Transcribed from the 1810 Ann Kemmish edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org SPIRITUAL VICTORIES, THROUGH THE _Light of Salvation_. * * * * * BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A SERMON, Preached on SUNDAY, March the 11th, 1810, AT THE OBELISK CHAPEL, * * * * * BY J. CHURCH, Minster of the Gospel. * * * * * _PUBLISHED BY REQUEST_. * * * * * “O House of Jacob, come ye, let us walk in the Light of the Lord.” * * * * * _SOUTHWARK_: Printed by ANN KEMMISH, King-Street, Borough. * * * * * 1810. * * * * * _PREFACE_. _TO those Friends who requested the Publication of this Sermon_—_I have only to say_, _I have endeavored to recollect a considerable part of it_; _many ideas I have omitted_, _and others I have introduced_, _as I had not the least intention of making this public_, _nor should I but for your very pressing solicitation_. _I would remark by way of Preface_, _that the success of Sermons_, _in point of usefulness_, _depends upon the operations of God the divine Spirit_; _and these influences are entirely sovereign_. _That although this Sermon was blest to you in the hearing_, _it may not be so to you in the reading_—_nevertheless_, _as the friends of immortal truth_—_you being in the possession of that love_ (_which rejoiceth in the truth_) _will also rejoice in every attempt to exalt the Person of Jesus as the truth_; _to comfort and establish Believers in the truth_, _and to encourage all the heralds of truth_, _to be faithful unto death_. _I have sent forth the truth in a very plain style_; _to you who know her excellencies she will shine with unfading charms_; _while you adore the God of all grace_—_and I subscribe myself_, _Your willing Servant in the cause of truth_, _J. CHURCH_. A SERMON. JUDGES viith Chap. 20th Verse. “_And the three companies blew the trumpets_, _and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands_, _and their trumpets in their right_, _to blow withal_; _and they cried_, _The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon_!” THE history of the church of God, in all ages past, as recorded in the Scriptures, is intended by the Spirit to exhibit many things of vast importance to us, on whom the ends of the world are come.