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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01690	Christiana-Polemica, or A preparatiue to warre Shewing the lawfull vse thereof. The iust causes that may moue thereunto. The necessitie of preparation for it. The duties of those that wage it. Together with diuers instructions concerning it. A sermon preached at Wooll-Church in London, before the captaines and gentlemen that exercise in the artillerie-garden vpon occasion of their solemne and generall meeting. Aprill 14. 1618. By Abraham Gibson, Bachelour of Diuinity, and then preacher to the temples.	Gibson, Abraham, b. 1586 or 7.	1619 (1619)	STC 11828; ESTC S118766	14,920	48

Christiana-Polemica OR A PREPARATIVE TO WARRE Shewing The lawfull vse thereof The iust causes that may moue thereunto The necessitie of Preparation for it The duties of those that wage it Together with Diuers instructions concerning it A Sermon Preached at Wooll-Church in London before the Captaines and Gentlemen that exercise in the Artillerie-Garden vpon occasion of their solemne and generall meeting Aprill 14. 1618. BY Abraham Gibson Bachelour of Diuinity and then Preacher to the Temples Aug. Epist 205. ad Bonif. Pacem habere debet voluntas bellum necessitas LONDON Printed by Edw. Griffin for Iacob Bloome at the signe of the Grey-hound in Pauls-Church-yard 1619. To the right honourable FRANCIS Lord VERVLAM Lord Chauncellor of England his very singular good LORD A. G. wisheth all happines and felicitie externall internall eternall Right honourable AS is the nature of warre so is the state of this dedication No warre is held lawfull which hath not a speciall reference to peace And this discourse of warre hath nothing in it cōmendable but that it is deuoted to your Lordship the State oracle of Counsell and Preseruer of peace In which case I haue beene more bold to make you the Patron of my endeauours because you haue deigned already to be the Protectour of my person Not knowing to whom more fitly I might nuncupate a Sermon of GOD and GIDEON the two Supporters of euery Souldiers armes the ground vpon which euery field is to bee pitcht then to him who representeth both mediately the person of GOD and immediately the person of GIDEON I humbly therefore beseech your Honour to accept it candidly according to the modell of the Offerer not the magnitude of the Receiuer whose Patronage I shall account the best title to it and the comeliest couer your countenance and the only cum priuilegio your approbation VVhich whilest your Honour shall vouchsafe I in the meane time shall not cease to enlarge this little schedule by greater volumes of continuall Praiers for your Lordshippes welfare that the LORD would please to bee your Keeper on earth and seale you among the number of them that haue the marke of the Lambe in heauen Your Honours most deuoted Chaplaine ABRAH GIBSON TO THE WORTHY and well-deseruing Citizens of LONDON that practise Armes in the Artillery Garden GENTLEMEN THis short Sermon heretofore preached before you finding better acceptance then either it merited or I expected I was importuned by diuers of you to commit it to the Presse Which though I withstood stiffly at the first yet now at length vpon these late rumours of warres I haue with an vnwilling willingnesse yeelded to your suit not doubting but it will haue the same effect of encouragement in others when they reade it as it had in many of you when you heard it For this is one aduantage which writing hath aboue preaching that the benefit thereof is more diffusiue extending the fruit of that doctrine to a whole kingdome which when preached was impaled in the breasts of a priuate auditorie and so doth more conforme vs in this particular to the Apostles times that though our charge be speciall yet our labours may be vniuersall And this is my onely aime at this present the furtherance of the publike good by a discourse small in it selfe as a drop of water or a sparke of fire yet such as by Gods blessing may grow to a pleasant fountaine to satisfie the soules of the thirstie and increase to a pillar of fire to enlighten those that sit in darknesse water to coole the courages of our Countrey hotspurs that will fight in no cause but a bad and fire to enflame the hearts of all trustie subiects that they doe fight in no cause but a good to wit as Tullie said aut pro fide aut pro salute for the peace of Sion or prosperitie of Ierusalem for the quiet of the Church or defense of the Common wealth Ye see how these times make good our blessed Sauiours prediction that wee should heare of warres and rumours of warres I pray God wee may onely heare the rumour of them and not feele the smart Howsoeuer let vs not be troubled or feare seeing we haue both a gratious God to fight for vs and a princely Gideon to leade vs. Let euery man gird his sword vpon his thigh fast fixing his heart vpon God and his eyes vpon Gideon our hope in the name of the Lord and our praiers for the safetie of our King beseeching God who is the King of Kings that after a full reigne on earth he would translate him to the kingdome of kingdomes in heauen Amen Yours in all Christian duties and seruices A. G. Christiana-Polemica OR A PREPARATIVE to Warre IVDG 7. 18. For the Lord and for Gideon THe lawfull vse of Warre amongst Christians howsoeuer the Anabaptists denie it thus sowing the seedes of discord vnder a pretence of peace and stirring vp warre in the Church whilst they would exclude it out of the Common-wealth though it had no Politicall reasons to backe it yet wanteth it not arguments both Physicall and Theologicall fetcht both from the light of Nature which dictates so much and from the authoritie of Scripture which warrants and allowes so much For Nature Indeed created Nature abhorreth nothing more then discord and dissention According to her prime perfection there had beene no iarres either in a mans selfe or with other things Not in a mans selfe the Elements and Humours had lien at peace in our bodies the Iraseible and Epithumeticall faculties had bowed at the becke of reason in our soules Nor with other things the creatures had all beene subiect to mans dominon there had beene no litigious Pronounes no Meum and Tuum to set vs by the eares together So then the originall of discord is from originall sinne warre it is a branch of that accursed tree had there beene no fall of man sure no falling out amongst men our nakednesse as it had needed no garments to couer it so nor no weapons to defend it And therefore for corrupted Nature warre is a necessary concomitant of her condition It must needs be that strifes should arise amongst men and by consequence warres to decide those strifes when law and equitie cannot take place That as it was with the tongues at the confusion they had an ill beginning but an vsefull propagation So is it with warre in this state of corruption It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a necessary euill adeò nec cum illo nec sine illo we can liue neither with it nor without it Because it is the destroier of nature in indiuiduo but the defender of it in catholico the daughter of iustice as well as peace though Leah like it haue a harder fauour and a more waterish eye more red and rough-handed with Esau That howsoeuer naturally Simile generat simile like begetteth like yet Politically wee see eftsoones one contrary to beget another 〈◊〉