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A53292	The unconquerable, all-conquering, & more-then-conquering souldier, or, The successful warre which a believer wageth with the enemies of his soul as also, the absolute and unparalleld victory that he obtains finally over them through the love of God in Jesus Christ : as it was discussed in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England, on the day of the artillery-election there, June 3d., 1692 / by Urian Oakes ...	Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681.; Shepard, Thomas, 1635-1677.	1674 (1674)	Wing O24; ESTC W28467	45,642	48

of the Lord that appeared to Ioshuae Josh. 5. 13 14. It arm●… them with invincible Graces offensive and defensive and orders them the insuperable and invincible Assistance of the Spirit of Christ and the needful supplies and recruits of Assisting Grace The Love of God in Christ furnisheth the Christian Souldier compleatly every way with all that he needs in order to the Conquest of his Enemies so that he is better provided for the Combate and hath more Assistance in the Combate and more assurance consequently of success then any other Conquerours have The Christian Souldier is well appointed and set forth for the War Recruited and Assisted in it at the cost and charges of the Love of God in Jesus Christ. 3. The Everlasting Love of God adjudges them Triumph at last and Crowns them with it Divine Love sets the Glorious Crown upon the Head of the persevering victorious all-conquering Believer There is a Glorious Day coming wherein the Believer shall receive the reward of all his Labours and Travels and Combatings with the Flesh the World and the Devil And this reward will be adjudged to him that overcometh and actually conferred upon him by the Grace and Love of God in Jesus Christ. Not his Merit but Gods Mercy and Love will then Crown him His present sufferings in the time of his Warfare are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that shall be revealed in him Rom. 8. 18. When Paul had fought his good fight and finished the cou●…se of his warfare he expected his Triumph●… Crown from the Lord the Righteous Iudge 2 Tim. 4. 7 8 A Crown of Mercy and Grace it is and also a Crown of Righteousness there being a sweet concurrence of the Remunerative Iustice of God with his Infinite Mercy Grace and Love in that Glorious work of Crowning a persevering Christian Souldier with everlasting Triumph and Glory Divine Love adjudges and bestows upon Believers at last the Heavenly Prize they run for and the incorruptible Crown they fight for in this World That they Triumph Eternally is from the Love of God in Christ. Thus much for the Doctrinal part Use 1. We might improve this Observation To crush that Erroneous conceit of the Arminians concerning the possibility of a Regenerate man's total and final Apostacy For to assert this is to say that a Believer may be totally defeated and overcome and Sin Satan and World may prevaile over him to his utter Ruine The Truth we have discoursed is ready prest to militate against the men of that Heteredox perswasion and is alone without the Levy of any other force●… of strength sufficient to fight that Enemy and beat him out of the field This Text of the Apostle and the Observation we have deduced from it smites those Adversaries of the Doctrine of Perseverance under the fifth Rib or rather stabs their fifth Article concerning the Apostacy of Saints to the Heart This one Weap●… if it be well managed and weilded will do real and through Execution For if ●…re may be a total final defection of Believers or falling from Grace ou●… of the favour of God then there is a possibility that a Believer may be totally finally separated from the love of God so totally conquered which is diametrally opposite to the Strain and Genius and Intendment of the Apostles Discourse what we have been regularly superstructing upon it But let it be enough to have thus Faced that Grand Enemy the Arminian without engaging further on this occasion in any pitch'd confutation of him Use 2. This makes it appear who are the bravest Souldiers the most Renowned Warriours Persons of the greatest Bravery and Gallantry in the World They are Believing Men and Women A Christian Man or Woman is by many degrees a better Souldier then Caesar or Alexander Sincere Believers of all degrees and conditions are persons of eminency this way Among the victorious Worthies whose Famous Exploits and Atchievements are Recorded Hib. 11. The Apostle doth not leave Believing Women out of the Catalogue We read of great Exploits that have been performed even by those of the weaker Seu both in Sacred and Common History but none to be compared with those which Believing Women through Faith have enterprized and accomplished O Woman great is thy Faith saith our Saviour Mat. 15 28. Why then it might be said also O Woman great is thy Victory For this is the Victory that overcometh the World even our Faith 1 Joh. 5. 