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A54719	The holy choice, or, Faith's triumph over all worldly pomp & glory a sermon preached in St. Maries in Scilly, Oct. 14, 1677 / by Nich. Phillips, twice chaplain to His Majesties garrison there ; and tendred at the council-table, Jan. 23, 1679.	Phillips, Nicholas.	1679 (1679)	Wing P2035A_VARIANT; ESTC R36675	17,484	30

The Holy Choice OR FAITH'S TRIUMPH OVER ALL Worldly Pomp Glory A SERMON ●reached in St. Maries in Scilly Oct. 14. 1677. Nich. Phillips Twice Chaplain to His Majesties Garrison there And Tendred at the Council-Table Jan. 23. 1679. ●allem me Miserum Sanctum quam Prosperum Peccatorem Aug. 〈◊〉 that taketh not up his Cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me Matth. 10.38 ●●●●on Printed for Benjamin Harris at the Stationers Arms in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1679. TO THE PATRONAGE OF THOSE Pair of Sacred Sisters Truth and Iustice THough the one of you be strong and invincible and never fails in the end to get the Conquest and Prevail yet by reason of the slackness of the other in affording you Succor and Defence you seem many times quite vanquished and laid in the dust That my Doctrine is grounded on the Foundation of Truth and Verity will appear most plainly by the Sacred Records thereof the Holy Scriptures And I have Faith to believe that I shall in due time and when Patience hath Perfected her Work have Justice to Relieve and Right me And that from him into whose Hand God hath Committed the Sword of it our most Sacred Soverign whom God preserve long to Reign over us and still mightily and miraculously Protest and Defend from all the Devilish Plots and Conspiracies of His Enemies THE Garrison Souldiers at Scilly when they received their pay used always to give something towards the relief of the Poor which Money as appears by their several accounts was delivered unto the Church-Wardens and disposed of by them After Lient Crudge came to Command the Garrison The first pay day it was paid unto the Warden and disposed of by them The second it was taken up by Lieut. Crudge and imployed by him to pay for working up his Majesties Iron to make Harth-grates for th● Guard-houses The third the Pay-master of the Garrison Sir William Godolphin's Agent there happened to be Warden and having the Money in his Hand refused upon the Command of Lieut. Crudge to d●liver it unto him telling him that it was the Poors Money and that he being Warden● would imploy it to the use of the Poor and give an accompt of it to the Parish as his Predecessors had done Upon the Wardens refusal to deliver up the Poors Money to be imployed contrary to the intent of the Donors and former practise the Lieutenant sends a Guard for him puts him into the Dungeon or Hole belonging to the Garrison there kept him two Days and Nights to the great danger of his Life and would not let him out till he had delivered up the Money Nich. Phillips Minister there hearing of these differences about the Mon y given at the present pay-day took an occasion to inquire how the Money given at the precedent pay-day was bestowed and was told that a small parcel of it was put into the Poor Mans box and that the rest was imployed as is aforesaid Whereupon meeting as he went to Morning-Prayer Saturday October 13. with the Serjeant who was ordered by the Lieutenant to require the Money from the Pay-master and to pay with it the Smith that wrought up the Kings Iron He told him that he heard he had put Money into the Poor Mans box and asked him what Money it was He answered That it was the Poors Money the Money given to the Poor on such a pay-day He demanded of him again what was become of the rest He answered That it was imployed about the use aforesaid Thereupon the Minister endeavoured to make him sensible of the unlawfulness of such an act and how great a sin it was to imploy unto Secular what was given to Sacred and Pious uses All that he could say was to alleadge the Command of his Officer and that he could not help it if he had not done it he should be punished To whom the Minister said no more at present than that he had been better taught After Evening-Prayer that day the Smith that wrought up the King's Iron and received the Poors Money for so doing came unto the Ministers house with whom the Minister began to expostulate about the unlawfulness of such an act He replied That he had several times denyed the Serjeant to work up the Iron and that he did not meddle with it till the Lieutenant himself came down into his Shop and Commanded him to do it The serious Consideration of the great danger men would bring their Souls into by yielding obedience unto unlawful Commands for the preservation of their Bodies kept the Minister restless that Night and made him rise at midnight to add to his Sermon which he had prepared for the next day this seasonable Paragraph so marked * in the Sermon at large Which though it hath drawn upon him infinite Trouble and Vexation and caused him to be Traduced and Slandered to the whole World almost yet would be not have left it unsaid for a thousand Worlds And he doth glory more in it than he doth in any thing that ever he did or said it having freed him from the guilt of the Blood of those South which by the contempt of the Doctrine delivered in it hath been spilt The Holy Choice c. Heb. 11.15 Chusing rather to suffer Affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season FAith though challenged by some to be the peculiar Treasure of Gods younger Sons is notwithstanding the general portion of all his adopted ones and not only under the Gospel but under the Law yea and before the Law too was this Grace given to the Sons of men Abel and Enoch and Noah and Abraham are by the Apostle in the precedent Verses said to have walked by Faith even before the Law And Moses the Lawgiver himself is here in the very precedent Verse said to have walked by Faith By Faith Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the Son of Pharaohs Daughter Among all the noble Chieftains of Faith that preceded the Law Abraham hath the first place assigned him He it was that gave Believers a just Title to the promised Land and hath the Honour given him to be called The Father of the Faithful Among all the faithful Worthies under the Law Moses stands formost He he it was that brought up the Houshold of Faith from out of the House of Bondage Conducted them in safety through the Perilous Wilderness shewed them the Promised Land and gave a peerless and an unparallell'd Testimony of his Faith by chusing rather to suffer Assliction with the Children of God than to enjoy c. But before I proceed to speak of this peerless and unparallell'd Pattern of his Faith manifested most clearly by this his seeming foolish and miserable but indeed wise and happy Choyce I shall first by God's Gracious Assistance shew you the History and Manner of his Life before he come to Years of Discretion to

