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A75707	Good courage discovered, and encouraged: in a sermon preached before the commanders of the military forces, of the renowned citie of London. In the parish church of Great St. Helens. May the 17. 1642. By Simeon Ash, preacher in London.	Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3956; Thomason E149_26; ESTC R3991	25,215	40

saith Paul my bonds and sufferings are famous they are manifest in all the palace and in all other places and many of the Brethren by reason of my bonds Wax bold and speake the word without feare Phil. 1. 12. 13. 14. If you would know what word It was the word of CHRIST who was denyed derided Now to speake for a Christ when Paul is in prison and in bolts and fetters for the word of CHRIST was an act of Manhood And Pauls valour made them thus bold The Cities Courage will make the Countrey couragious This true valour that I speake for may have influence I know not how farre through the Kingdome in way of benefit and advantage Therefore looke you to it Quit your selves like men Be of good Courage The second motive is taken from the consideration of the sad consequences of cowardlinesse First A mans personall discredit call a Souldier a cravant and how doe you disgrace him They would faine saith Nehemiah Put mee in feare that they might have had somewhat to reproach mee Nehem. 6. 13. A Captaine and a Coward what a shame is it If you desire to maintaine your honour and reputation in City and Countrey hold up your hearts Be men of valour Secondly This is another a sad consequence of cowardlinesse it may tend to make us unprofitable and unserviceable in our places I was afraid and hid my talant for I Matth. 25. 25 thought thou wast a hard master You know whose speech it was When a man hath both oportunities and a●ilities to doe God and the King the Parliament and Kingdome good service God hath bestowed a good head-piece much wisedome an able body and healthfull a strong arme a vast estate a great command and yet notwithstanding when the welfare of Church and Common-wealth call him to make appearance hee drawes back dares not bee seene all his talents are tied in a napkin there is nothing traded for God because hee is a Coward and dares not looke out of dores There will bee a heavy reckoning for that man Take him bind him hand and foote Cowardlinesse makes men though able yet unprofitable therefore take heed of it Thirdly The good causes which men owne and favour may receive a great deale of dammage and prejudice by the pusillanimity the poorenesse of the Spirits of them that appeare therein There was a notable piece of policy in the endeavour of the rayling wretch Rabshecah to affright the ●ouldiers of Hezeki●h 2 Chr. 32. 18. This they did that they might make us afraid and take our City Cowardlinesse ties a mans hands behind him that hee can doe nothing in the World hee cannot keepe his ranck and place hee neither knowes when to charge or discharge his hands quake his eyes cannot see hee cries where am I and what must I doe Thus all is lost because of cowardlinesse it is a mighty disadvantage to bee a dastard Certainely a man under the power of dismaying in feares is ●●arse a man in the use of his intellectuals Fourthly What sad breaches cowardlinesse may make upon us both in regard of sinne and judgements I know not The sad example of Saint Peter is here considerable O what a wound did hee receive by reason of his unworthy fearefulnesse It cost him deare before the cut was cured You know his threefold deniall of his Master with the black aggravations thereof O I know him not I am not any of them you are mistaken in mee c. But before that breach was made up it cost him hot water H●e wept bitterly Beloved beloved consider what I say many a man doth that under the command of cowardlinesse which is paine and anguish in his heart to his dying day God is wonderfully incensed when men shrinke from him because of difficulties and dangers Feare not least I slay thee Bee not dismayed at their faces saith God to Jeremiah lest I confound thee before them Ier. 1. 17. When God cals often and cals loude upon men to take part with him and yet they shrinke and draw back believe it the danger is not little You know whose speech it is If you will deny mee Marke 8. 38. before men I will deny you before my Father which is in heaven A valiant Captaine when the field is fought and the victory is got bids bring in that cravant that milke-sop who did runne away Hisse him turne him out of doores as the shame of his Countrey when Christ shall come and call and say to some White-livered men you were ashamed to appeare for the strict observation of the Lords-day and you would not bee seene to favour the Reformation which by Englands Parliament at such a time was endeavoured and you would not labour to have the sanctuary swept from all pollutions and you would bee at no cost to have Christs-coine bear his stamp alone to have his ordinances pure without mixtures but you would rather Issachar-like lye under burthens then struggle for deliverance You were afraid what might bee the issue of your boldnesse in such businesses if the times should turn and the tyde run another way and matters change in such and such a manner And hereupon you sneakingly left me and my cause and glory in the open fields Beloved this will be an heavy hearing to the cowardly Apostate at the last day when the fearefull and the unbeleeving must be sent into the lake which burneth with fire brimstone Therefore I intreat you againe and againe to consider Revel 2. 8. well of this matter Lastly how farre cowardlinesse may tend to discourage others I wish you to consider I here remember that when Israel of old was to goe forth unto battaile God commanded the officers to speake thus unto th● people What man is th●re that is fearefull and faint hearted l●t him goe and returne unto his house lest his brethrens hearts faint or melt as well as his heart Gentlemen God forbid that you who are come hither to day to acknowledge your selves bound to God for your estates lives and liberties to have the word of truth preached and pressed upon you for your soules good God forbid I say that you who give good examples in many other kinds should doe any thing which may tend to weaken the spirits and to dampe the courage of any who shall enquire what doe they in London Having thus farre perswaded you to pluck up your hearts as it becommeth Saints I now intreat you to give me leave to counsell you what course to take that you may be couragious and I promise to doe it as with sincere reference to God whose servant I am so with unfained faithfulnesse to you whom I now serve What shall wee doe that wee may bee couragious My directions are in number ten I will not be long in any one of them because I would not be tedious I humbly beg your best attention desiring to speake to your soules and I beseech the Lord to speake to my

