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

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 Discoursed in a SERMON Preached at Boston in New-England on the Day of the ARTILLERY-ELECTION there June 3d. 1672. By Urian Oakes Pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge 1 Cor. 9. 26. I so run not as uncertainly so fight I not as one that beateth the Air. Ephes. 6. 13 Take unto you the whole Armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done or overcome all to stand Rev. 13. 7. And it was given unto Him to make warre with the Saints and to overcome them Rev. 12. 17. And they overcame Him by the Bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their Testimony and they loved not their Lives unto the Death Psal. 108. 13. Through God we shall do valiantly for He it is that shall tread down our Enemies CAMBRIDGE Printed by Samuel Green 1674. Christian Reader THat Title of the Book of the Wars of the Lord Numb 21. 14 may truly be ascribed to that best of Books the holy Scripture wherein accordingly after a short account in the first leaf thereof of the finishing of the Heavens and the Earth and all the Host of them the Lord of Hosts do●…h presently acquaint us with the enmity put between the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent 〈◊〉 3. 15. whereby 〈◊〉 is bid and which Word of the Lord hath in a sense g●…ven being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Battels that have been fought in the World for more then 5000 years even from the beginning thereof unto this day and whence it is also that this Earth shall be the continued Field and Stage of War ●…ill the last day witness the close of this bloody Scene in the Scriptures last prediction of the great Pitcht Fatal and Final Battel between the same Serpent the Dragon and his Seed in the Book of the Revelation The upshot whereof will be the last and amazing opening and so the eternal shutting of Heaven and Hell filled with the Combatants respectively for the receiving their Arrears therein The day of Iudgement doubtless will be the day of publishing and by sound of the left Trumpet the compleatest History of the whole fight from first to last in the interim the Lord General hath his many Heraulds at Arms to denounce his Wars and so proclaim also his Peace to the World both by Word of Mouth as by sound of Trumpet Isai. 58. 1. and by Writing also of some of whom especially it may be said as sometime of Lucan viz ut praelia videatur non canere sed committere tonare Classicum eodemque ardore arma scribe●…t quo Caesar tractavit they have not shunned to deliver the whole Counsel of God and that in the demonstration of the Spirit and with Power And blessed be the Lord for all the Alarms Lectures of War Instructions and Hortatory Speeches given from the Captain of our Salvation by any of his Commission Officers for the doubling and fortifying our spiritual Watch. Israel under the Law needed the Priests of the Lord in order to their 〈…〉 to found the silver Trumpets Numb 10. 2 9. that so blowing an●… A●… that H●… Camp might be remembred before the Lord their God and saved from their Enemies and the whole life of every Christian being that of a Man of War hence what may tend to aceomplish him in his Heavenly Military skill and encourage him in his spiritual conflict wherein that Cry is still heard as Exod. 32. 26. Who is on the Lords side yea wherein the E●…igent is such that he must either Fight or Dye and that the consequence is for no less then Eternity must needs be welcome to him and so without question will be this following VVatch-word and Exhortation delivered to the principal Artillery Company of this Land at whose request it was first published to the Ear and Heart of the Hearer and is now after not a little importunity to the Eye also of the Reader from one of our Leaders Heb. 13. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 under the Chief Leader 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 2. 10. Iesus Christ who is given for'●… Leader and Commander to the People Isai. 55. 4. this discourse being to animate each one thereof as a good Souldier of Iesus Christ to endure hardness giving us sure intelligence of the happy success of this Divine Militia the blessedness of every faithful VVarrier in being more then a Conquerer and though he may seem to be worsted in this or that Battel yet as to the whole war that he shall be yea in the language of Truth that he is an Overcomer and above an Overcomer A Christians victory is indeed like to that of his chief Commander Iesus Christ Col. 2. 14 15. and through that Blood and infinite Grace very strange and mysterious he is overcoming when i●… appearance overcome and triumphing when to the view of others he is a crucisied Captivs as dying and behold we live 2 Cor. 6. 9. A Paradox and incredible in other Combats and yet the wonder seems not so great that he should gain such a Victory over all his Enemies of this World when we consider him as one that hath with Reverence be it spoken conquered the Lord himself as is said of Iacob whom the Lord Dubbed with the Name of Israel Gen. 〈◊〉 20. because as a Prince he had power with God and had prevailed whence also that strange word from the Lord himself Cant. 6. 5. turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me thus do they sometimes come forth e●…arend from the dust Isai. 52. 2. and from their wrestling places of Prayer as Luther did with those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Faith vicimus vicimus and surely ●…uch as one may glory in the Lord and through him humbly boast even as soon as he hath put on his spiritual Harness because he is here well assured by the promise of the victory before he sometimes strikes a stroak and for which cause partly he may be said to be more then a Conquerer Every Victory was not celebrated with a Triumph to be triumphant is ●…orc ore then to be victorious There were and are the Battels wherein eve●… the victor hath no c●…use so much as to rejoyce of which sort ●…e may 〈◊〉 those of them who being not only visibly listed under the B●…er of Jesus Christ but have Christ in them the hope of Glory yet by whose Divisions and fidings and warrings one against the other through the hour and power of darkness and temptation prevailing the truth and peace is lost these are Bella nullos habitura triumphos and O that a most serious and wise consideration of their common danger from the Gates of Hell and the