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A29687	The crovvn & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered in LVIII sermons from Heb. 12. 14, where you have the necessity, excellency, rarity, beauty and glory of holiness set forth, with the resolution of many weighty questions and cases, also motives and means to perfect holiness : with many other things of very high and great importance to all the sons and daughters of men, that had rather be blessed then cursed, saved then damned / by Thomas Brooks ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4939; ESTC R36378	584,294	672

looked upon as noble and necessary justice that all insurrections in the State be punished as Rebellion and shall those who are daily up in open arms against the great God and that daily bid defiance to him to his Son to his Ordinances to his people to his word and to his wayes escape without the least lash the least censure Shall those that rob their neigbours though it be but to the value of five shillings yea lesse be indited examined condemned and executed and shall others that rob God of his glory of his Sabboths and of his service c. escape without the least shaking of the rod or without the least danger of the whip Shall all prophan●sse loosnesse and wickednesse be winked at yea countenanced and encouraged notwithstanding his Majesties most Zealous pious and renowned Declaration against it and shall real holinesse and the power of godlinesse be on all hands scorned discountenanced opposed and reviled and yet no man say What means these things Well my Lords and Gentlemen for ever remember this All those sins that are in this Land committed which by your just power and gracious examples might have been prevented all those sins in the great day shall be charged upon your accounts and therefore it highly concerns you with all your might to brow-beat wickednesse to discountenance ungodlinesse and to improve your power to the uttermost for the suppressing of all prophanesse and for the countenancing encouraging and promoting of real holinesse that so you may give up your accounts at last with joy I have read of King Ethelbert how that by his godly example and by his countenancing and encouraging such as were godly and by his discountenancing of prophanesse and wickednesse he drew this whole Kingdom once to look after godlinesse Oh my Lords and Gentlemen if you would be but shining examples and patterns of holinesse to the Nation if you would but in good earnest put forth your utmost power for the encouraging of godlinesse and for the suppressing of prophanesse O what a holy Nation yea what a happy Nation should we have King Cyrus commanded the chief officers of his Army to keep a strict hand upon themselves for saith he that is the best way in the world to keep the whole Army in good order the application is easie But Eighthly In the exercise of justice you must look that justice and mercy that justice and clemency go hand in hand Prov. 20.28 Prov. 29.14 Psalm 101.1 Mercy and truth preserve the King and his Throne is upholden by mercy Some read the words thus It is usual in Scripture by Truth to understand Iustice Mercy and justice preserve the King and his Throne is upholden by mercy All justice will not preserve the King nor all mercy will not preserve the King there must be a mixture both of justice and mercy to preserve the King and to uphold his Throne and to shew that mercy is more requisite then justice the word Mercy is doubled in the Text. Justice without Mercy turns into rigour and so becomes hateful Mercy without Justice turns into fond pity and so becomes contemptible Look as the rod of Aaron and the pot of Manna were by Gods command laid up in the same Ark so must mercy and justice be preserved intire in the bosom of the same Magistrate King John thought to strengthen himself by gathering a great deal of money together but neglecting the exercise of mercy clemency and lenity he lost his peoples affections and so after many endless turmoyles he came to an unhappy end Iudge and Iustice Mercy and justice mildnesse and righteousnesse lenity and fidelity are a safer and a stronger guard to Princes and People then rich Mines munitions of Rocks mighty Armies powerful Navies or any warlike preparations It is very observable that Christ is called but once the Lion of the Tribe of Judah in the book of the Revelation and that is in chap. 5.5 but he is called a Lamb no lesse then nine and twenty times in that book and what is this but to shew the transcendent mercy clemency lenity mildnesse and sweetnesse that is in Jesus Christ and to shew that he is infinitely more inclined to the exercise of mercy then he is to the exercise of justice It is true Magistrates Judges and Justices should be Lions in the execution of justice and it is as true that they should be Lambs in the exercise of mercy and clemency mildn●sse and sweetnesse And the more ready and inclinable they are to the exercise of mercy where mercy is to be shewed the more like to the Lamb they are Seneca hath long since observed that the custom of anointing Kings was to shew that Kings should be above all other men of the greatest sweetnesse and mildnesse their anointing being a sign of that Kingly sweetnesse and mildnesse that should be in them Nero's speech hath great praise who when he was to subscribe to the death of any condemned man would say Utinam nescirem literas I wish I did not know how to write But Ninthly and lastly