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A90512	Gospell courage, or Christian resolution for God, and his truth. In a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Margarets in Westminster, at a publique fast, the 31. of May, 1643. / By Andrew Perne Master of Arts, sometimes fellow of Katherine Hall in Cambridge: now minister of Wilby in Northampton-Shire.	Perne, Andrew, 1594-1654.	1643 (1643)	Wing P1577; Thomason E55_12; ESTC R16176	18,919	39

man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord. Vse 3 Are there many false gods in the world Then take heed that there bee none kept secretly in England it hath been with England as it was with Jacobs family and the Israelites in the dayes of Moses and Joshua though the true God was publikely acknowledged and worshipped in both yet there were private persons and families who kept Idols and false Gods and worshipt them and therefore when Jacob was to goe up to Bethel to build an Altar there unto God he first purges his family from Idols Gen. 35. And Joshua when he tooke his last leave of the children of Israel and caused them to enter into a Covenant that they would serve God exhorts them to put away the strange gods that were among them Josh 24.14 So how many false gods have there been still kept and worshipped in private families and houses here in England ever since the reformation Nay it hath been worse with us for the Romish superstitious nay idolatrous Crosses and Crucifixes have been upheld and deckt if not new built in the staring-Cheape in our Church-yards High-wayes and these have been worshipt and by these and some other things the Pope hath kept possession of our Kingdome Doe you cancell these cursed Evidences God lookes for it at your hands Downe with these high-places search England with Candles till you finde out all the abominations which are committed in secret and doe you in the name of England for your places will beare it say What have I to doe with Idols any more get you hence as filthy and uncleane things and instead of these send abroad those who may teach the good knowledge of the Lord may scatter the light of the Sunne of righteousnesse How many uncatechised darke corners are there in this Kingdome how many persons that know not God nor whether Christ were Man or Woman Helpe these to know their Maker 1. The greatest good that you can possibly doe this Kingdome is to helpe it yet more to the knowledge of God this is the end and the perfection of man herein his excellency above other creatures that he had a rationall soule given him fitted to sip a little of the knowledge of God this is the life and the liberty of the subject ye stand much for them and for ought I know cannot stand too much This is eternall life to know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent and this estates us into the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God 2. This is the greatest profit it will bring the Kingdome in more then all the Merchants of it Looke how much any doe know God and Christ so much are they theirs now a little of God is more then a great deale of the creature I desire to know nothing but Christ and him crucified sayes Paul if he could know him more hee should be more his 3. This would reforme the Kingdome better then all the Lawes that you can make knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men If wee can but get men to know God we may perswade them A good Minister will reforme a Parish better then a Iustice of Peace the weapons of our warfare are not carnall but spirituall yet mighty through God to cast down strong holds We spit fire into mens consciences and binde men over to the great Assizes of Quicke and Dead 4. God is the fountain of all the Mercies and Miseries that we meet withall if any should still bee sending of us kindnesses now and then a sweet child an Office change of Apparell Meat and Drinke and Sleep night and day one thing or another and sometimes should be reaching of us a smart blow a Feaver a fit of the Stone and Gout killing thousands in a weeke in our streets of the Pestilence bathing of his sword in our bloud how should we desire to know this person that we might know how to carry our selves towards him and to be at peace him Helpe England to know the God of Englands mercies and of Englands corrections Firstly We can neither goe any whither or doe any ●●ing without him In him we live and move and have our being Yea wee shall ever have to doe with him The knowledge of God would do a Man good in time of affliction when comfort will bee worth a World and what will Men doe in time of affliction if they know not God When the Soule comes to sigh it's last and to groane into eternity to goe to meet with a God it knowes not how sad a thing is this And you that know him labour to know him more for yee are not past this lesson nor ever shall It is Naturall with Men to bee peremptory for their God 3 Doct. and for their Religion All People will and wee will If a Nation consent together and chuse a King to Reign over them so long as he keepes the Paction and the agreement betweene them they will fight for him Ioh. 18.36 If my Kingdome were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jewes The God of the Nation is above the King and their Religion above their Civill Lawes and therfore men will be peremptory for them walke in them themselves and be glad of your company You cannot doe a Nation a greater kindnesse then to joyne and comply with it in its Religion and forsake your owne That temper is in all men to compasse Sea and Land to make a Proselite to their God and their Religion When nothing will procure liberty to a Captive yet this will to abdicate and renounce his Religion and to joyne with them that have taken him Contrarieties yea small differences in Religion doe breed the strongest opp osition But consent in Religion is the strongest sement in all the World The persecutions therefore that have beene among us of late have beene against the Law of nations The Turke Honours those that are the most strick't observers of Mahomet The Papists Saint those that are zealous for the Pope and yet wee have beene derided scorned persecuted and Courted for walking in the name of our God for keeping his Lawes for sanctifying his Sabbaths hearing his word which not onely our God but the very Lawes of the Land doe command us But wee stay not here The Church of God hath great cause to be zealous stiffe and resolute for Her God and Her Religion All Nations will and we will Why Their Rocke is not like our Rocke Our's is Jehovah as well as God a God that nath a being theirs have none but in fancy and imagination Our's is something but theirs are nothing an Idol as nothing sayes the Apostle 1 Cor. 8.4 All the attributes of God are the Reasons of this Point Reas 1 He is a Living God other Gods

