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A01955	The trumpet of vvarre A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the seuenth of Maie 1598. By M. Steph. Gosson parson of great Wigborow in Essex.	Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.	1598 (1598)	STC 12099; ESTC S112458	41,167	110

Hier. 18. 18. Let vs smite Hieremie with the toong and giue no heed to his worde The best way the diuell can finde to disgrace preaching is to disgrace y t preacher Concerning this practise I assure my selfe that much water goes by the Mill which the Miller knowes not of therefore standing before the honorable Judges of our Cuntrey I will open some thinges to this purpose as I passe along The last Assises in the Cuntrey where I dwell there was a Minister a bachiler of Diuinitie that had a cause against one that held his benefice as farmor and woulde kéepe from him both his liuing and his rent that shoulde maintaine him and doe it by law But there was a base generation then present which belike haue some inferior seruices to courtes of iustice whom I cannot beter liken than vnto Florus an idle fellow that saide of Cesar Ego nolo Caesar esse I will not be Caesar to march vp and downe in armour among the Britaines and so leade a laborious and painfull life to whom Cesar answered ego nolo Florus esse ambulare per popinas c. I will not be Florus to créep into euery kitchen or to be shrouded vnder the roofes of victualing houses woorried and eaten vp at last with lice and lazinesse This generation is such as haue had honest trades and occupations to get their liuing but per aduenture by some euil cariage in their trades hauing loste both credite and custome and now scorning the sweat of their occupation haue found out a new occupation to liue by y e sweat of other mens browes and to compasse this the better haue ioyned themselues to some crackt Attourney which since his disgrace and rasing out of the roll hath wandered a while in France vntill his face or his fortune or ill fashion of life might be forgotten and so returns closely to his old byas This kind of people espying but one minister to be drawn forth into sutes and quarels gaue it out lustily that they would haue the next assises better furnisht they would haue three or foure of our brethren there I will say to your Honors of these people as Dauid said to Salomon concerning Semei 1. kin 2. 8. With thee is Semei that cursed mee with a horrible cursse Although my hand be not vpon him yet thou shalt not count him innocent for thou art a wise manne and knowest what thou oughtest to doe vnto him When any of these caterpillers and coosners of the Quéens léege people shall hale any of the Clergie by violence into the courts as you are wise learned in the lawes of our Countrey mark well the nature of the action and the qualitie of the persons and doe according to the wisedome God hath put into your harts you know what you ought to do in these cases better than I can teache you I dare be bold to say that you shal find the Cleargy of England haunted at this day with thrée cumbers that troubled the Prophet Ieremy Lament 3. The first is that his enemies chased him like a birde from tree to trée The second was they woulde not tarrie vntill hee was dead but cast him quick into a pit the third against all humanity when they had him downe they threw stones vppon him presently to kéep him down a barbrous cruelty passing the cruelty of the Italian the heathen and the spaniard The Italian hath a tricke in the art of the rapier the dagger to teach his scholer with a trauace or two to get the pointe of his aduersaries weapon and hauing that to locke him vp so sure that he may turne away his face from him and runne him through which he saith he doth Per non veder crudeltà because hee will behould no cruelty The tragedies of the heathen poets are stuft full of murder inhmanity and horrible actions yet are they performed with such a care and compassion of the people that they are al conuayed frō the peoples eyes The spanish inquisition hath bene so kinde in some cruelties that they haue of grace and fauor greas'd the halter for some that weare strangled for religion that they might be dispatcht the sooner Let vs craue any of these fauors at the hands of our enemies let them turne away their faces from vs when they kill vs that their eyes delight not and their chéeks blush not at their owne cruelty or conuey the horror and inhumanity of their actions behinde the stage that the people be not sxandald or grease euery halter that stops our breath that the rope may ride and make a quick riddance of vs al. Or if they be so gallant faulkners that they make it their pastime and recreation to pursue vs like a quaile or a partridge from place to place and such huntsmen as haueing once streightned their game be desirous to tumble it into a pit let them tarry vntill we be colde in the mouth and then throw Pelion and Ossa the Giants weight vpon vs we know we shall rise againe By these practises both you my Lords and you good people may easily discerne that this world is a very sea of trobles wherin there be two ships vnder saile both men of warre The one is the church where Christ is the maister his crosse the maste his sanctimony the sailes the tackle is his patience and perseuerance the caste peeces are the Prophets Apostels and preachers whose sound hath béen hard ouer all the world the mariners be the Angels singing their Celeumata glorie be to God on high the fraught is the soules of iust men woemen and children And the rich gifts and deuotions bestowed vpon churches and colledges bound vp in baggs that shall neuer perish The rudder is charitie all the motions and actions of the church are wroght in loue the ancor is hope the flagge in the top of her is faith the worde written in it Premimur non oprimimur We are cast downe saieth the Apostle but wee perishe not There is another ship at sea which hath this ship in rhace that is the Pyracy of hel a hot ship and full of wild-fire where the Diuell is maister pride the mast impurity the saile the wisdome of flesh the Card the mysterie of iniquity the compasse Diagoras the Atheist Indas y e traytor and the whole rabble of hel the Marriners two tyre of Ordnance planted in her one mixt of hereticks schismatiks another of persecuting heathen princes that spit smoke sulphur at the church of God There belonges no anchor to this vessel to stay it when the stormes of the wrath of God arise for it is subiect to despaire The flag in the top is infidelitie the word written in it Lu●rum est pietas Gaine is godlinesse You may sée it in the continuall chace of the Church for the churches treasure landes and leases giuen in Pios vsus The daies haue béene the question was What shall we bring to the man of God The daies