beyond the visible things which are Temporal a Heart in his Breast which had respect unto the future Recompence and great Reward that is laid up for all Faithful and Pious Souls in Heaven he abandons all his Earthly Titles and Honours and prefers the stile and Title of God Son before that of Pharaohs Daughter forsakes all the glittering Pomp and Vanity of the World the sinful Lusts and Pleasures of the Flesh And chuseth rather to suffer Affliction with the People of God c. I know if you look upon this act of Moses with a natural Eye you will be apt to censure him for a man besides himself and little better than Mad but though Moses seemed to be Mad in so doing yet he seems Mad as David did at Gate Regi Achis to none but Fools and Mad-men Surely they who have the Eyes of their understanding enlightned to see but a glimpse of that exceeding weight of Glory which God hath prepared in Heaven for those that suffer patiently and with an humble submission to his good pleasure and providence a light and momentary affliction here on Earth and to behold that Kingly estate and dignity unto which Christ will exalt all these in Heaven that suffer with him and for his sake here on Earth will not for so doing condemn him for a Madman and a Fool but highly applaud him for a Wiseman and a Faithful For by so doing he plainly manifested that he looked not on the the Temporal things which are visible but on the Eternal ones which are invisible And it was saith our Apostle through Faith that Moses when he came to age c. Choosing rather c. But did not Moses in this his voluntary choosing of affliction and running himself Headlong into danger tempt God and Sin Is not Man a weak frail Creature unable of himself to withstand the least temptation or to stand under the lightest Load of Affliction And hath not our great General 〈◊〉 Jesus not only taught us by his own Example John 8. ult to Shun and Avoid danger But also enjoyned us by his Precept to Pray that we be kept from Temptation and to be delivered from Evil Though to run Headlong into danger and wilfully to draw trouble upon himself be not the part of a Wise and Prudent Man yet bravely to own and bear Affliction when it is laid upon him is the part of a True Christian man and good Souldier of Jesus Christ Basely to deny his Master when the owning of him was the way to bring him into trouble was not the Wisdom and Piety but the Folly and Sin of St. Peter and that which cost him a Flood of Tears to Lament and it was by their hold owning of Christ when Persecutors Thirsted as greedily after the Blood of Saints as ever did hungry Evening Wolves after Lambs Blood that won the Noble Army such Honour and Renown When Gods People are in Bondage his Church under Persecution it is not then put to our Choice whether we will suffer with them but whether we will be of them For if we be of them we cannot chuse but suffer with them It being with the Member of Christs Mystical Body the Church as with the Mmbers of a Natural Body If one Member suffer all the Members suffer with it That Member of the Natural Body is Dead and Putrified which is not sensible of the Blows and Thrusts which are given to the rest of the Members and that Member of Christs Mystical Body is like the Church of Sardis hath a name that it liveth but is indeed Dead which is not moved to Compassion and Passion at the Sorrows and Sufferings of his Brethren It is for a Profane and Unnatural Edomite to stand Laughing at the Calamity and to help to set forward the Sufferings of his Brethren A true Israelite always Sympathizeth in Suffering with his Brethren is forry for the Affliction of Joseph and Weeps with them that Weep Moses therefore in chusing Affliction with the People and Church of God when Afflicted and under Perfecution did not Tempt God but plainly manifested himself to be a True Son of God and a Faithful Member of his Church In time of Peace when the Sunshine of Prosperity Graceth the Church when Piety grows into Fashion and is in great Esteem in the World every one will be a Professer of it but when it grows out of Fashion is esteemed the great Crime of the World the Sect that is every where spoken against then then to be a Professer and Practiser of it is to manifest a man to be Pious indeed and the True and Faithful Servant of God But why is Moses here said by the Apostle to have chosen Affliction Since it is plain in the History Exod. 2. That he did not Voluntary quit but was forced through fear to forsake Pharoahs Court Though his leaving of Pharoahs Court seem indeed to have something of Compulsion in it yet his going to Visit his Brethren and his looking with a Pitiful and Compassionate Eye on their Afflictions and Sufferings was a free and Voluntary act and no other thing Constrained him unto it but the Motion and Inspiration of Gods Holy Spirit for it came into his heart said St. Stephen Acts 7.23 to go and Visit his Brethren Had Moses been Egyptianized he would when he came and found the Hebrew and the Egyptian a Fighting have sided with the Egyptian and not with the Hebrew It being as it were Natural to all Renegadoes and Apostates to be most cruel towards those of their former Sect and Profession Mos●● therefore in Smiting the Egyptian and Rescuing the Hebrew gave a most Evident Testimony of his Affection towards his Natural Brethren And in that particular deliverance he gave them a sign that he was come to give them a general Gaol deliverance from Egypt's Bondage and supposed saith St. Stephen Acts 7.25 That his Brethren would have understood by that particular Deliverance That God by his hand would give them a general Goal Deliverance And surely had the Israelites been as willing at that time to receive him for their Prince and Saviour as he was forward to offer himself and had they not scornfully thrust him off with a Who made the a Judge and Ruler over us He would have made it most Evident That he was not Constrayned and Enforced but Voluntarily and of his own free Will did chuse rather to suffer Affliction c. You have seen Brethren how Moses manifested his Faith even by preferring the future and Eternal Joys of Heaven before the present Transient Honours Pleasures Contentments of an Earthly Crown I dare not now oppose him unto you as a Pattern to follow and Imitate I know your high flown and Gospel Faith will scorn to stoop to this Low and Legal President But sure notwithstanding the great boasting that is now adays made of Faith my Faith tells me that the most Faithful man amongst us comes far short of Moses