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A90512	Gospell courage, or Christian resolution for God, and his truth. In a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Margarets in Westminster, at a publique fast, the 31. of May, 1643. / By Andrew Perne Master of Arts, sometimes fellow of Katherine Hall in Cambridge: now minister of Wilby in Northampton-Shire.	Perne, Andrew, 1594-1654.	1643 (1643)	Wing P1577; Thomason E55_12; ESTC R16176	18,919	39

are dead and dirt If it had not beene for the living Geese the Capitall of Rome and all the dead Gods had beene taken So that a living Goose is better then a dead GOD. Reas 2 2. He is a wise God the onely wise God His understanding is infinite Isa 40.28 Psal 147.5 There is no searching of his understanding And who would serve a soole have a foole for his Master Much lesse for his God That was the blessednesse of Solomons servants that they stood and heard his wisedome The contrary is misery to be bound to heare the babling of a fool Why all false Gods are Fooles and so are they that worship them Be wise then O yee Kings be Learned yee that are Iudges of the Earth serve the Lord in feare Psa 2.10 That King 's a Foole and those Iudges are but Dunces that doe not feare this God Reason 3 3. He is Omnipotent able to doe great things any thing all things nothing is impossible with God When I behold the Heavens the worke of thy fingers saies David The Heavens are but Finger worke with him Hee drawes out the Heavens like a Curtaine hee does it with ease Hee feasts the Earth with the opening of his hand Thou openest thy hand and fillest with thy blessing every living Creature He rides upon the heavens as upon a horse they are his horse of manage he can stay them make them to goe backward or forward as easity as you can your horse But other Gods are nothing An Idoll is nothing and can do nothing Ier. 10.5 They cannot doe evill neither is it in them to doe good Chap. 14.22 Are there any among the Vanities of the Gentiles that can give you Raine Our God alone is able to doe a Man good and to doe a Man taischiefe hee can famish all the Gods of the World Zeph. 2.11 The Lord will be terrible unto them for he will famish all the Gods of the earth He can and we hope he will famish Popery and Arminianisme and Iesu Worship And the Lord can rescue and deliver those that serve him Salvation is the Lords it is good serving him then Dan. 3.17 Our God is able to deliver us from the fiery Furnace and he will deliver us out of thy hands O King This God is to be stucke unto The Lord is faithfull and true and never failes them that trusts in him The Lord is a present help in trouble A man may goe to the Creature and it cannot help him to a Friend and he is from home or deceive him Men of low degree sayes the Psalmist are vanity but Men of high degree they are worse they are a lie And the refore trust not in Princes But the Lord is alwayes present when thou goest through the fire and the water I will be with thee Yea the Lord will sticke to a Kingdome or to a poore soule as the Mountaines sticke and grow to the Earth At my first answer saies St. Paul all men forsooke me notwithstanding the Lord stood by me and streng thned me and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lyon The Lord was with Paul at the Barre and would not leave him There is all the reason under Heaven to be zealous and resolute for such a God as this is The onely living Wise Omnipotent faithfull God I might run through all the attributes of God they all attest and confirme this Truth For the Uses they will fall into the next Point which is this The heart is then in an Heavenly tune right key pleasing and acceptable unto God when it is peremptorily resolved to sticke to God and his waies whatsoever others do or whasoever come on it When it takes up an unconquerable resolution to bee for God when it lookes through or over all dangers difficulties and oppofitions resolves to make his way through the Rockes Fire Water Lions He may lose his body by the way but his spirit shall after God When a Mans spirit stands at that high note for God that Davids three Worthies did for him who brake through the Campe of the Philistims to fetch their King water So when the soule will fetch the Sabbath and Ordinances of God from the midst of the greatest opposers this is a gracious frame and temper when the valour of a mans spirit is for God How well pleased was God with this frame of spirit in Caleb with this pitch and height Numb 14.24 But my servant Caleb he had another spirit a resolute valiant spirit not a cowardly base feeble spirit as the other Spies had Let us goe up at once and possesse it for wee are well able to overcome they are bread for us This resolution was in the three Children Dan. 3.16 The King there he dubs a God creates a Hell sets up his Cathedrall Musicke his Flute and Cornet Psalteries nd Sackbuts gives out his command who will not worship his Gods shall into his hell but observe with what resolution the three Children answered Wee are not carefull to answere thee in this matter our God is able and will deliverus but if not know that wee will not serve thy Gods nor worship thy golden Image that thou hast set up Good Subjects for all this and good manners too though they tell the King to his tace they will not and the King accounts them so when God opened his eyes and hee acquits them Wee may live to see such daies The like temper of spirit was in Moses for the which he hath obtained a good report and is set downe in the golden legion of believers Heb. 11.27 By Faith Moses forsooke Egypt not fearing the wrath of the King Adde we but one more o● Joshua osh 14.15 he cals all Israel together bids them chuse whom they would serve whether the Gods which their Fathers worship't on the other side of the Flood or the Gods of the Amorites in whose Land they dwelt But as for me and my House saies he we will serve the Lord. Thus we see this resolutenesse of spirit for God and his wayes is found in the redeemed of the Lord in the brood of Gods travellers Now the Reason why it is thus valued and commended of God is because it proceeds frome some or all these causes 1. From a through and a full conviction of the soule that these are the right waies of God that the soule doth thus resolutely pitch upon Paul was thus throughly convinc't and therefore thus peremptorily resolved for the Gospell and wishes the Galathians so to bee Gal. 1.8 Though we we ourselves that have Preached this gospell to you yet if wee should in hope of preferment or for feare of suffering for the truth unsay it againe and Preach another Gospell nay though an Angell from heaven one that may seeme so to you to be should come and Preach another Gospell bee so farre from believing it or questioning the truth of this as I would have you defie him So that the Apostle

