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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

Die Mercurij ultimo Maii 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That Sir Christopher Yelverton doe from this House give thanks unto Mr. Andrew Perne for the great paines hee tooke in the Sermon he this day preached at the intreaty of the House of Commons at St. Margarets in the Citie of VVestminster being a day of publique Humiliation and that he desire him to Print his Sermon And it is Ordered that no man presume to Print his Sermon but whom the said Mr. Perne shall authorize under his hand writing H. Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. I authorise Stephen Powtell to Print my Sermon above named and no man else ANDREW PERNE 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 JER 6.16 Thus saith the Lord stand yee in the wayes and see and aske for the old pathes where is the good way and walke therein and yee shall find rest for your soules Josh 24.15 As for me and my House we will serve the Lord. Dan. 3.18 Be it knowne unto thee O King that we will not serve thy Gods nor worship thy Golden Image which thou hast set up LONDON Printed by G. Dexter for Stephen Bowtell at the Signe of the Bible in Popes-head-Alley 1643. TO THE HONOURABLE THE KNIGHTS CITIZENS and Burgesses of the COMMONS House of PARLIAMENT Noble Gentlemen THis Sermon lately preached before your Honourable Assembly I now present to your review if in the midst of so many important businesses of State which lie upon you and in such variety of farre more learned Discourses which daily offer themselves you can find any leasure to look on this You are my witnesses and the world may see here is nothing but the words of truth and sobernesse though many charge us unheard with Schisme Heresie Faction Sedition and what not I must seriously confesse I am conscious to my selfe of many wants and infirmities and have alwayes avoyded to be publike as judging them things too high for me contenting my selfe to approve my doctrine to God and the consciences of my deare people committed to me and if I might have pleased my selfe I should rather have bin found still in mine own private Cure and have devolved this taske to any other But I durst not refuse an Authority so high and sacred to which all honest and Religious hearts cannot but stoop in regard of that stamp which the great God hath actually set upon it even for the generations of after ages your command will be a sufficient Apollogie for me though not for the worke yet if the great God may have any glory or the poorest in the Church for for them only I conceive it fit any edification by my weake endeavours I shall never repent either the preaching or Printing of this Sermon however unwillingly I undertook both being over ruled therto by your request which is to me instead of a command Gentlemen I have but one suit to you and t is the summe of the ensuing Sermon be Resolute still for God and for his true Religion and you know who said it God is with you while you are with him Your Servant for Christ ANDREW PERNE A SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of COMMONS at their publike Fast May 31. 1643. MICHAH 4.5 For all people will walke every one in the name of his God and we will walke in the name of our God for ever and ever THE Prophet having shut up the former Chapter with the great Judgement that all the Prophets did threaten Jerusalem with to wit the Babylonish Captivity begins this Chapter with a prophesie of that great Mercy that all of them comforts her with to wit the coming and Kingdome of Christ But in the last dayes it shall come to passe sayes he ver 1. that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the toppe of the mountaines c. As if he should have said Though God will plough Zion rend and teare his people with affections make this famous Citie heapes of rui●● and this Mount which is so daintily kept shall b● overgrown with nettles dirt and dust like the w●●● hills of the desert yet the time will come when Christ is exhibited and the Gospell is preached that the Church of God shall not be obscurely confin'd and shut up in a darke corner of the world but shall be so eminently conspicuous and famously known that the Gentiles shall flow unto it for out of Zion indeed shall the word of the Gospell proceed but it shall spread it selfe over all Nations and it shall so calme and quiet their spirits that they shall lay down all hostile dispositions and as if they were composed of peace they shall turne their warlike infiruments into tooles of husbandry their Swords 〈◊〉 plough shares and their speares into pruning books every one shall be contented with and safely sit under his own vine and fig●r●e And then comes in these words which are either as an exhortation to the people of God that then were as ●●lvin hath it to stirre them up Ad invictam animi mag●nudinem ●●●sultent cunctis gentibus to an inconquerable mag●●●mity and to an holy insultation over all Nations in regard of their God or as a prophecie of the Gospel courage and Christian valour and resolution which shall be in those that live in the Gospel times and so of this And why not of you for the words are a solemne and serious protestation like whereunto you have lately taken and commanded all the Kingdome that with their li●es power and estares they should maintain the true Protestant Religion which is to walke in the name of our God against all Popery and Popish Innovations In the words you may observe first a generall consent of all Nations that there is and to have A God this is insinuated in the Text. 2. The diversity of judgement among the Nations concerning this God for though they all agree that there is A God and every one will have One but herein they differ who this true God is 3. The peremptorinesse of every Nation for Their God and for Their Religion All people will walke every one in the name of their God and we will walke c. 4. A blessed use which the Church maketh of this for her selfe and her God others will be stiffe and peremptory for their Gods and so will she for hers 5. The Eminencie transcendency and Excellencie of her God above theirs Theirs are Gods but hers is the Lord our God Ichovah a God that hath a Being of himselfe Theirs have none 6. Observe the time how long Not for a fit or a good mood while that lasts will the Church be thus peremptory for her God