the government and worship of the Lord Christ for the safety and honour of our King for the welfare of his three Kingdomes for the Priviledges of our Parliament and for our rights by Law All these are to bee prized at an exceeding high rate our happinesse will bee great in the enjoying of them and our misery not small in the want of them Every man according to his Relations and engagements should reason the case with himselfe What adventures should I make and what hazard should I runne that my selfe may not bee enslaved that my Wife may not bee abused my Children massacred and which is above all that Christs holy Religion may not bee corrupted and that Popery may not bee introduced and established in England Thus meditation upon the worth of the things to bee maintained will bee a speciall meanes to quicken and to augment Courage Fourthly Keepe Christ your Captaine in your eye For true valour there never was nor ever shall bee any like unto him Gird thy sword upon thy thigh ô most mighty with thy glory and Majesty and in thy Majesty ride prosperously and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things Psalme 45. 3 4 How valiant a Champion was the Lord IESUS Heb. 12. 2. Hee endured the Crosse and despised the shame Hee went on though dogges did barke and Lyons did roare though men reproachfully reviled him and the Devils endeavoured to devoure him though the earth as it were did shake under his feete and the Heavens were black and thundring over his head Although when his professed enemies had conspired his death Iudas did betray him and his other Disciples did forsake him yea although his God and Father did hide his face from him when hee answered Divine Iustice for our sinnes yet hee shrunke not hee drew not back from the glorious worke undertaken When outward dangers encompassed him and the sorrowes of Hell tooke hold upon his Soule though hee was apprehensive and sensible of all unto the utmost and therefore both complained and prayed to his Father yet was he not discouraged Hee did not sound when hee saw his own bloud yea although his body was wet all over with a bloudy sweat but he worthily did wade through the floud of his appointed passions Consider him consider him beloved that you may not faint in your minds when a souldier sees his Captaine content to take up with poore provisions and undaunted though hee meet with hard services harsh usages sore affronts hee thereupon growes the more resolute For thus bee reasons within himselfe My worthy Commander for his diet takes up with a crust of course bread and a little water hee hath not beene in bed these many nights but still either watcheth or else hee lies upon the ground the cold ground no wayes no weather discourages him Winter Summer wet or dry scorching heate the pinching frost are alike unto him Bullets blowes wounds bruises broken bones doe not cause him to sound a retreat to give back and shall I shrinke Beloved if Christ had shrunke when Heaven frowned and men deserted and Devils opposed him what had become of you and mee Is this Christ my Captaine and hath hee Captaine-like Champion-like for mee both done and suffered thus worthily thus incomparably and shall not I put on Courage and shew my selfe a man a valiant man for him I beseech you consider this frequently and affectionately Fiftly I commend unto you mutuall Christian communion as a speciall meanes of Christian Courage In the Prophet Malachy his times when wickednesse was Mal. 3. 16. growen to a great head and the power of godlinesse was discountenanced in them then those that feared God spake often one to another When Paul after shiprack saw the brethren who came Act. 28. 15. to meete him hee tooke Courage And also upon a strong Act. 18. 5. dispute with some who opposed Christ when Silas and Timotheus were come Paul was pressed in Spirit God bee thanked for that unity and love which is amongst you amongst you the Aldermen and Commons of this City unto whom the Militia is committed God continue it God knit your hearts together more fast and firme from day to day God give you when you meete to consider seriously what may heat and hearten your Spirits in the way of Christian valour according to that which this day I have preached and according to that which this day wee all need Wee read in Isay 41. 6. of a Company of Idolaters animating each other in promoting Idoll worship They helped every one his Neighbour and every one sayd to his brother Bee of good Courage So the Carpenter encouraged the Gold smith and hee that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth with the anvill c. Doubtlesse at this day those who envy our hopes and oppose our peace doe meete and hearten one another both by words and actions God forbid therefore that wee should bee more regardlesse of one another having a better cause and more incouragements Sixtly set faith on worke in the promises of the Gospell The worthies in the primitive times waxed valiant by meanes of faith Hebr. 11. 34. You may doe well to informe your selves what the Lord is pleased to speake in the word of truth for your comfort By the bond of his owne rich unchangeable grace he is become your debtour to doe more then I can possibly expresse Three things I thought to have spoken unto under this direction First The promise of Gods assistance Bee of good Courage and hee will strengthen thine heart The sweet Psalmist saw much sweetnesse in this and therefore doth mention it once and againe when the Soule saith I am ready to Psal 27. 14. fall downe yet taking courage to march forward it shall renew strength it shall receive an addition of new strength Esa 40. 31. And that speech of Solomon Prov. 10. 29. is very remarkeable The way of the Lord is strength to the upright They goe on and gather strength in going they walke from strength to stregth Psalm 84. 7. Truly this is an heartening consideration Secondly The promise of good successe Beloved Christians maintaining the cause and minding the glory of God are as sure of victory as if now they were singing the triumph and going away as Conquerours This is most certaine for truth it selfe hath spoken it In the World Ioh. 16. 33. yee shall have affliction bee of good cheere or bee bold I have overcome the World The Devill hath his deaths wound Corruption hath as it were the knife at the heart of it and the power of wicked men is broken they are but sprunting and striving for life By this argument the Lord heartened his servant Ioshua Bee strong and of a good Courage for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I sware unto their Fathers to give them Josh 1. 6 As though the Lord had thus spoken although thou mayest fight many battailes receive