4. True Faith though it be but as a Grain of Mustard Seed will overcome and bear down all that opposition the World can make against it As to this Christian Warfare Victory and Triumph Believers of all sorts share in it there is no difference in this matter but Iew and Greek Bond and Free Male and Female are all one in this respect through Jesus Christ. The weakest Believer will be too hard for the strongest Adversary This is a clear Consequence from what we have discoursed that a Believer is the bravest and most victorious Souldier in the World Use 3. A word of singular Encouragement and Comfort unto all that ●…ourn for the sorrowful state and Condition of Jerusalem Know it and Believe it that the Church of God however aff●…icted and oppressed in the world shall certainly prevail and get the Day at last The Victories Triumphs that God hath decreed and determined shall certainly be awarded and given to the conflicting Militant-Church in the Season thereof How might we expostulate the Case with the mightiest of the Churches Adversaries with the High and Low Great and Small ones of the Earth in this respect why do the Nations rage and People imagine a vain Thing vain it is and will be found so in the Issue to oppose the Lord Jesus to fight against his M●…mbers to plot and pr●…ct design and endeavour the Ruine of the Inter●…st of Christ in the W●… For the Lord Jesus and his called and Faithful Chosen shall certai●… 〈◊〉 more then overcame at last The Lamb and his Followers shall be Illust●…ious so quero●…s The Beast may arise out of the Bottomless pit and raise the Posse Inferni or Inferorum come with Legions of D●…vile and their Instruments and set their Hellish Armies in Aray and make warre upon the Witnesses and overcome them for a while but they shall overcome at last in a glorious manner Verily no Weapon that is formed against the Church shall prosper Christ laughs at all the Confederacies and Complotments and mad Rage of the world against his Interest and Members Psal. 2. 4. And his People that are at present in a sad and sorrowful Condition in the Heat of the Engagement shall laugh too and Triumph over all Excellent were the Expressions of that man of Faith Martin Luther to this purpose That the Kings and Princes People do so rage against the Lord and his Christ I account faith he an Happy Omen and much better then if they

finds enough in the best of Believers that found nothng in our Saviour Satans sparks easily e●…me us because he finds so much Tinder in us The Lusts within us are ready to take fire at every injection There is a Traitour in our own Bowels that is ready to open our Ports and let in the Adversary Now of the War which a Christian wages with this home-bred intestine Enemy the seventh Chapter of this Epistle to the Romans gives us a clear account where the Apostle raises an Out-cry and makes Doleful Complaints of the remainders of sin the Law in the Members the body of Sin and Death and Discourseth of the Nature Power and Prevalency of in-dwelling sin as to some engagements The Apostle Iames speaks of the Lusts that War in our Members Jam. 4. 1. And Peter of fleshly Lusts that war against the Soul 1 Pet. 2. 11. these make up that opposite party within a Christian that would intercept and stop him in his way to Glory a secret subtle treacherous designing party that creates him a world of trouble and danger in his journey towards Heaven 2. From the World which is another Enemy that would obviate and intercept the People of God in their Travels Hence the World was a part of Christ his glorious Conquest Be of good chear I have overcome the World Joh. 16. 33. And the Believer that is born of God by Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ overcomes it too 1 Iohn 5. 4. which plainly implies that the World is an Enemy Considerable are the Expressions of the Apostle to this purpose Iam. 4. 