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The soldier's religious exercise in the time of war Being some proper texts, portions of holy scripture, and prayers, useful for those officers and soldiers, who are engaged abroad in Their Majesties service. Publish'd by a late chaplain to the army.
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Late chaplain to the army.
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by thy governance to do alwaies that is righteous in thy fight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen COLLECT V. For aid against Perils Note That this Collect is to be said at Night LIghten mine eyes O Lord that I sleep not in darkness nor in the shadow of death but by thy great mercy defend me from all perils and dangers this night that the Enemy may have no advantage over me nor yet the wicked approach to hurt me but preserve me both in body and soul through Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour Amen COLLECT VI. For a Blessing upon the Church and State O Lord look down from Heaven behold and visit us with thy Salvation have mercy upon these sinful and distracted Kingdoms pardon our great and crying sins divert thy Judgments and give us all grace thankfully to accept thy mercies defend this Church with thy continual help and government Bless and preserve Their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY prosper Their Forces with all happiness both by Sea and Land and make them eminent Instruments of doing good for the furtherance of thy glory and do thou at last bring Them to thy everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen COLLECT V. For Victory over our Enemies O God the protector of all them that trust in thee the Lord of all power and might be ready I beseech thee to save and deliver me and all my Superior Officers and fellow Soldiers of this †This to be used as necessary Camp or Garison from the hands of our Enemies that we may be preserved and comforted in all the dangers and Calamities of War do thou strengthen the hands of our General and go along with our Officers and Soldiers and stand by us all in the day of Battel that we being armed by the power of thy Divine Providence may do great and valiant Acts and so magnifie thy honour and glory in giving us Victory and deliverance through Jesus Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour Amen COLLECT VI. For the Peace of the Christian World GRant I beseech thee O merciful Lord to all thy faithful People pardon and peace that they being cleansed from all their sins may walk in brotherly love and agreement of Mind and serve thee with a quiet Mind through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen COLLECT VII For heavenly Hope and Confidence O God who never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast fear and love grant I beseech thee that I may lean only upon the hope of thy heavenly grace and in all my troubles put my whole trust and confidence in thy mercy that thou being my Ruler and Guide I may so pass through things temporal that I lose not the things Eternal but may obtain thy gracious Promises through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen COLLECT VIII To Conclude ALmighty God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's name I beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears now that in his name I have made my Prayers and Supplications unto thee and grant that those things which I have faithfully asked according to thy will may be effectually obtained to the relief of my necessity and to the setting forth of thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen COLLECT IX For a Blessing THE Lord fulfil the desires and Prayers of thy humble Servant as may be most expedient for me The Lord bless and keep me in the day of Battel in the hour of death and in the time of Judgment The Lord lift up the light of his Countenance upon me and give me Peace both now and evermore A COLLECT in case the Soldier be visited with Sickness or lie dangerously ill of his Wounds O Lord look down from Heaven visit and relieve me thy * As the case requires afflicted or wounded Servant whom thou hast made the object of thy heavy wrath and displeasure for the punishment of my sins sanctifie I beseech thee this thy fatherly correction to me that the sense of my weakness may add strength to my Faith and seriousness to my repentance that if it shall be thy good pleasure to restore me to my former health I may lead the residue of my life in thy fear and to thy glory or else give me grace so to take thy visitation that after this painful life ended I may dwell with thee in life everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Private Prayer for the Morning O Lord God of Hosts who rulest over all the Kingdoms of the Earth in whose Hands there is power and might so that none is able to withstand thee look down from Heaven and behold from the Habitation of thy Holiness and Glory upon me and all the Camp of our Israel who lie before thee dead in Trespasses and Sins be thou pleased to quicken us all by thy heavenly grace and power that we may arise from the Death of sin unto the Life of righteousness particularly be merciful unto me the unworthiest of all thy Servants give ear unto my Prayer O God and hide not thy self from my supplication who come unto thee with all humility and devotion of Soul and Body imploring thy fatherly mercy and forgiveness of all those grievous sins and transgressions which I do now confess before thee * Here recollect your particular sins O cleanse thou me from all my faults wash me in the Blood of that Immaculate Lamb who offered up himself a Sacrifice for the sins of the whole World look upon the intercession of the Blessed Jesus and let his saving power and efficacy plead pardon for my sins hear O Lord and forgive give grace and strength to thy Servant that he may reform all the errors and miscarriages of his former Life and be renewed in the Spirit of a sober Mind to think and do always those things that be righteous in thy sight Shew thy Pity and Compassion to this sinful and divided Nation wherein we