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A66990	The substance of a sermon, being an incouragement for Protestants or a happy prospect of glorious success: with exhortations to be valiant against our enemies, in opposing the bloody principle of papists, and errors of popery, &c. Occasionally on the Protestants victory over the French and Irish papists before London-Derry, in raising that desperate siege. By Mr. Walker minister, and governor of the city.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1689 (1689)	Wing W348; ESTC R219337	7,232	14

makes men valiant Abraham on this score persued the Kings and Rescued his Brother Lot c. out of their hands David in this assurance undauntedly marched against the mighty Champion of the Philistims and with inconsiderable Weapons as knowing God saves neither by Spear nor Shield no more than by weak means when he resolves to manifest his power or intends to save he overcame the man that had so long desied the Armies of Israel For when the great Jehovah was designed to show his last Judgment upon Pharoh and his pursuing Host in the Red Sea and Israel cryed out for fear they were only commanded to stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord and they even without contributing any help of their own found themselves not only secured from the danger they feared and a little before had threatned them but saw their desire upon their Enemies the Element heard the voice of its Creator and returned with violence to let the stubborn monarch know that the highest Rules in the Kingdoms of men in whose hands are all the Kingdoms of the Earth and all the breath of life There is a Sword of the Lord and a Sword of Man against the first there is no prevailing but the latter is weak if the first be wanting God if he pleases can arm all the Elements to sight for his Servants as he did the Hail in the time of Joshua by which there fell more than by the Swords of the Israelites or inclose his people with Fiery Camps of Armed Angels as he did Elisha when his life was sought for by the Assyrians Trust in the Lord and he will be to his Servants a Wall of defence and a strong Tower a Buckler a Shield and a mighty Deliverer who has power to do what he pleases In Heaven and Earth whose Will is Fate and whose Decrees are irresistable and Irreversable Let us but call upon him sincerely with a true heart and unfeigned lips and he will hear us and deliver us out of all our trouble Let us not then be afraid of their terrour that seek to harm us but assuredly rest secure in his protection whose mercys are over all the Works of his Creation and he will keep us from the Arrows that fly by Night and the Shafts though go abroad by day the Adversary shall have no advantage over us Therefore let us acquit our selves like men and not faint or grow weary Let fear fly our Breasts and let us arm our selves with Courage in a good Cause and consider that the God of Battles the Lord of Hosts is the disposer of all things and if the Lord be with us who shall be against us and prosper for there is a Sword of the Lord and a Sword of Gideon Thus by extraordinary means does the Almighty save when he bares his Arm to make his power known to the Sons of Men then happy are all they that trust in him for they shall never be confounded their Enemies shall come out one way but flee seven the Lord shall draw a Sword after them and they shall be scattered even from Heaven shall they be discomfited and scattered o'er the face of the earth as in Judges 3. 2. They fought from Heaven the Stars in their courses fought against Sisera If Heaven be on our side in vain is the Combination of man for who is able to stand before that mighty God whose very looks drieth up the deep and whose wrath maketh the Mountains to melt before whose Majesty Job confesseth himself to fail and tremble like one in a stormy Tempest and that his fear was so great that he was not able to bear it nor can his hand be shortened that he will not save those that stand for his truth such as are valiant for the promotion of God's Honour are said to fight the Lord's Battle that is he owns them to be his Soldiers and he puts power and strength into their hands as he did into his Servant Joshuah's when he made the Heavenly bodies contrary to the course of nature obey a Mortal Voice the Sun and Moon stood still till his people had accomplished their desire upon their Enemies as we find it in Joshua 10. 13. and when Moses held but up his hand the Israelites prevailed for there is nothing too hard for the Lord when he designs to bring about his purposes I called on the Lord in my distress says Holy David the Lord answered me and set me in a large place the Lord is on my side I will not fear what man can do unto me The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Princes all Nations compassed me about but in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them Psal. 118. v. