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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04657	Vox belli, or, An alarum to vvarre; Vox belli.	Barnes, Thomas, Minister of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London.	1626 (1626)	STC 1478; ESTC S118246	34,522	50

victor gets glory by his conquest and gaines a name to be the better champion Object Answ Eras Enchirid. mil Christ p. 136. 137. A sory glory God wot that being true which Erasmus writeth That to bee praised for sinnefull things of sinnefull men is false glory and true ignominy Reforme thine error therfore here worthily taxed whoever thou beest that thinkest those men the bravest sparkes whose wounding swords a petty injury can call forth to take revenge without a call from God lest if this error stickes to thee still thou fallest like Cain upon the least provocation to imbrue thy hands in thy brothers bloud and when thou hast done it be so farre from repenting as to contest with God as Cain did and out of thine envious malicious and hatefull heart rather to grieve that thy murthered brother hath not another life for thee to take away also Which passe shouldest thou ever come unto a remarkeable horror might take hold upon thee a guilty conscience ever vexe thee the gnawing whereof death it selfe though thou shouldest desire it would rather encrease by infinite degrees than ease in the least measure 2. Branch of reproofe Secondly there is a generation amongst us who in such troublesome times as these be steale from their Parents runne from their Masters tendering their service to take sword in hand when they have neither wit to weild it nor strength to fight with it the shop or the schoole being fitter for them than the field Their rashnesse also doth this doctrine reach at for they are old enough to heare a reproofe Silly yonguelings they doe inconsiderately venture on they know not what Where is their warrant to runne to warre The sword must not kill till it hath a call Dulce bellum inexpertis Warre is sweete untill they have tasted of it When they heare the Cannons roare the Armour clatter the Ayre thunder the Launces shiver the Heavens resound with hideous out-cries of parties slaine when they see the Swords glittering the Pikes piercing one with a leg off another without an arme one lye scrambling on the earth on this side another lye tumbling in bloud on that side the enemies looking fiercely striking furiously doubling blowes upon them threatning death unto them were there no more men in the world than themselves then peradventure wanting the fortitude which the field requireth they wil repent their rashnesse Campus fortem postulat Ennod Panegyr Theoderico Regi pag. 318. wishing they had waited for a better call not so theevishly stole away I taxe not Voluntaries who are fit for service I blame not them that have a call but I finde fault with such as in a discontented or new fangled humour will venture upon the pikes being altogether unable unfit to beare armes whose stay at home would bee a great deale more acceptable to God more profitable to man He that fightes without asound is no souldier Chrysol serm 14. p. 58. wrath carries him to valour his adventure is perillous not vertuous he seekes rather to perish than to vanquish as one speakes Did an * Dion Chrysost orat 38. heathen man once most justly complayne against the Nicomedians because for Pestilence and Earthquakes they did accuse their gods but for stirring up to warre they did applaude their men accounting the perswaders to battell the best Orators when to use such perswasions too there was neither need nor cause with better warrant may I blame such yongulings as account those men most worthy to be hearkned to who egg and entice them into the field when as having neither skill nor strength to use their weapons for lack of yeeres they are like to be more burthenous than helpfull to the armie If they perish by the sword they doe but reape the fruit of their owne rashnes And now enough of reproofe Thirdly lastly Vse 3 must not the sword be commanded to bloud without a call then use the meditation of this truth for thy defence when at any time thou art eyther provoked by gaine or malice to lay violent hands upon thy brother or tempted in discontent Saul-like to runne thy selfe upon thyne own sword To neither of these hast thou a call to doe either of these is a greivous sinne For the first of these what saies the Scipture Gen. 9.6 1. Ioh. 3.15 Who so sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed The murderer hath not eternall life abiding in him He that takes away his brothers life may heare God tell him The voyce of thy brothers bloud cryeth from off the earth against thee Vitam sustulisti Basil Seleue. orat 5. pag. 38. 39. sed non vocem abstulisti Thou hast spilt his life but thou canst not stop his mouth thou hast armed his bloud as an accuser against thee thou hast provoked the immortall God to be an adversary unto thee Some such noyse as this may sound in his eares which is most hideous horrid and fearefull to heare To the latter very aptly speakes an Ancient Aug. in Ioh. cap. 3. By how much the neerer to a man the murthered is by so much the crueller is the murtherer He therefore that murthereth himselfe is the worst murtherer because none is neerer to a man than himselfe Iob resolved to waite all the dayes of his appointed time untill his changing came Hee made not post-haste away before his time albeit one would thinke he had as great cause to have done it had it beene lawfull as ever any had whether we consider the tortures of his body or the terrors of his soule Senec. Ep. 24. The Heathen could tell us that a good man must not flye out of this life but depart out of it Hee must stay in this world till God bid him goe hee must not like a discontented Tenant warne himselfe out of this earthly tabernacle against his Landlords revealed will lest like the foolish fish he leape out of the pan into the fire and so finde by woefull experience the truth of our present point That the sword must not bee dipt in any bloud without a call D●ct 4 For the sword to keepe scabbard when God calls it o●● pr●●●kes his displeasure as a● accu●●ed thing And now I am descended to the last and largest point of all being the very upshot of the Text That to withhold the sword from bloud when there is just cause and a lawfull call is a dangerous thing displeasing to God exposing to the Curse A doctrine set downe so plainely by our Prophet here that * Habak 2.2 he that runnes may reade it Cursed be he that keepeth backe his sword from bloud and backed so firmely by testimony by example and by the contrary that none but the incredulous can once doubt of it The testimony is Deborah's in her song Iudg. 5.23 Curse yee Merosh said the Angell of the Lord Curse yee bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not to the helpe of the