live pardon our great and crying sins prevent the wrath of thy terrible Judgments and give us not over a prey unto the will of our Enemies for thou art the hope of our Israel and the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble and therefore that we may enjoy security and rest from all our Enemies round about us be thou pleased to bless and defend with thy peculiar favour and providence Their Sacred Majesties King William and Queen Mary make Them the saving Instruments of this Church and Nation and to this end do thou prosper Their Forces both by Land and Sea with happy Success and Victory Be thou O Lord the God of our defence and Salvation in the Day of Battel and strengthen the Hands of our General and bless all our Officers and Soldiers that we may be strong in the Lord and in the Power of his might to fight valiantly for the cause of God And now O Lord lest any unthankfulness for former mercies
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom Ps 90.12 All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come For now thou numberest my steps dost thou not watch over my sin Job 14.14 16. God will not cast away a perfect man Job 8.20 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Ps 37.37 Rejoice not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall arise when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me Mich. 7.8 Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted in me Psal 42.5 I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore Psal 16. v. 8 11. For which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal 2 Cor. 4.16 18. Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God Rom. 5. v. 1 2. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto them also which love his appearing 2 Tim. 4.7 8. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them Rev 14.13 Blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing Matth. 24.46 EXERCISE V. A Christian Soldier must give all due submission and obedience to the Commands of his chief Officer or Leader and the Officer must be no less faithful and diligent in his Trust AND Moses said unto them If ye will do this thing if ye will go armed before the Lord to war Numb 32.20 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord until he hath driven out his enemies from before him Numb 32. v. 20. And the land be subdued before the Lord then afterwards ye shall return and be guiltless before the Lord and before Israel and this land shall be your possession before the Lord Numb 32.22 But if ye will not do so behold ye have sinned against the Lord and be sure your sin will find you out Numb 32.23 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses saying Thy servants will do as my Lord commandeth Numb 32. â—5 Thy servants will pass over every man armed for war before the Lord to battle as my lord saith Numb 32. v. 27. And they answered Joshua saying All that thou commandest us we will do and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go Josh 1. v 16. According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee only the Lord thy God be with thee as he was with Moses Josh 1. v. 17. Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him he shall be put to death only be strong and of good courage Josh 1. v. 18. And the officers which were over thousands of the host the captains of thousands and capâ—ains of hundreds came near unto Moses Numb 31.48 And they said unto Moses Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge and there lacketh not one man of us Numb 31.49 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the Hold unto David 1 Chron. 12.16 And David went out to meet them and answered and said unto them If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me mine heart shall be kind unto you but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies seeing there is no wrong in mine hands the God of our fathers look thereon and rebuke it 1 Chron. 12.17 Then the spirit came upon Amasai who was chief of the captains and he said Thine are we David and on thy side thou son of Jesse peace peace be unto thee and peace be to thine helpers for thy God helpeth thee Then David received them and made them captains of the band 1 Chron. 12.18 And they helped David against the band of the rovers for they were all mighty men of valour and were captains in the host 1 Chron. 12.21 All these men of war that could keep rank came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king 1 Chron. 12.38 For I also am a man set under authority having under me soldiers and I say unto one Go and he goeth and to another Come and he cometh and to my servant Do this and he doth it Luk. 7.8 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters and to please them well in all things not answering again Tit. 2.9 Not purloyning but shewing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our saviour in all things Tit. 2.10 EXERCISE VI. A Soldier must exercise his Valour and Courage for the Cause of God and fight for the Defence of his Religion and Country BE thou valiant and fight the Lord's battles 1 Sam. 18.17 Be of good courage and let us play the men for our people and for the cities of our God and the Lord do that which seemeth him good 2 Sam. 10.12 And Joab drew nigh and the people that were with him unto the battle against the Syrians and they fled before him 2 Sam. 10.13 For the battel is the Lord's and he will give you into our hands 1 Sam 17.47 For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you Deut. 20. v. 4 When thou goest out to battel against thine enemies and seest horses and chariots and a people more than thou be not afraid of them for the Lord thy God is with thee Deut. 20.1 Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies Ps 60.12 The right hand of the Lord is exalted the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly Ps 118.16 Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Ephes 6. v. 10. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day Ephes 6.13 Fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim. 6.12 Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of