer and aboue and that without excesse These deuils themselues cannot be but for vs in as much as they are for God their malice turnes to his seruice is at Gods pay and wages and therefore at ours For if Sathan afflict Iob in his family in his person the Lord knowes how farre and how long and limits him the righteousnesse and patience of his seruant shines and appeares the more and his condition is the better for is at the last If the Deuill puts in the heart of Iudas to sell the bloude of the righteous to betray and deliuer the sonne of God into the hands of the Iewes let vs adore God banish all feare He is sould but far far from their intention for the ransom of our soules he is deliuered for the remission of our sinnes of those sinnes that cause the quarrell betweene God and vs of those sinnes where with Sathan alone did preuaile did braue it out against vs and therefore to his confusion to his ruine and that of his kingdome on the otherside for the saluation of the world of men Dare we say that this feare doth assure vs euen against God against his iustice against his anger certes we may seing that in this feare of children of wrath we are made the children of his mercies seeing we may say vnto him with Dauid reserue O Lord the greatnes of thy power to try the strēgth vpon the children of death we are contented with thy clemency because there is no condemnation to the true seede of Abraham g Rom. 8.1 To them saith the Apostle which are in Christ Iesus For in this Isaac in this alone is the true seede On the other side make what couenant thou wilt with all that which makes it selfe to be feared in the world without out this feare thou wilt feare all things not the elements in their fury only but euen the leaues yea the dust not the armes offenssiue the armour and armies alone but how great soeuer thou beest the flies and Caterpillers not onely the principalities of the ayre or the powers but also their corruption but their infection yea their very breath yea that which is the least perfect which hath the lest power in the world For saith the Lord h Isa 28.15 18. Though thou hadst made a couenant with death and wert at agreement with hell yet your couenant with death shall be disanulled and your agreement with death shall not stand when the ouerflowing scourge shall passe through then yee shall be trodden downe by it And they that haue cast their eyes towards Ethiopia that haue i Isa 20.5 gloried and vanted of the helpe of Egypt shal be afraid and ashamed thereof contrariwise happy is hee that feares the Lord and beleeues in

it commeth at destruction and famine thou shalt laugh Will he pierce vs with the disfauours of calumnities Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue how piercing how venemous soeuer it be Doth hee threaten vs with death doth he offer it vnto our view y Psal 91.7 A thousand shall fall at thy side and tenne thousand at thy right hand For all that it shal not come nigh thee hee cannot hasten it a minute yea euen then when he throwes his dart at our hearts when he thinkes he hath found the default and weakest part of this shield in our infirmitie But rather it shal be our life and truely life It is then properly that we shall braue it z 1 Cor. 15. O death where is thy sting Where is thy victory a Iob. 19.26 For I know saith Iob that in this my flesh which thou thinkest thou hast killed shall I see God b 1 Cor. 15.43 I know sayth the Apostle that that which is sowne in dishonour and weakenesse shal be raised in glory and power So then doth the faithfull suffer Is the Church assaulted in her bodie in her members Let vs beware of all things that we fling not away our shield Let vs rather forgoe our weapons If Christ had not beene buried layd in the graue couered with a stone thou hadst not beleeued hee could haue raised himselfe to life how much lesse thee If also the Church were not persecuted thou in the Church thou couldst not know what this shield is worth how much it steades thee Thou couldst not discerne thine infirmity from his power Thou wouldst impute to the hardnesse of thy skin that which thou sholdst attribute to her temper to thy nature that that comes from his grace to humane prudence that which proceeds from his prouidence and therefore it behoues thee to bee often tempted to be toucht to the quicke And therefore the Prophet did reioyce that he had beene chastised that he might thereby remember God and know himselfe And at least haue we this sure comfort in our afflictions and our wounds from whence soeuer they come they aime directly at this shield they fall vpon this shield vpon the Lord yea vpon his owne flesh If we are vniustly persecuted by the malice or ignorance of men c Act. 9. Saul why presecutest thou mee sayth Christ he feels throughly our paines he accepts our wounds hee will repell them he will auenge them no lesse then if they were his owne And therefore haue wee seene so many darts blunted so many weapons become dull so many armies to retire the sharpest points of weapons to turne retort vpon the face of the enemies the very finest the very sharpest the most finely temperd to their owne damage If wee are iustly to be chastisd for our sinnes hee beares the punishment hee caries the wounds The eternall sonne of God one with him d Isa 53. Surely hath borne our griefes saith the Prophet and carried our sorrowes hee was wounded for our transgressions he was brused for our iniquities for the transgression of my people was he stricken saith the Lord. And from thence let vs hearten and harden ourselues also against death against Sathan against hell For what can we desire and require more in a shield to haue all his qualities then to make our wounds hers then to redeem vs to except vs from euil and to reuenge them to repell them more liuelily to make ours hers why then doth the flesh arme her principalities against vs e Ierem. 6.1 Doth she lay hold without compassion on bow and speare against the daughter of Sion Wee will say the Lord is our shield that shield before the which the Philistians fall the walls of Iericho yea the very earth trembleth Then sayth Debora f Iudg. 5.8 When there was nere a shield or speare seene among fortie thousand in Israel Hee hath not omitted to sane his people The shielde of the mighty sayth Dauid is driuen backe so calleth hee Saul but the shield of the righteous will neuer faile On the otherside g Psal 47.10 The shields of the earth belong vnto God hee rules ouer all the sheilds of the earth that is to say all the armour and armies of the world will they nill they are at his payment and intertainement and are sworne to him Thence commeth it to passe that we haue so often seene the Church deliuered and released from the armies of the Syrians by the armies of Egypt from the Assyrians by them of Persia from the Persians by the armies of the Grecians those bended with all their powers to his ruine these notwithstanding hauing not the lest thought that tended to his deliuerance the Church also often raised from whence and by whom one thought she should bee oppressed then triumphing when one thought they should haue led him in triumph and the Lord of Hoasts sayth the Prophet did that the Lord sayth Dauid vnto whom belong al the shields of the earth on whom depend all the Monarchies whence it commeth to passe that vnder this shield the Church hath passed ouer all the ages and seasons and shall without doubt shut vp the last age although that all the Monarchies one after another in the emulation and despight one of the other haue trod her vnder foote They one the otherside all of them discomfited the one by the other without leauing any trace or marke after them but what was for the glorie of God Of God sayth Moses that carieth his Israel vnder his wing as the Eagle her young ones of God on the otherside who in fauour of his Israel and hy his iust iudgement withdraweth his protection from other people The powers of the ayre doe they reuy at hir on the earth doe they thinke they can doe more against her Haue they caused our flesh to reuolte against our spirit to make vs sin drawne in our consciences to conuict vs kindled as they suppose Gods wrath to confound vs ranked in a word all our sinnes in battaillion before our eyes to make vs tremble to terifie vs to make vs despaire of his mercy to giue vs ouer to Sathan as a pray Let vs here take hold and the more firmely on the shield of faith on this shield saith Paul h Epeses 6. Wherewith we ouercome in combate the principalities the powers the spirituall wickednes in high places wherby we may quench the fiery darts of the wicked Tell him I haue beene indeede i 1 Tim 1.1 an idolater a blasphemer a persecuter an oppressour and much more but I obtained mercy and the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant towards mee in Christ Iesus and this Christ the son of God hath changed my sinnes hath beene made sinne for mee and I haue put on Christ I liue in Christ and Christ in me If then thou canst nothing against Christ against my head neither canst thou against me These sinnes of mine how