and Religion but for ever and ever One phrase only I conceive needs opening which is this What it is to walke in the name of a God and it stands under divers senses First to bee called by his name as Wives Children Disciples are called by the Names of their Husbands Parents Masters So here all Nations will tryumph and will be willing to owne and not be ashamed of the Name of their God and wee will not be ashamed of our glory Deut. 28.10 and all the People of the Earth shall see that thou art called by the Name of the Lord the 2 Chron. 7.14 If my People that are called by my Name c. Secondly to goe furnished with the divine Authority of God Mar. 11. Blessed is he that commeth to us in the Name of the Lord and so the 1 Cor. 5.4 In the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ when ye are gathered together and my Spirit c. 3. To walke in the Power and strength of God the 1 Sam. 17.45 Thou comest to me with a sword and a speare and with a shield but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of Hosts saies David to Goliah which is in the strength of God Fourthly to walke in the scare Lawes Ordinances and whole worship of God And this I conceive to be the proper meaning of this place The Doctrines are many We shall therefore play the Travaller passe by some Townes though good call in at others and make our stay in that that is most convenient Doct. 1 There is a GOD. This truth we read in the Booke of nature that lies continually open before us written in so great and Capitall Letters that one though stone blind if he have other senses may read it And Conscience within teaches this All Nations agree in it There is a peradventure indeed in every mans heart that there is no God and according to the strength of this in the soule so is the life God lesse But there is a semi-certainty in every soule that there is a God and when this prevailes then a Man will be devoute in his way And therefore saith the Heathen Menciuntur qui dicunt se non sentire esse Deum they lie in their throats that say they thinke there is no God But we leave this Severall Nations have severall Gods Or there are many false Gods in the World In the 1 Cor. 8.5 There be Gods many and Lords many No truth so generally and universally granted as this That there is a God but none so much controverted as who the true God is Man brings into the World with him notions and sure apprehensions of a deity Education and Custome do specificate and shape these generall notions of a GOD and a Religion to that God and into that Religion that the Countrey accounts the true From hence he that is borne in Turkey is a Mahumetan In Italie a Papist in England a Protestant So soone as Men are borne they fall a groaping for a God and for a Religion One there is but who and which wee know not and that that is first put into our hands by our Parents and Governours that we close withall And this is the State and condition of all Men living the best and dearest Saints of God are thus by nature and would have beene Turkes and Papists had they bin borne there till God seized upon them by his grace regenerated them and reveal'd himselfe unto them Yee were without God in the World as well as others A God then there is but who and what 〈◊〉 one the People and Nations of the World cannot agree and therefore how many have the Nations who are left unto the light of nature set up for Gods that had Country Gods and Citie Gods and houshold Gods and particular personall Gods Gods for all places for Heaven and Hell and Sea and Land for all occasions for war and peace and plenty and health and sicknes the number of their Gods as some of their own Authors have summed them up was above thirty thousand The Papists in our dayes have more If yee say what 's the cause of this that the World should be thus out in so great a point Reas 1 All have lost the knowledge of God in Adam that was our great losse for his sin God hath withdrawne himself hid himself in secret will not fully sufficiently or savingly reveale himself by the Creatures to the sons of men but hath chosen a new way to vent himself which is by Iesus Christ Mat. 11.27 No Man cometh to the father but by mee saith Christ and so Ioh. 11.6 No man knoweth the Father but the son and he to whom the Sonne shall reveale him There is not in all the Booke of Nature one Iota or one hint of Jesus Christ Many nations are without the Gospell few persons know Jesus Christ I pray God you may looke to your selves and therefore are wilde and vaine and various in their Imaginations of God It comes from the infinite disproportion that is between God and Man Reas 2 What House will yee build mee saith God I fill Heaven and Earth the Heaven of Heavens are not able to containe mee So what thoughts will yee reare up to entertaine the great God in How will yee doe to stretch those narrow Soules of yours that the King of glory may come in It is impossible for a Camel to goe through the eye of a needle but how impossible for God to come into his Creature The sences which are the Lanes or Gates which lead to the soule neither is there any thing in the understanding but it is first in the sences these are all too narrow God is invisible and cannot be seene Thou canst not see my Face sayes God to Moses and yet he had and could see great and dreadfull things but had hee seene this his soule would have ran away He is ineffable bigger then all definitions and descriptions greater then words can tell It s peculiar to God to exceed knowledge And therefore the Logicians have wisely excluded him out of their Predicaments ubique prosens sed latens nothing more present then God and nothing more unseene Obj. If you say but this Reason shuts out all Men yet there are that doe know him Answ It doth indeed shut out all from any naturall knowledge of him by naturall meanes the knowledge of God is a supernaturall grace bred onely by the spirit of God in the hearts of the Men of his good will This Spirit doth supernaturally stretch out the narrow soule of Man doth in large and widen it and raises it up about its own nature to conceive aright of God This Spirit lifteth up the doores and sets open the Gates that the King of glory may come in And because the faculties cannot bee wound up to infinitenesse that they may hold proportion to the immensity of God therefore the spirit does two things First it creates an eekening in the soule which