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Thus we may behold how a good cause puts life into the Soul and makes the Spirit rise to the extreamest height of valour banishing the image of fear by a confident assurance of success makes men bold as Lyons and unwary in their undertakings This made Nehemiah courageous for the House of God and for his Sanctuary when he caused the very Work-men to arm at their labour having their Swords in their hands even whilst they were building and repairing the City of Jerusalem to prevent and repel their treacherous Enemies who sought always to surprize and bring them to destruction Let us take Courage then and faint not but acquit your selves like men A Protestant Prayer for our Deliverance from Popish Enemies and for future Success O Lord God Holy and Glorious in whose hands are all the ends of the earth thou God of Battles on whom all Success and Victory depends look down upon us thy poor afflicted Servants pardon our Sins and pass by the multitude of our Transgressions save us save us O Lord from the Malice and Hatred of our Implacable Enemys defeat their Plots and confound their Devices and let them know neither Policy nor the Arm of Flesh can do any thing against those thou art pleased to take into thy especial care and protection give us Courage to be valiant for thy revealed truth in the Gospel of thy dear Son our ever blessed Lord and Saviour and ever defend us from the Clouds and Mists of Popery and Errour give us hearts to fear and Reverence thy Holy Name that all our Astions and Vndertakings may redound to thy Honour and Glory through Jesus Christ To whom with thee and thy Holy Spirit be all Power Praise and Dominion World without end Amen FINIS

the Sword of the Lord wanting to give them success over their Enem●es and to redeem their bleeding Country from the distraction and desolation it groaned under nor may we spare to come nearer home and find innumerable instances of God's raising up Gideons to save these Kingdoms not only from Barbarous Nations who in early times have invaded them but from a Papal Tyranny from Plots and Conspiracys that have laboured to make their glory set in blood and ruine Henry the Eight was raised up to scatter the Midian●tes and Amalakites of Rome whose Idolatries and Superstitions had infected our Israel and whose Pride and Luxury had laid waste her pleasant places and destroyed the good things of the Land This I say was the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon for God made this Pr●nce an Instrument in his hand This was the Lord's doings and it is marvelous in our Eyes and in the next place he raised up a good Josia in the person of Edward the Sixth and under him gave us the purity and light of the Go●pel in i●s primitive lustre brighter than the Morning-Sta● and though a●ter the death of this good Prince he 〈◊〉 his Sword and suffered us to be crushed under the 〈◊〉 hands of our enemies yet the Bloody Reign of O Mary once over wherein our Adversaries displayed themselves in their true Colours feasting Flames with Martyrs precious Blood at such a Riotous profuseness as no Barb●rous Nation had equalled he heard the Groans of his suffering people and sent us a deliverance The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon was again on our side as appeared in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth who was valliant for the truth and in spite of all the Conspiracies to raise a Rebellion or bring her to an untimely end by Poison Daggers and many pernicious Devices she stood the Gideon or Deborah of our Land and though Spain fill'd the Seas with fleating Castles to destroy this flourishing Kingdom yet the Almighty by a small number manifestly bared his Arm to save us and raine those that were too confident in the Arm of Flesh not only destroying that huge Armado but routing such Forces as the Spaniards sent into Ireland to assist the Bloody Irish Papists in Rebellion against their lawful Soveraign committing such Cruelties as are too tedious here to mention and although in the frustration of their Plots and Devices they might well have perceived the immediate hand of Heaven protecting this great and prosperous Queen yet so far were they infatuated or transported with inseperable Malice and Revenge that though their Attempts cost many of them their lives yet no sooner was the wise Protest●nt Prince King James the First advanced to the Throne but they went to exalt him in a blast to the Skies had not their Powder Plot been discovered by the Div●ne Hand of Providence who blasted it all which well considered may make us confess with the Royal Prophe● viz. We have thought of thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy Temple according to thy Name O God so is thy praise vnto the ends of the earth thy right hand is full of righteousness Let Mount Sion rejoyce let the Daughter of Jud● be glad because of thy judgment Psal. 49. verse 9 10 11. And now without tears of compassion we cannot reflect on the Popish Cruelty in