4. know ye not that the friendship of the World is enm●…ty with God whosoever therefore will be a Friend of the World is the Enemy of God And doth it not follow hence that he that is a Friend of God is an Enemy to the World as it lies in opposition to God and the World in that respect an Enemy to him The World is one of the Associates of that false party within a Christian and under the conduct of Satan militates against a Believer Particularly 1. The Snares Allurements of the World which would 〈◊〉 away and seduce a Chr●…stian from following after God These make war upon a Child of God and are dangerous Enemies As they say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fight with Silver or Gold weapons and never doubt of Victory Some Enemies have bought great Victories which they could never have won otherwise All these things wi●… give th●…e this profit pleasure Honour saith the flattering World 〈◊〉 Believer if thou wilt fall down or surrender to me These ensnaring and alluring Objects which the world presents the Sons of Men with have such a close and intimate correspondence with the Lusts in their Hearts and what is carnal in them that they fight against their Souls with great Advantage and Success The Apostle having dehorted from the love of the World and the things that are in the World sums up all that is in the World in those three particulars the Iust of the Flesh the Iust of the Eyes and the pride of Life 1 Ioh. 2. ●…5 16. The Apostle speaks as if there were nothing else in the world but Lusting because there is such a curse come upon all Creature-enjoyments with reference to man that so farre as He is of the world they are Objects of Lust to Him exciting drawing forth invigorating and improving that Lust and Corruption that is in him By these Lusts the Apostle means the several respective Objects and puts the Lust which is in us for the things themselves lusted after Carnal Pleasures Profits and Preferments He saith not sensual Pleasures Riches Honour though he speaks of them but the Lusts of the Flesh and Eye ●…nd pride of Life because our Lusts render them evil to us how lawful soever in themselves the Objects are and make them Objects of Temptation and Seduction from the Lord putting a painted Whorish Beauty and tempting Lustre upon them varnishing them 〈◊〉 and making false representations of them Yea it is evident as the 〈◊〉 Dr. Owen observes Treatise of Temptat pag. 68. That all th●…se things the Lust of the Flesh c. are principally in the Subject not in the Object in the Heart not in the World But they are said to be in the World b●…cause the World gets into them mixes it self with them unites incorporates As Faith and the promises are said to be mixed Heb. 4 2. So are Lust and Temptation from worldly Objects mixed they twine together 〈◊〉 mutual improvement one from an●…ther grow each of them higher and higher by the mutual strength they administer to one another From this mixture Union and Incorporation of the Objects in the World with the Lusts in the Hearts of Men and their firm and close combination together it comes to pass that the enticing tempting World is a very potent and prevailing Adversary to the Souls of Men And that Believers themselves ●…n whom the Lusts mentioned are but in part mortified and subdued have hard work sometimes to stand their Ground against the snares and allurements and bewitching insinuations of a d●…ceitful World To this Head reduce sinful Examples in the World Counsels of Carnal Friends the Friendship of the World which is E●…mity ●…o God and good men Jam 4 4 False Doctrines which are spo●… out of the Wo●…ld 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Ioh. 4 5. calculated to the corrupt Humors Inclinations and Interests of the m●… of the World and therefore of a very grateful resentment with them In a word all Worldly Lusts as the Apostle calls them Tit. 2. 12 that are so many baits and snares to entangle and entice the People of God to desert the Holy and good wayes of the Lord those Golden 〈◊〉 that are thrown down before a Christian to invite him to g●…ze upon them and stoop to take them up that so he may be retarded and stopt in his course and lose the prize he runs for 2. The Troubles and Affrightments of the World Th●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the formidable f●…ightful Afflictions and persecutions that would im●…e or reta●…d and hinder the people of God in their Travels towards that H●…enly Country where the sweet Fruits of Divine Love are to be enjoyed in the greatest maturity and perfection of them That Tribulation in the World against which the Lord Jesus layes in great encouragement from the consideration of his own Corquest of the World Ioh. 16. 33. Of this ill 〈◊〉 and Entertainment in the world the Afflictions that the Children of God must expect to contest withal the Apostle discourseth here Rom. 8. 35 36 37. Tribulation Distress Persecution Famine Nakedness Peril Sword and such like formidable things to Nature oppose the Faithful in their way and make warre upon them A Christian lies open to many sharp and fiery Tryals 1 Pet. 4. 12. and must look to endure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great fight or Concertation of Afflictions

