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A10394	Saint Pauls triumph, or cygnea illa & dulcissima cantio that swan-like and most sweet song, of that learned and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. Iohn Randall, bachelor of diuinitie: vttered by him (in an eleauen sermons, vpon the eight chapter of St. Pavl his epistle to the Romans, vers. 38.39.) lately before his death, in the time of his great and heauy affliction, and vpon the Communion-dayes, either altogether, or for the most part. And now published for the glory of God, the edification of his church and people, and the hononrable [sic] memoriall of the author, by William Holbrooke, preacher of the word of God.	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1623 (1623)	STC 20678; ESTC S102568	146,192	249

fulnesse of comfort to the spirituall man that can well relish it wee haue no further priuiledge from the warrant of the word by the charter of our freedome in Christ but this that our afflictions shall neuer hurt vs in regard of our spirituall estate they shall neuer impeach our spirituall safety so long as our sinnes are forgiuen for our sinnes are the poison and venome of all our afflictions when God shootes the Arrowes of his iudgements against vs dipt in the venome of our sinnes they are deadly Arrowes they will poyson vs to our euerlasting destruction But when they are dipt in the death and blood of Iesus Christ whereby our sinnes are forgiuen and taken away then though his Arrowes doe wound vs it is a good wound a comfortable wound and such as he will heale himselfe with his own hand so that they cannot hurt vs but comfort vs And if we be taken away by such an Arrow God takes vs to himselfe and that is best of all Fourthly our faith tels vs That all things shall Reason 4 worke together for our good Rom. 8.28 How shall I know this but by faith A true Beleeuer sees his enemies prophane wicked and carnall men busie to doe him hurt deuising and plotting how to worke some mischiefe against him he sits downe and smiles at the folly of the wicked and saith Alas poore men little doe they thinke that they take all this paines to effect my greatest good to doe me good by this affliction sometimes our dangers are so great and our afflictions are so bitter that we thinke it impossible that euer any good should come out of so great euils but our faith stands vp and layes the power of God and the promise of God together and saith God is able to helpe me for hee hath power enough and he is willing to helpe me for so he hath promised and therefore he will in the end turne all my afflictions to my good and so wee rest secure whatsoeuer comes Reason 5 Lastly we put on the spirituall armour by faith Eph. 6.10 to the 17. we haue all the parts of this spirituall armour and that makes him that is spiritually minded to be consecrated wholy to the seruice of God and hauing on this armour nothing can hurt vs. Vse 1 The Vses are these first this shewes the reason why the righteous are so bold and so confident in all their proiects and courses as Salomon speakes Pro. 28.1 The righteous are bold as a Lyon The reason is in the Doctrine his faith assures his heart that he belongs to God and perswades him of Gods loue fauour protection and saluation And that is the reason that the Prophet Isa 28.16 saith He that beleeues makes not haste he that hath found assurance of Gods loue in Christ makes not haste is not disquieted or distempered nor carried out of his Spirit by any euill or danger whatsoeuer but rests vpon the might and power of God and neuer flyes out for the matter but abides it with much boldnesse and keepes himselfe within his Spirits and rests soundly and sweetly on God for his deliuerence It is admirable to consider what wonderfull courage constancy and comfort Gods children stand out withall in great afflictions and distresses and meerely vpon this assurance how boldly haue they bearded those Tyrants that haue insulted ouer them how haue they runne to the fire embraced the Crosse despised the shame scorned all paine that hath beene inflicted on them lost all and meerely vpon the strength of this assurance Hebr. 11.35 The Apostle saith that they would not accept deliuerance because they were sure to obtaine a better resurrection In Dan. 3.16.17 the three children were questioned before the King hee tels them if they would not fall downe and worship the Image that he had set vp they should be cast into the hot fiery furnace What doe they answere They were poore captiues yet see how they bearded the Tyrant Oh King we are not carefull to answere thee in this matter see how they sleight him our God is able to deliuer vs and hee will deliuer vs doe thou what thou canst If not marke how bold they are yet bee it knowne to thee oh King that we will not worship thy God c. What is the ground of their resolution and courage It is this That God whom they serue is able to deliuer them he will deliuer them And so Luther when he was sent for by his enemies was disswaded not to goe yes saith hee if there were so many Diuels there as there are Tyles vpon their houses yet I would not feare them grounding himselfe vpon the assurance of Gods protection There is no true courage to be found but in true beleeuers there may be counterfeit and carnall courage in hypocrites neither is there any true courage in beleeuers but as they are made partakers in some measure of this holy assurance of the loue of God to them in Christ this will appeare when it comes to the tryall for then the boisterous hypocrite will faile when the feeble true beleeuer will stand fast Vse 2 And secondly this shewes the Reason why the wicked are so fearefull that they flye when none pursues them Pro. 28.1 and that they call for the mountaines to fall vpon them to hide them from the presence of God Reu. 6.16.17 Why the Reason is because their harts are destitute of this holy assurance and therefore they wanting this comfortable perswasion and assurance of the loue of God to warme their hearts therefore they are so cold at the heart and therefore they are ready to runne into Rockes and holes to hide themselues Some wicked men before trouble comes set a good face on it thinke highly of themselues say they haue as good a faith in God as any of them all but when it comes that they see they cannot put it off by sports and starting holes as they did before then their hearts faile them and then they grow to fearefull and desperate outrages Oh Beloued a man that truely feare God needes feare nothing else Euery true beleeuer hath this true feare of God and that makes him fearelesse of any thing else an vnbeleeuer hath none of this feare of God and therefore hee hath iust cause to feare all things else And it is the iust iudgement of God to giue them ouer to these base and slauish feares of all things else because they regard not the true feare of God It is true that the strongest beleeuer hath his feares but they are naturall and are subdued by the Spirit of God and the power of faith in him But the wicked are neuer endued with the Spirit of God to worke faith in their hearts and therefore they are slaues to the most slauish feares The third Vse teacheth vs what wrong men doe to themselues in that they doe not labour for this holy assurance They depriue themselues of the greatest comfort that they