you must do justice proportionable to the nature of the offence your penalties and punishments must be alwayes suitable to the offence to punish any fact more severely then it deserves is alwayes injustice to the offendour for so far innocency it self suffers as any man is punished beyond the demerit of his offence I have read of the River Nilus that if it either exceed or be defective in its due overflowings of the land of Egypt it causeth famine the application is easie Cleobulus one of the seven Sages was wont to say that Mediocrity was without compare and to punish lesse then the Fact deserves may be of dangerous consequence to the publike The Roman Fasces were a bundle of rods with an Ax in the midst to signifie the equity of Magistrates in punishing some only with reds and others with the Ax the Romans had their rods for lesser faults and their Ax for capital crimes Justice is then remiss when it spares where it ought to punish and Justice is then too s●vere when it punisheth where it ought to spare Extream right often proves extream wrong he that will alwayes go to the utmost of what the Law allows will too too often do more then the Law requires it is rare very rare to see a man dance upon the brink of the pit and not to tumble in A rigid-severity often mars all equity is still to be preferred before extremity To inflict great penalties and heavy censures for light offences this is to kill a Fly upon a mans fore-head with a Beetle In the French History there is mention made of an old Courtier that would needs depart the Court and retire himself to a private life the King desired him before he went to leave his advice in some general Rules what was best to be done in the Government of the Kingdom Upon which motion he took a fair

that had rather be vessels of wrath then vessels of honour and that had rather be fire-brands of hell then glorious Saints in heaven Ephes 2.12 Rom. 9.22 And so I have done with those reason● that may satisfie the Reader concerning my Dedication of this Treatise to all sorts ranks and degrees of persons Having premised these things in the general give me leave to say That if this Treatise should fall into the hands of any of the Learned Judges of this Land or into the hands of any of the Justices of this Nation I would then take the humble boldnesse to offer this to their most serious consideration viz. That if they would discharge the duties of their places so as to give up their accounts at last with joy and cheerfulness to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords it highly concerns them to study this doctrine of holinesse yea to fall in love with holinesse and highly to prize it and earnestly to presse after it and to be restlesse in their own spirits till they have experienced the powerful operations of holinesse in their own souls for till then they will never be able so to administer Justice and Judgement as becomes those that have the name of God and the name of profession upon them and that judge themselves to be in a higher Form then those Heathens were who were famous for justice and righteousnesse Cato Fabricius Scipio Cambyses c. and yet never heard of a Christ nor salvation by him and as becomes those that would not stand trembling and quaking in the great and terrible day when Christ the Lord-chief-Iustice of heaven and earth shall passe a righteous and impartial judgement upon all the Judges and Justices that ever were on earth Joel 2.11 31. Acts 17.31 2 Tim. 4.1 2. Where justice is God is and where God is there is no want of men or fortitude said Herod at the head of his Army the better to encourage his souldiers My Lords and Gentlemen you know that the wisest Prince that ever set upon a Throne hath told us that Righteousnesse exalts a Nation Prov. 14.34 It is not valour in war but righteousnesse it is not policie in Government but righteousnesse it is not wittinesse of invention but righteousnesse it is not civility in behaviour but righteousnesse it is not antiquity of forms but righteousnesse it is not largenesse of dominion but righteousnesse nor it is not greatnesse of command Iustice is conservatrix Humanae conjunctionis quae ad beatitudinem via est c. Amos 5.24 The Hebrew word Veiiggalchat is here rendred run down is from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Galal that signifies to roul down f eely plentifully plainly vigorously constantly Where justice thus rouls down all the world shall never make that Nation miserable but righteousnesse that is the honour and the safety that is the renown and the security of a Nation That Nation that exalts righteousnesse that Nation shall be certainly exalted by righteousnesse It is not Achitophels policy it is not Jeroboams calves in Dan and Bethel it is not Jehues pompous zeal it is not Goliahs sword it is not rich Mines of Gold and Silver nor Magazines nor Armies nor Counsels nor Fleets nor Forts but Justice and Righteousnesse that exalts a Nation and that will make a mean people to become a great a glorious and a famous people in the world The world is a Ring and Righteousnesse is the Diamond in that Ring The world is a body and Righteousnesse and Justice is the soul of that body Ah England England so long as judgement runs down as waters in the midst of thee and righteousnesse as a mighty stream thou shalt not die but live and bear up bravely against all gain-sayers and opposers but if injustice shall grow rampant and thou shalt brandish the sword of Justice in the