the victorie and the intention of the warrior If the losse of of the enemy be likely to fall out to be greater than the hurte he hath done I finde no great reckoning made of it because the wilfulnesse of the enemie is the cause of it which may haue peace and will not If the losse bee of the second or third fort that is the losse of the warriour or the losse of the church be likely to be greater then the hurt alredy receiued there is som care to be had of it for war hath the property of phisicke if the phisitian by healing the present infirmitie bring the bodie into worse case then it was before his phisicke is very dangerous Concerning the probabilitie of the victorie which is the fourth poynt Caietan holds that in the enterprise of war the preparation must be so great that the warrior maye be Moraliter certus de victoria sure of the victorie He brings in two examples for it one of a Judge another of the Agent and the Patient If a Judge saith he send to apprehend a malefactor and do not send so strong a companie that he may be sure to take him he doth more hurt then good In the time of war the reuenger is the Agent the offender is the Patient and in things natural Agens debet esse potens ad superandum passum The agent must be powerfull and able to ouercome the patient the medicine must bee stronger then the humour But this is not absolutely necessarie because it is impossible Psa 33. The king is not saued by the multitude of an hoast nor the mightie man deliuered by his great strength How pusian● soeuer the preparation of princes be if God be not with them it is nothing woorth 2. Chro. 25. 8. The Armie of Amafiah consisted of an hundred thousande verie valiaunt men but the man of God tolde him that how strong soeuer hee made himselfe hee should surely be ouerthrowne if he did proceede because God was not with him Dauid obserues it Psal 89. 43. That it is God that turnes the edge of the sworde of the warriour makes him vnable to stand ● the day of battel Remember the great Armada in the yéere 1588. The preparation was such that the inuader assured himselfe o victorie termed it inuincible yet was it in so short time with so few strokes skirmishes with so smal ships scattered and defeated that to the eternal memory of gods high hand the vtter scorne and reproach of the inuader there was after the maner of the old Romanes a monument made of it in certain coyn stamped beyond the seas with a resemblance of a nauie and this word fastned to it venit iuit fuit it came it went it came to nothing And there was not one ancient or honourable house in Spaine but lost a son or a brother a kinsman or a friend in that voyage If it should neuer be lawful to war but vpon assurance of the victorie drawne from the preparation it should neuer be lawfull for the smaller number to fight with the greater or the weaker with y ● stronger so shuld it haue bin vnlawful for the Israelites to encounter the Aramites 1. King 22 27. when the Israelites pitched like two little flocks of kids before the Aramites and the Aramites filled the country So should it haue bin vnlawful for Iehoshaphat in this place to resist the inuader for he confesses vers 12. of this chap. There is no strength in vs to stande before this great multitude that commeth against vs neither doo wee know what to do but our eies are towards thee Wherby you may perceiue that in the action of war a case may so fall out that it shal not be néedful for y ● warriour to expect any great assurance of the victory but put the matter in triall euen when the successe is doubtfull Neuerthelesse I will say thus much vnto you that if a prince can find any means to assure himselfe of the victory before the war begin he may vse it 1 Sam. 30 8. When the Amalekites had sackt and fired Z●klag Dauid asketh counsel of God whether he shal pursue them god assures him of y ● victorie he shal recouer al. 1. Ch● 14. Before he set vpon the Philistines god prescribes vnto him which way he should go to work he should recoile fetch a compasse about by the mulbery trees and when he heard a noise or a rustling of one going in the tops of the mulberie trées then God cōmanded him to charge his enemies for God was gone out before him The like we find in Gedeon God gaue him signes and tokens to assure him that hee shoulde preuaile Iudg. 6. The signe was by the fléece wette when the grounde was drie and the ground wet when the fleece was drie Iudg. 7. 11. God sendes him by night to the hoast of the Midianites and by a dreame of the enemie touching a barlie cake that tumbled downe into the hoast of Midian and destroyed it God assured him that he would deliuer his enimies into his hand This assurance is not gathered from the preparation of man but from the fauour and power of God Therfore when this certaintie cannot be attained princes are bound to attaine to the greatest probabilitie they can and comparing the hope of their victorie with the danger of their losse aduenture as far as shall be good for the cōmon weale If the probabilitie be slender and the warre offensiue they ought to giue it ouer because the warre is voluntarie if the probabilitie be slender and the war defensiue it may not be giuen ouer because the warre is necessarie It is Iehoshaphats case heere the probabilitie of the victorie is very smal in respect of his owne forces yet because he is inuaded the war necessary he makes head to resist the enemie commits the cause to God The fift last poynt concerning the beginning of this action is the intention of the warriour I ho. 2. 2. q. 40. a. 1. defines it to be Studium Pacis desire of peace for peace is the end of war v● Mali coerceantur boni subleuentur That the wicked may be bridled the good reléeued War may be vndertaken vppon good cause and law full authoritie yet the intention of the warriour may be euil Hereupon S. Aug. condemnes in a warriour Nocendi cupiditatem vlciscendi crude litatem animum implacabilem feritatem dominandi ●ibidinem A desire to do mischiefe cruelty in reuenge an implacable minde a fell spirit an ambitious humor séeking after rule domination The second difference of time is the progresse of warre before the victorie during which time al the meanes are lawful that are requisite to the attaining of the victory sleights shifts stratagems burning wasting spoiling vndermining battery blows and bloud I will giue you one example in Scripture for al ●ol 8. In the taking of Ai there is