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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58810	A sermon preached before the Honourable Military Company at St. Clements-Danes, July 25 by John Scott ...	Scott, John, 1639-1695.	1673 (1673)	Wing S2064; ESTC R38223	15,491	32

against the pain and displeasures of it that hath so subdued her passions as to be alwayes present to her self and constant to her own Reason and having resigned up all to the Conduct of Divine Providence receiveth every accident as a token of love and giveth a hearty welcome to whatsoever befalleth her Such a Soul as this standeth firm as a Rock out-braving all the storms of Fortune making its envious waves retire in empty foam and insignificant Passion but wheresoever these brave Qualities are wanting it is impossible a man should be truly couragious for intemperance impatience and diffidence will let in every trouble that assaults us to spoil and ravage us at pleasu●e and expose all the peace and tranquillitity of our minds to the mercy of every trifle so that we shall not be able to abide the shock of any cross accident that encountereth us but like cowardly Poultrons shall lie down vanquished at the feet of every trouble that befalleth us and there is no greater signe of cowardize and weakness of spirit than an aptness to be discomposed with trifles for as sick persons are offended at the light of the Sun and the freshness of the air which administer pleasure and recreation to those that are in health even so persons of weak and pusillanimous spirits are easily offended their minds are so tender and effeminate that they cannot bear the least air of trouble without disturbance and what would be a diversion to a courageous Soul grieveth and incommodateth them But when we are once arrived to a due pitch of patience temperance and confidence in God all the troubles of the world will be but like flea-bites to a sleeping Lyon we shall no more be concern●d with these little crosses and mischances than the Moon is with the yelping of those whiffling Curs that bark at her from below For true Christian Courage is the most heroick of all other for Courage is meerly brutal consisting in heats and serments of the blood and spirits in which Game-cocks and Mastives out-vy the greatest Heroes in the world but the Courage of a Christian is truly Rational and manly founded in Religion and true Principles of Reason and so as a thousand times more manageable and useful than that which ariseth only out of temper and complexion for this sort of Courage is headstrong and unruly and like an hot metall'd Horse doth oftentimes ride away with the Rider and instead of securing us from carries us headlong into mischief but true Christian courage is gentle and obsequious to the Commands of Reason and upon that account is far more useful in our extremities and is more applicable to our necessities Since therefore Christianity inspireth us with such an excellent Courage as this is it cannot but render us invincible and effectually shield us against all the blows of Fortune Secondly It armeth ns against the miseries of the World by reconciling us unto God 't is impossible a man should be free from trouble and anxiety of mind whilst he is in a state of emnity with God for there is grafted within our very natures such a natural awe and dread of a Divine Power as doth necessarily alarum all that sear and horror that is within us whensoever we knowingly provoke that Power we so much dread and tremble at and our Consciences being thus in a tumult and uproar will give a sting to all our miseries and render all our dangers more terrible and amazing 't will represent every cross accident to us as a Messenger of God's vengeance and every little danger as an approaching storm from Heaven and then how must every danger affright and every misery oppress us that comes with a Commission from that Almighty Vengeance which we so naturally dread and tremble at How can we but sink even under our crosses when we think what a load of wrath there is in them How can we but quake at our dangers when we look upon them as so many thunderbolts which Omnipotent fury is hurling at our head the thought of this will imbitter all our miseries and make the most trifling dangers to look stern and terrible hence it is that of the Wiseman The wicked flee when no man pursueth but the righteous are bold as a Lyon For though no man pursueth them yet their own Consciences like restless furies haunt them whether ever they go and this makes them flee before a shadow and when none pursueth them they run away from themselves Thus whilst we are in hostility against God we lie open to all weathers and our own Consciences do betray us to the sury of all those troubles and dangers that surround us But the great end of Christian Religion is to reconcile us unto God in order to which it both proposeth a peace to us and the terms and Articles upon which it is to be obtained which terms when we have performed the Quarrel presently endeth in a mutual Confederacie and of enemies we become the friends and favourites of God upon which there followeth a Jubilee of joy and peace within the Conscience smileth and groweth calm as the Ocean when the wind is laid and now if troubles besal us if dangers encounter us 't is all but like the ratling of Hail upon the tiles of a Musick-house which with all their cluttering and noise will not be able to disturb the Harmony within For a quiet Conscience will be a Paradise in a wilderness a Haven in the midst of storms it will make a man fearless in danger joyful in tribulation and inable him to sing with a thorn at his breast and when troubles and crosses surround him on every side that will be a Sanctuary to him whereunto he may retire and be merry in spite of Fortune Thus by reconciling us unto God the Christian Religion armeth us against all the miseries in the world Thirdly It doth it also by assuring us of that special care and regard which the Divine Providence hath of us and our affairs Christianity assureth us that all things shall work together for the good of them that love God and keep his Commandments that even their afflictions shall prosper them and all the cross-winds conspire to blow them to the right Port and what greater security can a man desire then to have all his affairs managed by a Providence that is infinite●y wise and knoweth what is best for us infinitely k●nd and willeth what he knoweth best and infinitely powerful and doth what it willeth this is the utmost that any modest or reasonable man can desire for his security and he that firmly believeth this most necessarily be happy whatsoever betalleth him for whatsoever happeneth he taketh as a favour because it cometh from the hand of that wise and merciful Providence which he is well assured doth both know and do that which is best for him and is it not a thousand times better that our affairs should be managed as God thinketh fit who is ●o much