behalf of the friends of Baal Balaam and Bacchus and turn the wheel upon the righteous if the sword of justice shall be a sword of protection to the desperate swearer and to the cruel oppressor and to the roaring drunkard and to the cursing monster and to the Gospel despiser and to the Christ contemner c. and shall be a devouring sword to the upright and peaceable in the Land Divine vengeance will dig thy grave and divine Justice will tumble thee into it though all the Nations of the earth should labour to prevent it It is a base and ignoble spirit to pity Cataline more then to pity Rome to pity any particular sort of men more then to pity the whole It is cruelty to the good to justifie the bad It is wrong to the sheep to animate the Wolves It is danger if not death to the Lambs not to restrain or chain up the Lyons but from all these vanities the Lord deliver all your souls And O that you would for ever remember this that as the constitution of a mans body is best known by his pulse if it stir not at all then we know he is dead if it stir violently then we know him to be in a Fever if it keep an equal stroak then we know he is sound well and whole so the estate and constitution of a Kingdom or Common-weal is best known by the manner of executing justice therein for justice is the pulse of a Kingdom if justice be violent then the Kingdom is in a Fever in a very bad estate if it stir not at all then the Kingdom is dead but if it have an equal stroak if it be justly and duely administred then the Kingdom is in a good a safe and sound condition When Vespasian asked Apollonus What was the cause of Nero 's ruine he answered That Nero could tune the Harps well but in Government he did alwayes wind up the strings too high or let them down too low The Application is easie Now having premised thus much in the general give me leave to tell you that there are eight special Rules that you are carefully and faithfully to observe in the administration of Justice and Righteousnsse And how you will be able to act sutable to those Rules without a Spirit of holinesse without principles of holinesse and without an experience of the powerful influences and operations of holinesse in your own souls I cannot for the present understand Now my Lords and Gentlemen the first Rule that you are to observe in your administring of Judgement and Justice Psalm 82.1 6. Luke 20.21 Mat. 22.16 is this You must do Justice impartially you are called Gods and in this you must be like to God who is no acceptor of persons Audi alteram partem said Lotharius the second Duke of Saxony he accepts not the rich man because of his Robes neither doth he reject the poor man because of his Rags Deut. 1.17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgement but you shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of

sanctified the same Spirit the same Grace the same Power the same Presence that hath sanctified any of these may sanctifie all of these there is no heart so unholy but a holy God can make it holy there is no spirit so unclean but a holy Spirit can make it clean Well sinners there are many living and standing witnesses of divine grace among you and about you that do sufficiently declare that it is possible that you may be sanctified and saved Again it is possible that you may be sanctified and made holy Witness 7. The Oath of a holy God Ezek. 33.11 Say unto them As I live saith the Lord God Ezek. 18.31 32. I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will you die O house of Israel As I live is the form of an Oath and is much used in the Scripture by God himself wicked men are very hardly perswaded to believe that God is willing that they should be sanctified and saved and therefore God takes his oath on it that he is infinitely more willing that wicked men should turn from their evil wayes and be sanctified and saved then that they should perish in their sins and be damned for ever As I live is a weighty oath and imports the certainty of that which follows it is absolute without evasion or revocation As sure as I live and am God I have no pleasure in destroying and damning of souls but desire that they would turn from their evil wayes and that they would be sanctified and saved let me not live let me be no longer a God if I would not have the wicked to live and be happy for ever The possibility of your being holy God hath confirmed by an oath and therefore you may no longer question it As Paulus Fagius observeth in his comment on Genesis The Egyptians though Heathens so hated perjury that if any man did but swear by the life of the King and did not perform his oath that man was to die and no gold was to redeem his life And do you think that a holy God doth not stand more upon his oath then Heathens yea then the worst of Heathens Certainly he doth 8. Lastly it is possible that you may be a holy Witness The great designs and undertakings of Jesus Christ to make lost man holy His great design in leaving his fathers bosom and coming into this world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dissolve unravel the works of the Devil was the destroying the dissolving of the works of the Devil 1 John 3.8 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil Sin is Satans work and Christ comes to destroy it and break it all in pieces Mens sins are Satans chains by which he links them fast to himself but Christ was therefore manifested that he might loose and knock off these chains Satan had knit many sinful knots