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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68649	Allarme to England foreshewing what perilles are procured, where the people liue without regarde of martiall lawe. With a short discourse conteyning the decay of warlike discipline, conuenient to be perused by gentlemen, such as are desirous by seruice, to seeke their owne deserued prayse, and the preseruation of their countrey. Newly deuised and written by Barnabe Riche Gentleman.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1578 (1578)	STC 20979; ESTC S115900	71,422	106

Hai and her King as thou didest vnto Iericho and her king neuerthelesse the spoyle and cattell thereof shall ye take vnto your selues c. Saul in the first booke of Kinges the 15. chapter hath the like commandement and these be the wordes Samuel said vnto Saul The Lord sent me to anoynt thee King ouer his people Israel nowe therefore hearken thou vnto the voice of the Lord Thus sayth the Lord of hostes I remēber that which Amalek did to Israel how they layde wayte for thē in the way as they came out of Egypt Nowe therefore go and smite Amalek and destroy ye all that pertayneth vnto him see that thou haue no cōpassion on them and couet nothing that they haue slay both man and woman infant and suckling oxe and sheepe camel and asse c. By this commandement we may perceiue GOD gaue charge to Saul that he should sacke the coūtries of the Amalechites and to passe by the edge of the sword men women children and beasts without dispense or grace giuing a reason of that extreeme iustice because those people had done many oppressions to Israel in the voyage out of Egypt into Chanaan and willeth him in no wise to shewe mercy or to haue compassion not so much as vpon women and children This place might seeme ouer cruell to such as would haue men go to warre and to kil no body nor to cōmit any spoyle neither do I alleadge this to maintayne tyrannie for there is time and occasion to vse both rigour and pitie iustice and mercy as hereafter I wil further shewe I meane now but to make profe that God hath not bene displeased with warres but is called in many places the God of hostes And Moyses citeth a place of the warres of the Lord and in the 20. chap. of the second booke of Chronicles it is writtē that when Iosaphat had vnderstāding of the multitude of his enemies the Moabites the Ammonites and the Syrians that were gathered against him Iosaphat assembling his people into the Temple made this prayer vnto God. O Lord God of our Fathers art thou not God in heauē raignest not thou ouer all the kingdomes of the heathen and in thy hand is power and might and there is no man that is able to withstand thee art not thou our God which didest cast out the inhabiters of this land before thy people Israel and gauest it to the seede of Abraham thy louer for euer and they dwelt therein for thy name saying If euill come vpon vs as the sword of iudgement pestilence or hūger then if we stand before this house and crye vnto thee in our tribulation heare thou and helpe And now behold the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir by whom thou wouldest not let them of Israel goe when they came out of the land of Egypt but they departed by them and destroyed them not see howe they would rewarde vs that would cast vs out of thy possession which thou hast giuen vs to inherite O our God wilt thou not iudge them for we haue no might against this great companie that cōmeth agaynst vs neyther wote we what to do but our eies attende vpon thee And as he continued thus in prayer beholde the Prophete spake vnto him Feare not this multitude it shall not be thy warre but the warres of God c. I could here cite a number of like places but these may seeme sufficient to prooue that warres haue bene acceptable before the maiestie of God and sometimes more auaylable then peace as in the second chapter of the booke of Iudges it appeareth where the children of Israel were blamed for making of peace with the Cananites And like as out of the scriptures many other probable reasons might be gathered so there be diuers excellent authours and sundrie learned writers which seeme not onely to alowe of warres but thinke them to be many times very meet cōuenient to be attempted to be taken in hand and that it is many times necessary for Princes to become enemies to the ende they may be perfect friendes And a most happie begun warre may that be called whereby is wrought the safetie of the state so contrary most miserable is the peace which bringeth with it the hazard of a countrey Cicero saieth in his booke of Offices To this end and purpose we must enter into warre that without iniurie we may liue in peace And in an other place of the same booke hee sayeth We must beware that we take not vp the matter by aduice more to auoyd warre then for cause of profite for we must neuer by seeking to escape perill deserue to seeme cowardes and dastards but so let warres be taken in hand as no other thing but peace may seeme to haue bin sought This was the cause that made Demosthenes so mightily to inuey against king Philip for hee perceyuing the insatiable desire of king Philip and that he ment to make a conquest of all Grecia and had already begun with the Olynthians whō if he had once ouerthrowen there was nothing then to let his passage to Athens the which Demosthenes very wel foreseeing by sundrie orations perswaded the Athenians not onely to sende helpe to the Olynthians but also to sende an armie into the partes of Macedonie a meane whereby to make king Philip to haue withdrawē his force frō the Olynthians to defende his owne countrey alleadging by many persuasions that ayde to their neighbours was very needful and necessarie when their owne safetie did chiefly consist in the others good successe for who withdraweth him selfe whē his neighbours house is on fyre may wāt helpe to quēch his owne Thus we may see although that peace be chiefly to be desired yet many times by entring into warres it is the more safely quietly maintayned Like to a ship which many times by some extraordinary winde forsaketh the quiet harbour and seeketh her safetie in the wilde and raging seas So as Salomon saith There is a time of peace a time of warre a time of mirth a time of mourning and therefore to vse time in time as occasion doth serue is a point of the greatest wisdome And Cicero to the same effect vseth these words To runne to the field rashly all vpon the head and to enter conflict skirmish with the enemie is no point of humanitie but the propertie of a sauage beast but when time necessitie requireth then on with armour and fight for lyfe preferring death before seruitude and miserie And in an other place of the same booke he speaketh of two kindes of iniustice the first in him that wil offer it the secōd in him that will take it and being able will not defende it But here peraduenture some will alleadge against mee the saying of Christ where he willeth that he who had receyued a blowe on the one eare should likewise turne the other

