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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66471	The valorous warrior's welfare, in God's victorious warfare A sermon preach'd in His Majesty's English camp, near the city of Ghendt in Flanders; before the battalion of His Royal Highness George Prince of Denmark, under the command of the right honourable Colonel Charles Churchill, major-general of His Majesty's forces in the Netherlands. By William Williams, minister of the Gospel, and a son of the Church of England.	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2791; ESTC R219571	20,595	33

Rom. 1.21 and Christians over to Antichristianism as you may note in 2 Thes 2.9 10 11 12. This also caus'd that Nebuchadnezzar was transform'd into the Nature of a Beast as you may Read in Dan. 5.20 21. And that Herod was eaten up of Worms as it is Recorded in Acts 12.23 Therefore let us learn from their harms to beware of Ingratitude and even at this present instant or juncture of time return Thanks unto God for those great Deliverances and manifold Mercies which we continually Enjoy'd from the Moment of our Nativity to this present Opportunity resolving from henceforth until our departure out of this Life to render Praise unto him for whatsoever Benefits or Blessings his good Providence may treasure up for us in order to our future Happiness saying with the Sacred Psalmist in Psal 72.18 19. Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wondrous things And blessed be his glorious Name for ever and let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory Amen and Amen Thus have I shew'd you what Praise is together with the Fruits and Effects of it in Ten Particulars In the next place I design by God's permission to demonstrate unto you how God is to be praised and that in these Six Compendious Points First of all God is praised by acknowledging him to be what he is in Himself in his Son in his Spirit in his Properties and in his Attributes For Moses in his Psalm of Thanksgiving Exod. 15.3 did praise God by speaking of him on this wise The Lord is a Man of War The Lord is his Name Secondly God is praised by attributing unto him that which is his as holy David did 1 Chron. 29.10 11 12 13. where it is thus written Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the Congregation And David said Blessed be thou Lord God of Israel our Father for ever and ever Thine O Lord is the Greatness and the Power and the Glory and the Victory and the Majesty for all that is in the Heaven and the Earth is thine thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted as Head above all Both Riches and Honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine hand is Power and Might and in thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy Holy Name Thirdly God is praised by acknowledging that which his Providence seemingly effects to be only done or perform'd by himself Thus doth Moses praise God by ascribing unto him the Overthrow of Pharoah and his Hosts in the Red Sea as you may observe Exod. 15.4 So also doth the Psalmist in most of his Psalms of Praise as in Psal 136.1 and from the 15th Verse to the 23d where it is thus worded O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his Mercy endureth for ever To him that overthrew Pharach and his Host in the Red Sea To him which led his People through the Wilderness To him which smote great Kings and slew famous Kings Sihon King of the Amorites and Og the King of Bashan and gave their Land for an Heritage even an Heritage unto Israel his Servant And this he did because his Mercy to his People endureth for ever Fourthly God is praised by owning that which he disposeth to be only given of himself this was David's candid acknowledgment of God's hounteous Benefits and liberal Gifts in 1 Chron. 29.14 where he thus spake unto the Lord All things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee Also St. Paul saith in Rom. 11.36 Of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be Glory for ever Amen Fifthly God is praised by declaring or mentioning unto others all the fore-named Points concerning him Thus did the sweet-tongu'd David that singular Singer of Israel 1 Chron. 16.8 9. where he speaks these godly Expressions Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name bring an Offering and come before him Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness Thus also have I show'd you in six compendious Points how God is to be praised If therefore according to these pithy and practical Points of Piety our Hearts are inclinable to praise God who is the most Victorious Conqueror and matchless Man of War under whose Bellonick or Warlike Banner we seem terrible in sight of our Adversaries because as Abijah said to the Israelites in 2 Chron. 