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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91728	Orders from the Lord of Hostes, for regulating the hostes of the Lord. Set down in a sermon preached at the leaguer before Newark, on Friday the 27th of March, 1646. By order from, and at the desire of the Committee of Lords and Commons, commissioners from the Parliament of England. Upon occasion of a publick fast and solemn humiliation, appointed to be kept that day throughout the English and Scotish armies before Newark, to seek a blessing from heaven upon the proceedings of the said forces in the present siege of that garrison. / By Edward Reyner preacher of the gospel in the city of Lincoln.	Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.	1646 (1646)	Wing R1222; Thomason E337_1; ESTC R200816	27,994	40

A remarkable preservation and victory From that Time as Eusebius reports they had a peculiar appellation from the Emperour and were called Legio fulminea The thundring Legion Yea is not this to be cleerly seen as truly verified in our New-Modell wherein are so many reall godly Men Commanders in chief officers and souldiers how happy hath God made them and us by them through many great and glorious Deliverances Successes Victories given them by the good hand of our great God such as the world can scarce parallel and deserve to be sacred to all Posterity Though this New-Modell hath been much despised by Men chiefly I suspect for their piety yet highly advanced by the Lord as his Hoste chosen to fight his battles with prosperous and blessed successe to be Humane-Saviours unto this sinking Kingdome God crowns Piety with victory where ever he finds it especially in an Army 6 Lastly Reas 6. because there should be a suitablenesse betweene the Cause and the Manners of the Persons which have the Managing of it Great pitty a good Cause should be transacted by bad persons The Cause our Army hath in hand is holy just and good what manner of persons ought all those to be in holy Conversation and Godlinesse who have undertaken it Now have I done with the Generall Doctrine of the Text. It is the Duty and Glory of an Army to be holy In the next place let us consider what particular Instructions may be gathered from the Text. We may refer them to two Heads 1 for informing Iudgment 2 for regulating Practice 1 For information of Our Judgements the Text furnisheth us with these Particulars 1 That it is an Errour to thinke Instruct 1. it matters not what mens manners be or how an Army is ordered if they be but good Souldiers which they can scarce be in Gods sense unlesse they be good men If the Camp should be holy must not the Men in it be holy What makes a holy Camp but holy Commanders Officers and Souldiers How can a Fabrick be good if the Materials be bad You may as well say it is no Matter whether God own an Army or disclaim it be with them or against them deliver them or destroy them be amongst them or depart from them give Enemies up to them or give them up to their Enemy whether an Army be clean and clothed or be naked unclean and the filthy Nakednes thereof appear even in the sight of God or whether it prosper or perish 2 Instruct 2. It informs us what is the one thing needfull in an Army for the defence and successe thereof or what is the principall cause of all preservations and victories in it namely Gods presence God is in the midst of the Campe how as the Sun is in the midst of the Planets as the Heart in the midst of the body An Army without God amongst them is but a dark dead Company such as the world would be if it wanted the Sun or a body without a heart As 1 The shield of their help for defence against their Enemies to save his people from them 2 The sword of their Excellency for offence of their Enemies to assault and overcome them Deut. 33.29 3 The Captain of their Host to lead them on and fight for them Josh 5.14 2 Chron. 13.12 3 Instruct 3. It lets us see on the contrary what is the cause of ruine to an Army of Surprizals Blows Foils Defeats Routs Wickednesse in it is the Cause of all disasters that befall it of bad successe to it For sin in the Campe produceth 3 bad and sad effects It 1 Makes an Army naked to their shame and reproach As Aaron made Israel naked to their shame amongst their Enemies by making the molten Calf Exod. 32.25 And as King Abaz made Judah naked 2 Chron. 28.19 So doth Uncleannes and Unholines make an Army Naked that is 1 Unarmed men among their Enemies ready to be devoured by them 2 Deformed in themselves like a naked man whose deformity is great for want of clothes to cover his nakednesse Revel 3.18 16 17. 2 Makes God depart from an Army deprives it of his counsel and strength rescue and protection When Israel had sinned and taken off the accursed thing I well not be with you any more sayth God to them except yee destroy the accursed from amongst you Josh 7.11 12. The abomination which the house of Israel committed made God go far from his Sanctuary Ezek. 8.6 and as farre from his Army Ponder well the wofull effects of Gods departure from an Army When God is gone our defence and strength is gone then welye open to the Enemy we become bread for them If God cast us off and go not forth with our Armies then hee puts us to shame makes us to turn back from the enemy Ps 44.9 to 14. and they which hate us spotle for themselves he makes us a reproch to our neighbour a scorn and derision to them that are round about us Look upon the sad condition of the Hoste of Israel when smitten at A● because God provoked by Achans plundered stuff withdrew his presence a little from them therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies Iosh 7.12 This made the hearts of the people to melt and become as water Verse 5. And Joshua with the Elders to fall to the earth upon their faces and to put dust upon their heads untill the eventyde Verse 6. 3 Yea sin in the Camp sets God against his own people Esay 63.10 Lament 2.5 and makes him become their enemies as sayth the Prophet Israelrebelled and vexed Gods holy Spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and fought against them Iudg. 2 14. Sin moves God to sell them into their enemies hands as he did Israel into the hands of their enemies round about so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies 4 Instruct 4. Out of this Text we may gather and learn the lawfulnesse of war It 's lawfull for Gods people to make war upon enemies in a just cause 1 Else God would not own Souldiers or a fighting people for his people as he did Israel when they were an Armie nor in●●tle lumselfe to them as theirs by speciall right So he doth here The Lord thy God 2 Else would not God honour the Camp with his speciall prosence as to walke assiduously and continually in the midst of it 3 Else God would not doe such great things for his people in a Martiall way or in and by an Armie as to deliver them and subdue their enemies for them and to them God would not have walked in the midst of Israels Camp to have done this for them God hath done wonderous things by Armies for us of late even miraculous deliverances defeats discoveries victories immunities as he did for his ancient Hoste the Israelites in the dayes of old Are not these cleer evidences and pledges of