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A57806	A sermon preached before the King at Belfast in Ireland, on the 14th day of June, 1690 by George Royse ...	Royse, George, 1654 or 5-1708.	1691 (1691)	Wing R2163; ESTC R11376	10,944	36

than the most special promises whatever and therefore they are an equal encouragement for our Faith and Hope How much the general interest of the Reformed Church and Religion does depend upon the present Juncture and success of things I need not tell you and since God has interposed his word for the Maintenance of his True Religion in the World we may reasonably build our confidence on this and face our Enemies with a true heart and courage It was not long since that you stood by and saw the salvation of your God in the seasonable deliverance of this National Church when a conjured race of profest Enemies at home were creeping into its Bowels and a Conclave abroad was engaged to make trial how far the gates of hell could prevail against it And since we have this fresh experiment of a kind Providence in that he has delivered us this may justly add strength to our Faith that he will yet deliver us The work is already begun and if through want of Faith we don't murmur and repine in our Tents in the power of the most High we shall not miscarry And as we have good hopes of Success from the consideration of those promises which God has made over to his Church so if we look upon that great instrument next under him whom he has employed to effect it we may magnifie still the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon A Prince who as he was miraculously brought amongst us to begin our deliverance so heseems to be acted now by a new Commission from Heaven to complete it A Prince who has already conquer'd by Faith without the force of Arms or an engagement with his Enemies In short a Prince in whose Conduct and Valour we might safely trust if 't was any wise allowable to put our trust in Princes And as the presence of his Royal Person so the Merits of the Cause too do joyntly conspire to give us new Courage and Resolution For whatever Notions some Men have fram'd to themselves of the late Revolution in general yet none of those pretended scruples can affect us at present who are engaged now against a Forreign French Power and an open avowed Enemy to the Kingdom I have no time to dwell on this but if there be any Cause of War that is just and honourable you may plead it now for this is no idle Contest betwixt Princes about mere punctilio's of Honour no groundless quarrel to enlarge your Bounds or to serve the Lust and Ambition of a General but the glorious Defence of your Country against the unjust Arms of a violent aggressor the Maintenance of your Liberties Fortunes Laws Religion and whatever else can be supposed dear unto you and if you don't think this a sufficient warrant for unsheathing your Swords farewel first the English Spirit and next the English Subject too Farewel long-adored Liberty and Property Farewel the Protestant Name and Interest throughout Europe whose Fate must shortly be determin'd by the issue and success of your Arms. But besides the Merits of the Cause there is one consideration more that bids fair for success and that is the Enemies whom you are about to engage the Irish and French Forces the former a by-word and a proverb amongst Nations both for their Courage as well as Understanding and therefore they seem rather to challenge your Scorn and Contempt than to exercise your Valour the latter an Enemy that never made any generous Conquests by the power of his Arms but by that of his Money and ow's more to the perfidiousness and treachery of those he fought with than to his own bravery An Enemy whose Titles now adorn the English Crown as the lasting memorials of your Fore-fathers Victories over him In short an Enemy whose greatness as it can be ascribed only to your Luxury and Ease so it must as certainly be humbled by the recovery of your ancient Valour Lay all these things together and if they don't determine the Victory on your side 't is because you want that Faith which will subdue Kingdoms Which brings me to the last thing to be consider'd what is required of us in order to the Success of our Arms namely that we exercise the same Faith as these Worthies did As our belief and trust in God is an eternal duty of Natural Religion so it carries an indispensable obligation along with it in all circumstances and conditions whatever but more particularly now the hazards and uncertainties of War do challenge the exercise of it in a more eminent manner For the issues and chances of War are all determined by a Superiour Hand and 't is God alone that giveth victory unto Kings The wise man has long since told us that the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong but time and chance hapneth to all We may talk and project for Victory and Success we may joyn hand in hand unite our Hearts and Councils and form the Scheme and Contrivance well but we are assured at last that the Counsel of the Lord 't is that shall stand and the right hand of the Lord will have the pre-eminence And therefore since we can't safely build upon our own strength and measures 't is but common prudence and interest to advance our Faith together with our Arms and to build our confidence on him in whom alone true Succours are to be found Go on then Great Prince in the power and defence of the most High and enlarge thy Conquests over thy Enemies abroad as thou hast already over the Hearts of thy Subjects at home And you who have the glory of serving under his Conduct imitate the Faith of these Worthies here and the bravery of him that leads you Then when ye pass through the waters Isai 43.2 he shall be with you and through the rivers they shall not overflow you Psal 60.12 Then through God we shall do great acts for it is he that shall tread down our enemies Then as by your Faith you shall subdue Kingdoms so you shall secure that Faith too from all the dangers of Popery and Superstition In short then shall we return every man safe under his vine and under his fig-tree and rejoyce in the mighty works of our great Deliverer Unto whose Providence and Invincible Arm which alone is able to secure as well as subdue Kingdoms unto his Almighty Providence and Protection I commend you all ERRATA PAge 4. l. 19. for our Fathers r. these Worthies p. 6. l. 3. r. and agreeably to that prospect which they have of the issue and event of things p. 11. l. 19. r. as necessarily p. 12. l. 13. r. the true greatness p. 16. l. 23. r. usual method BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Popes-Head-Ally next Cornhil FOLIO THE History of Scotland written in Latine by George Buchanan Faithfull rendred into English The History of the Life Reign and Death of Edward II. 