man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord. Vse 3 Are there many false gods in the world Then take heed that there bee none kept secretly in England it hath been with England as it was with Jacobs family and the Israelites in the dayes of Moses and Joshua though the true God was publikely acknowledged and worshipped in both yet there were private persons and families who kept Idols and false Gods and worshipt them and therefore when Jacob was to goe up to Bethel to build an Altar there unto God he first purges his family from Idols Gen. 35. And Joshua when he tooke his last leave of the children of Israel and caused them to enter into a Covenant that they would serve God exhorts them to put away the strange gods that were among them Josh 24.14 So how many false gods have there been still kept and worshipped in private families and houses here in England ever since the reformation Nay it hath been worse with us for the Romish superstitious nay idolatrous Crosses and Crucifixes have been upheld and deckt if not new built in the staring-Cheape in our Church-yards High-wayes and these have been worshipt and by these and some other things the Pope hath kept possession of our Kingdome Doe you cancell these cursed Evidences God lookes for it at your hands Downe with these high-places search England with Candles till you finde out all the abominations which are committed in secret and doe you in the name of England for your places will beare it say What have I to doe with Idols any more get you hence as filthy and uncleane things and instead of these send abroad those who may teach the good knowledge of the Lord may scatter the light of the Sunne of righteousnesse How many uncatechised darke corners are there in this Kingdome how many persons that know not God nor whether Christ were Man or Woman Helpe these to know their Maker 1. The greatest good that you can possibly doe this Kingdome is to helpe it yet more to the knowledge of God this is the end and the perfection of man herein his excellency above other creatures that he had a rationall soule given him fitted to sip a little of the knowledge of God this is the life and the liberty of the subject ye stand much for them and for ought I know cannot stand too much This is eternall life to know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent and this estates us into the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God 2. This is the greatest profit it will bring the Kingdome in more then all the Merchants of it Looke how much any doe know God and Christ so much are they theirs now a little of God is more then a great deale of the creature I desire to know nothing but Christ and him crucified sayes Paul if he could know him more hee should be more his 3. This would reforme the Kingdome better then all the Lawes that you can make knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men If wee can but get men to know God we may perswade them A good Minister will reforme a Parish better then a Iustice of Peace the weapons of our warfare are not carnall but spirituall yet mighty through God to cast down strong holds We spit fire into mens consciences and binde men over to the great Assizes of Quicke and Dead 4. God is the fountain of all the Mercies and Miseries that we meet withall if any should still bee sending of us kindnesses now and then a sweet child an Office change of Apparell Meat and Drinke and Sleep night and day one thing or another and sometimes should be reaching of us a smart blow a Feaver a fit of the Stone and Gout killing thousands in a weeke in our streets of the Pestilence bathing of his sword in our bloud how should we desire to know this person that we might know how to carry our selves towards him and to be at peace him Helpe England to know the God of Englands mercies and of Englands corrections Firstly We can neither goe any whither or doe any ●●ing without him In him we live and move and have our being Yea wee shall ever have to doe with him The knowledge of God would do a Man good in time of affliction when comfort will bee worth a World and what will Men doe in time of affliction if they know not God When the Soule comes to sigh it's last and to groane into eternity to goe to meet with a God it knowes not how sad a thing is this And you that know him labour to know him more for yee are not past this lesson nor ever shall It is Naturall with Men to bee peremptory for their God 3 Doct. and for their Religion All People will and wee will If a Nation consent together and chuse a King to Reign over them so long as he keepes the Paction and the agreement betweene them they will fight for him Ioh. 18.36 If my Kingdome were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jewes The God