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A19887	A royall edict for military exercises published in a sermon preached to the captaines, and gentlemen that exercise armes in the artillery garden at their generall meeting. In Saint Andrewes vndershaft, in London, Iune 23. 1629. By Iohn Dauenporte, B. of Diuinity, and P. of Saint Stephans in Cole-man-street in London.	Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1629 (1629)	STC 6313; ESTC S118437	18,564	36

2.7 that he forgets the care of his people which you may see implyed in the copulatiue particle Also Also God hath planted more affections then one in the soule of man as there is griefe to humble vs so there is feare to quicken vs. Dauid knowes how to mourne for euils past so as to take a course for preuention of the like for time to come not to be afflicted after such a losse in Israel had beene Stoicall apathy to haue beene so afflicted for the losse of Saul and Ionathan as to neglect the peoples good had beene base pusillanimity Therefore Dauid at once actes diuers parts of a good subiect and patriot in lamenting the losse of his King and Country and of a gracious Soueraigne in prouiding for the safety of his subiects For as he mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul and ouer Ionathan his son So also he bade them c. He bade them Not by way of Counsaile only but by way of Command also So that these words seeme to containe an Edict or a law of Dauid inioyning the people the vse of the Bow History of the world 2. booke 4. c. 15. Sex 244. p. For not to trouble you with the difference obserued by some betwixt a Law and an Edict you may obserue in these words all those things which are required in a Law 1. It must haue a right end which is the Common-good so had this Lex est quae dam rationis ordinatio ad bonu commune ab eo qui curam cōmunitatis habet promu●gata T. Aq. 12. q. 90. Art 4. Conc. for this exercise conduced much to the common peace and safety 2. Right meanes to attaine that end warranted by reason so had this For the people might be cōuinced of the equitie of this injunction by reasoning from naturall principles thus That which tends to the Common peace and safetie must be practised by all but the vse of the Bow tends to the Common peace and safety Ergo. The vse of the Bow must be practised by all 3. A right of authoritie in him who imposeth it so had this For Dauid whose command this was was before this time by a speciall command from God 1. Sam. 16.12 13. anointed to bee their King 4. It must be enacted and published so was this for he not only bade them but it is recorded in the Booke of Iasher Teach Or instruct which is done by rules exercise and examples as the manner is in your military Schoole The Artillery Garden The Children of Iudah It s an Hebraisme signifying that Tribe 2. Sam. 2.4 ouer which Dauid was anointed King in Hebron called so from Iudah the fourth sonne of Iacob who was the roote Gen 29.35 and father of that Tribe By the Children are meant all the people of that Tribe without exception of age or condition 1. Without exception of age Numb 1.20 after 20. or sooner it may be for at that age they went forth to warre and other Nations as for instance Corn. Tacit. lib. 5. cap. 7. the Germaines were wont to traine vp their sonnes euen from 14. yeeres old till they grewe by age or weakenesse vnfit for seruice 2. Without exception of condition Saul the King Ionathan the Prince Vriah a Noble man all sorts went to war as in Rome none were excused from seruice when Hannibal was at the gate The vse of the Bow By a Synechdoche the Bow is mentioned 1. Because it was much in vse amōgst the Israelites Psal 78.9 Therefore the Children of Ephraim are described Armed and shooting with the Bow 2. Because the enemy was expert in it and had annoied them much with that weapon Hence the Parthyans are described by drawing the Bowe and the Lidians Esa 66.19 Ier. 46.9 by handling and bending the Bow and it s said of Saul now slaine by the Philistims that the Archers and Bow-men hit him he was sore wounded of the Archers 1. Sam. 31.3 3. Because it was accounted most seruiceable and vsefull in warre Zach. 10 4. Ier. 51.3 therefore it s called The Bow of battaile and the bender that bendeth the Bow is the Periphrasis of a Souldier About the vsefulnesse of this weapon about those Muskets and Caliuers S. I.S his discourses with the preface thereunto now in vse it becomes not me to dispute others haue handled this Argument largely to whose discourses I referre you Beholde it is written in the Booke of Iasher What Booke this was is questioned 3. opin●ons ab●ut the booke of Iasher The word Iasher signifieth iust Some by this vnderstand the Pentateuch which say they is called the Booke of the just either because it was penned by Moses that just man or because it treateth about just things 2. Others thinke that only the Booke of Genesis is meant and that Dauid intended to incourage them to those Martiall exercises by what they find recorded in that Booke concerning the Tribe of Iudah that The Scepter should not depart from him nor a Law-giuer from betweene his feet Gen. 49.10 vntill Silo come 3. But to me their opinion seemes more probable Pet. Mart. in locum who thinke it to be some History containing after the manner of Annales or Chronicles the most remarkable passages in the State of Israel because this Booke is mentioned as the Register wherein that famous successe of the Sunnes standing still at Iosuahs prayer Iosh 10.12 13. for the space of a whole day is recorded whereof no mention is made in any of the fiue Bookes of Moses yet this no whit aduantageth the Papists who would from hence and such like places proue the defect of the Canonicall Books of the Old Testament For not to insist vpon the ambiguity of the word here vsed which signifieth any discourse about a thing as well as a Booke what if we grant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it was a written Booke must it necessarily follow that this Booke was Canonicall It s true that some ascribe it to Nathan and Gad Gen. 5.1 Nehem. 7.5 Mat. 1.1 who were Prophets yet all things which the Prophets wrote were not written by them as Prophets It cannot be denyed that the Prophets were Gods publicke Notaries Alia sicut hom nes historicâ diligent●a alia sicut Prophetae i●sp ratione diuinâ scripserūt atque haec ita ●uer●nt distincta vt illa tanquā ipsis ista vero tanquam Deoper i●sos loquēti iudicarentur esse tribuenda ac sic illa pertinerent ad vbertatem co●nitionis haec ad religionis authoritatem Aug de Ciuit. Dei li. 18. ca● 38. yet all the writings of a Notary are not authenticall vnlesse he doe them as a Notary Dauid the Prophet wrote a letter to Ioab concerning Vriah yet that was not penned by him as a Prophet The Prophets wrote some things as Prophets other things as Historians These serue to increase our knowledge those to increase our faith Thus we