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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

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A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable Military Company at St. Clements-Danes July 25. BY JOHN SCOTT Minister of St. Thomas Southwark LONDON Printed for Tho. Taylor at the Hand and Bible in the New Buildings on London-Bridge 1673. To the Right Worshipful Sir ROBERT PEYTON President and one of the Stewards elect Captain JOHN PERRY Lieut. GEORGE CLERK Lieut. THOMAS LOW Lieut. WILLIAM PEPPER Ensign JOHN MERYDALE Serjeant RALPH HOLLAND Stewards of the Honourable the Military Company and to the Stewards elect Sir RICHARD COMBES JAMES LONG Esq. CHARLES HUMPHREVILE Esq. CHRIST OPHER VANE Esq. JOHN AYLOFFE Esq. and to Captain JOHN HOOKER Treasurer Worthy Gentlemen EVer since I consented to your desires to Print this rude Discourse I have been hardly put to it to make an Apology for it at first I resolved to go the way of all Authors and indite my Patrons for committing a rape upon my modesty and dragging this poor offering like an unwilling Sacrifice to the Altar but upon second thoughts I could not but disapprove such a kind address as too disingenious and unmannerly for to avouch your importunities for the publication of so mean a discourse I might reasonably think would be to libel your Judgments and to make the world believe I designed Revenge rather than Obedience and therfore in conclusion I rather resolved to take all the blame upon my self hoping that in the great crowd of silly things that come abroad into the world this little trifle may pass unobserved but if it should be so unhappy as to be taken notice of I hope the world will not be so unconscionable as to deny me the priviledge of playing the fool as well as others whatsoever imperfections there may be in the Sermon the subject of it is so great and excellent that 't is no shame for any man to lie prostrate under it for intreating of such high Arguments insufficiency is both Art and Rhetorick If therefore I have not given it a Character as great as it deserves I hope this will in some measure excuse me that I am a man and not an Angel but however I fare in the esteem of others this comfort I have that the weaker the Discourse is the greater Argument it will be of the gratitude and obedience of Your humble and affectionate Servant JOHN SCOTT ERRATA PAge 1. for aley read aloy line 5. for our bodies r. as for our bodies p. 5. and us p. 8. for menaceth r. meaneth and to be left out p. 9. for infer r. infere put in can p. 10. for understa understandings p. 12. for By r. A. p. 13. add all other p. for ride r. run p. 15. for clutering r. clattering p. 17. acknowledge Epes 6. 11. Put on therefore the whole Armour of God THat which giveth us the advantage of Brutes and ranketh us in a form of Beings above them is the Rational and Immortal Spirits we carry about with us for our Bodies they are but clods of earth steeped in phlegme and kneaded into Humane shapes and do derive their Pedegree from the same Principles with flies and scare-bees and the most contemptible Animals but our Souls are of a purer alley and by their nature are allied to Angels and do border upon God himself and it is by the Title of these Rational Natures that we are now superior to Beasts and hope hereafter to be equal with Angels and yet besotted Creatures that we are how do we prefer our Bodies before our Souls imploying all our cares in providing for and pampering of our flesh as if our Reason were given us for no other end but to be Cook and Taylor to our Bodies to study Sauses and fashions for them whilst our Immortal Spirits pine and famish and like forlorn things are wholly abandoned by us to wretchedness and misery that it is so is apparent by too many woful instances the poor Labourer that sweateth and toileth all day for his Body thinketh much at night to bestow upon his Soul a Prayer of a quarter of an hour long the Tradesman that thinks no Industry too much to make a fair and ample provision for his Body grudgeth to expend a few good thoughts and endeavours in the purchase of an eternal Inheritance for his Soul the Souldier that shuts up his Body in ribs of Iron and Coats of Male to secure it from the Sword and Bullets of his Enemies exposeth his Soul unarmed to all the fiery darts of the Devil and though his understanding hath as much need of Knowledge as his Head hath of an Helmet his Will as much need of Justice as his Breast of a Bucklen his Affections as much need of Fortitude and temperance as his Legs and hands have of Greaves and Gantlets yet he ventures them all naked amongst a thousand Enemies as if his little Toe or Finger were more dear and precious to him than his Immortal Soul But if we would be good Souldiers and good men too we must arm our selves with in as well as without and as we harness our Bodies in Iron so must we put on upon our Souls the whole Armor of God and this is the councel of the Apostle in the Text which I have chosen for the subject of my ensuing Discourse Put on therefore the whole armour of God By the whole Armor of God here we are to understand the Christian Religion that is the Doctrine and Duties of Christianity as you may see at large from the fourteenth to the eighteenth Verses of this Chapter where the Apostle instances in the particular parts of which this whole armour consisteth the first is the Girdle of Truth that is the Doctrine of the Gospel in opposition to all Heathen errors and heretical insinuations The second is the Breast-plate of Righteousness that is sincere and faithful obedience unto Christ the third is the preparation of the Gospel of Peace that is the practice of Christian Charity and Peaceableness the fourth is the Shield of Faith that is the belief of the Promises and threats of the Gospel the fifth is the Helmet that is the hope of Salvation the sixth is the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and the last is Prayer and Watchfulfulness These are the several parts of this Divine armour in which you see are reckoned both the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity by the putting on of these therefore nothing else can be meant but only our hearty belief of the Doctrines and our sincere Practice of the Duties of Christian Religion for to this sence the Phrase is frequently used in the New Testament thus when the Apostle exhorteth us to put on the Lord Jesus Christ in Rom. 13. 14. it is plain he meaneth nothing else but believing in Christ and obeying him And so also when in Ephes. 4. 22 24. he exhorteth them to put off the old man and put on the new he meaneth nothing else but that they should forsake their Heathen Superstitions and Idolatrous uncleannesses and