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A41956 A sermon preached before the general and officers in the King's chappel at Portsmouth on Sunday July 24, 1692 : being the day before they embarqu'd for the descent upon France / by William Gallaway. Gallaway, William, fl. 1692-1697. 1692 (1692) Wing G179; ESTC R26740 12,018 36

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A SERMON Preached before the GENERAL AND OFFICERS In the KING's Chappel at Portsmouth On SUNDAY July 24. 1692. Being the Day before they Embarqu'd for the Descent upon FRANCE By WILLIAM GALLAWAY A. M. Chaplain to Their Majesties Sea-Train of Artillery Printed at the Request of the OFFICERS LONDON Printed for Rich. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane MDCXCII Mr. GALLAWAY's SERMON Before the GENERAL AND OFFICERS At Portsmouth July 24. 1692. DEUT. XX. 3 4. Let not your hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neither be ye terrified because of them For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you WHEN I considered the Circumstances of the approaching time in which some Grand Enterprize was to be put in execution and the Persons to whom this Discourse was to be more particularly Address'd who are to share no inconsiderable part in it I could not think of any more proper or seasonable than that which I have chosen as the subject of my present Discourse A Subject of that Importance that it requires both your devout Attention and serious Consideration especially of those who are more immediately concerned in it and a Subject too which from Moses's Precept to the Priests appears in some measure a Duty incumbent on me to treat on Thus the Exhortation begins verse 1. When thou goest out to battel against thine enemies and seest horses and charets and a people more than thou be not afraid of them For the Lord thy God is with thee which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt And then 't is added in the next verse And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the battel that the Priest shall approach and speak unto the people and shall say unto them Hear O Israel you approach this day unto battel against your enemies Let not your hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neither be ye terrified because of them For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you The Prophet Moses foreseeing the great Consternation the Israelites would be subject to by reason of the dreadful apprehensions that should possess them occasioned by the mighty Power and boasting Insults of their Enemies directs the Priests to animate and encourage them against these terrors in the day of battel and for this end and purpose prescribes such a method in the words of my Text as in all probability might raise their spirits above those threatning dangers which Words are a Dehortation from Fear or Pusilanimity described in all its kinds and degrees Let not your hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neither be ye terrified because of them Which Dehortation is founded on this infallible Antidote against Fear or the most convincing Reason to expel it in the Words immediately following For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you Tho the Enemies of Israel appeared in all respects terrible and in a manner invincible by reason of their Strength and Numbers yet allowing there was one mightier than they so long as the Lord of Hosts was their God since they might assure themselves that he would not only accompany and assist them against their Enemies but protect and shelter them under the shield of his Power they were to behave themselves like men and in the most extreme dangers banish all Fear in a full assurance of Victory and Success The Promises made by God to Abraham and his Seed That they should be a Numerous People that they should be rescued and delivered from their Egyptian Bondage that they should discomfit and destroy the mighty Hosts of their Enemies and enjoy a Land flowing with Milk and Honey that is full of all manner of Plenty was in every Circumstance fulfilled and compleated The Miracles that were wrought for the people of Israel at sundry times and divers places sufficiently testifie that they were under the peculiar Care and Protection of the Almighty as the Judgments that fell on their Adversaries declared them to be under his Displeasure Whilst they were journeying in the Wilderness towards the Land of Promise they had a Cloud that led them by day and a Pillar of Fire to direct them in their way by night They had Manna the Food of Angels showered on them for Bread and Quails for Flesh to satisfie their Hunger and the Rocks gushed forth Water to quench their Thirsts As to the Success that always attended their Arms Joshua declares when he cautions them neither to serve nor bow down to the false Gods of their Enemies this as a reason Joshua 23. 9 10. For the Lord hath driven out from before you great nations and strong but as for you no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day One man of you shall chase a thousand for the Lord your God he it is that fighteth for you as he hath promised you But on the other side as for their Enemies when they had imagined craftily taken secret counsel and said Come and let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance when they were grown so insolent as to boast their own strength and despise their Adversaries as weak when they spoke disdainfully and blasphemed the Name of the Holy One of Israel then it was that the mightiest of them were slain then it was that the destroying Plagues were inflicted on them Thus Moses represents Pharaoh proudly boasting in the 15th Chapter of Exodus and the 9th Verse I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword my hand shall destroy them The Children of Israel at the sight of Pharaoh and his Host marching after them were sore afraid and began to expostulate with Moses saying Because there were no graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us to carry us forth out of Egypt And Moses said unto the People Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew to you to day For the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day ye shall see them again no more for ever All which was soon verified in the event For the children of Israel went into the midst of the Sea upon the dry ground and the waters were a wall unto them on the right hand and on the left But when their Enemies pursued them the waters returned and covered the charets and the horsemen and all the hosts of Pharaoh that came into the Sea after them there remained not so much as one of them Having thus far briefly shewed how the words of my Text have been fulfilled in relation to the Israelites in those visible Assistances and signal Deliverances wrought for them by