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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

courage and strength Ride on prosperously because of the greatnesse of your trust and the goodnesse of your cause Perfect what you have begun Your business which before lay scattered all this Countrey over over divers other Countries also you have now brought into a small compasse having driven your Antagonists as it were into a fold The good Lord perfect the work for you and us and stablish peace againe upon our borders Blessed be God for the marvellous things done for this sinking well-nigh ruined Kingdome and for our poor spoiled Countries by the Heads of our Worthies the sonnes of Honour that have sate in counsell and by the hands of you and others the sonsof Valour that have been imployed in action by whom as choice instruments in Gods hand mighty things are brought to passe even as it were a new Resurrection of our Kingdome and poor countrey in speciall out of the dust of ruine and trampling upon and a reduction of enemies into our room My feeble prayers are Militant for you and all yours daily that you may triumph and want no counsell nor strength nor successe which Heaven can afford you The Lord recompence into your bosome sevenfold all your diligence and faithfulnesse your indefatigable pains night and day extream hazards looking death oft in the face and your sore hardship serving the necessities of war He continue to blesse you and all under your command and make you still a blessing to your native Countrey and give you for your reward what he hath promised to him that overcommeth Rev. 2 17. Even the White stone and new name written which no man knowes save he that receiveth it and hidden Manna to eat So prayes he who is affectionately yours to serve you in the Gospel EDW. REYNER Orders from the LORD of Hostes FOR Regulating the Hostes of the LORD Deut. 23.14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy Camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shall thy Camp be holy that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee GOD requires his Israel should be a holy people as at home so abroad not in times of Peace only but of War also Because then humane laws are silent Silent loges inter arma and things are carried usually by force and violence not by reason or right Men take liberty to commit outrages greedily and shamelesly Wherefore God gave this command for the purity and sanctity of Israels army or souldiery for the decent and well-ordering of Israels Camp to prevent all pollution and exorbitancy therein Thy Camp shall be holy c. In the Text you may discern 1. A doctrine delivered 2. Reasons added to confirme and enforce it The Doctrine is this The Camp of Israel must be holy The Camp The originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies both Castra and Acies or Turba That is Tents where the souldiers lay And an Army a Camp is an Hoast or Army of souldiers which is as it were a walking Town City or Countrey it doth further signifie Tents pitcht for them or an army lodged The people of Israel were the Hosts of the Lord Gods Armies and this is the precept of the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel that their Camp shall be holy that is both the place and the persons Shall be holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is set apart for an holy use and separated or preserved pure from all pollution of flesh and spirit Holinesse is either Morall or Ceremoniall Morall is twofold 1. Privative that is Immunity or purity from sin 2. Positive holinesse is 1. Grace in Habit. 2. Obedience in Act. When God is known feared served obeyed trusted and sin is hated and eschewed when there is the root of grace in the heart and the fruit of righteousnesse in the life then is a person or people holy Ceremoniall holinesse was a freedome or purification from Uncleannesses 1. Legall as Nocturnall pollutions ver 10.11 or contracted by leprosie or having an issue or touching the dead Numb 5.2 Lev. 21.1 2. Civill as mans excrements which was legall also to the Jewes For God made a law against it that uncleannesse by it should be avoided in the Host ver 12 13. My Text comes in as a Reason to presse and perswade purity from that as from all all other defilements in the Camp and Host of Israel Thou shalt have a place without the camp c. v. 12. Thou shalt have a paddle that is an iron instrument to dig an hole in the earth to bury their excrements in v. 13. Why so For the Lord thy God walks in the midst of thy camp c. Mans dung by the law was counted unclean and it defiled not only the place where it was laid uncovered but whatsoever thing it was used about as to bake Cakes therewith through want of other fewell Ezek. 4.12 13 14. All these kindes of Ceremoniall uncleannesses figured spirituall or morall pollutions by sin of our natures and actions The camp of Israel was to be holy both Morally no wickednesse might be committed in it Ceremonially all legall uncleannesse must be excluded out of it Hereby God taught Israel holinesse both of disposition and conversation to keep both their bodies and soules pure from all their iniquities God begins his charge or to give orders to the army of Israel at the 9. vers When the Host goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee from every wicked thing that is from all uncleannesse morall or ceremoniall Therefore God gave command to the children of Israel That 1. The whole Camp of Israel should be purged of all Leapers and any other way unclean persons both Male and female Numb 5.2 3 4. Ainsworth There were three Camps as one observes 1. The Sanctuary call'd the Camp or Tents of the Lord 2 Chron. 31.2 2. The Camp of the Levites Num. 3. 3. The Camp of Israel the 12 Tribes Num. 2. No unclean person might enter into the Camp of the Lords Sanctuary that being most holy 2 Chro. 23.19 Nor stay in but was to be put out of both the Camp which Pitcht about the Sanctuary And which went to war against their enemies 2. A place should be designed without the Camp wherein to bury their excrements vers 12. Thus have I laid out the Doctrine vid. The camp of Israel must be holy and the sense of the tearms scil what is ●qant by Camp and what by Holy Quest But why should Israels Camp be holy Answ Take a short view I pray you of the reasons laid down in my text to prove the point and prosse the d●ty The reasons are five Reason 1. Because God is present in the camp of Israel the Lord of Hosts is with his Hosts even with the armies of Israel where ever they go therefore shall their camp be holy because He is a God of purer eyes then to behold evill Hab. 1.13 and he cannot look on

