2. Now, I pray you, set to the works, learn of God to know your right enemies, and to fight against them. Be not afraid, because we talk of fighting the fight shall be without danger, for in this case the only peril is, not to fight. In other battles, he that runs away, doth often scape better, then he that stands to it: but in this battle, whosoever flies, dyes, and he alone escapeth with life, that fights it out to the last. It is a noble quarrel, to fight for life and liberty against a mere usurper, that hath no manner of title, and yet would make you slaves. Sin hath none interest to you; the Devil is not your Creator, that he should make himself your your Prince and your God. These lusts against which we exhort you to fight, they are the devils armies or garrisons, by which he holds you down under his most unjust and tyrannical government. O, rebel, rebel against the devil, kill his Garrisons, set your selves at liberty. Fight against worldliness, envy, malice, pride, hypocrisy, wantonness, wrath; fight against them; resolve, that thou wilt never be made a drudge by them, as thou hast been; that they shall not have the command of thine heart, and thy tongue, and thine hand, as they have had, but that now through the Grace of God, thou wilt cast away all these things. How thou shouldest fight, I have showed thee before: remember ⟨p. 177⟩those directions, and use them, and be happy. O that any reasonable man, much more any Christian, should be so base-minded, and of such a servile disposition, as to be content to make himself a slave to any wicked passion, to any sinful lust, to any filthy vice, to any of the deputies of the Devil, that rule for him, and under him. What say you, men and brethren, will you now set in to fight in good earnest, against all your sins? If you will, the Lord be with you, the Lord assist you, the Lord beat down your foes before you, and we bless you in his Name, in whose Name we have exhorted you. If you will not, then hardly live and die in thraldom for ever: for without this fight, there can be no liberty.
2. Now, I pray you, set to the workes, learne of God to know your right enemies, and to fight against them. Bee not afraid, because wee talke of fighting the fight shall be without danger, for in this case the onely perill is, not to fight. In other battailes, he that runs away, doth often scape better, then he that stands to it: but in this battaile, whosoeuer flyes, dyes, and hee alone escapeth with life, that fights it out to the last. It is a noble quarrell, to fight for life and libertie against a meere vsurper, that hath no manner of title, and yet would make you slaues. Sin hath none interest to you; the Deuill is not your Creator, that hee should make himselfe your your Prince and your God. These lusts against which we exhort you to fight, they are the deuils armies or garrisons, by which he holds you downe vnder his most vniust and tyrannical gouernment. O, rebell, rebell against the deuill, kill his Garrisons, set your selues at libertie. Fight against worldlinesse, enuie, malice, pride, hypocrisie, wantonnesse, wrath; fight against them; resolue, that thou wilt neuer bee made a drudge by them, as thou hast been; that they shall not haue the command of thine heart, and thy tongue, and thine hand, as they haue had, but that now through the Grace of God, thou wilt cast away all these things. How thou shouldest fight, I haue shewed thee before: remember ⟨p. 177⟩those directions, and vse them, and bee happie. O that any reasonable man, much more any Christian, should be so base-minded, and of such a seruile disposition, as to bee content to make himselfe a slaue to any wicked passion, to any sinfull lust, to any filthie vice, to any of the deputies of the Deuill, that rule for him, and vnder him. What say you, men and brethren, will you now set in to fight in good earnest, against all your sinnes? If you will, the Lord be with you, the Lord assist you, the Lord beate downe your foes before you, and we blesse you in his Name, in whose Name we haue exhorted you. If you will not, then hardly liue and die in thraldome for euer: for without this fight, there can be no libertie.