13.12 That God Himself is with us for our Captain triumphing gloriously for the Discomfiture and Destruction of his Peoples Enemies As Moses speaks concerning the Overthrow of Pharaoh in Exod. 15.4 and of whom David saith Psal 98.1 That he hath done miraculous things for nis right Hand and his holy Arm hath gotten him the Victory That by this means as Zacharias prophesied of Christ and his believing People Luke 1.74 75. We being delivered out of the hands of our Enemies might serve him without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the days of our life renewing the Vow and Covenant that we made with Christ in our Baptism of fighting manfully under his Banner against Sin the World and the Devil and to continue his faithful Soldiers and Servants unto our Lives end To which end in order to prolong our Lives and see good Days by keeping our Tongues from Evil and Lips from guile we must abandon and abominate all horrid and rash Jurations all hasty and hurtful Protestations all hellish and heinous Imprecations all envious and evil Communications with all unchaste Desires and uncivil Deportment in our Lives and Christian Conversations for in so doing we have God's own inviolable Promises to be still aiding or assisting to us in all Manly and Military Enterprizes So that we may well agree in the pious Opinion and divine Disposition of indubitable and undaunted David to say in the Dialect or Warlike Words of my Text Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies This Portion of Scripture is a Text befitting the holy Parade and Camp of the Lord of Hosts for we have God in the Front God in the Center and God in the Reer of it If we wheel the Text to the Right hand there we shall find God triumphing if to the Right about there triumphing valiantly if we move the Text to the Left hand there we shall find God trampling if to the Left about there trampling down our Enemies If we place the Words as they were either upon their orderly Guard or in their close Order and as on the Patrol walk the Rounds of my Text Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies Having thus rendezvous'd countermarch'd exercis'd or muster'd my Text and form'd the Bands Battalions and Squadrons of our Camp in Battel Array let us proceed in the Name of the Lord of Hosts to display unto our Enemies the Flag of Defiance and make our

overthrew the Aramites and all his Enemies as you may farther remark in the 5th and 6th Chapters of the Second Book of Samuel Thus according to the words of my Text David the Darling of God did valiantly for He did tread down his Enemies These are some of the Royal Prophet's Atchievements who upon such Undertakings always consided in God's willingness and readiness to assist his Endeavours in all necessary Engagements For the Lord himself who is a Man of War vested him in an heavenly and impenetrable Coat of Mail or spiritual Armour according to those prudent and prevalent Expressions of his unbyass'd Resolution and Reliance recorded Psal 27.1 2 3. where he thus expostulated with himself touching his holy Warfare The Lord is my Light and my Salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the Strength of my Life of whom shall I be afraid When the Wicked even mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Flesh they stumbled and fell Tho' an Host should encamp against me my Heart shall not fear Tho' War should rise against me in this will I be consident This ought to be the couragious Resolution of all sincere Christians but more especially of Christian Soldiers who seem to carry their Lives in their Hands and are observed to stand upon the brink of the Grave Yet if such conside with David in the corroborating Power of God taking cognizance of the Equity of our late continued War and the just demerit of the Cause thereof being in defence of Christ's Gospel and such Kingdoms Territories Dominions and Provinces as maintain his true Religion together with the Lives Laws and Liberties of free-born Subjects who are thereby protected from infringing their Priviledges invading their Properties and infecting the Principles of their pious Profession Doubtless such necessary Warriors may have a welcom Access to the acknowledgment of my present Text in order to defend God's Word with David's Sword and there to say with the sacred Psalmist Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies In this place I have form'd or fram'd my Text to bear a lively Representation of the late Assairs of our Brittish Nation where a Party of its Inhabitants like the disturb'd Israelites have had several Commotions both with domestick and foreign Enemies This Truth is experimentally memoriz'd by many of us who through God's gracious permission have our continuance hitherto in the Land of the living But what shall we say to these things since God hath been for us who could be against us For through God we have done valiantly he trod down these our Enemies It was the good Pleasure of God Almighty in sundry and some late years past to send variety of Judgments upon the Kingdom of England that the Inhabitants thereof might learn Righteousness as Isaiah speaks Chap. 26.9 But as the pious Prophet David saith in Psal 28.5 we have not regarded the Works of the Lord nor the operation of his Hands either in the late noisom Pestilence which swept away thousands in the Metropolitan City of the said Realm namely London hurrying them into the dark and gloomy Chambers of the Grave nor the raging Fire which burnt up the Dwellings of many thousand Families burying them in their own Ruins nor the revenging Sword that in the Series of War slew a marvelous multitude of our Martial Men in their Engagements with furious Enemies And because we are not yet reclaim'd by all these signal and singular Tokens of God's Displeasure with us we may justly fear that Providence prepares some other severer Judgment either utterly to destroy us from off the face of the Earth or to force us in it unto better Obedience And to this purpose are those terrible Threatnings of a rewarding God recorded in Levit. 