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lord_n	believe_v	faith_n	word_n	11,191	5	4.5836	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30997	A sermon preached before the King at Newmarket April 24, 1670 by Miles Barne ...	Barne, Miles, d. 1709?	1670 (1670)	Wing B860; ESTC R12579	11,761	37

A SERMON Preached before the KING AT NEW MARKET April 24. 1670. By MILES BARNE Fellow of St. Peter's College in Cambridge Printed by His Majesties special Command POCULA SACRA HINC LUCEM ET ALMA MATER CAN●● BRIGIA CAMBRIDGE Printed by John Hayes Printer to the University 1670. And are to be sold by Edw. Story Bookseller in Cambridge 1 St. John Chap. 5. ver 4. And this is the Victory that overcometh the World even our Faith THe Church of Christ here below is justly stiled the Church Militant not onely in distinction to that which is Triumphant above but likewise upon the score of those many enemies which she encounters in the world and consequently every member of the same at his first entrance into it his initiation into Christianity doth solemnly denounce war against the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked world Our life is termed a continual Warfare Christ is called the Captain of our Salvation his Apostles acquaint us how much they suffered because they would not deny the Faith nor turn Renegadoes from Him particularly His stout Champion Saint Paul gives in a large account of the several Conflicts which he had with the world And how he came off more than Conquerour through Christ that strengthned him when he was in danger of suffering Martyrdom at Rome he made it his pious boast that he had fought the good fight that he had kept the Faith And when he would render his Christian impregnable against the assaults of the world he commands him to put on the whole Armour of God otherguise weapons then those which either Homer armed Achilles with or Virgil his Aeneas But above all he bids him take the shield of Faith wherewith he boldly assures him that he should be able to quench all the fiery Darts of the wicked For This is the victory that overcometh the world even our Faith I cannot do greater right to the Text then if I should awhile insist upon and recount to you the several Trophies and noble Atchievements of Faith How that not onely the Authour and Finisher of it for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and was therefore set down at the right hand of the Throne of God But moreover how its first embracers obtained a good report as well by the greatness of their sufferings as the strangeness of their conquests Their sufferings were as great as either wit or malice could make them And yet their courage was far greater for they did not onely triumph over their most exquisite torments but oftentimes conquered their most obdurate tormentours As for their conquests they were carried on by no humane force they used no open Hostility the stratagems of war were as much against their simplicity as upon this score they were contrary to the express words of their betrayed Master Peter put up thy sword it is enough There was but one single blow given and that too upon the justest occasion that ever presented it self in the world For it was to rescue the very Lord of Life out of the hands of that miscreant who betrayed Him to Death And yet he that gave it received a severe check for his pains They that take the sword shall perish by the sword Let Mahomet propagate his senceless Alcoran by force of Arms let him by the same power he tyranniz'd over the bodies of his vassals captivate their souls and so at once betray both to utter ruine Let Enthusiasts and Fanaticks dictate the whimsies of a cras'd Brain those slavish Doctrines which are but the necessary result of a morose temper for the immediate Oracles of God the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Gifts and Graces of his free and Princely Spirit And if they be not presently received let them betake themselves to open violence commit the most horrid Outrages upon their fellow creatures as they have done in several parts of the world when once they got the sword into their hands But the Gospel of Peace knows no such boysterous methods Christs Souldiers for the Propagation of his Doctrines never drew any sword but that of the Spirit They used none of those cruel Engines by which the Chieftains of the world carried on their bloudy Conquests Their weapons were spiritual The Victories which they aim'd at were over mens minds They had no defence but the Breast-plate of Faith And yet they fought not against flesh and bloud onely but against Principalities against Powers against the Rulers of the darkness of this world against Spiritual wickedness in high places And as they fought against them so they overcame them By their Faith they spoiled Principalities devested the evil spirits of their usurped power over the minds of men threw them out of their Temples silenced their Oracles beat down their images making shew of them openly and triumphing over them And as the Romans to magnifie their Conquests were wont to lead their captived Enemies in Triumph through their Cities so the Apostles by the might of Christ carried the powers of Hell in open triumph as those whom they had victoriously taken captive Thus by the light of Faith was the Prince of darkness vanquished and all his strong holds cast down And as they thus conquered him so did they all those whom he had made Enemies to the Faith Neither the greatness of the Romane Empire on the one side nor the malicious practises of the Infidel Jews on the other neither the wit crafty wiliness of the Philosophers who decried the Disciples for so many credulous Fops nor yet the Harangues which the Oratours made against the meanest of Christs Doctrines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as containing nothing in them either Great or New were able to disparage or withstand the Faith Insomuch that notwithstanding the great opposition it met with in the world The despicableness as to all outward appearances of the Apostles who first promulged it the great prejudices which the generality of men had taken up against it as concerning this Sect we know that it is every where spoken against and that most forcible tie of interest which hindred many from becoming Christians I say notwithstanding these great disadvantages it grew mightily and prevailed And the Sect of the Nazarens as Tertullus maliciously called the Christians was in a short time more numerous then any Sect whatsoever the Doctrines of Christ more universally received then the Dogmata the Opinions of any the most renowned Philosophers In sum the Disciples by believing on the name of the Lord Jesus from silly cowardly persons became valiant and wise conquering the strong confuting the learned baffling the wits and overpowring the great ones The Faith which they had received they valiantly maintained in spite of bonds and imprisonments threats and intreaties through honours and dishonours cruel mockings and scourgings In a word In spite of all the various and most affrighting shapes which Death could present it self in Thus the Disciples and Primitive Christians