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A78224	Logos agōnios; or, a sermon of the Christian race, preached before His Maiesty at Christ-Church in Oxford, May 9. 1643. By Tho: Barton Master of Arts, and yet Rector of Westminster in Sussex. Whereto is added an advertisement to his country-men, who being misled disaffect the royall cause.	Barton, Thomas, 1599 or 1600-1682 or 3.	1643 (1643)	Wing B999; Thomason E106_17; ESTC R18899	11,289	33

height of honour nor the fill of pleasure St Paul esteemes them losse and dung Nor can Satan unlesse we yeeld nor sinne without impneitence nor any thing without infidelity separate us from the love of God in Christ Iesus Rom. 8.39 Vnto the worlds decipiam the fleshes inficiam the Divells interficiam apply Christs reficiam and what was said of griefe we may of our race Si longus levis si summus brevis If long light If violent short So short that St Iames compares our life to a vapour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vanishing in the appearing Iam. 4.14 And Iob calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as passing like a puffe of wind Iob. 7.7 If the Malignants might prevaile and wee by strong destinie come under their curious torments what were this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of misery to that eternall joy before us Suppose the worst you are unwilling to conceive should happen shall we thereat storme God forbid For in us is cause enough of the one and if we goe to the next words no reason may be had for the other Because we are to runne the race 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which is set before us Iobserve the participle only used in the new Testament and translated propositum that is ex Deo statutum purposed and ordained by God for us The decree eternall but the promulgation in time In time preached and practised by the Patriarchs Prophets Christ himselfe the Apostles Martys and Fathers of the Church What is so constituted by the grace of God we follow For as before the Conqueror he sets glory before them that hope pardon so certantibus proponit gratiam before them that runne to fight he sets grace The originall word makes it good Because in the execution of the decree are contained as well governing guiding c. as creating making c. He that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to set forth this race is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to provide for the runners If God should appoynt a race and desert the runners the race might be set fore-set and set before us in vaine There is then a government and therein a conservation Meanes extraordinary to feed the Israelites with Manna and ordinary to feed David with bread At the lowest ebb blessed be God I never found room for despaire Nor is it presumption to Preach that one man may chase a thousand and He that seemed to have no power shall have all over His Subjects No such offence certainly For Gods might is manifested in weaknesse 2. Cor. 12.9 And as sure as S. Paul and S. Peter are right every soule is bound to advance the Lords Christ next unto Christ the Lord Rom. 13. 1. Pet. 2.13 If it be against any maligne proposition so be it The jewells I put into the peoples eares taken out will not be turned into a molten calfe I see what is set and feel my own pulse beat in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have not then digressed For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make the emphasis full to every one That and no other but what that is needs not be repeated Before not behind to runne back nor on either side so to runne Before us it 's set we are sure of that For in the way permitted to our tryall all the malice the Divell and his agents can vent is wrecked on us Yet we must runne and with patience wee Not as left to our selves of our selves we are not able Rom. 9.16 He therefore Mat. 6.7 7.7 that knowes what we want commands us to aske Strength is appoynted for the runners and assistance for the fighters if they running sighting call for strength and assistance God purposing both the prayer and the graunt decreed to graunt when we pray Gen. 22.17 25.21 Abraham was to be a father of many Nations yet Isaac must pray before Rebecca conceive Providentia non to litt causas secandas sedillis utitur Predestination is fulfilled by meanes and the spirit provokes us by the same to accomplish Gods providence Religion affords man his will in the Work and God his work in the order The Souldiers fight the Generall leads 1. Cor. 15.10 We runne Christ guides God hath his work Draw me man his will We will run after thee Can. 1.4 I would not torment your patience As Christ faid unto his Apostles I may unto you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the way ye know T is old and good walke therein that yee may find rest for your soules Ierem. 6.16 If this seem obscure the Prophet Isaiah sends you unto the Law and Testimony Isa 8.20 There 's the way we should and the way we may not goe If that suffice not King David puts it out of question I will runne the the waies of thy Commandements Psal 119.32 The wayes of the Lord are the works of his Law and the race set before is the Commandements he hath given us Every sanctified thought every gratious word every good deed is a step in this race Vnite these be active in and constant to them Doe and maugre all opposition endure Let the Apostle have his desire and you shall reap the gaine ☞ You not the Simonians that sleight this race as if the Amanuenses of the Holy Ghost were fanaticks Nor the Helcesaits that as crosses come and goe leave or take the profession of Christ Nor the Adamites that Cynically abandoning modesty admit every act of lust even in the highest degree You not the Messalians that live as if they would out doc the Divell in Wickednesse Nor the Apostolicks breaking the rules of Propriety licence all manner of thefts Nor the Puritans that will have no peace on good conditions therein worse then the Marcionites and eldest Anabaptists refusing warre on any termes You not the Marcites who worship the Divell Nor the Bardesanites who attribute all things to Fate as the Valentinians did to Characters Nor the Nepotians who dream of an eternity in earthly delights Nor the debouched Predestinates who carouse their memory unto oblivion and are more full of Oathes then wise men will be of words But you whom all the mischiefs in the world may inviron not ensnare you possessing your soules in patience shall be crowned with everlasting happinesse Lord thy Pestilence could not prevent our evills nor doth the Sword stay them if the Famine must take thou thy will of us whilest we are imboldned to expect reliefe from thee True Christians we are inriched with that Iewell which in quantity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the smallest graine is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of more value then the whole world One of us may therewith chase legions of enimies and passe through the midst of Hell into Heaven With it we can levell Mountaines raise vallies smooth rugged waies and make the crooked straight With it deposing out burthen of sinne under the crosse we lay hold on high and shall not let goe till wee

