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A13562	The valevv of true valour, or, The probation and approbation of a right military man Discouered in a sermon preached Iuly 25. before the worthy gentlemen of the military company. By Thomas Taylor Doctor of Divinitie, and pastor of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1629 (1629)	STC 23857; ESTC S114873	16,295	38

successe of an Army depends vpon such choyce men For it is the valorous spirit and noble disposition that hateth those base lustes and vices of drunkennesse filthinesse wantonnesse pilfering inhumane murders rauishments perfidiousnesse effeminate delicacy and such vnmanly behauiours as ordinarily follow the campes A braue souldier feares nothing but to be base Hee lesse feares and liketh better a bloody battell in a iust quarrell then a wanton banquet It is the man of true valour and courage that will expresse sobriety wisedome vigilancy obedience peaceablenesse and morality at the least And an Army consisting of such choyce men shall in true noblenes and honour vye with the Army of Scipio Assricanus of which Plutarch saith That the meanest of his souldiers seemed to bee a graue Senator But contrarily there is no valour no honour but disgracefull basenesse in the sonnes of Belial Cup-Captaines roarers swearers cursers blasphemers filthy liuers quarellers rough Ismaels whose hand is against euery man euery mans against them Who like empty vessels make a great swaggering noyce but are worthles out-casts empty gulls men of complement and appearance but without substāce fitter to be gaylbirds or apprentises to Bride-well then to be admitted to the honorable seruice of a souldier And for the successe of the Army it is ordinarily sutable to the basenes of such instruments whom Curtius calleth the excrements or outsweepings of their Cities Seldom shall we meet with Hannibals motto That they are laden with victories who are laden with vices Wisely therefore did Saul lay a good foundation of his warres in the choyce of valiant and able men and wee may then expect better successe of our Armies and expeditions by sea and land when our choyce is more sutable to his 2. Propertie And meete for the Warre Saul knew that euery man of courage was not fit for the Warre but that something more then courage is requisite to make a Souldier and therefore hee would also see them fit for the Warre before hee tooke them vnto him The Hebrew word comprehendeth all particulars that belong to abilitie Now there bee two things more which must concurre to fit and enable a strong man to Sauls seruice 1. Hee must be in relation to Saul 2. Hee must bee disciplined to him His relation to Saul and tye must be in 1. Ciuill 2. Diuine bands The former requires him to be of the same countrey The latter necessitateth him to be of the same true Religion 1. Saul taketh in to him his owne natiues and spyeth out fit men in his owne countrey and kingdome And it is the wisedome of a Generall if it be possible to presse his souldiers out of the same countrey For 1. Natiues are absolutely subiect to the soueraigne power and so by all lawes of God and nations vnder command bee the seruice neuer so dangerous or vnpleasing 2. A domesticall souldier is in a nearer tye and bond to his countrey his King his kinred and his owne fortunes He is in the same boate which is tossed and threatned with the tempest and is someway interessed in the common cause and quarrell whereas a stranger may conceiue that hee standeth neither for his owne King nor Countrey and for his own particular he shal be neither any great gainer nor looser fal the squares as they will and therefore it were folly for him to endanger himselfe too farre And hence it is that from a curious or domesticall souldier his Commander may expect both fortitude and faith in strangers it hath beene often obseruable that though they haue beene valiant and skilfull yet haue they ouerthrowne great designes for want of faith and affection 3. It cannot but make him more carefull and faithfull abroad when he is lyable to reward or punishment returning home In one word antiquity hath obserued it fatal to States and a prognosticate of ruine when they haue beene forced to call in forraigne forces for their aide and support As that house is neere ruine whose owne timber cannot vphold it vnlesse they bring from else-where studs and postes to vndershore it But especially Saul will haue his souldier of the same and not of a contrary Religion He must be a friend and fauorite of Gods cause and quarell wherein the Army standeth And indeed nothing maketh a man so meete for the Warre as true Religion For 1. Onely Religion maketh a man truely valiant it alone maketh him sell his life cheape and be prodigall of his blood for the cause of God and his Truth A man truely religious can for his Religion and will giue his body to the fire in time of peace and to the sword in time of Warre 2. Religion only maketh him truly obedient and ordered out of conscience That as the Centurions seruant if hee bee bidden come or goe or doe this or that he doth so yea this man will readily obey his Commander though he die for it And without this ready obedience he cannot be meete for the Warre seeing a field without order is like a battell without a banner which is so necessary to auoid confusion as the holy Ghost expresseth them both by one and the same word which in the Greeke and Chaldy signifieth both Banner and Order 3. Onely Religion fitteth a man to die as in the field hee is euer in danger and will not suffer him basely to shift for sauing his life because hee is assured of a better and heauenly And he is not meere for the Warre that is not daily fit to die Saul hath now made a wise and happy choyce of his military men both of his owne region and of his owne Religion Now good choyce hath onely found out such as may proue good souldiers but it is onely good discipline that makes them so therefore before they are meete for the warre they must be trained and disciplined in armes to become faithfull expert and exercised in martiall affaires For it is not multitudes of men nor numbers of armes or names nor an vnmannaged power nor vnskilfull strength that carries honour and victory out of the field but art and exercise vse and experience which are the best mistresse and teacher to make them prompt and actiue vnto any seruice and a few such trained souldiers shal do much more seruice then many men The ancient Romans deriued the issue of all their victories and triumphs next to their gods to this and acknowledged that they climbed to that celebritie height and transcendency of glory and renowne because they were no lesse carefull or rather curious in disciplining their souldiers then in trayning and instituting their children And hence it was that the Parthians taught euen their children the vse of the bow as the Scythians theirs the vse of the dart and the Germans theirs the vse of the speare And well knewe Saul that such trained men are the sinewes of a State and the maine strength and glory

