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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53966	A sermon preach'd to the artillery-company, at S. Mary le Bow, October 21 1679 and published at their earnest request / by Edw. Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1679 (1679)	Wing P1092; ESTC R33043	10,673	28

Employment or Thirdly the Issue which he expecteth by his Atchievments 1. A good Conscience is necessary in respect of his Office for so it makes him the more Honourable Those Military Exploits with which Great and Noble Spirits have made all Histories to swell were so far from being any Blot in their Escutcheons that they have been a Lustre to their Families and Names and were many times the Foundation sometimes an Addition always an Ingredient of their greatest Honours And generally the beginning of the most splendid Fortunes and the Originals of the highest Titles and Names of Renown were fetcht from the Camp as the just Reward of Fortitude and Gallantry of Gore and Blood Upon which score the Greek Hero's the Roman Consuls and Dictators and who have been as matchless as any our English Worthies have been Great and Honourable at Home because they were Faithful Valiant and Victorious in the Field Now what a disparagement is it to your Coat that a Noble and Brave Spirit should Cashier his Honour and stain his Name and Blood with Vice which is even a stain to the Dunghill What a blemish is it that he should drink himself out of the shape of a Man into the similitude of a Beast that you would think you saw a Swine in Buff or a dead Ass in a Lyons skin what a dishonour is it that he should take up the Porters sin and discharge Oaths instead of other Ammunition and let fly upon the Cross which has been the Ornament of Scepters and Banners and imitate the impertinent Malice of that Infidel that stuck Christ's side with a Spear In a word what a shame is it that men for whom States and Empires cannot afford Trophies enough should be Beleaguer'd and Vanquish'd by their Lusts and that they who fear not the threats of a Cannon or the face of Death should not be so much as Beauty-proof but captivated by the very Looks of a Female Enemy When you see a Sampson putting off his Laurels of Victory and yielding up his Locks to the Scissers of a Dalilah When you see an Hercules submitting to carry Omphale's Slippers an Athanericus stooping down to tye his Mistresses Shoes a Sardanapalus exchanging his Sword for a Distaff a Coesar and an Anthony led in Triumph by a Defenceless Cleopatra and the Flower of all Greece taking up Arms for the sake of a Noble Whore what shameful Instances do you not see of folly and degenerous Natures which are so far from becoming the Chieftains and Masters of the Artillery that they are reproachful to the rudest Tyro and to the meanest Rank of Drudges that attend the common Baggage So that were only the Grandeur of your Society concern'd Vertue and a Good Conscience is necessary in a Souldier to make him the more Honourable and Illustrious 2. But secondly If he doth consider the Dangers which meet him in the Face he will find another necessity for it to make him the more Valiant The Apostle speaking of those Religious Champions of old tells us That through Faith they subdued Kingdoms out of weakness were made strong waxed valiant in Fight and turned to flight the Armies of the Aliens Heb. 11. A firm Belief in God when 't is Harnessed with Good Works is a sturdy puissant and victorious thing But Vice makes men Sneaks and Cowards and a Wing of Miscreants have just Reason to flee when Death is coming out of the Muzzle of a Gun or upon the Point of a Sword because the formidable appearance of Hell is coming too and then the hearts of Irreligious men will Recoil and evil Consciences will run into Pits or Woods or into any Corners on this side the Territories of the damned and out of the reach of him whose Name is Legion It is not to be denyed but there is a sort of audacity and fool-hardiness which is a resemblance of true Valour and which the vilest of men are capable of either by reason of the heat of a sanguine Constitution or through the prevalency of wrong Principles which hurry them headlong upon danger or through Malice and Spight against Government or through a necessity of Effrontery when their Fortunes are desperate or their Persons are environ'd with straits and inconquerable difficulties or the like And so Turks and Jesuits and Heathens themselves have been bold and our own Histories of the late Times afford us Instances of many who did not dare to be loyal and good Subjects but yet did dare to be Traytors Regicides and Devils in the shape of men But this is a brutish sort of Bravery like the Valour of an Horse that rusheth into the Battel without fear or wit or consideration of a Spears point But let the Impetus be once over let the Wretch come soberly to debate his present Affairs and to take a true prospect of his future state then his spirits will Flag and his stoutness will be Crest-faln and take it for a general Rule that none shall undertake an Enterprise with so much readiness or engage in a Rencounter with so much fortitude or maintain his Ground with so much constancy or defie the Roarings of the Field with such a fixt resolution as the man who is Girt about with Integrity and to whom a Good Conscience is a Coat of Mail 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Maximus Tyrius the Pagan Philosopher said He that loves God receives death willingly and is not cow'd at its approaches but keeps his Station and his Post with a Steel'd Courage 3. Let me add thirdly that none shoulders off an Enemy with such success or Crowns his Feats of Arms with such prosperity because his whole life is a Prayer whereby he offers Violence to Heaven quasi manu facta as Tertullian speaks Besieging and Battering it as it were with a mighty Host And on this score too Vertue and a good Conscience is necessary in a Souldier because it maketh him the more Victorious 'T is true a good Cause and good Men and good Souldiers do not always succeed A Senacherib or a Nero or a Cromwel may win the day when Providence intends to bring a People under the Harrow and the Saw Then indeed God passeth Sentence as a Judge but generally with good men he helpeth as a Confederate and a Party The care of good Joshua was that himself and his whole house and all Israel might serve the Lord and Victory still waited at his Heels and like that Centurion's Servant Mat. 8. 't was at his beck and command so that within the compass of a few years more Conquests were made more Kings vanquish'd more Crowns won and more Scepters were broken by that one General than perhaps the twelve Caesars at Rome ever saw So also we read of David that he was a man according to God's own heart and from the Age of a Stripling all-a-long he got Victories after Victories over the Philistines the Amalekites the Moabites the Ammonites the Syrians and the rest some by his