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.
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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.
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Perne, Andrew, 1594-1654.
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London :: Printed by G. Dexter, for Stephen Bowtell, at the signe of the Bible in Popes-head-Alley,
1643.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A90512.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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It is Naturall with Men to bee peremptory for their God,
and for their Religion.
All People will, and wee will. If a Nation con∣sent 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 ser∣vants 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 can∣not 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
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their Religion. When nothing will procure liber∣ty to a Captive, yet this will; to abdicate and re∣nounce his Religion, and to joyne with them that have taken him. Contrarieties, yea, small differen∣ces 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 a∣mong us of late, have beene against the Law of na∣tions; 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 Cour∣ted for walking in the name of our God; for keep∣ing 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.