The fight of faith crowned, or, A sermon preached at the funeral of that…

Use 1. Is the Christian life military? To blame then are they who have no spiritual Artillery, nor do they make one sally out against the Enemy. 'Tis death to go abroad unarmed; People spend time in dressing themselves by the glass, and putting on their jewels, but do not put on their sacred Armour, Job 21. 12. They take the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoice at the sound of the Organ; as if they were rather in music, than battle. Lycurgus would have no mans name written upon his Tomb, but his who dyed manfully in War: God writes no mans name in the ⟨p. 7⟩Book of Life, but his who dyes fighting the good fight of faith.

Use 1. Is the Christian life military? To blame then are they who have no spiritual Artillery, nor do they make one sally out against the Enemy. 'Tis death to go abroad unarmed; People spend time in dressing themselves by the glass, and putting on their jewels, but do not put on their sacred Armour, Job 21. 12. They take the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoyce at the sound of the Organ; as if they were rather in musick, than battel. Lycurgus would have no mans name written upon his Tomb, but his who dyed manfully in War: God writes no mans name in the ⟨p. 7⟩Book of Life, but his who dyes fighting the good fight of faith.

Use 2. Give battle to Sin and Satan, and pursue them with an holy malice^*: and to encourage in the fight, let these things be weighed.

Use 2. Give battel to Sin and Satan, and pursue them with an holy malice^*: and to encourage in the fight, let these things be weighed.