the poor Kingdom of Ireland in the Reign of King Charles the First Anno 1641. when without any provocation Armed with Hellish Rage and the natu●●l Cruelty of a Papist they by inhumane Torments Massacred no less than 200000 English Protestants of all Ages and Sex insomuch that the Dead Bodies not being suffered by the Priests to be buried Created a Contageon and in some measure took revenge on the Murtherers and what can we think but at this day a Papist is a Papist still where even the Principle of Religion instills a kind of Fierceness and Barbarity into their Nature Nay if we reflect what in a few Months they have done what better can be expected if we consider the Spoil Plunder Ravagements and Desolations the French and Irish in Arms have made regarding neither Oaths Promises nor nearness of Relation with a desire utterly to Root the the English out of the Kingdom with a further design of carrying on their Mischevious Enterprizes against the Protestant Religion In general it is time for Protestants to become Valiant for the Truth and bold as Lyons not only for their Religion but temporal intrest the preservation of their Wives and Children from Murthers Rapes and Deflowrings and all manner of Violence and Wickedness to stand as Bulwarks against the Rapid Inundation of Antichristan Tyrany Let us consider that the Fowls of the Air and the Beasts of the Forrest stand in the defence of their own lives and the lives of their young Ones with such Weapons as Nature has afforded them And shall not men in such a case pluck up their Spirits and redouble their Courage since the Almighty has of late been so favourable in giving us even by Miracle a Protestant King and Queen to sit upon the Throne and so great a Prospect of a through deliverance we are here Members of the Church Mil●itant Let us not be ashamed or afraid of our profession when maintaining our Christian W●●f●re in a good conscience and a just cause we make our way to the Church which is Triumphant where God shall wipe away all tears from our Eyes And there shall be no more Death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more p●in for the former things pass away Rev. 21 4. Though never so many Storms and Tempests threaten yet a good Christian ought not to be dismayed though in a time even when danger does beset them yet it is required they should Humble themselve before their Maker and Rely on him who is able to save to the utmost all that trust in him For indeed Sin is that which provokes him to with-hold his mercy and bring calamities on Nations and Kingdoms it was always well with the seed of Jacob when they cleave fast to the Rock of their Salvation but when they grew Regardless he gave them up to the oppressing Nations who grieved his chosen Heritage for as 't is said Psal. 18. ver 25 26. 27. viz. With the Merciful thou wilt shew thy self Merciful and with an upright man thou wilt shew thy self upright with the pure thou wilt shew thy self pure with the froward thou wilt shew thy self froward For thou wilt save the afflicted people but will bring down high looks Niniveh humbling her self in Sackcloath and Ashes before the Lord was saved from impendent Wrath when Stubborn Sodom and Impenitent Gomorrah sunk in Sulpherous fire let us turn then to the Lord with our whole hearts and sing praise unto our deliverer that our Enemies and all those that seek to hurt us may fall before us 'T is a good consceience and an assurance in gods mercy's that

The Substance of a SERMON Being an Incouragement for PROTESTANTS or a Happy Prospect of Glorious Success With Exhortations to be Valiant against our Enemies in opposing the Bloody Principles of PAPISTS and Errors of Popery c. Occasionally on the Protestants Victory over the FRENCH and IRISH Papists BEFORE London-Derry In Raising that Desperate SIEGE By Mr. WALKER Minister and Governor of the City London Printed by A. Milbourn in Green-Arbour-Court in the Little-Old-Baily 1689. Licensed June the 5th 1689. Entred according to Order A Glorious Prospect of the Protestants Happiness c. Judges VII 20. The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon WE may through all the Course of Holy Scripture plainly behold that when the Almighty designed to work out a Deliverance to his People he made them sensible that it was not so much the Arms of Flesh as his immediate power that saved them The Israelites at the time that God raised up Gideon the Son of Joash to be an Instrument in his Hand of saving them were oppressed by the Midianites Amalakites a cruel and wastful People that spared no means that force or fraud could invent to vex them and lay their Country desolate to draw them away to Idolatry and the Worship of strange Gods which their Fathers had not known and least they should seem to attribute the Victory to Multitudes and not give the sole Glory to the God of Battles this great Captain had an express Command to try first their Courage and Resolution and after that proving too many they were selected at the Water-Brook where three hundred only were chosen and with that small number the mighty Army was overthrown destroyed broken and confounded at first onset by the breaking of Pitchers sounding of Trumpets and crying The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon Judges 7. 