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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44166	A sermon preached at the assizes at Leicester, March 19, 1685, being the county-court also when the nobility and gentry met to chuse [sic] their knights for the ensuing Parliament / by Richard Holland ...	Holland, Richard, 1679-1706.	1685 (1685)	Wing H2435; ESTC R805	11,442	36

undaunted Valor besides that it baffles all base Attempters and beats of both real and imaginary Evils besides that it is thus profitable for Man so in a sence it honors God and proves a holy Veneration of him For when we trust our selves in danger upon his score when we are courageous at the approach of Evils that are called desperate and yet keep on doing our Duty we prove that we believe God's goodness that we confide in his Mercy that we reckon him as he is true and faithful He was pleas'd to list us under his Banner against Sin the World and the Devil He commanded us to fight his Battels not sneakingly to fear plot to save a whole Skin or run away but to continue stout and undaunted to the end And he has promis'd his Assistance to maintain us in his ways He has assured us to be Conquerors has made our Rock so strong that the Gate of Hell shall not prevail against us Shall a little Thunder or blackening of the Clouds shall the roaring of that infernal Enemy that goes about to devour Nay shall the rude Gatherings of the People or idle Whispers of the uneasie ever be able to force us from our Posts our Security from relying upon God No sure That Lyon is chained the Thunder shall go over our Heads and those Clouds will quickly be dispers'd and tho' they break and drop upon us it should be for Refreshment in our Holy Warfare Tho we feed on Tears for a while and eat the Bread of Affliction and His Sacred Majesty I hope will pardon us that we are yet forced to continue that affectionate Sence of our late most dear and incomparable King yet we have better Hopes than to distrust our God to subject our selves to any slavish mistrusts and doubtings For those Tears will be turn'd into Joy those Afflictions will work for us an exceeding and eternal Weight of Glory And we are assured that if we keep our Ranks if we mind our own Concerns if we observe the Commands of the Captain of our Salvation if we keep true to the Duties of our Religion the Defence of which we have fresh Assurances of from our Gracious Sovereign we shall be usher'd to Eternal Comforts For these few short and but seeming Evils we shall triumph in Glories in real Happinesses in heavenly Crowns when this Life shall be swallowed up of Immortality In a word we should remember That the Author and Finisher of our Faith the ever blessed Christ Jesus has taken away the sting of all Afflictions and of Death it self and consequently remov'd all Fears and Doubtings out of their way that follow him He knew well enough all his Enemies Plots and had sufficient proofs of their inveterate Malice and needed none of them to tell him what they intended against him or what he was like to suffer from them He freely underwent it fear'd them not He submitted to his Father's Will and Pleasure and dreaded not to humble himself to Death even the Death of the Cross So those Holy Men and Women that followed him those early Conquerors over Passions and unruly Affections who sacrificed their Lives to Truth and Reason were so far from a sneaking cowardly Temper that they rejoyced in their Tribulations and gloried that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christ's Sake Instead of fearing they loved and complemented their Tormentors and forgave them and with cheerful Countenances and joyous Hearts caressed themselves in those dreadful Flames that put an end to their Beings here They performed their Duties they minded the one thing necessary they studied God's Honor and the Salvation of their Souls and continued true to their Religion they awaited the Divine Pleasure and gladly submitted whether in doing or suffering for God's Sake which if we do we act like Christians and shall die like such and after that celebrate God's Honor with eternal Anthems in the Society of that Noble Army of Martyrs Which leads to the second Observable from the Text and that is 2 dly That in the midst of any great Dangers and appearances of Evil we must by no means embrace any unlawful methods tho' in order to our own Safety and Preservation St. James says in chap. 2. of his Epistle v. 10. Whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all He disobeys God and by that Disobedience forfeits his Mercies and makes himself liable to the Wages of Sin By any sinful Act we disclaim God and his Protection We court the Devil and his Assistance We abandon true Light and must expect the End thereof to be the Reward of the works of Darkness For there is no congruity betwixt Christ and Belial We cannot serve two Masters while we cleave to one we must forsake the other God is our hope and our strength and he is a present help in time of Trouble He is able to save and while we keep true to him he will be on our Side But then he expects that we be always true to him that we hate every evil Way that we depend upon his Assistance and do the duty of his most faithful Servants draw comfort from him only our chief Fountain and not hew out unto our selves broken Cisterns that can hold no Water No pretensions whatsoever can hallow an unholy Act Shall we do evil that good may come on 't Shall we sin that grace may abound God forbid said the Apostle And indeed none say otherwise but those present grand Enemies of our Order and our Lives the Jesuits and those bejesuited Dissenters from our Church tho' of many Sects The former sort do but weigh whether the good that ensues overbalances the Evil of the Vndertaking and then all 's well and themselves will always be Judges in the case which is no sooner determined but those terrible Bulls begin to thunder Princes and Nations are anathematized Kings dethroned and People absolved from Allegiance and Hereticks must be pickled in their own Blood All this and much more they pretend is lawful for God's sake They may do 't they say to promote the Honor of Holy Mother-Church And by the other sort the very same things have been done and resolutely design'd to have been done a second time in this last Age. They say That Dominion is founded in Grace and where the Prince does not in all points humor them they think they do well to take him off and then want nothing but their Arms and Leaders to encourage them to Rebellion and this they pretend for Conscience sake and to advance the Kingdom of Jesus Job's Friends thus triumph'd over him in a sanctified way they made use of the Name of the Lord and told him God was his Enemy They called his Truths Lyes and blamed him for multitudes of Words they esteemed his honest Advice Mocking and with Fanatical Cant and Zeal pretended to expostulate with God as in chap. 11. of his Book to whom in chap. 13. v. 7.