in again though he may be turned off for a while That general Bent Inclination of his heart towards God as his last end greatest good towards his Commandments as the only best Rules of living and walking is ever preserved in the Believer by the mighty power of God according to his Covenant-engagement even then when his Enemies have gotten him down and laid him at their Feet So that if the Lord never take away his loving-kindness utterly from the Believer nor the Believer totally lose his love to God what follows but that there can be no separation of a true Believer from the love of God in Christ Jesus and by consequence that he cannot be absolutely conquered in any though he may be worsted in some Engagements Concl. 4. Every true Believer manageth a successful War and is sure of Conquest My meaning is not that every Christian hath a certainty of perswasion that he shall prevail or overcome for many an one is ready to say sometimes that he shall one day fall by the hand of this or that Saul but there is a certainty of the thing in it self I speak of the certainty of the object or the truth of this Proposition Every Believer shall certainly conquer the Enemies of his Soul not of the certainty of the Subject the certioration of the Believer or his perswasion and assurance that he shall be victorious at last A Believer shall certainly win the day and conquer all Opposers whatever his unbelieving heart may at any time suggest to the contrary Hence Paul speaks of it as a thing done we do more then overcome This may be made out thus 1. A Believer in this life gets many signal Victories He is not able indeed utterly to drive out the Canaanites they will abide in his Land Heart I mean and be rebelling and vexing him frequently but the Lord gives him many remarkable victories over them There are some memorable dayes and happy times wherein the People of God come out of the Field victorious and triumph over their spiritual Enemies They set their feet in the neck of their Lusts and lay their Corruptions bleeding at their feet and do so resist Satan as to rout him and put him to flight 2. If he be for a time overcome yet he recovers himself at last and gets the Day He may be overcome and carried Captive as the Apostle intimates Rom. 7. 23. he may be remarkably worsted in some particular conflicts and taken Prisoner but he cannot be detained alwayes a Prisoner all the power and policy of his Adversaries cannot hold him he will make an escape from them sooner or later and obtain rescue and deliverance If he be foiled and laid on his back for a time yet it is not long before he recovers himself and gets up again by godly sorrow Humiliation and Repentance and renew the Combat and is too hard for his Enemies I●… he be routed he rallies again and never leaves fighting till he carries the day and go out of the Field a Conquerour 3. His Enemies lose Ground by all their partial Conquests of Him A Child of God gets Good by his Foils and Falls yea gets Ground insensibly of his Corruptions and other Enemies thereby His Enemies by winning the Day lose it and by Conquering are conquered Every victory that Sin and Satan obtain makes a gracious Heart more humble more sensible of his own weakness and absolute need of the strength of Christ more watchful against Sin and Temptation more Cautious for time to come of admitting Parlyes and Compliances with his Adversares and so turne through the ●…ver-ruling Hand of Grace to the singular Advantage of a Christian in many respects Lay these things together and it will be manifest that a Believer manages a very successful warre and is sure at last of an absolute Conquest Concl. 