conference name Christ our Lord but yet neuer thinke of his Godhead which is the life of his Lordship both in himselfe and vnto vs Christ Lord without Christ God is no Lord at all Vse 2 The second Vse is concerning the wicked and vngodly vnbeleeuers If Christ be our Lord that is the Lord of the faithfull and of his Church then the wicked and vnbeleeuers haue nothing to doe with him that is as a sauing Lord What a desperate wretchlesse and wofull case are they in Iesus Christ is none of their Lord to saue them nor they are none of his seruants they yeeld him no homage nor obedience and therefore can expect no comfort nor saluation from him Consider both their life and their death In their life they goe vp and downe doing their owne wils and not Christs will neither are they ruled by his Lawes but like Lordlesse and Masterlesse men they goe about saying What Lord shall controule vs If they doe serue or be ruled by any Lord at all it is the Diuell his word is their Law they are ruled by his will and are at his becke Let him bid a wicked man sweare or lye or prophane the Sabboth be drunke steale c. straight way he will doe it he is led by the Diuell at his will as the Apostle saith Oh that the faithfull would and could performe such true seruice to their Lord Iesus Christ as these doe to their Lord the Diuell It is a foule shame to vs that wee yeeld not such true seruice to Christ as they doe to their Lord the Diuell and it is a foule shame in them that they yeeld such true seruice to the Diuell So at their death when they are on their death-beds doe they pray no saith Iob the wicked pray not at all times No they curse and rage and dispaire or at the best they are like to Naball their hearts are dead as a stone within them there is no spirituall life nor comfort in them they haue neuer a Lord in heauen to commit their soules vnto but the Lord whom they serued in their life the Diuell stands by them ready at their death to carry away their soules to hell when they part from their bodies as he did the rich mans and then this cursed Lord and Master that set them on worke and to whom they haue done such true seruice here shall truely pay them their full wages in euerlasting torments They haue sinned with the Diuell and his Angels here and therefore it is iust with God to giue them their part and portion and to damne them with the Diuell and his Angels for euer And then this our Lord Iesus Christ whom they neglected and opposed in their life and would not acknowledge to be their Lord hee shall shew himselfe to be a mighty Lord against them and then hee shall exercise his Lordly power and authority ouer them in wrath and vengeance to their eternall condemnation And then the very thought of the Lord Iesus shall be as terrible to them as the torment they endure to thinke that Christ should come downe from heauen to saue them and that they should be such wretches to serue the Diuell rather then him Vse 3 The third Vse is for the faithfull this toucheth them in many respects First here is the honour of the faithfull in that they serue this great Lord Christ Iesus is their Lord and they his Seruants When sundry Ambassadors meete together from sundry places in a strange Country he that serues the greatest Prince amongst them hath the precedency of place and honour before the rest because hee serues the greatest Lord We all liue here as Seruants to Kings or Nobles or Magistrates or Masters but the faithfull howsoeuer they serue other Lords yet their spirituall Lord is the Lord Iesus Christ and by how much he is greater then other Lords so much the more is their honour aboue all other Seruants whatsoeuer It was that which the Apostle Paul and other of the Apostles boasted of and so much comforted themselues in as we may see in their Epistles that they were Seruants to this Lord Paul a Seruant of Iesus Christ Iames the Seruant of Iesus Christ and so others A man when hee sends an Epistle graceth himselfe with the greatest title he can the Apostles grace themselues in their Epistles with this Title the Seruants of our Lord Iesus Christ as the greatest title they can haue Nay the very Angels in heauen take delight and comfort in it Reuel 22.9 I am thy fellow seruant saith the Angell to Iohn the seruant of the Lord Christ as well as thou Some thinke it a shame to be counted Christs Seruants What shall we be ashamed of that which is our greatest glory and honour with God God forbid In trouble and in persecution let vs acknowledge him to be our Lord that will giue vs full content both in grace and glory Let carnall and prophane worldlings reproach vs as in these dayes it is too common that wee are too precise and that we are zealous for the Lord of hosts that we make conscience of our wayes and that we keepe our selues from the corruptions of the times and that we will not runne with them into excesse of riot this is the scandall of the Crosse in these times that the faithfull will not company and symbolize with the wicked in their sinnes no we will not serue your sinnes wee serue the Lord Iesus Christ and if you reproach vs for it we will weare that reproach as our Crowne The glory of the wicked is their shame but the shame that the wicked lay vpon vs is our greatest glory though this be a shame with men yet it is honour with Christ hee will take knowledge of vs as his Seruants Secondly this is matter of comfort to Gods Children and they stand in great neede of comfort in these vncomfortable times why this that Christ is our Lord if we be sure of that it will support and cheere vp our hearts in all our distresses against desertions of men when men when friends yea when our Parents forsake vs our Lord Christ wil neuer forsake vs Psal 27.10 Though my Father and Mother should forsake me yet the Lord would gather me vp It comforts vs against all oppositions of men they are many great and strong they rage and plot and they band themselues together against the Lord and against his Christ but yet here is our comfort hee that dwelleth in heauen shall laugh our Lord shall haue them in derision Psal 2.2.4 So it may comfort vs against all our wants Christ is our Lord and therefore wee shall want nothing Psal 28.1 The Lord is my Shepheard I shall not want Againe it may comfort vs against weakenesse and infirmities Christ is our Lord and his grace is all-sufficient for vs as the Apostle saith 2 Cor. 1.9 Againe it may comfort vs against all dangers present imminent and future Christ is our Lord therefore