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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64806	Panoplia, or, The whole armour of God explained and applyed for the conduct and comfort of a Christian in all his tryals and tentations : as also the dying preachers legacy in several sermons, being the last labours of the reverend author in the course of his ministry : together with certain seasonable considerations proving the lawfulness and expediency of a set form of lyturgy in the church / by Richard Venner.	Venner, Richard, b. 1598?	1662 (1662)	Wing V194; ESTC R27038	215,543	611

perseverance in the performance of our duty to God and man Have we been more serviceable to God and more profitable useful and beneficial to men then formerly hath our hope of heaven enlivened our devotions to God and enlarged our good affections our hearts and our hands in charity to men Or rather have not we been like those desperate people Jer. 2.25 c. and 13.10 c. and 18.11 12 c. see the places who when the Prophet had reproved them for their sins c. 1. They answered him crosly and negatively yea desperately for they said Noash desperatum est a desperate word q.d. the case is desperate and we are at a point there is no remedy we are past cure past care and therefore we will do as we have done c. We have loved strangers and strange courses and so we will do still a prophane resolution Quest But what was their course and crime I answer with the Prophet Answ They committed two great Evils Jer. 2.13 And persisted in evil till their own wickedness corrected them vers 19. They were 1. like a degenerate plant of a strange vine vers 21. Or 2. A wild Asse in the wilderness that snuffs up the wind c. vers 24. and yet they plead innocence and said I am not polluted vers 23. 2. So Jer. 13.10 c. They would walk after their own hearts c. till they became like a rotten girdle good for nothing though God chose them to be for a People a Name a Praise and a Glory yet they would not hear nor obey till God would neither pity nor spare nor have mercy but dash them one against another and destroy them vers 14. because they were so unchangeable in evil like the Ethiopian or Leopard that can change neither skin nor spots vers 23 24 25. 3. So also Jer. 18.11 12. They took up the like desparate resolution and word Noash to walk after their own devices to which they added to devise Mischief against the Prophet who gave them good counsel c. vers 11.18 So Jer. 42. and 43. and 44.15 16 to 20. Ap. The places put or compared together give us the very exact picture and character of our late Vsurpers And how can such men wear hope as an helmet of salvation Thus much for Examination and Exhortation I end with a word of consolation Use 4. The fourth Use of Consolation is to them that may hope upon Experience as Psalm 78.9 7 8. 1. They may be of good courage Psalm 31.24 And have gladness Prov. 10.28 And praise God for the light of his countenance Psalm 42.5.11 2. May hope in trouble Jer. 14.8 Lam. 3.26 In death Prov. 14.32 When heaven and earth shakes Joel 3.26 Luke 21.28 1 Thes 4.16 3. They shall flourish Jer. 17.7 8. And rise gloriously Tit. 2.13 Of the seven pieces of this Panoply or whole Armour of God so necessary for us in our spiritual and Christian Warfare You have heard five of them spoken of already viz. 1. A Belt 2. A Breast-late 3. Shooes 4. A Shield And 5. An Helmet All which I have opened and applyed unto you All which are especially Defensive 6. I do now descend to the last two pieces viz. 6. A Sword And 7. Supplication and Prayers which are as well offensive as Defensive of which in their order 6. This sixth piece is the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The words are plain and easie to be understood only note that I. A Sword is either Material or Spiritual 1. Material which is a sharp Weapon used in War for offence or defence so called Defin. And the Original word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is translated Gladius a Sword Etymol Now Gladius derivatur a clade quod ad Cladem sit Inventus vel ad hostium cladem fit Gladius proprie autem appellatus Gladius quia Gulam dividit i.e. cervicem desecat nam caetera membra securibus caeduntur collum gladio tantum Mat. Mart. p. 1030. Ap. Now a Sword is called in latine by a name derived from a word that signifies Slaughter Destruction and Misery c. especially of an enemy ☞ This hath been our Master a great while and Ergo we know it by woful experience too well without any further Explication But this is not the sword in the Text. 2. Spiritual and this is the sword in the Text and is here said to be The Word of God and to this only we speak for we have not to do with natural words which men utter with their mouths by speech to express their minds one to another in this place from this Text. This Spiritual Sword the word of God is either 1. Essential or 2. Theological 1. Essential viz. Christ the Son of God the second person in the Trinity by whom the Will of God is declared to the Church as our minds are expressed to other men by our words So John 1.14 The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us this is the Essential and uncreated word and in Scripture two special Attributes are ascrib'd as peculiar to the son of God the second person in the Trinity 1. The wisdom of the Father Prov. 8.14 to 36. 2. The Word of the Father John 1.1 These two Epithites Christ claims to himself Mat. 11.27 John 1.18 When he saith No man knows the Father nor hath seen God save the Son In this he assumeth to be his Fathers Wisdom We are not wise enough to ascend to such an height And to be his Word in that he revealeth and doth declare him unto men In which respect he is called a Prophet And that Prophet Deut. 18.15 2. Theological or divine word from God to men viz. The holy Scripture of the old and New Testament Luke 11.28 And what is taught in them and learned from them Acts 11.19 2 Tim. 4.2 Preach the Word be instant c. Reprove c. Ap. This is a created and inspired word to make us wise unto salvation 2 Tim. 3. 15 16 17. 2 Pet. 1. 19 20 21. We have a sure word of Prophecy c. And this Word of God made known to us by Christ c. is 1. Good so said Hezekiah 2 Kings 20.19 though the Message was sad And the Lord himself said I will perform my good word to you after seventy years Jer. 29.10 and Heb. 6.5 6. Ye hear the danger of them that have tasted the good word of God if they fall away their case is woful And this Word of God that is so good is also 2. Pure Psalm 119.140 Very pure Ergo Thy servant loveth it yea Every word of God is pure saith wise Agur Prov. 30.5 3. True so said David 2 Sam. 7.28 In his devout prayer to God And Christ himself in his most affectionate prayer to his Father John 17.17 4. Gracious All wondered at the gracious words of Christs mouth Luke 4.22 5. Precious yea that most of all when we