26.15 16 17 18. where he speaks these dreadful Expressions If ye shall despise my Statutes or if your Soul shall abhor my Judgments so that you will not do all my Commandments but that ye break my Covenant I also will do this unto you I will even appoint over you Terrour Consumption and the burning Ague that shall consume the Eyes and cause sorrow of Heart And ye shall sow your Seed in vain for your Enemies shall eat it And I will set my face against you and ye shall be slain before your Enemies They that hate you shall reign over you and ye shall flee when none pursueth you And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me then will I punish you seven times more for your sins Here we have a satisfactory Account in what way or method God usually proceeds to inflict his Wrath upon refractory Sinners First he imposeth one Calamity and if that reclaim them not then he will add a second sometimes doubling that with a fourth or trebbling it with the sixth Affliction And if all these work not upon the hardness of their Hearts then will he prepare another that like Nebuchadnezzar's Fiery Furnace shall be seven times more punishable than the former Moreover it is the Customary Phrase of God in Scripture when his Holiness would deter us from Vice to threaten our Destruction with Vengeance as in Deut. 32.35 where he saith To me belongeth Vengeance and Recompence Again he speaks in Ver. 41. of the same Chapter If I whet my glittering Sword and mine Hand take hold on Judgment I will render Vengeance to mine Enemies and will Reward them that hate me And in Ezek. 25.17 thus saith the Lord concerning the Destruction of the Philistines and Cherethims I will execute great Vengeance upon them with furious Rebukes and they shall know that I am the Lord when I shall lay my Vengeance upon them Hence it is observable that as the heavy Judgments of God are made so unconceivably intolerable by the weight of Divine Vengeance our safest Course in avoiding of them is to flee from Sin to his Sanctuary and there humbly and devoutly pray for the Peace of Jerusalem for they shall all prosper that love Communion with the Church of God and that your Requests may be made conformable to God's most holy Will at all times in all places and upon all occasions both Christ and his Church to that end have furnish'd you with sufficient Rules of Devotion he in the form of his gracious Petitions and she in the frame of her Pious Ejaculations He in his Petitions saying Lead us not into Temptations but deliver us from Evil and she in her Allusive Ejaculations saying From all Evil and Mischief from Sin from the Crasts and Assaults of the Devil from thy Wrath and from Everlasting Damnation good Lord deliver us Many Material Circumstances might be alledg'd to demonstrate our Church and its Government consistent with the Divine Will and Pleasure of God for she is so highly in Favour with the Highest that he remov'd those who caus'd her Breaches far from her in order to uphold her Walls and Bulwarks yea her

of the Syrians or Edomites in the Valley of Salt to the number of Eighteen Thousand Men. The History of which Engagement you may find Recorded in 2 Sam. 8.1 to 17. and also in 1 Chron. 18.1 to 16. in which Relation we may observe that Holy David was very Successful in his Warlike Enterprizes for he overcame many Potent Kings and Kingdoms thro' a fixed Affiance in the Faithfulness and All-sufficiency of an Infallible and Omnipotent God who is the most Magnificent Monarch and Mightiest Warriour of whom Moses saith in Exod. 15.3 The Lord is a Man of War the Lord is his Name or his Name is Jehovah which denotes both his Holiness and Hostility This Military Description of God may be fitly stil'd the Soldiers Armory or Magazine where not only his Carnal but also Spiritual Weapons Accoutrements and Ammunition are constantly kept in a Warlike Readiness It is as it were the Tower of David whereon there hang a Thousand Bucklers all Shields of Mighty Men as you may Read in the 4th Chapter of Canticles or Song of Solomon at the 4th Verse Or as that Tower of Solomon mention'd in Prov. 18.10 where it is said that The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower the Righteous runneth into it and is safe Therefore let us betake our selves to this strong Citadel or Invincible Garison which is the Christian Combatant's Fort Roval where the Captain of our Salvation is Christ Jesus and the Generalissimo of our Believing Forces God Almighty whose Banner over us is Love and that stronger than Death for many Waters could not quench his Love neither could the Floods drown it as you may note in Cant. 8.7 