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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

goe into glory Thus established in our humility are sure to be triumphant at last Though opposition cause our hearts to bleed yet our cries are heard our teares boded pretious is the blood of Saints Not utterly destroying our foes we have not lost by our will Faith tells us that what we would shall be accepted for the deed Then on with courage the Lords hand is not shortned He can yet save and prosper yet Who gives so much vertue to us in us will crowne his grace Let us runne with patience the race that is set before us looking unto Iesus the Author and finisher of our faith To whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all power and glory for ever and ever AMEN AMEN FINIS ADVERTISEMENT for his Countrimen who are misled and therefore disaffected to the ROYALL CAUSE SIRS AN error timely seen may happily be recalled Who is not blind perceives that of the conquest aimed at you will come short But can there be recovery at a precipice yes between the bridge and water I found grace You can best tell I know not how farre ye are gone Be as pittifull to your selves as J am charitable unto you Take heed the poynt is neere I had rather fall down before J come to then on or over a Rock Who mind not that premonition shall meet a Lion Wise stately strong in the way so closely followed too by the goodliest in the Forrest that he will roare teare and devoure where he 's opposed But may you lay your Country wast and be pious still Or would you have no posterity or such a one as shall curse you or be content to build with the ashes of your fortunes Think not to call it Destine lest it be recorded your folly Nor may you plead Religion not Christian Religion I am sure Because ye twhart in your course every precept slight Christs prayer and contemne the Apostles Creed You may stile us AEgyptians dumb-doggs or what ye please yet we speak the same language with you and shall barke when yours will either sleep or lye very still Be not mistaken perturb'd we are not dismaied A great blessing visibly hovers over and wil settle on the Crowne It will and needs must For his Soveraigne Majesty is most Religious Mercifull Iust No Papist nor Popishly affected his mercy is over all his actions his justice values every scruple Soe mindefull also of His Subjects that twice a day he prayes and constantly for them For the loyall that they may persevere for the other that they might be undeceived J beseech you believe and permit me to tell the men of your undoing Classes they are impudent and more then Jesuits I shall not again introduce the diametricall oppugning that God whom they would seem to adore Their evomited virulence against the Lords Annoynted and His Prophets is proof enough Read the 2. Tim. c. 3. unto the 10. verse and know them by their Character Puffs may be trod vnder foot without danger of the eyes But those are Wolfes in Sheeps clothing false and bloody No envy nor malice this A reall discharge of his conscience whose heart groanes under the heavy stormes of inhumanities raised by them It doth God enable me in the race to be patient among the runners and of his mercy returne them and you unto us Thus praying for assistance he never forgets their and your conversion Who is despised of both for his fidelity to the King obedience to the Church T. B. May. 16. 1643.

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