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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66471	The valorous warrior's welfare, in God's victorious warfare A sermon preach'd in His Majesty's English camp, near the city of Ghendt in Flanders; before the battalion of His Royal Highness George Prince of Denmark, under the command of the right honourable Colonel Charles Churchill, major-general of His Majesty's forces in the Netherlands. By William Williams, minister of the Gospel, and a son of the Church of England.	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2791; ESTC R219571	20,595	33

Rom. 1.21 and Christians over to Antichristianism as you may note in 2 Thes 2.9 10 11 12. This also caus'd that Nebuchadnezzar was transform'd into the Nature of a Beast as you may Read in Dan. 5.20 21. And that Herod was eaten up of Worms as it is Recorded in Acts 12.23 Therefore let us learn from their harms to beware of Ingratitude and even at this present instant or juncture of time return Thanks unto God for those great Deliverances and manifold Mercies which we continually Enjoy'd from the Moment of our Nativity to this present Opportunity resolving from henceforth until our departure out of this Life to render Praise unto him for whatsoever Benefits or Blessings his good Providence may treasure up for us in order to our future Happiness saying with the Sacred Psalmist in Psal 72.18 19. Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wondrous things And blessed be his glorious Name for ever and let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory Amen and Amen Thus have I shew'd you what Praise is together with the Fruits and Effects of it in Ten Particulars In the next place I design by God's permission to demonstrate unto you how God is to be praised and that in these Six Compendious Points First of all God is praised by acknowledging him to be what he is in Himself in his Son in his Spirit in his Properties and in his Attributes For Moses in his Psalm of Thanksgiving Exod. 15.3 did praise God by speaking of him on this wise The Lord is a Man of War The Lord is his Name Secondly God is praised by attributing unto him that which is his as holy David did 1 Chron. 29.10 11 12 13. where it is thus written Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the Congregation And David said Blessed be thou Lord God of Israel our Father for ever and ever Thine O Lord is the Greatness and the Power and the Glory and the Victory and the Majesty for all that is in the Heaven and the Earth is thine thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted as Head above all Both Riches and Honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine hand is Power and Might and in thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy Holy Name Thirdly God is praised by acknowledging that which his Providence seemingly effects to be only done or perform'd by himself Thus doth Moses praise God by ascribing unto him the Overthrow of Pharoah and his Hosts in the Red Sea as you may observe Exod. 15.4 So also doth the Psalmist in most of his Psalms of Praise as in Psal 136.1 and from the 15th Verse to the 23d where it is thus worded O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his Mercy endureth for ever To him that overthrew Pharach and his Host in the Red Sea To him which led his People through the Wilderness To him which smote great Kings and slew famous Kings Sihon King of the Amorites and Og the King of Bashan and gave their Land for an Heritage even an Heritage unto Israel his Servant And this he did because his Mercy to his People endureth for ever Fourthly God is praised by owning that which he disposeth to be only given of himself this was David's candid acknowledgment of God's hounteous Benefits and liberal Gifts in 1 Chron. 29.14 where he thus spake unto the Lord All things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee Also St. Paul saith in Rom. 11.36 Of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be Glory for ever Amen Fifthly God is praised by declaring or mentioning unto others all the fore-named Points concerning him Thus did the sweet-tongu'd David that singular Singer of Israel 1 Chron. 16.8 9. where he speaks these godly Expressions Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name bring an Offering and come before him Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness Thus also have I show'd you in six compendious Points how God is to be praised If therefore according to these pithy and practical Points of Piety our Hearts are inclinable to praise God who is the most Victorious Conqueror and matchless Man of War under whose Bellonick or Warlike Banner we seem terrible in sight of our Adversaries because as Abijah said to the Israelites in 2 Chron. 13.12 That God Himself is with us for our Captain triumphing gloriously for the Discomfiture and Destruction of his Peoples Enemies As Moses speaks concerning the Overthrow of Pharaoh in Exod. 15.4 and of whom David saith Psal 98.1 That he hath done miraculous things for nis right Hand and his holy Arm hath gotten him the Victory That by this means as Zacharias prophesied of Christ and his believing People Luke 1.74 75. We being delivered out of the hands of our Enemies might serve him without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the days of our life renewing the Vow and Covenant that we made with Christ in our Baptism of fighting manfully under his Banner against Sin the World and the Devil and to continue his faithful Soldiers and Servants unto our Lives end To which end in order to prolong our Lives and see good Days by keeping our Tongues from Evil and Lips from guile we must abandon and abominate all horrid and rash Jurations all hasty and hurtful Protestations all hellish and heinous Imprecations all envious and evil Communications with all unchaste Desires and uncivil Deportment in our Lives and Christian Conversations for in so doing we have God's own inviolable Promises to be still aiding or assisting to us in all Manly and Military Enterprizes So that we may well agree in the pious Opinion and divine Disposition of indubitable and undaunted David to say in the Dialect or Warlike Words of my Text Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies This Portion of Scripture is a Text befitting the holy Parade and Camp of the Lord of Hosts for we have God in the Front God in the Center and God in the Reer of it If we wheel the Text to the Right hand there we shall find God triumphing if to the Right about there triumphing valiantly if we move the Text to the Left hand there we shall find God trampling if to the Left about there trampling down our Enemies If we place the Words as they were either upon their orderly Guard or in their close Order and as on the Patrol walk the Rounds of my Text Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies Having thus rendezvous'd countermarch'd exercis'd or muster'd my Text and form'd the Bands Battalions and Squadrons of our Camp in Battel Array let us proceed in the Name of the Lord of Hosts to display unto our Enemies the Flag of Defiance and make our