This is that Love which surpasseth Knowledge whereof the Apostle St. Paul speaks in Eph. 3.19 The Superlative Transcendeney of which is apparently made manifest in the Miraculous and many Renown'd Victories obtain'd over their Enemies by the Adventurous Armies and Couragious Champions of the Living God under whose Irresistible Power not only Royal David in particular but also his Loyal Host in general did Valorously resolve to Encount or and Conquer their Adversaries yet so as at the same time and in the mean space that with one Unanimous and Harmonious Consent they voluntarily and devoutly ascrib'd unto God to whom it was due even the Glorious and Praise-worthy Success of their Valiant and Vigorous Victories according to these Heroical or Martial Expressions of my present Text where Divine and Undaunted David as it were after an Alarm to take up Arms made this Consolatory Speech unto his Army Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies This Portion of Scripture being the Subject of my Warlike Discourse hath its Foundation laid on the most durable and unmoveable Rock of Ages namely God himself and that by a Matchless Monarch of Israel to wit the Militant and Triumphant David in which Text as a Garison Town or City of Refuge he hath Erected on the East-side an Heavenly Castle of Safety and on the West an Holy Tower of Security The Heavenly Castle of Safety importing God's Favourable Presence with his People in Countenancing them to defie the fierceness of their Enemies according to these former words of my Text Through God we shall do valiantly The Holy Tower of Security implying God's powerful Providence to his People in Encouraging them to Defeat the Forces of their Adversaries as concurring with these last Expressions in my present Subject For he it is that shall tread down our Enemies Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies In walking the Rounds of this Text Town or City of Refuge which hath God seated in the Circuit Situation and Centre thereof for its Safety as also Sallying the Ports viewing the Rampiers Platforms Counterscarps Fortresses Flankers Battlements Bulwarks and Batteries thereof Besides a Castle and a Tower Erected on the Eastern and Western sides to prevent the Storming Surprizing Besieging Invading or Taking of the same by Force I likewise discover'd it strongly fortify'd on the North and South-sides with two other Regal Citadels or Royal Forts of Defence and they are these which I shall describe unto you First King David's Divine Consideration That the Foundation of a Just War in the Defence of his Peoples Lives Laws Liberties and Religion hath its Victorious Dependency on the Supream Power and Providence of God the which is apparently evident in the front of my present Text where the purpose of God in preserving his People from the violent Enterprizes of their Enemies is thus Elegantly and Excellently exprest Through God we shall do valiantly Secondly King David's Divine Suggestion That tho' the People of God may be Instrumental in subduing their Enemies yet the Success that makes their Foes their Footstool is a principal Prerogative only peculiar to God himself And this is likewise apparent in the Rear of my present Subject where the pleasure of God in punishing his Peoples Adversaries is thus Emphatically and Pathetically worded For he it is that shall tread down our Enemies Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies I have divided my Text into Two Parts or Portions like Two Regiments or Battalions of Soldiers in which respect it represents the Right and Left Wings of an Army But having thus open'd my Text both to the Right and Left that I may put it again in a proper form I shall reduce the Divisions as they were and thereby bring it to its close Order drawing up the main Body thereof into a more Compleat and Warlike Posture by demonstrating unto you in a considerable measure what Glorious Conquests the Successful and Successive Sabaoths or Hosts of God obtain'd in former Ages over their Adversaries In order to which Demonstration I design thro' God's Gracious Assistance to speak unto the Two Chief Generals or General Heads posted at the Royal Standard of my Text as in the First place To King David's Divine Consideration That the Foundation of a Just War in the Defence of his Peoples Lives Laws Liberties and Religion hath its Victorious Dependency on the Supream Power and Providence of God Secondly To King David's Divine Suggestion That tho' the People of God may be Instrumental in subduing their Enemies yet the Success that makes their Foes their Footstool is a principal Prerogative only peculiar to God himself Both which Observations are inseparately included and compleatly comprehended within the Bounds and Limits of my Celestial Subject where in Expectation of Aid from the Deity to suppress his Adversaries it is thus Dictated by Devout David Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies In all the Series of Holy Scripture we may evidently behold that when Almighty God intended to accomplish some Notable Deliverance to his People he gave them to understand in the mean space that it was not so much their own