in our souls but Christ comes to unty those knots he had laid many snares but Christ comes to discover and to break those snares It was the great design of Christ in the divesting of himself as it were of his divine honour glory and dignity Phil. 2.6 7 8 15. and in his taking on him the nature of man to destroy Satan and to sanctifie the souls of men Heb. 2.11 14 15. It was the great design of Jesus Christ in giving of himself for us in giving his soul his body his life to justice to death to wrath for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity Titus 2.14 and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works The crown of holiness was faln from our heads and Christ freely and willingly uncrowns himself that once more we might be crowned with holiness immortality and glory Christ was resolved that he would lose all that was near and dear unto him but he would recover our lost holiness for us Christ knew that heaven had been but a poor purchase had he not purchased holiness for us As heaven is but a low thing without God so heaven is but a low thing without holiness It is holiness that is the sparkling Diamond in the Ring of happiness a man were better be holy in hell then unholy in heaven and therefore Christ ventures his All for holiness The great design of Christ in redeeming of souls with the choicest the purest the costliest the noblest blood that ever run in veins Luke 1.74 75. was that they should serve him in righteousness and holiness all the daies of their lives In a word Christ had never taken so great a journey from heaven to earth but to make men holy he had never taken upon him the form of a servant but to make us the servants of the most high God He had never lyen in a manger he had never trod the Wine-press of his fathers wrath but to make you holy he prayed he sweat he bled and he hung on the Cross and all to make you holy he was holy in his birth and holy in his life and holy in his death and holy in all his sufferings and all to make you holy The great design of Christ in all he did and in all he suffered was to make man holy And thus you see by all these Arguments that holiness is attainable Thirdly Consider this that real holiness is the honour and the glory of the creature and therefore the Apostle links holiness and honour together 1 Thes 4.3 4. 2 Cor. 3. ult Eph. 5.27 For this is the will of God even your sanctification that ye should abstain from fornication That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour The vessel is mans body which is the great utensil or instrument of the soul and contains it as in a vessel now the sanctity and chastity of this vessel is the honour of a Christian even bodily purity is a Christians glory he that keeps his vessel in holiness keeps it in honour A heathen could say Nobilitas sola est atque unica vertus Vertue is the only true nobility Holiness is the greatest dignity that mortal man is capable of it is mans highest promotion it is his highest exaltation holiness is the true gentility and the true nobility of the soul Deut. 26. ult And to make thee high above all Nations which he hath made in praise and in name and in honour and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God There is nothing that lifts a people so high and that makes them so truly famous and glorious as holiness doth Holiness is the praise the renown the crown and glory of a people Holiness is the diadem the beauty and the excellency of a people Holiness is the strength the honour and the riches of a people Holiness is the image of God

and answered and I doe sacrifice so when persecutors arme themselves against the people of God they doe but divinely smile and laugh at it and give themselves the more up to prayer when men arme against them then they a●me themselves with all their might to the work of prayer and woe woe to them that have Armies of prayers marching against them But Thirdly It will appeare that the condition of persecutors is the most sad and deplorable condition of all conditions under heaven if you will but seriously consider and lay to heart the sore Judgements that are threatned and that have been executed upon them Deut. 28.15 ult Deut. 30.7 And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them which hate thee which persecuted thee Nehe. 9.9 10 11. And didst see the afflictions of our fathers in Egypt Exod. 3.7 Chap. 14.10 c. and heardest their cry by the red Sea And shewed signes and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on the people of his Land for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them So didst thou get thee a name as it is this day And thou didst divide the Sea before them so that they went through the midst of the Sea on the dry land and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps as a stone into the mighty waters Pharaoh and his Princes and people were very great oppressors and persecutors of Gods Israel As you may see in the 7 8 9 10. and 12 Chap. of Exodus and therefore God visited them with ten dreadfull plagues one after another but when after all these plagues God saw that their enmity against his people was as great or rather greater then ever and that they were still set upon persecuting of his people then God takes up Pharaoh and his mighty Host Exodus 15.10 and throwes them as a stone into the mighty waters Psal 7.11 12 13. God judgeth the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every day If he turne not