20. Let but the Lord arise says Holy David and his Enemies shall be scattered And again God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble Therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved and though the Mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea though the Waters thereof roar and be troubled Psal. 46. 1 2 3. we find that when Samaria was Besieged and even Famine raged in the City to a degree that a Woman was forced to eat the Fruits of her Womb when all visible means failed and an Insulting Enemy every day expected to enter the City and bring it to final Desolation that only a noise being heard in the Hills and Mountains raised the Siege and gave abundance of plenty to the besieged according as the Prophet had foretold And Senacharibs Hoast trusting in the Arm of the Flesh and the multitude of Horses and Chariots found themselves insensibly defeated by the Revenging Sword of the Destroying Angel falling dead by the mighty stroak of an Invisible power whose force they felt but knew no way to resist or fly from till 80000 of them were fetter'd in the Chains of Death And upon consideration of these and the like Deliverances Holy David says to comfort himself and his people viz. The Lord of Hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge come behold the Work of the Lord what desolation he hath made in the earth he maketh Wars to cease unto the end of the earth he breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder and burneth the Chariot with fire Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted amongst the Heathen I will be exalted in the earth The Lord of Hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Psal. 46. 7 8 9 10 11. For although God makes Man for the most part the instrument in his hand the more visibly to bring about his purposes yet without the Operation of Almighty power and Wisdom Mens Devices are brought to nought for here we find that when Gideon came to behold the Camp of the enemy The Midianites and Amalakites and all the Children of the Host ●ay along in the Valley like Grashoppers for multitude and their Camels were without number as the Sand of the Sea Judges 7. 12. Yet this great Army that had so long been the wastful terrour of the Country was put into such a fear at the cry of the Sword of the Lord and Gideon that they were utterly confounded and knew not what they did for as we find it in ver 21 22. of the foregoing Chapter viz. And they stood every man in his place round about the Camp and all the Hoast ran and cryed and fled and the three hundred blew the Trumpets and the Lord set every mans Sword against his fellow even throughout all the Hoast and the Host fled c. By this we may see it was more through fear and distraction they were broken than through any slaughter the three hundred Israelites were capable of making amongst so great a company of men David incouraged by God pursued the Amalakites that burnt Ziklag and with four hundred Men fell upon those that had taken the spoil and with four hundred Men defeated their great Army recovering what ever had been taken away Barach and Deborah defeated Jab●n's great Hoast destroying it together with Cisse●a its Captain who fell in Jael's Tent. Sampson with h●s single Arm routed at sundry times the Powers of the Philist●●s so that we see that God confounds strength with weakness for when men presume too much on the Arm of Flesh they frequently deceive themselves and in the midst of their security are overthrown Therefore let a good Christian consider that his strength is in the Lord and if God be on his side he need not be afraid though danger bes●t him round about but be comforted and made valiant by the words of the Kingly Prophet viz. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell Though an Hoast should encamp against me my heart shall not fear though War shall arise against me in this will I be confident Psal. 27. 1 2 3. This ought to be the confidence and courageous resolution of every Christian especially Soldiers who carry their Lives in their hands and are said to live on the brink of the Grave Above all in a good Cause and the defence of the Sacred Truth when their Religion is in danger and the enemy seeks not to gain a Dominion over their bodys but over their souls to obscure the light of the Gospel and cloud a Kingdom in darkness and ignorance Let them take example by the valiant Maccabees who when they beheld their Holy things prophaned an I trampled under foot by an Idolatrous people their Altar polluted and their Sanctuarys in danger to be defiled they took up the Sword of Gideon and stood more for their Religion than for their Lives nor was