5. A Believers Victory and Conquest is incomparably Glorious His Conquest is most exceeding Glorious Thence Paul saith we are more then Conquerours We do not only Conquer but triumph we have a triumphant Victory we are much too hard for our Enemies we do more then overcome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 supervineimus we do over-overcome It is Gr●…tius his Observation Amat Paulus componere verba cum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paul loves th●… Composition of words with the Preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and He gives many other Instances besides this in the Text of such Compositions in Pauls Epistles When He speaks of the Rich Grace of God or of the great and glorious priviledges of his Children He thinks He cannot over-speak They are such things that as Luther said of God and Heaven non patiuntur Hyperbolen do not admit are not capable of an Hyperbole No Expression is so high or Superlative as to transcend and exceed the measure of the Excellency of such Things Now the Greatness and Gloriousness of a Believers Uictory appears in many Things which we shall but glance at as we pass along Glorious it is in that the Believer conquers in Suffering when He is in appearance conquered overcome and destroyed When He ●…sslain with the Sword devoured by Lions burnt to Ashes a●… a Stake sawn asunder or any way violently put to death yet in all these things he conquers as the Martyrs have done They overcome by the Bloud of the Lamb the word of their Testimony and not loving their lives unto the Death Gualther takes this to b●… the sense of the Apostle In all these Things we are more then Conquerours He doth not say we overcome all these things so as that they shall be no more or cease to oppose us But in all these things we Conquer For afflictions remain and will remain as long as the World lasts nor will 〈◊〉 secut●…ons ever cease which beget Banishment Famine Nakedness an●… the Sword to the Godly but in these things and among all these pe●…ils and evil●… of Suffering the Faithfull do more then overcome And this is admirable that they over●…me when suecub uisse omnino Victi aut Oppressi esse videntur when they are slain or burnt or destroyed any other-way They are killed all the day long accounted and used as ●…eep for the slaughter as in the verse before the Text And yet more then Conquerours Humane Carnal Reason cannot comprehend this It is indeed Mysterious and glorious Again Glorious it is in that he conquers such Enemies as conquer all but Himself and such as He is The great Conquerours of the World have been slaves to their own Pride Ambition vain-glory Covetousness and other base Lusts which a Christian subdues and Conquers Many of them have been Satans Slaves when they have been Masters of the world But the Believer resists the Devil and puts Him to flight He overcomes Himself which is a nobler Exploit then to evercome and Conquer Nations sets his Foot upon Satan tramples and crushes that Serpent Rom. 16. 20. treads the World under his Feet as the

Church of God the Woman mentioned Rev. 12. 1. is said to have the Moon that is all these changeable Earthly things under her feet Nay he overcomes Death it self which tramples upon and prevailes over other Conquerours Death stings kills ruines other men but cannot hurt a Christian because it cannot separate him from God Oh Death where is thy sting Oh Grave where is thy Victory 1 Cor. 15 55. Those words which are commonly translated the Gates of Hell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 16. 18. and are thought to import the Power and Policy of the Devil are rendred by Learned Camero the Gates of the grave or Death alledging that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth never but once in Scripture signifie Hell but either the Grave or the state and condition of a deceased person And he conceives the mind of our Saviour in that expression to be that though the Faithfull lye dead for a time as well as other men Death exercises a Dominion over them the worm feeds sweetly upon them they are imprisoned in the Grave and lye bound hand and foot with the Cords of death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…unes vel acerbissimi Cruciatus Mortis Psal. 18. 3. yet that the Power of Death and the Grave shall not finally prevaile over them Si quis saith that Learned man fi●…urat a ●…ac Loeutione significatum velit perituram omnem Mortis Sepulchri vim is demùm profecto a Spiritûs sancti mente mini●… è aberraverit The Abolition of the destructive Dominion of Death is intended by the Lord Jesus according to this Exposition Christiani saith Cyprian mori possunt vinci non possunt Christians may dye but cannot be overcome Death may kill them but cannot conquer them The victory of Believers over their Enemies is very glorious in this respect Glorious also it is in that a Believer conquers his Enemies by cor quering himself crucifying himself the Flesh with the Affections and Lusts Gal 5. 24. subduing his own Spirit beating down his own Body and bringing it into subjection 1 Cor. 9. 27. plucking out an offending right Eye cutting off an offending right Hand Mat. 5. 