of the Nation is above the King and their Religion above their Civill Lawes and therfore men will be peremptory for them walke in them themselves and be glad of your company You cannot doe a Nation a greater kindnesse then to joyne and comply with it in its Religion and forsake your owne That temper is in all men to compasse Sea and Land to make a Proselite to their God and their Religion When nothing will procure liberty to a Captive yet this will to abdicate and renounce his Religion and to joyne with them that have taken him Contrarieties yea small differences in Religion doe breed the strongest opp osition But consent in Religion is the strongest sement in all the World The persecutions therefore that have beene among us of late have beene against the Law of nations The Turke Honours those that are the most strick't observers of Mahomet The Papists Saint those that are zealous for the Pope and yet wee have beene derided scorned persecuted and Courted for walking in the name of our God for keeping his Lawes for sanctifying his Sabbaths hearing his word which not onely our God but the very Lawes of the Land doe command us But wee stay not here The Church of God hath great cause to be zealous stiffe and resolute for Her God and Her Religion All Nations will and we will Why Their Rocke is not like our Rocke Our's is Jehovah as well as God a God that nath a being theirs have none but in fancy and imagination Our's is something but theirs are nothing an Idol as nothing sayes the Apostle 1 Cor. 8.4 All the attributes of God are the Reasons of this Point Reas 1 He is a Living God other Gods

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

's a wonder to make the Sunne to blush My people have done this well what followes vers 14. Is Israel a Servant Is hee a home borne slave What 's become of Israels spirit Is he borne to vassallage and destined to slavery If he had any courage in him he would show it for his God Oh! let the resolutenesse of those that worship stocks and stones shame us that wee have so little spirit for the living God 4. God is and hath been resolute for you and for all his Elect his good will was set for you in the beginning hee then determined your good and nothing could change him He determines Salvation for his Elect but they sinne and make themselves uncapable of it but God will have them to it and will break through all difficulties and dangers Jesus Christ breaks through Death and Hell and meets the wrath of God in the open field to redeeme his people Esai 9.7 The zeale of the Lord of Hosts shall doe this God is set upon it and he will fetch them out of the hands of all their adversaries Zeale is the height of Resolution and is one of the pieces of Gods Armour with which he cloathes himselfe when hee fights for his Church Esai 59.17 And hee put on righteousnesse as a breast-plate and an helmet of Salvation upon his head and put on the Garment of vengeance for cloathing and was clad with zeale as with a Cloak With what stedfastnes and immovable resolution did our Saviour Christ goe through the worke of our Redemption when Peter would have called him off he calls him Devill for his paines And when set about bringing of his people out of Egypt hee tramples all difficulties under his feet He drove as under the Nations the everlasting Mountaines were scattered and the perpetuall hills did bow Hab. 3.6 Hee hath a will for his people it is very fit then that they should have a will for him Psal 68.22 I will bring again from Bashan I will bring my people againe from the depths of the Sea Be you resolute for God for he is for you 5 The Lord is able and will either deliver you from or carry you through the danger That made the three Children so resolute for God our God is able and he will If we served a God of dirt that could neither heare us see our misery nor help us we might forsake him and his Cause But when he is omniscient omnipotent omni-provident One who as he is good so he doth good as he is powerfull so he gives power and strength to the weak why should we then forsake him It is our own fault if we have not power either to scape the danger or be carried through it There is power in Heaven and we may have it for asking Esai 58.8 9. The glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward then shalt thou call the Lord shall answer thou shalt cry he shall say here I am What is it that is not in the power of God to give I 'le shut up all desiring you but to consider that place in the 6. Ioh. Our Saviour in the beginning of the Chapter preach't a Doctrine about eating of his flesh and drinking of his bloud which carnall hearts could not conceive of nor digest Whereupon many of his Disciples as you have it v. 66. went back and walked no more with him So in these daies there are many truths a foot which will not down with men of carnall and corrupt mindes Therefore they have forsaken Christ his Cause Our Saviour looking upon the twelve said v. 67. Will you also goe away give me leave to aske the same Question of you Will you also forsake Christ and his Cause and seeke great things for your selves with the ruine of the Gospell and Kingdome Let your Answer be that which Peter in the name of all the rest gave v. 68 69. Lord to whom shall we goe Thou hast the words of eternall life and we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ the Sonne of the living God I am perswaded that many of you do believe and are sure that these are the true and righteous waies of God and do lead to eternall life resolve therefore to live with them and in them and to dye for them FINIS