your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your Enemies to save you In this Divine Commission we have a Reviving Cordial to cheer up the drooping Spirits of a faint-hearted Soldier for it is matter of no great moment to him whether his Enemies are many or mighty since he hath the Infallible Promise of the most Mighty to take his part in all Lawful Engagements then a Thousand may fall at his side and Ten Thousand at his Right Hand but it shall not come nigh him God will be with him in Trouble to deliver him and honour him With long Life also will he satisfie him and shew him his Salvation as it is exprest in Psal 91.7 15 16. Therefore for such a Deliverance as is here promis'd let us give unto the Lord the Glory due unto his Name for God is never more pleas'd with us than when his Heavenly Maiesty is most prais'd by us A frequent Acknowledgment of God's Praises is an undeniable means of obtaining our desir'd Deliverances And to this end because our frail Lives are uncertain by reason of Destructive Wars with other daily Casualties and that while we have our continuance on this side the Grave we may live in God's fear and in our departure hence Die in his Favour thereby to obtain Eternal Felicity I humbly crave your Christian Patience for some few Moments that I may discover unto you what Praise is together with the Fruits and Effects of it in Ten brief Particulars also how God is to be praised in Six Compendious Points First then Praise is the End or Ultimate part of our Devout Petitions for we call upon and importune God to bestow on us out of the Rich Treasury of his Bounty and unexhausted Supplies such Benefits as are most necessary or needful both for our Corporal and Spiritual Necessities that we may bless and praise him for the same to which purpose Holy David in 1 Chron. 16.35 teacheth us a Divine Method how to sweeten our Prayers with Praises according to these Expressions Save us O God of our Salvation and deliver us that we may give thanks to thy Holy Name and Glory in thy Praise Secondly Praise maketh Petition powerful for God is most ready and willing to hear their Petitions whose Hearts are inclinable to praise him in giving due Thanks for former Benefits we do as it were engage God thereby to confer upon us further or future Blessings For on this Direction of David in Psal 50.14 Offer unto God Thanksgiving the Lord himself made this Gracious Promise in the next Verse Call upon me in the day of Trouble I will deliver thee Thirdly Praise is a due Debt which Petitioners are bound to pay for he that inviteth thee to call upon him and promiseth thy Deliverance from Trouble requireth and expecteth that Compensation or Recompence from thee as to Reward his Promise with thy Praise according to these Expressions of deserv'd Retaliation Recorded in Psal 50.15 Thou shalt glorifie me Fourthly Praise is the full Requital that we can give unto God for every good and perfect Gift which his Divine Benignity bestoweth upon us for when the praying and praising Psalmist propounded this Question in Psal 116.12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his Benefits towards me The Answer or Resolution was thus given in Ver. 13. I will take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord As if David should have said I will offer a solemn Sacrifice wherewith wherein or whereby I may clearly manifest the numerous and tremendous Deliverances or Preservations which God hath afforded to me for by way of Exposition he addeth these words in Ver. 17. of the same Psalm I will offer to thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and will call upon the Name of the Lord. Fifthly Praise is a Satisfactory Evidence of that good Respect which we owe to the Lord our God By Petition we show that favour which we bear towards our selves The Ten Lepers who came unto Christ lifting up their Voices and saying Jesus Master have Mercy on us Luke 17.13 shew'd a care of their own welfare only one who return'd to give Glory unto God discover'd his Carefulness of the Lord's Honour Sixthly Praise is so prevalent a Duty that it moves God to shew good Estimation or Respect to Men for he that said in 1 Sam. 2.30 Them that honour me will I honour without Controversie will perform so punctual a Promise Seventhly Praise is the greatest Honour that we can give to Almighty God for it is his own Declaration or Acknowledgment in reference to his Divine and Essential Fame Recorded in Psal 50.23 He that offereth Praise glorifieth me Eightly To Praise God is the most Excellent Piece of Religious Service that in this World can be perform'd and also all the Celestial Spirits are concern'd herein as it is observable in Rev. 5.13 where he saith That every Creature which is in Heaven and on the Earth and under the Earth and such as are in the Sea and all that are in them heard I saying Blessing Honour Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for Ever and ever Ninthly A setting forth of God's Praise is an indubitable means to enliven the Spirit and to make the Heart of Man more ready active and chearful in performing the Duty of Prayer for when David's Heart was in a prepar'd Temper to praise God he presently applies himself thereto and by confessing his stability therein said to his Tuneable Tongue and Musical Instruments in Psal 57.7 8. 9. My Heart is sixed O God my Heart is fixed I will sing and give praise Awake up my Glory awake Psaltery and Harp I my self will awake early I will praise thee O Lord among the People I will sing unto thee among the Nations When the Spirit of a Man is under an undisposedness to pray let him then meditate on the Mercies and Excellencies of God by which Divine Contemplations he shall find a Spiritual Vivification and Vigour put into him Tenthly and Lastly Praise is comely or pleasant as Devout David phrases it in his acceptable Psalms of Thanksgiving but Ingratitude is one of the most odious and vicious Qualities that can be nam'd for Israel's ungratefulness or unthankfulness was the only Cause of their Captivity as you may Read in 2 Chron. 36.16 17. where part of the History is thus related They mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the Wrath of the Lord arose against his People till there was no Remedy Therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees who slew their young Men with the Sword in the House of their Sanctuary and had no Compassion upon young Man or Maiden old Man or him that stooped for Age he gave them all into his Hand We find that unthankfulness was the main Reason why God gave the Gentiles over to a Reprobate Sence in