THE VALEVV OF TRVE VALOVR OR THE PROBATION AND APPROBATION OF A right MILITARY MAN Discouered in a Sermon Preached Iuly 25. before the worthy Gentlemen of the Military Company By THOMAS TAYLOR Doctor of Divinitie and Pastor of S t. Mary Aldermanbury London Marti arma non sunt oneri LONDON Printed by Aug Mathewes for THO IONES and are to be sold at his Shop in St. Dunstanes Churchyard 1629. TO THE GENEROVS MINDED MILITARY SOCIETIE GEntle-men that I should in your element speake that which you with so vnanimous consent importuned me not to Preach only but to publish I cannot ascribe next vnto Gods perswasion to any other cause then the concurrence of our mutuall affections to the noble exercise of Armes which you and I professe You to mannage I to honour Yet was I sorry your importunitie pitched on so slender an obiect It was in vaine to pleade the worthlesnesse of these notes and how meritoriously they deserued the darke Or to tell you that it was against my mind and manner to send out single Sermons into publicke view especially in a subiect so vnwonted J see that Military men thinke their booty often richer then it proueth and sometimes win by force what right might deny And therefore as one vnder command goes of himselfe where he would not because else he knoweth he must be drawen so haue I condescended to this your second desire J was not willing to encrease it in bulke but rather to contract what might haue been enlarged Iudicious readers esteeme of bookes as of coines whereof those are most precious which haue most weight and worth in the smallest quantity The onely addition I entended was if I might adde a graine To the honor encrease and encouragement of your company The prosperity whereof euery good man in these threatning times cannot but aduance For as it is in the natural so is it in the nationall body Though the head may aduise well the eye see clearly the tong discourse discreetly yet if the armes and limbes bee lame it can neither defend it selfe nor offend the enemy so neither can prudent counsell in the head of the kingdome nor cleare doctrine and direction in the eyes of the Church nor lawes sharpely pleaded and executed secure our State if martiall men and affaires be lame and vnioynted Euery man knowes the postes of a meane house had neede be heart of oake and much more the studs of so great a State and pondrous fabricke as ours is had need bee strong like to Iacin and Boaz the two pillars of the porch of that great Temple The great God of spirits put great spirits in you and the rest of your noble profession That with the valour of Dauid the might of Sampson the courage of Gideon and the successe of Ioshua you may in Gods cause and your coūtries seruice atchieue great and noble works for the defence of the Gospell the safety of our King the honour of the Kingdome the taking of the prey out of the Lyons mouth and the rescuing of the oppressed from the mighty man And let all faithfull subiects and sonnes of valour say Amen The louer of your valour and vertue THO TAYLOR THE VALVE OF TRVE Valour or the probation and approbation of a right Military Man 1. SAM 14. VER vlt. And whosoeuer Saul saw to bee a strong man and fit for the warre him he tooke vnto him SAVL of a priuate man was by the especiall appointment of God and annoyting of Samuel lifted vp to the pitch of a King Presently the spirit of God commeth vpon him and hee was changed into another man Hee was still in the maine but a bad man but yet of many eminent good parts for gouernment He must needs be the fittest whom God vouchsafeth to chuse for employment and see yee not him whom the Lord hath chosen and there is none like him among the people euen Saul who was higher then any of the people from the shoulders vpward now designed by God to bee the great Generall of the Lords battaile and by whom the Lord saued Israel many times This new Sauiour for so he is stiled Ca. 9. 16. With his new heroicall Spirit attempts his office succesfully He foyleth the Phylistims subdueth the Ammonites destroyeth the Amalekites and atchieneth for Israel many happy and noble victories Himselfe was a valiant man and an honourer of the valiant for so saith the Text. Whomsoeuer hee saw to bee a strong man and meet for the warre him he tooke vnto him In which words are 2. things considerable 1. Sauls probation of his Military men Whomsoeuer he saw to be a strong man and meete for the warre 2. His approbation and aduancement of them in the other words him he tooke vnto him In the former obserue Who they bee on whom Saul casts his eye namely on men seruiceable described by two properties First They were valiant men Secondly They were meete for the warre 1. They were valiant and strong men That is not of strong bodies onely but of braue mindes and resolutions and of stout and ready action It is not Faex populi the scumme and vermin of the land that Saul casteth his eye vpon such an impious and dissolute brood had beene dishonourable for the Lords battels But Souldiers should bee choyce men For first If the Lord be to chuse a Souldier he wil chuse a valiant man as to Gedeon The Lord is with thee thou valiant man Goe in this thy might and saue Israel haue not I sent thee and where the Lord meaneth to get a victory hee first sends away the cowards and fearefull from the host as in Gedeons army of two and thirty thousand two and twenty thousand timerous men departed yea it was a generall law of Armes amongst the Israelites that whosoeuer was afraid and fainthearted he might returne home lest in the battell hee should make his brethrens heart soft and faint like vnto his 2. A wise Generall well knoweth that as there is no worth so there is no trust in effeminate cowards who for their owne safety care not to betray their cause their countrey their King their company their Religion and all The Ancient in disdaine were wont to call them Hares with helmets Whose best safety was in their feete You may arme and put helmets and furniture vpon such fearefull hares but how can you make them stand when they are pursued 3. Then is the Military businesse likely to prosper when choyce and worthy men are sought out to be both Leaders and led When Ioshua is to goe against Amalek Chuse vs out men saith hee and let vs goe fight Well knew Ioshua that it were better not fight then not with choyce men And the Ancients report that the foundation of the flourishing and conquering state of the Roman Empire was laid in their carefull choyce of Commaunders and common souldiers 4. The honour yea and the