is Faith helping of it to believe what it cannot apprehend He that commeth unto God must believe hee 'll never reach him else The understanding and knowledge cannot be stretched out to conceive high enough of God and therfore the spirit creates an addition which is Faith helping of the soule to believe what it cannot conceive As when the Virgin Mary was told that she should conceive and be are a Sonne how can this be saith she seeing I know nor a man her reason could not reach it and therfore she laid her Faith to it Be it unto me according to thy word 2. As the Spirit doth inlarge and adde to the soule so it doth in a manner lessen God God humbling of himselfe in being willing to be described after the manner that man can take him and reach him And oh what a condescention and stoope is this in the Almighty that he should be willing to be set out as having hands and feet and eyes that so men may sippe a little of him Man cannot goe up to God and therfore God will meet him halfe way and come down to him And before the Spirit doth thus worke in the soule none know the true God few Nations or people yea few persons have this worke in them and therfore few doe know the true God and from hence so many false gods in the world 3. The heart of man is inrag'd and vext that God doth hide himselfe from his senses God keeps himselfe in secret and will not be seene and therefore man will have other gods who shall Make us gods that may goe before us say the Israelites to Aaron such as we may see Hence are your Idols among the Heathen Pictures and Crucifixes among your Papists and with men of carnall and corrupt mindes amongst our selves Men will have something before their eyes to direct their worship and service unto Men are vext that God should keepe himselfe or any thing else secret from them How faine would men be fingring of Election and Reprobation How angry were our desperate Divines of late because they could not finde out the bottome of them See the reason There 's none unlesse they can see the depth and Cause We are very prone to be too sawcy with divine things which dwel in darknes and God wil not bear it Bounds and limits were set the people when God gave the Law they must not gaze lest they die And as men are angry with this retirednesse of God that he will not make himselfe familiar to their senses So are they vext and fretted with his monopolizing and reserving all the wayes and manner of his worship to himselfe men are mad upon Will-worship Something they will have of their owne invention to be mingled with the worship of God he shall not have altogether his owne way and will They will out of their wisdome which is their folly adde some Ceremonies at the least to beautifie the slovenly worship of God as some of them have more then prophanely spoken And from hence were your golden Copes gorgious Altars shining Candlestickes decent Ceremonies the more to decorate and adorn the service of God Thus man will be corrupting the spirituall service of God with his base carnall beggerly inventions And for this cause God gives men over to extreame folly even to worship the things that they have made so beautifull to bow downe to their Altars that they have deckt and all their wisdome Scholership learning and distinctions are not able to deliver them from it The 1. Rom. 21. Because when they knew God they worshipped him not as God therefore God gave them over laid them fast in their owne dung and filth And who were these Such as profest themselves to be wise the great Scholars of the world In the 1 Cor. 1.20 Where is the wise where is the disputer not in Christ as Paul was he was foolishnesse So with us Where were our great learned Rabbins their distinctions had carried them downe to Rome they could break the Sabbath with distinctions and bow downe to Name and Altar with distinctions and therefore God befooles them and gives them over to worship the workes of their own hands their owne babies And therefore wonder not my Brethren that you have lately seene great Scholars to be sortish in their bowing downe to name and places for God committed them to superstition and Idolatry and who could baile them These Reasons may suffice though many more may bee given Vse 1 Consider this and learne to pitty pray for and help the nations and people who are without the knowledge of the true God Survey the world in your thoughts and consider how great a part of it sits in the dark groping after a God and taking hold of the Creatures some of Stocks and Stones yea some of them if we may beleeve Historians of the very Devill himselfe and worshipping of him in stead of God and God as yet withholding of himselfe from them and that so farre as we know for Adams sin Rom. 11.33 Oh! the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his Judgements and his wayes past finding out Private men may pray for them but it must be the power of some such Soveraigne Assembly as this is of yours to send unto them the knowledge of the true God and who knows but for this also you are met together at this time that when you have repaired our breaches and done the will of God for us you may be a blessing and a healing to other nations Vse 2 If many false Gods in the world then let us bee thankfull for the knowledge of the true God Rejoyce in Gods name lift up your banners Let England rejoyce in him that made it Esa 33.12 for blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his owne this makes them Gods owne This is the greatest kindnesse the most distinguishing speciall favour of God this mercy of knowing God comes out of the very heart of Jesus Christ for in him and none else God reveales himself unto men God lookes to be praised and thankt for this The knowledge of God lifts a nation up to heaven Capernaum was lifted up to heaven by preaching of the Gospel Matth. 11.23 and when God thus exalts a nation he looks to be exalted by it Ioh. 14 22. Lord how is it that thou wilt manifest thy selfe unto us and not unto the world So who is England Lord that thou shouldst reveale thy selfe to it and not to other nations Man is a bragging creature and God takes notice of it If his face be fairer his backe or armes stronger or his head wiser his purse fuller then others he will bee ready to boast of it and glory in it but God would have all this laid out upon himselfe Ier. 9.23 Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome neither let the mighty