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[ 1113] Not to be daunted at Afflictions.

IT is related of that valiant Commander Sr. H••race Vere,* 1.1 late Baron of Tilbury, that when in the Palatinate, a Councell of War was called, and there being debate, whether they would fight or not; some Dutch Lord said, that the Enemy had many pieces of Ordinance planted in such a place, and therefore it was dangerous to fight; he replyed, My Lords, if you fear the mouth of a Cannon, you must never come into the field. Thus it is that in the service of God, Men must not shrink or give back, because of difficulties in the way; and though it oftentimes so falleth out, that Men fall into divers Temptations, and those great ones too, as to dispair of Gods

mercies, and so to lay violent hands upon themselves;* 1.2 yet a Christian courage must not be daunted at any crosses or afflictions, but endure constant to the end; for God is faithfull and just, and will not suffer any Man to be tempted above what he is able to endure, nor lay any more upon him then what he shall be able to bear.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Triumphs of Nassau. J. Shute.
• * 1.2

  D. Rogers Ser. at Cant. 1633. Superand•• om∣nis fortuna fe∣rend•• est. Vir. Aeneid. lib. 5.