ΛΟΓΟΣ ΑΓΩΝΙΟΣ OR A SERMON OF THE CHRISTIAN RACE Preached before HIS MAIESTY At Christ-Church in OXFORD May 9. 1643. By THO BARTON Master of Arts and yet Rector of Westminston in Sussex Whereto is added an advertisement to his Country-men who being misled disaffect the Royall cause 1. COR. 9.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vtilitas proximo gloria Deo Printed by L.L. 1643. TO The Right Worshipfull THOMAS COVERT LIEUTENANT COLONELL of a Regiment of Horse in His MAjESTIES Army at Oxford SIR I Forget not to pay the Honour left due unto your Ancestors Your emulation of thir loyalty and prowesse calls for an accompt from mee Nor can I make a full one without an euge to your inflection toward the royall Mine Persist then and be eternized in the justest cause of God and the King You shall not loose in such zeale nor I by the divine fuell that maintaines it Both will be gainers You may get enough and J keep in store to finish an everlasting monument Thereto subscribing I am ingaged before the World and delivering this to remember you enabled to acquit my selfe No lesse faithfull then affectionat THO BARTON Iun. 2. 1643. HEB. 12.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let us runne with patience the race that is set before us THe first word of this verse brings on from the former Chapter our resolution thus We have Abel Enoch Noah Abraham Sarah Isaac Iacob Ioseph Moses Rahab Gedeon Barac Sampson Iephthe David Samuel the Prophets in summe of whom the world was not worthy a cloud of witnesses Whereof there be such and so many Martyrs none may doubt the practice Who doe not enduring oppression will not abide depressures Exonerated of so much evill to our innate affliction is the corrosive The more then we suffer we are furthered the more Swifter our speed our constancy greater easier our race Tria sunt omnia our Pace our Patience our Path. Let us run with patience the race which is set before us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let us runne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 admits no Cessation A violent motion and continued Man is borne unto labour Iob. 5.7 as the sparkes fly upward That preceds there 's no other way to rest Action is the life of Christianity as obedience of service On we must too soon we cannot delay we may not Occasion slipt is hardly recovered Want of expedition is often the losse of great designes Naturally all runne so from life to death Criminally ill men doe from grace to sinne Spiritually true Christians only from sinne to grace Who are of the second I advise to amend the fault and with the third prevent the first 1. The first is like the course of a Ship under saile The body being once animated the whole man is suddainly transferred Our daies out run the post Iob. 9.25 2. The second as running of water into the Sea So sinners are by the eddy of humors carried unto the Mare mortuum of iniquities Their feet run to evill and they hasten to shed blood Prov. 1.16 3. The third Secundùm motum primi mobilis like that of the Sunne The just they cease not to runne in the exercise of virtues 1. First toward the West in a holy consideration of their naturall corruption dayly falls and death the catastrophe of all 2. Secondly toward the East subliming their thoughts and forcing all the faculties of soule and body to be conformable unto the will of God Who wait upon the Lord renewing their strength mount up with wings as Eagles Running they wax not weary nor walking faint Isa 40.31 Runners indeed nothing behind withdrawes nothing on the right hand inveagles and on the left nothing burthens them Avoyding all things that may hinder they be in heaven before the worldling is aware or themselves goe hence Yet so zealous keep affectum intellectum both will and wit Both for will without reason runs to a precipice We need not range abroad for instances there be too many thousands in this Kingdome God enlighten them that they may see whilest he enables us to withstand their folly Vnderstanding and affection these right produce zeale and zeale pleaseth God as love delighteth men No variable or halting or Snaile-like or Laodicean motion yet neither furious nor remisse A Lyon cannot stop no Circean dreg nor Orphean note divert it Among risings and fallings the same still As the Hound after the Hart or the Hawke after the Partridge she is swift to know to practice swift Alwaies devout but at occurrences most feruent David derided by Michal 2. Sam. 6.16 Judg. 16.30 will be more vile for the Lords sake And Sampson ever vexing the Philistims slew more at his death then in his whole life Foure things be little on earth the Ant the Conie the Locust the Spider yet are exceeding wise Prov. 30.24 25. Silly creatures condemne idle men and disorderly Statute-Protestants then and the lawlesse may goe to Heaven when the Pharises come from Hell Our Sauiour said I must work Ioh. 9.4 How excellent is it for the Disciple to be as his Master I am much taken that the Ministers of the Lord are busy in Sion and bold for the truth Nor is this all the people learne to leave any thing save their obedience That 's it that makes my exultation full So let our first love ever appeare and faith being tryed the Gospell will shine Prisons are shaken with devotion and 't is the nature of Christianity to flourish under the Crosse Rest was Moabs ruine but the Arke of God did safely passe through the swellings of Iordan If we enjoyed the former without holinesse the latter may sanctify us unto happinesse It may if we stand not when God bids us goe nor walke another way when he saith come nor lye downe when he commands us to runne But who runne and runne from him on them ira effundenda the vialls of his wrath are ready to be powred On the Heresiarchs whether Arrians Eutychians Nestorians or who ever runne desperately against the fundamentalls of Religion On the Schismaticks whether Brownists that wilfully runne to prophane the Temple and consecrated things therein or Anabaptists that insolently runne to spit defiance in the face of Gods annoynted and every one dignified under him or Aërians that runne headlong to demolish the Apostolicall structure of the Hierarchie On the Libertines that runne any way on the Neuters that runne no way on the Atheists that run from God to Nature But my charity much pittieth the simple throng that captived in a Smictymnuan snare by Iesuited Priests runne with a blind zeale to the effusion of their brethrens blood till they welter in their own Lord convert their leaders in thy mercy or to thy glory confound them in thine ire True Christians we know the Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence Forcing therefore into it our motion from the first terme to the last is impetuous Not to one side nor to another not forward