29. 30. Doing strange Execution upon himself in a way of Mortification which is both a noble and a strange way of Conquering He overcomes himself and thereby overcomes all his Enemies Moreover glorious it is in that he is so far from being separated from the love of God by the opposition which his Enemies make against him that he is thereby greatly furthered in the way to the perfect enjoyment of the Fruits of it His Enemies whether they will or no help him to a most Glorious Conquest For all things how adverse and opposite soever work for his good Rom. 8. 28. that is for his most Glorious Everlasting Triumph in the highest Heavens As the Afflictions and Troubles which happened to Paul in the course of his Ministerial Warfare fell out to the furtherance of the Gospel Phil. 1. 12. so the Opposition which a Believer meets with from all his Adversaries falls out to the furtherance of his victorious proceedings in the course of his Christian Warfare and of his After-Triumph and Glory Nay this Victory is Glorious in that he gives his Enemies a total Defeat and Overthrow at last He hath a perfect and absoute Victory and Conquest over them so as never to be molested with them more He passes to Heaven through the midst of his Enemies and gets out of the reach of their opposition or molestation and there Triumphs Gloriously to Eternity Concl. 6. Every Believer ob●…ains this Glorious Victory and Conquest through the Lord Iesus Christ. We are more then Conquerours through him that loved us that is through Jesus Christ or God in Christ which is the same thing The Apostle having discoursed excellently of this Spiritual War with one of the greatest Enemies that a Christian hath to do with namely In-dwelling sin issues all triumphantly in thanks to God through Christ for Deliverance and Victory Rom. 7. ult And having spoken of D●…ath the Grave very formidable Adversaries triumphed over them Thanks God who gives Victory through Christ 1 Cor. 15. 55 56 57. And there is the like Reason as to all the Enemies of a Christian. A Believer obtains this incomparable Victory and Glorious Conquest over all through Christ. For 1. The Lord Iesus Christ hath procured and purchased this Victory and Conquest for Believers Therefore he hath Suffered and Dyed Satisfied and Me●…ted that his People might obtain a Glorious Victory over Sin Satan World Death and all their Enemies The Foundation of this Victory hath been la●…d by an high hand of Grace in the Death and Medi●… of the Lord Jesus Man having revolted from under the Government and ●…inion of Gods revealed Will and Law and thrown off his Obedience 〈◊〉 made Election of Sin and Satan for his Lords and Sovereigns The Holy God in Justice and Righteous Severity delivers him up to the Authority and Soveraignty of Sin and Satan and his Spiritual Enemies even Death it self and they put in their Claim to a Soveraignty yea and actually exercise a Dominion over Him So that man in this Condition is a Captive Prisoner Slave and cannot get his Liberty If He struggle sometimes and rise up to warre against them All his Contendings are vain He is overcome presently and held in bondage The Reason is because his Enemies are in a Sense as strong as the Law and Justice of God The strength of Sin and by pa●…ity of Reason of other Enemies is the Law I Cor. 15. 56. that is the Law broken and the Iustice of God offended But the Lord Jesus having satisfied and merited when there is an Application of that Redemption which is in Christ to any man Now Sin Satan World have no Right to exercise this Dominion they lose their Claim and Title to such Dominion and this is the Foundation of any man●… Conquest of them Hence though Sin may Tyrannise sometimes yet it shall not reign over them not have any of their Enemies any Right to Conquer or prevail as before Nay Christ hath paid 〈◊〉 great price and bought the Victory for them of Him in whose Hand it is to adjudge it unto them They overcome by the Bloud of the Lamb Rev. 12. 11. 2. He hath actually in his own person conquered their enemies for them Be of good Comfort saith our Saviour I have overcome the World Joh. 16. 〈◊〉 That is the Lusts of the world the men of the world the prince of the world the shares temptations terrours and evils of the World He hath bru●…sed the Serpents head Gen. 3. 15. destroyed the works of the Devil I Joh. 3. 8. Now saith the Lord Jesus with reference to the time of his sufferings is the judgement of this World now shall the Prince of this World be castout Joh. 12. 31. The Dethroning of Satan and destruction of his Dominion by Jesus Christ is