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A37279	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor and aldermen at Guild-Hall chappel on Sunday the 11th of April being the anniversary of His Majesties coronation microform / by Sir William Dawes, Baronet ...	Dawes, William, Sir, 1671-1724.	1697 (1697)	Wing D457; ESTC R17840	12,505	40

there where even their enemies shall destroy one another and fight tho' not professedly yet in reality their Battles and on their side but they know also by parity of reason that a Kingdom United in it self can hardly fall and that where a Whole Nation shall combine together as one Man as Religious Nations always will it will become Invincible and like a mighty Fortress secur'd without with strong and well-cemented Walls and within by a resolute and faithful Garrison not only receive the most impetuous attacks of their Enemies without much impression but likewise return them with redoubled force and fury And therefore they will not care for medling with such a Nation where they are more likely to become a prey than to obtain one But besides Religion will most certainly preserve any People from giving Foreign Nations just grounds and occasions of War for it will not onely teach them to give all other Nations their just dues in every respect but likewise to be friendly helpful and assistant to them and as far as they can serve one without disserving the other to be kind and useful to them all And then surely where no causes of War are given we may reasonably expect there should be no War where the seeds of Peace are sown we must naturally hope to Reap the Fruit. But if through the unreasonableness and injustice of other nations it should sometimes so happen as we have often seen it has that a Religious nation right or wrong must be forc'd to take up arms and to engage in war let those people who have unjustly provok'd it know that they have rouz'd a very dangerous and formidable enemy as will appear from considering Secondly That Religion conduceth very much towards the making any nation cautious valiant and successful in war For tho Religion is an utter enemy to all quarrelling and willingly begins no wars yet when in defence of it self it is forc'd into the Field it generally ends them victoriously And I am verily perswaded you will be of opinion that it can hardly possibly be otherwise when I shall have given you a full view of a nation truly Religious in it's arms First then You have here an Army of men that are prepar'd and fitted by their vertues for all the hardships and fatigues of War that have neither craz'd their bodily constitutions by intemperance lost their active spirits in a Lethargy of lazyness nor broken their courage by effeminacy But on the contrary of men whom Religion has preserv'd in their firm health strength and vigour whom it has inur'd to labour and business and accustom'd to despise and avoid all the softning and enfeebling arts of delicateness and luxury Secondly You have here a body of men that have been exquisitely well disciplin'd and train'd up in the school of Religion in all the prudent arts of care and watchfulness that are taught to be wise as serpents to watch and be always upon their guard to lay hold of all opportunities that may make for them and to be sure to give their adversaryes none against them Of men that will avoid all those vices which render them careless and negligent in their dutyes and lay them open to the designs of their enemies and neither drink themselves out of a capacity of resisting them 1 Sam. 13.16 1 Kings 20.16 Joseph l. Ant. Jud. 6. c. 15. as the Amalekites and Syrians did of old nor yet like the foolish * Quos nulla mali vicerat vis perdidcre nimia bona ac voluptates immodicae Liv. l. 23. c. 18. Carthaginians Sacrifice their opportunities of victory and success to the trifling invitations of some lewd debauch but of men that will preserve their heads cool their eys open and their whole body in a fit and ready posture to prevent their enemies designs and execute their own Thirdly Add to this that a Religious army will be careful to engage in none but a just and good cause And how much the goodness of their cause will increase their strength and enspirit their courage our reason as well as the † Quantam vim habeat in bel●is justitiae conscientia passim estendunt Historiae Scriptores qui victoriam saepe huic causae praeripue ascribunt Inde proverbia illa srangi attolli vires in milite a causa raro eum sospitem redire qui injusta arma sumpserit bonae causae spem adesse comitem alia in cum sensum Grot. prolegom ad libr. de jure belli pacis History of all ages will easily inform us When mens Consciences draw them one way and their vices and passions another they can then only fight by halves and give but very faint and feeble strokes because they are not inwardly pleas'd with what they do or as we generally speak do it not with a good will But when their Consciences shall not only not keep back but even allow and applaud the stroke it will then fall very heavy and make dismal havock wheresoever it comes Fourthly and Lastly Such an Army as this must needs be full of undaunted courage bravery and resolution because their Religion will settle in their minds that principle which is the only foundation of all true courage I mean fearlesness and contempt of death It is a contradiction to suppose that those men who are afraid of death can go with any manner of true courage into the Field where they shall be so very likely to meet that which they are so very much afraid of But those who have good reason not to fear death and that such as are Religious onely can have may safely and chearfully go out to meet it and defy it wheresoever they find it Such men as these therefore are onely fit for true Warriours The Righteous as Solomon tells us are bold as a Lion Prov. 28.1 they will maintain their posts even in the midst of death and be so far from flying from it that they will bear up against it with as much courage and resolution as if they really meant to conquer and outbrave it And what cannot such a Religious Army as this do Shall not Success attend on them on whom Conduct and Courage always wait Or shall it be possible for them to fail of Victory who fight for a good Cause with good Consciences with resolute and prudent Minds with vigorous and active Bodies Thirdly We shall find the Influence of Religion towards the promoting the Publick Good and Prosperity of any Nation much greater if we proceed to consider farther how much it conduceth to the increase of its Riches Plenty and Trade and that more especially by these three ways First By encouraging Diligence and Industry which we all know are the parents of Riches and Plenty Religion allows no Man to be useless or unemploy'd but allots us all our several tasks and sets all hands to work for the increase and benefit of the Common Stock It condemns all such as