he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrowes against the persecutors God whets before he strikes he bends his bow befo●e he shootes he prepares instruments of death before he brings men downe to the grave his hand takes hold on Judgement before his Judgements take hold of men but if all these warnings will not serve their turnes God will overturne them with a witness He ordaineth his arrowes against the persecutors or as the Hebrew has it against the hot burning persecutors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and from Dalak is Daleketh that signifies a burning Ague God has his hot burning Arrowes for hot burning persecutors let persecutors be never so hot against the Saints God will be as hot against them and let them be never so much inflamed against the people of God God will be as much inflamed against them Jer. 20.10 11. For I heard the defaming of many feare on every side Report said they and we will report it All my familiars watched for my halting saying peradventure he will be enticed and we shall prevaile against him After the Reigne of Decius under whom the seventh persecution began God sent a plague Ten years together which made divers places of the world desolate especially where the persecution most raged c. and we shall take our revenge on him But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one therefore my persecutors shall stumble and they shall not prevaile they shall be greatly ashamed for they shall not prosper their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten When malicious mischievous persecutors have done all they can to vex and fret to daunt and affright to dismay and discourage the people of God then God will terrifie the most terrible among them and they shall not prevaile nor prosper yea they shall stumble and fall they shall be ashamed and confounded Isa 33.1 Wo to thee that spoilest and thou wast not spoiled and dealest treacherously and they dealt not treacherously with thee when thou shalt cease to spoile thou shalt be spoiled and when thou shalt make an end to deale treacherously they shall deale treacherously with thee When the time is expired that God has prefixed for his peoples sufferings then God will retaliate upon their persecutors then they that spoyled his people shall be spoyled and they that dealt perfidiously and treacherously with them shall be dealt perfidiously and treacherously withall 2 Thes 1.6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you 'T is but Justice that God should trouble those that are the troublers of his people 't is but Justice that persecutors should be punished and that the persecuted should be righted 't is but Justice that God should trouble them in both worlds who would be troublers of his people in both worlds 't is but Justice that God should trouble them to all eternity who would be a troubling of his people to all eternity if their power were but answerable to their malice And God has even in this life been a swift witness against the persecutors of his people Cain was a persecutor and his Brothers blood pursued him to hell Pharaoh was a great oppressor and persecutor of his people and God followed him with plague upon plague and Judgement upon Judgement till he had overthrowne him in the red Sea Saul was a persecutor and falls by his own sword Haman was a great persecutor of the Saints and he was Feasted with the King one day and made a Feast for Crowes the next Jer. 20.1 2 3. Pashur was a great persecutor he smote the Prophet Jeremiah and put him in the Stocks and God threatned to make him a Magor-missabib a terrour to himself 1 Kings 22. and to all his friends Zedekiah was a persecutor he smote the Prophet Micaiah on the cheek for dealing plainly and faithfully with the Kings and in the day of trouble and distress he goes from chamber to chamber to hide himselfe Chap. 18.4.13 verses 2 Kings 9.30 ult Euseb Jezabel was a great persecutor she slew the Prophets of God and she was thrown out of a window and eaten up of dogs Herod the Great who caused the babes of Bethlehem to be slaine hoping thereby to destroy Christ shortly after was plagued by God with an incurable disease having a slow and slack fire continually tormenting his inward parts he had a vehement and greedy desire to eate and yet nothing would satisfie him his inward bowels rotted his breath was sho●t and stinking some of his members rotted and in all his members he had so violent a Cramp that nature was not able to bare it and so growing mad with paine he dyed miserably Herod Antipas who beheaded John Baptist Euseb not long after falling into disgrace with

of God And I saw as it were a Sea of glass mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the number of his Name stand on the Sea of glass having the harps of God And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the Lamb saying Great and marvelous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy waies thou King of Saints Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgements are made manifest In this and the following chapters the utter overthrow of Antichrist is described In this chapter you have a new Vision of the Gospels restoring and of Antichrists ruine By the Sea of glass mingled with fire wee are to understand the fiery trials and dreadful persecutions by fire and faggot that Antichrist will inflict upon sincere and faithful Christians The allusion is to the Red Sea and Pharaohs persecuting of Israel but the addition of fire is plainly to