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 LONDON Printed by R. W. for Giles Calvert at the black Spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1646. I have perused this Sermon tending much to the advancement of Military Holinesse and Order and with these the successe of this present Warre and do therefore conceive it very usefull for the publick especiall the Armies IOSEPH CARYL April 16th 1646. To the Right Honourable IOHN Earl of Rutland EDWARD Lord Montague M. WIL. PIERREPONT Esq Sir WILL. ARMYNE Baronet Sir EDWARD AYSCOUGH Knight and THOMAS HATCHER Esq Commissioners from the Parliament of England residing with the Forces before Newarke Right Honourable THis Sermon for the substance of it was preached by your appointment and is drawn forth to publick view by your importunity I have been oft assayled by friends to publish some pieces which cost me more pains but could never be overcome till now I am sensible of the curiosity and criticalnesse of the Times and of my own tenuity and insufficiency I am able to bring nothing out of my poor Treasury which may seem new Those small abilities God hath given me to profit others lye another way rather through the Pulpit then the Presse therefore durst I never yet appear in the one though often in the other Concerning this Copy I may say here is not all and yet more then was there delivered Not all because my time for preparation was very small and my Notes so short that they cannot possibly give an account of my Sermon and my memory not so good as to recollect all that God was graciously pleased then to suggest Yet is here more because I have now added some things for amplification of particulars which God brought to my hand while I was writing as he did many things before to my minde while I was speaking Such were my straits of time for preparation to that exercise as one part of this Sermon was subitane thoughts in the morning of that day they were preached which I did not intend should have seen more light then came in at the chamber window where I quartered that night The Notes are not so warm to me now in writing as they were then in speaking nor will they I fear be to any in reading as they were I hope to some in hearing Speaking and Writing have their severall graces and glosses and take as God is pleased to set them on by his presence and influence which he usually sheds abroad more abundantly in the publick Ordinance The same things experience shews which while spoken seemed stirring passages afterwards when read move little Besides the subject of this discourse is now become very trite and worn I suppose almost out of request of which so much hath been already said as nothing can be added But your Honours acceptance of my poor pains then and earnest desire since to have a Copy thereof have forced me to put this into your hands do with it whatsoever God shall put into your hearts either to bury it in silence which would please me best or to give breath and life to it by the birth of the Presse if your wisdome judge it worthy and that it may be for publike use The Lord guide you with his councell that the publike affairs may still prosper in your hands and bring you to his glory when you have served your generation according to the will of God So prayes Your Honours humble servant in the Gospell of Christ EDW. REYNER TO THE Honourable Col. EDW. ROSSETER Commander in chief of the PARLIAMENTS Forces of the City and County of LINCOLN Noble Sir THe next interest to that the Committee of Lords and Commons now with us may challenge in this Sermon is deservedly yours because preached in your Quarters to you and your Souldiers and for your sakes especially to bring God and you near together even God into your Camp and your Camp unto God to direct and excite your duty to God to draw down and ingage Gods presence with you and that the Countries Cause and Cure in the great work you are now about may prosper in your hands For if you can say to our enemies as Abijah did to his 2 Chro. 13 12. Behold God himself is with us for our Captain and his Priests with sounding Trumpets to cry Alarm against you you may say on as he did O enemy fight not against the Lord for you shall not prosper If your Camp be reformed and you cannot bear them that are evill in it surely the Lord will pitch his Tents in the midst of yours and make you glorious by successes When poor Lincolnshire was in a low and sad condition making approaches daily nearer desolation God raised you up as Gideon a mighty man of valour to save us giving you not only Decertandi fortitudinem but Decernendi rationem Valour to fight and prudence to advise For courage without counsell is like a Hand drawing a Bow without an eye to set the Arrow right Sir the mixture of amiable clemency and insuperable valour of modesty and magnanimity of piety and souldiery of courteous condescentions and sublime resolutions which God hath made and tempered in you is very remarkable Me thinks I see those vertues which the Orator prescribes in an Emperour worn as Gold-rings on all your fingers Scil. Haesunt vittute● Imperatoria labor in neg●tin forticu●o in pericul● industria in agendo celeritas in conficiende consiltum in previdende Cicero pro lege Manil. Diligence in businesse courage in perils industry in acting celerity in effecting counsell in foreseeing This I speak not to flatter you in print for I remember Elihu's speech Job 32.21 22. but to give you as I apprehend your due and to provoke you to give God the glory of all you are have or do and to adde to all your excellencies habituall and practicall Humility and Self-deniall as the grace and ornament of them all Be often thinking that the Holy Ghost is putting these Queries to you which Paul did to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 4.7 Who makes thee to differ from another what hast thou that thou didst not receive God is the author of all discriminating gifts Graces States Successes Let the high praises of God be in your mouth because the high acts of God have been in your hand Go on worthy Leader in this your might Scil. in having God for your wisdome