found Ynough to eate the Spanyardes vp had they bene bakte in pyes or had bene brued in double beere because the Flemings gyes Do better serue to drinke then eate the Spaniardes had bene dead they would haue drunke them all vp quite without a byt of bread But here ynough to make my proofe and stil of this be sure where Mars is had in no accompt no state may long endure May rebels thinke you scape his scourge may such cōtempt go quite will Mars the mightie god of warre be had in such despight No no he may deferre a time ere he reuengement take but in the end he payes them home the stoutest then doth quake O England would thou didst regard what plagues in time do hap to such as so without respect are luld in pleasures lap And feares no force of future fits that after may ensue till dangers doe beset them round and then to late to rue And would to God by others harmes thou mightst so warned be that thou into thine owne estate wouldest vouchsafe to see And tel me then yf Mars be had in honour like a god yf not how thinkest thou to escape the rigour of his rod May peace procure so great contempt and alter kind so farre that yr should make thee quite forget there is a god of warre Shal martiall feates be stil neclect as though we were so sure that this our time of pleasant peace should euermore endure Would God it might but so to wish I know is but in vaine our foes are ready prest no doubt they seeke but time to gaine What though in secret yet they lie who knowes not why they stay their quarrell is not now to seeke they hope but for a day Loe here the cause that vrged me first to take in hand to wright this blunt discourse good reader here presented to thy sight Which yf thou wilt vouchsafe to read do iudge as thou shalt finde giue sentence then and I wil mend yf ought mislike thy minde FINIS Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum The first parte entreating of warre I Doubt not but a great number wil thinke I haue taken paynes more then ynough to write of warres or of warlike disciplines First because warres haue euer bin accompted a most grieuouse plague and of it self is reputed so euill so straunge and so pernitious that it comprehendeth and surmounteth al other kind of euils for it afflicteth as well the poore and innocents as those that be wicked and euil disposed for by it good lawes are decayed humanitie is defaced equitie is suppressed holy places are prophaned murthers are committed virgins are defloured chaste matrons are defiled kingdoms be subdued cities be ruinated as warlike Numace sumptuouse Corinth stately Thebes delicate Tyre learned Athens holy Ierusalē contentious Carthage mightie Rome and now lastly wealthy Antwerpe These with many other moe by warres haue bene sacked spoyled robbed defaced and sometime layde waste and desolate for warre pestilence and famine are the three dartes which the almightie God is wont to shoote against the earth when he is displeased and is holden so yrcksome amongst vs that in our letanie we daily vse this praier From plague pestilence famine battell and murther good Lord deliuer vs. A second reason why I should be condemned is this Because as the warre of it selfe is an euill and that so lothsomly detested euen so to be professours followers and ministers in the same is esteemed a thing more fitte for ruffians roysters blasphemers and people of the vylest condicion rather then an exercise for honest men in whom there is any feare of God or any loue towardes their neighbour in so much that Cornelius Agrippa sayeth That if you would cal a tyrant a blasphemer a murtherer a robber a spoyler a deflowrer an oppressour with many other such like if you would saieth he include all these into one short name you may call him by the name of a souldiour But now thirdly and especially I knowe a number will scorne me and thinke me to be to simple to write any thing of warres in this so peaceable a time but would rather haue allowed of my discretion if I could haue framed some conceite according to the time some pleasant discourse some strange nouell some amorous historie some farre fette or vnknowen deuice this might haue purchaced me credit the Printer might haue gayned by selling of my booke but to giue men sodayne Allarmes of warre that be quietly minded pleasantly disposed and peaceably pretended I knowe it is but a mockerie and euen nowe I begin to muse with my selfe what madnesse at the first should driue such a conceyte into my brayne but seeing I haue begun to enter into this fondnesse pardon me I pray you the hearing of my excuse which I trust you shall fynde to be reasonable Then first to speake of warre because I knowe there be many whose consciences be so scrupulous that they thinke no warres may be lawfully attempted allowed of by Gods worde or agreeing with true christianitie for the number of outrages which by it are committed I thinke it therefore conuenient to see what proofes may be alleadged in the defence of warre although not in generall yet in the holy Scriptures where they haue bene allowed of and many times commanded by the almightie God him selfe In the 14. Chapter of Genesis it is written When Abram hearde his brother was taken hee harnessed his fresh yong men borne in his owne house three hundred and eighteene and followed on them vntyll Dan and he was set in array vpon them by night hee and his seruants and he smote them and pursued them vnto Hoba which lyeth on the left hand of Damascus and recouered all the goods and brought agayne his brother Lot and his goods c. By this it seemeth that Abram executed as well the part of a King as the duetie of a Captaine in that he tooke vpon him to leauy a bande and to enter into battell with these that before had oppressed his friendes which hee dyd of his owne head and yet this parte did nothing offend God as the sequele doth euidently prooue But in the 31. Chapter of Numeri by the expresse commandement from God Moses is willed to make warre vpon the Madianites the wordes bee these And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saying Auenge the children of Israel of the Madianites and afterward shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people And Moses spake vnto the folke saying Harnesse some of you vnto warre and auenge the Lorde of the Madianites c. And in the 8. chapter of the booke of Iosua And the Lord spake vnto Iosua Feare not neyther be thou faint harted take all the men of warre with thee vp get thee to Hai Beholde I haue giuen into thy hand the King of Hai and his people and his citie and his lande and thou shalt doe to