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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

was taught and knew the Holy Scriptures from his very Infancy by which he became wise unto Salvation a man of God perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 1.5 c. Whose parents are an Exemplary pattern to all Parents in the World though they be little imitated in our Times 2. Young men who though they have rich opportunities and much means to get Grace strong abilities and activities to apprehend remember and do what they have learned and do know Yet for want of due consideration that they are under uncertainties both of Life and the means of Grace For they may die in their strength and the means may be removed and that Temptations may so prevail and lie so heavy upon them that they cannot grow yet they take no care to get this strength that they may overcome the Devil 3. Old men in whom though the outward man decayes and the Soul must flit shortly from this Cottage of clay Yet they take no care with the Apostle 2 Cor. 4.16 that thaugh the outward man perish yet the inward man might be renewed day by day by the spirit of God in spiritual strength as Esay 40.31 Nor do they strive to close with good works as Dorcas did Acts 9.39 The Apostle and Evangelist 1 John 2.12 13 14. writes with more comfort sure where he ingeminates his Writings to Christians of all Ages whether little Children Fathers Young men or new Converts experienced Christians or Resolute Professors of good standing in any of these Ages and Conditions the Evangelist speaks to them twice a piece with joy 1. To little children because their sins are forgiven and because they have known the Father It is a most happy thing when Children or Babes which either in Age or Religion are thus washed spiritually from sin as it befell those new Converts Acts 10.43 And when so well instructed as to know God their Father betime and to give him Honour as Children and new Converts do 2. To fathers because they have known him that he is from the beginning i. e. Old men have been long acquainted with Christ and have the Knowledge of him in a greater measure then other Christians and happy are gray hairs found so in a long-continued experimental knowledge of God and of Christ Prov. 16.31 3. To young men because they are strong and the Word of God abideth in them and they have overcome the wicked one When spiritual strength is joyned to bodily strength and the Word of God dwels and abides in young men to Rule them And that their greatest Conquests are over the Devil who is the most powerfull and spightfull Adversary then such a sanctified Youth is truly Victorious and Glorious 1 John 2.12 13 14. But surely the Apostles times were better then ours For generally Many remain weak or sick or dead nevertheless the means of life health is afforded Weak that they remain Babes in Christ still 1 Cor. 3.1 2. and must be fed accordingly Heb. 5.12 when they might have been Teachers for the time they had enjoyed the means of Knowledge Sick That they grow worse and worse like evil men and Seducers 2 Tim. 3.13 Like Ephesus they have lost their first Love Rev. 2.4 Or as Laodocea are grown luke-warm Rev. 3.14 16. with Israelites they first love then loath Manna Num. 21.5 or with Galatians begin in the spirit end in the flesh Gal. 3.3 The Pharisees were Nipt with the least persecution John 12.42 43. so are these These leave Orthodox Truths for Heterodox Opinions 2 Tim. 4.4 And forsake the old and good way for new paths of their own invention and making 1. This is the case and sin of Many not considering that in Grace and doing good there is no Solstitium or retrograde Motion For non progredi est regredi qui non prosicit Deficit Qui nihil acquirit non nihil perdit Here 's no standing still He that goes not forward goes backward and he that gains not loseth all This is their sin 2. And for punishment what can be expected lesse then the removeal of the Candlestick except we Repent and do the first works Revel 2.5 See Eze. 11. 12. Chap. of Gods departing And the Burning threatned against that Ground which receives the shine and drinks in the Rain of Heaven but beareth nothing but Thornes and Bryars Heb. 6.8 3. Dead yea stark dead in sin They are so wicked so that we cannot say as Christ said to that Nobleman whose Son was sick at Capernaum Thy Son liveth John 4.46.50 But as Gehazi to Elisha 2 Kings 4.31 the Child is not awaked Or as Davids Servants to him 2 Sam. 12.19 the Child is dead ☞ In this case what can we do but have recourse to Christ and pray saying Arise O Christ and he say to us as to Lazarus John 11.43 Come forth Or as Eph. 5.14 Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light Ap. Then if the Lord shall arise upon us with his Glory as Esay 60.1 2. and Command as Cant. 4.16 Awake O North-wind and come thou South and blow upon my Garden that the Spices may flow out then shall we awake rise out of our Graves and begin to spring then shall we become like a watered Garden or a Field that the Lord hath blessed Or the Trees of the Garden of God Or the Cedars of Lebanon that he hath planted Yea we shall be able to invite our Saviour as Cant. 4.16 Let my Beloved come into his Garden and eat his pleasant fruits Thus much for the second Use of Reproof III. Use of Exhortation doth perswade 1. Great men 2. All men 1. Great men of Eminency Dignity and Authority Such are Eminent Trees in the Garden of God in Paradise Ezek. 31.8 9. more excellent then others as being more tall in statute Eminent in their Estates other accomplishments 2. Strong in power to over-awe and command others by the Dignity and Authority conferred upon them Therefore it behoves them to be most Eminent in Grace and abundant in good Works that they may be like the Trees in Gods House those Palm-trees and Cedars psalm 92.12 13 14. which are firmly rooted sound and imputrible straight and upright Ornaments in their places c. So should such men be Rooted and grounded in the truth as Trees of stature must be and not like Pilate who inquired what is Truth Joh. 18.38 Sound and uncorrupt imputrible in their practise as Cedars are Straight and upright in all their proceedings as some choise Trees are in their growth not writhed and crooked Ornaments to the Church of God as the Palms trees were to the Temple Pillars in Gods house a shelter a support to his place as the strongest trees are in great buildings Abundant in good fruits and works like the best fruit-trees and that in the faithful administration of their places to the publick good and in their acts of piety mercy and