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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62382	The royal-pay and pay-master, or, The indigent-officers comfort delivered in a sermon preached before the honorable the military company at St. Pauls Covent-Garden, July 25th, by William Sclater ... ; and now printed at their earnest intreaty.	Sclater, William, d. 1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing S921; ESTC R34026	17,196	38

of this Jer. 3.20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband so have ye dealt treacherously with me saith the Lord. Jer. 5.23 This people have a revolting and rebellious heart they are revolted and gone they have dealt very Treacherously against me saith the Lord Woe unto them they have rewarded evil unto to their own Souls Here we may learn how to try the sincerity and soundness of our faith If our Faith and Confidence in Christ be accompanied with Fidelity and Faithfulness unto Christ if we be careful as well to observe what He requireth of us as to expect what He promiseth to us then we may be assured that our Faith is right The Romans are extolled by St. Paul that their Faith was spoken of throughout the whole world and yet more than once they are commended for their Obedience Faithful Obedience that 's the surest note of sound Faith Neither can it be true where that is wanting Then may we know our Faith to be sound when our Faith in Christ produceth in us a faithfulness unto Christ a carefulness to please Him a willingness to obey Him and to be guided by Him Then doth the Souldier shew his Loyalty and Fidelity when he doth not only list himself in service take Pay Quarter and the like but when he obeys his Captains Commands if to storm a Town if to charge up to the mouth of the Cannon But alas How many will be found to have no true Faith if they be brought to this Touchstone Every one is ready to say with him in the Gospel Lord I believe But all men have not Faith that make Profession of Faith Here many profess the Faith of Christ that are wholly estranged from the Life of Christ They profess much but practice nothing just like a treacherous Souldier that takes pay of one side and runs to the other that pretends to fight for you but when it comes to the push either fights against you or runs away and dares not fight at all but hides himself under some hedge or in some ditch or other Alas this is a false counterfeit faith and makes at the best but a counterfeit Christian But beloved if we desire to be accounted what we are called Let us approve the sincerity of our Faith in Christ by our fidelity and faithfulness unto Christ If we look He should keep Covenant with us let us be sure to keep Covenant with him Psal 25.10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and Truth to such as keep his Covenants and his Testimonies So Psal 103.18 The mercy of God is for ever and ever upon those that keep his Covenants and think upon his Commandments to do them Consider how unequal it is to expect he should perform to us when we no ways perform with Him How unreasonable were it for a wife to require maintenance from her husband when she liveth disloyly and keepeth company with another man For a Souldier to expect his Pay when he refuseth to fight or to obey his Commanders pleasures Nor hath any person any reason in the world to expect salvation from Christ who hath no care to keep Faith with Christ That 's the first we must be Faithful But how long must this last A day or two or so Oh no! This Command is like that heavy saying in Matrimony Till death us depart So long as life lasteth we must be faithful Fight it out to the last drop of blood in our veins like that famous Athenian Captain Cynoegirus who held a flying Persian ship with his right hand till that was cut off and then with his left till that was chop'd off and lastly with his teeth till his head was cut off So must we never give off till death Christian Fidelity must continue to the last Psal 119.112 I applied mine heart to fulfil thy Satutes always even to the end So Heb. 3.6 His house we are if we hold fast the profession of our Faith unto the end Knowing that he is faithful that hath promised For not to persevere is a maimed service such as God will not accept of To sight a little and then give over throw down our Arms and run away is base and cowardly That which was offered to God must have horn and hoof Nay it was not to want the very tayl Levitic 3.9 It being thereby intimated that no holy course of life is accepted if it be not concluded and closed up with a good end He was never a true Friend that ceaseth to be a friend nor was he ever truly Loyal to God and his King that ever leaves or gives over his Loyalty to them It is a Rule in the Civil Law that it is as nothing that holdeth not and nothing is held done as long as ought remains to be done A Will unfinished is no Will a Deed unless it be signed sealed and delivered is no Deed. The end of each thing is all in all Mark the perfect man and behold the upright the end of that man is peace And I saw the end of those men saith David Psal 37.37 that was satisfaction to him Every thing we say is well that endeth well And indeed the main end and aim of our whole life should be how to make a good end of our life that we may at the last be found holy and unblameable before Him in peace God Himself is Eternal from whom we expect our Reward and this Reward we look for is its self also Eternal But what hath levity and inconstancie to do with Eternity Our fidelity must therefore hold out to the last if we expect an everlasting Reward And most equall it is that we continue to the end who expect those joys that must last world without end Lastly It is perseverance alone that carries away the Crown Finis non pugna coronat 'T is the end that Crowns the action We must be faithful to the death or else there is no Crown of life for us He that persevereth to the end the same shall be saved and he that doth not loseth all that he hath done The former part of our life yieldeth to the latter and the latter part of our life carrieth it away from the former If the wicked man return from his wicked courses and do that which is lawful and right all his former wickedness which be hath committed shall be remembred no more So when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity all the righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespass that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned in them he shall die Ezek. 18. Be faithful then unto the death Be admonished to hold fast that we have that no body take our Crown to cleave to God with full purpose of heart to use all diligence to keep firm the assurance of our hope unto the end for it were better for us never to have entred into Covenant with God than to make