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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04597	A spiritual chaine, and armour of choice, for Sion souldiers Which, whosoeuer weareth graciously, shall be sure of the best honour, comfort and safetie (whether he liue or die in the battell) that can come to a Christian souldier. Very necessary for these times.	Jones, Anthony, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 14717.5; ESTC S114423	39,266	114

whosoeuer entreth into followeth anie path let him be sure to misse the King of Kings high way though he should plot with Ieroboam and out plot Achitophel which were hard for the best wit to doe Nay grant that he hit her plot of profit pleasure or honour yet shall he misse the path of heauen except he returne The waies of man may seeme straight green pleasant at first but if he consult not with the word of his God they wil proue crooked black and mirie at last But why go I about to praise the Sunne for light the fire for heate siluer seuen times tried for purenesse and that which passeth the honie and the honie-comb for sweetnesse They praise themselues yea and God himselfe praiseth them Onely this I will say more As no godlie Captaine or souldier will do anie thing how meane or how great soeuer except he haue Gods word to allow it so also no godly Captaine or souldier wil do anie doubtful thing be it euer so small how much lesse the weightier things of such a priuat wit or conceit in the word as to become his owne iudge what is the will of God therein but rather aduise with holie Seers Coloff 3.2 such as haue set their affections on things aboue and not on things below A mans own praier to God according to the word and his owne consultation with God by the word are not enough in these cases Rom. 12.3 This ouerweening wit presuming to vnderstand aboue that which is meet hurteth the most godly when they fall into it And as for the wicked who contually both worke and play with their fine refined wits Prou. 26.12 there is more hope of arrant fooles then of such Good men may faile in this by trusting too much vnto their owne iudgement and thereby meete with a temporall punishment for such slips But the wicked make a continual practise of relying on their owne policie quite neglecting yea and some of them contemning the the word Was not Achitophel a patterne of such fooles Doubtlesse he was And if you see an example of a holy man quite ouerturned by trusting to his owne counsell see it in gracious Iosiah when this good King this peerlesse King for in that respect so I may say of him tooke aduice by the word from the mouth of Hulda the Prophetesse 2. Chron. 34.21 he receiued a right comfortable answer from the Lord his God but afterwards for want of taking such aduice that most famous religious zealous King perished in the battell against Pharao Neco 2. Chron. 35.20 We do not find that he did then consult with his God by the help of his gracious Prophets Now if it be a thing so dangerous not to aske counsell of holy Ministers what is it to refuse their good counsell giuen what to enterprise things quite contrary to the word Surely a double and treble fault full of double and treble danger By obstinate refusing good counsell from the Lords true messengers Num. 14.45 you may see that the Israelites were ouerthrowne in fight against the Amalekites and Canaanites 1 King 22.17.28 And so also came Ahab to his desperate death he would go vp to Ramoth Gilead though the Prophet shewed him his fall most plainly Happie then are they who giue eare and obedience to the word of our God Mal ● truly opened by his faithfull Ministers The Priests lips should preserue knowledge For whom For all sorts both high and low rich and poore learned and vnlearned and they should seeke the law at his mouth for he is the Messenger of the Lord of hoasts Yea and as he should counsell all sorts of warriers by the word so should he comfort and encourage them in the verie time of entrance into the battell When thou goest out to battell against thine enemies saith our God by his seruant Moses and seest horses and chariots Deut. 20.2.3.4 and a people more then thou be not afraid of them for the Lord thy God is with thee which brought thee out of the land of Egypt And it shall be when ye come nigh vnto the battell that the Priest shall approach and speake vnto the people and say vnto them Heare O Israel yee approach this day vnto battell against your enemies let not your hearts faint feare not and do not tremble neither be troubled because of them for the Lord your God is he that is with you to fight for you against your enemies to saue you Thus you see what great vse and neede there is of the Ministers priuate counsell and publick instruction euen in war These things so it alwaies behoueth both Captaines and souldiers to be frequent in consultation with their God touching all matters belonging to their places Consultation I say by often and feruent praiers and consultation by aduice of godly and learned Preachers This consultation must begin at the first houre and neuer end till a souldiers last houre be ended yea and Sion souldiers ought also to ioyne priuate reading and meditation in the word together with this consultation according to that in the first Psalme His delight is in the law of the Lord Psal 1.2 and in his law will he meditate day and night and agreeable also to that in Iohn Search the Scriptures Iohn 5.39 for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of me And specially as our God cōmandeth Iosua which commandement extendeth to all souldiers Let not this booke of the Law depart from thy mouth Ios 18. but meditate therein day and night that thou maist obserue and doe according to all that is written therein for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous and then shalt thou haue good successe For this purpose if they reade Psal 3. Ps 27. Psa 57. and Psal 118. they may finde much comfort in these places And thus much for the eight worthie linke here ioyned with the rest as the last linke to make vp a heauenly Chaine for Sion souldiers Such as keepe these links together in a gracious order are fitly adorned to wait vpon the true God of battell that King of glorie and they to whom our God giueth these eight worthies for a spirituall chaine are fittest and likest to performe most valiant actions and worthy of great honour here with their Kings and Princes and shall be accounted worthy to reigne as kings with that King of Kings for euer Shall I now say that here touching these eight links which I said before concerning those seuen peeces of armour viz. suffer thy Pastor to ioyne these eight links together for thy good and to fit them to thee for thy defence I might say so but I will say thus Do not onely suffer but intreate thy Pastor also to ioyne and fit these seuen peeces of armour aboue named as heauenly and compleate armour of choice to defend thee and these eight links also as a heauenly