distinguish the Popes persecution from Pharaohs for though Pharaoh did sorely oppress the people of God both in their liberties and consciences and though hee had plotted and contrived a way to destroy their male children yet hee was never so cruel hee was never so bloody as to burn the people of God with fire and faggot as Antichrist hath done in all ages But now mark when the vials of the wrath of God comes to be poured out upon Antichrist yea upon what ever smells of Antichrist or looks like Antichrist why then the people of God will in a very eminent way lift up God as the great object of their fear and then the generality of the Nations shall be so deeply affected with the dreadful amazing and astonishing judgements of God upon Antichrist that they shall repent worship him and give glory to him O Sirs when God strikes slaves Sons should tremble great judgements upon sinners speaks out a great deal of the justice and holiness of God and the more the justice and holiness of God appears the more holy his people should grow Ah Christians had you grown more holy by those severe judgements of God that hath been inflicted upon others before your eyes you had not been under those smart rebukes of God that now you are under this day But Seventhly When men are called forth to war by God O! that 's a special time and season wherein God calls aloud for holiness The man of war must have holiness written upon the bridles of the horses Zach. 14.20 When men carry their lives in their hands they had need of holiness in their hearts when in every encounter a man must expect to enter upon a state of eternity hee had need be very holy that so if hee should fall in the encounter The Romans lived more orderly in time of war than in the times of their greatest peace hee may be sure to be happy Deut. 23.9 14. When the H●st goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee from every wicked thing For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy Camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shall thy Camp be holy that hee see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee When the sword devoureth on both hands when it eats the flesh of Nobles and drinks the blood of Nobles when it feeds upon the flesh of the poor and drinks the blood of the needy then every souldier had need be a Saint when an eternity of glory and misery is every moment before every souldier every souldier had need walk very accurately hee had need live very holily Mark though the people of God were to keep themselves from every wicked thing at all other times yet when they went out against their enemies then in a special manner it highly concerned them to keep themselves not from some but from every evil thing or rather as the Hebrew hath it from every evil word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Da●ar hee that is in danger of death every step hee takes and that carries his very soul in his hand had need precisely to abstain not onely from every evil work but also from every evil word as here God expresly charges Israel to do When God findes holiness in Israels Camp then God will quickly give up Israels enemies into Israels hands but when the Camp becomes a Den of iniquity then God will depart from the Camp and when God who is the bulwrk of a Camp is departed all the world cannot preserve that Camp from being destroyed Rev. 17.14 The Lamb looks that all those brave hearts that ingage with him against Antichrist should be called and chosen and faithful there is no armour of proof to that of holiness let a man be never so well mounted cloathed armed weaponed yet if hee be unholy hee lies naked and open to all disasters calamities and miseries O Sirs 't is one of the dreadfullest things in the world to hear such a cursing swearing lying and damning of themselves and to see such a giving up themselves to work all manner of wickedness with greediness who carry their lives in their hands every hour in the day yea at whose elbows damnation stands every moment O Sirs when God gives the sword a Commission to eat flesh and drink blood to stay both old and young to spare none that come before it and to pitty none that come nigh unto it it highly concerns all men to be holy this is a special season wherein God calls aloud for holiness I confess I am for Peace and Truth for Peace and Righteousness for Peace and Holiness against all war in the world but when ever the Lord shall call forth his people to fight his battels against Antichrist 1 Sam. 25.28 Dan. 2.31 ult and to smite Daniels Image in peeces it stands them very much upon to be a holy people yea to be eminently holy as they would have the presence of God with them and the power of God ingaged for them and the mercy goodness and blessing of God succeeding and prospering of them though hee that goes to war had need carry his purse with him yet hee must be sure to leave his sins behinde him or else his sins will do him more mischief than all his enemies for they will set God against him and how can straw and stubble possibly stand before a consuming fire I have read of Xerxes that viewing almost an innumerable Army of men hee fell a weeping saying Where will all these men be within a hundred years hee wept to think that all that mighty Army would be in their graves within a hundred years Ah what cause of weeping is there when wee behold most Armies in the world considering that within a few years yea months for any thing wee know they may be most in Hell