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Perswasion be the only Motive to excite these the matter will be put beyond dispute that our Faith may do great service in subduing Kingdoms As to the former 't is certain our hopes of Success are always built upon our belief of it A man can't reasonably hope for what best pleases him but what he first believes may probably happen and according to the degrees of this our hope grows more firm as well as more rational A sanguine expectation of Success without any grounds or reason may be stiled a foolish Confidence but does not deserve the name of Hope And therefore then only do we hope like wise men when we build it upon those Powers above that cannot fail us when with the Prophet we make God alone our Hope and our Confidence when we trust to the strength of Israel and that right hand which will have the pre-eminence This is like founding our House upon a Rock where the Flouds and Storms shall not confound our Hopes or ruin our Confidence But to fix it upon any other Powers whether our own Strength or the Conduct of a General is like Building upon the Sand where the unsoundness of the Bottom does make the Pile as precarious as the Foundation is treacherous and uncertain He that conquer'd the Giant by Faith and a Pebble has sufficiently caution'd us against such confidence as this Put not your trust in Princes Psal 146.3.44.6 nor in the son of man in whom there is no help I will not trust in my bow neither shall my sword save me And that we may not think this a Prophetical Strain only or a touch of Pious Cant our own reason does convince us how unwarrantable that confidence is that is founded barely upon human Succours for be our circumstances at present as fair as you would have them be your conduct or strength as great as you imagine be it far superior to that of your Enemies yet the chances of War are so various and uncertain and the fate of it depends upon such multiplicity of accidents that we can never have a true bottom and security for our Hopes unless they are setled upon an invincible Power above But then should we suppose that we are only equal to our Enemies this as 't will render the case in the nature of things more hazardous and doubtful so it must lessen our hopes and confidence for where two Enemies shall appear in the Field with equal Forces as they must engage upon the greatest uncertainties so they can't have any sure grounds for their hopes unless they were perswaded that there was a God to interpose and to determine the ballance But should we put the case that we are inferior to them then to be sure we can borrow no hopes from human Succours because the natural course of things does determine the Victory in favour of their side The consequence of which is that in all the circumstances of War a man can never have a sure bottom for his confidence whilst he depends only upon the Powers below and therefore the Belief of an Almighty Power is the only Foundation of a Rational Hope And as all our Hopes of Success in War are derived from the Succours of Religion so our Courage too does draw all its Life and Spirits from the same Principle For mens Courage must necessarily rise and fall together with their Hopes and men of Bravery and Valour as the Philosopher observes are always men of Hope And therefore as our Belief of God's Providence over us is the great Spring and Vital Principle of the one so likewise 't is the main Instrument to excite the other To speak plainly the business of War is such a hazardous Enterprize and the prospect of Death so terrible that a Soldier who has any apprehensions of it can't well engage with a true heart and courage unless he be perswaded that there is God above that will take care for him here and reward him hereafter You know very well that the main Office of Courage is to moderate our Fears and Apprehensions of Death Now Death is an Evil too big for human nature when we consider it in its self abstracted from our Faith and as there is nothing in nature that can compensate for it so nothing in meer nature seems equal to encounter it for human nature as such must necessarily fear it as it thinks on it and therefore the Assistances of Religion as they are absolutely necessary to moderate these Fears so likewise to maintain our Courage 'T is true indeed a man may rush into the Battel without fear or wit but this is not the Courage of a Man that considers but of a Beast that has no understanding True Courage is always joined with the consideration of those evils which it encounters and as Tully describes it 't is consider at a periculorum susceptio a deliberate and thoughtful undertaking of any danger and therefore those that take the Sword without any thoughts and apprehensions of what they are about dō make shew only of a Brutal Force but can't be said to exercise a true Manly Valour And 't is much the same case with those who fight only out of a brutish rage and fury for these discover only the violence of a Passion not the greatness of Mind and this sort of Courage is usually found as false in the Tryal and Experiment as it is in the Notion For those who through a passionate heat and fury engage in Duels are commonly the greatest Cowards in a Camp All which seems to establish the truth of our Assertion That a Religious Belief is the Foundation of all True Bravery and Courage and consequently the best Expedient to Subdue Kingdoms And that we may not look upon this as a meer fanciful Notion or the Idle Talk of Divines I shall only appeal to common experience and observation viz. That those in all Ages who have been most Celebrated for their Faith have been equally admired for their courage and bravery too as particularly the Worthies of this Chapter and the Primitive Christians Whereas Prophane Wits and Atheists that have abandon'd the belief of a God have been always lookt upon as the most timorous Creatures and the greatest Cowards in the world And if we examine the History of the Heathen States 't is observable that the Success of their Arms was in great measure advanced by their belief and confidence in their Gods Hence in the Roman State we find that in all their extremities and dangers from their Enemies they took sanctuary at last in Religion and when the Souldiers spirits were sinking their Generals always took care to possess their Minds with this notion that the Gods were on their side and declared favourably for them And this is the reason why they so often produced Divine Prophecies and Oracles in favour of their undertakings and always consulted their Priests about the will and pleasure of their Gods that by these counterfeit intimations