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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68550	The Bible-battells. Or The sacred art military For the rightly wageing of warre according to Holy Writ. Compiled for the vse of all such valiant worthies, and vertuously valerous souldiers, as vpon all iust occasions be ready to affront the enemies of God, our king, and country. By Ric. Bernard rector of Batcombe Somersetshire.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1629 (1629)	STC 1926; ESTC S115391	93,945	409

courage and striketh some feare into the enemie A small number of skilfull men and experienced in armes will easily rout multitudes of others as histories and experience doe tell vs. The Romans by their excercised souldiers got so great and so maine victories Epaminondas by his exercised Thebanes ouerthrew the Lacedemonians Liv 27. 21 at length Hannibal at his comming into Italy at first put to flight 35. thousand with a smal company of old souldiers V. Besides all these it is fit that souldiers should be religious yea very requisite because they expose themselues so to the danger of death vvhich none but such as be religious can be prepared for Besides they may expect Gods ayde they may fight with their hands and pray vvith their hearts by which meanes that renowned Machabeus 2 Mach 15 26 27. conquered Nicanor and slew of his enemies 35. thousand Let not the roaring boyes the Machavilian Atheists the prophane Esaus the drunken sonnes of Bacchus the blasphemous swearers nor the filthy Adulterers laugh at this for God requireth 2 Sa. 23. 3. that all should feare him Religion will make men valiant never any in holy vvrit recorded for religious but were indeed valiant as Abraham David Asa Iehoidah the high Priest Iosias the religious king all valiant men And how can they See Doct. Sut. Dea●e of Exet. his b of warre pag. 37 38 mooving the Armie to be religious be otherwise but valiant when they know that God is reconciled to them death if it come will bee to them aduantage These onely haue faith in God and so will be couragious Who can doubt that these will adventure life in the field for religion and a iust cause that dare willingly yeeld their bodies to be burnt for their faith and profession They adventure their corporall life but with assurance of a heauenly life after Wheras all other be what they may be hazard the damnation of their soules with the death of their bodies a desperate attempt in carelesse wretches The religious of conscience will be obedient as Israel professed Ios 1. 16 17. Mat 8. 9. to be to Iosua and are like the Centurions seruants going comming at command and not mutinous they are of a quiet behauiour and temperate not brablers not drunkards nor quarrelsome They will esteeme of and loue a worthy Captaine according to his worth who must be to them as a father and 2 Ch. 25. 13. See the reading in the marg they to him as sons for in Israels language they were called the sons of the band Their prayers are of more force to preuaile with God to take their parts and to vanquish an Enemy then all other means beside Israel fought but Moses did procure the victorie by prayer And least any scoffing Ishmael should deride this care of the choyce of religious men as having no patterne of warlike Chieftaines to follow let them looke to the mightie Exo 15. 3. man of warre the Lord of hosts the king of Kings and consider what manner of souldiers he did chuse to fight his battles The Commanders were religious as Ioshua the Iudges Ehud Gideon Iepthah David and others His Armies mustered by the Lord were called his sanctified ones set apart by him to military imployment They were also mighty ones and strong Esa 13. 3. Ioel 2. 5. they Ioel 2. 7. 8 9. were skilfull to march and did not breake ranke keeping way and iust distance not thrusting one another they cared not for wounds though the sword pierced them they were such as were runners quicke and nimble in execution and to conclude they reioyced in the Lords highnes and in his excellency Such did the Lord muster and chuse for his host But it will be obiected that Iepthtah had in his campe vaine men Iud 11. 1 Sa. 22. 2. 30. 22. There gathered to Dauid men in distresse in debt discontented persons ●e● and wicked-men and sons of Belial who fought with courage recovered their losses and slew the Amalakites It is very true but these were some 1 Ch 12. 33. onely among the rest the Commanders themselves and other among them were well given Againe they had such as pleased to come to them in their distresses but they did not hyre such as the bastard Abimelech Iudg 9. did who hyred vaine and light men a companie fit for such a Captaine Authoritie that may presse may find fitter men for their seruice is a good cause if they looke to prosper then sonnes of Beliall Rogues Loyterers Pikars Swearers Drunkards Bastard breeders Gaole-birds Scurfe and Scum of a people held vnworthy to liue among honest men very Out-casts of parishes not to bee admitted indeede vnto the honour of beeing a Souldiour But some will perhaps say that of these Routs of outcasts some haue prooued very seruiceable also many vncleane liuers prophane swearers whore-master and Cup-Captaines haue shewed great courage in war●s And it s knowne that Heathen men Iulius Caesar Alexander Hector Achilles Themistocles Epaminondas Pyrrhus and infinite others haue bin valiant souldiers First for these latter though Heathen Xenophon in exp Cyr. 2. Cicero de nat Deo Esai 47. 12 13. yet morall vertues have beene commended in them and according to their Pagan profession they were religious asking counsell of their gods without which they would not goe to warre and they hearkened to their Priests Diviners Southsayers Prognosticators Astrologers Chaldeans and such as were Revealers as they thought of the will of their gods For the rout of outcasts it may be some very few of many have beene seruiceable but what have all the rest beene An Heathen could say That of a Company riotous Clea●chus ●n Xenophon exped Cyr● 2 and disorderly there is no vse For the other that are held so valorous true it is that humane fortitude may be in an Abimelech that murtherer of his brethren in an Abner a Ioab as it was in those forenamed renowned Heathen yea in other most lewd and vicious and most prophanely irreligious there may be out of pride and ambition out of a furious heat of heart out of a resolued foole hardy desperatenesse out of hope of spoyle out of a vaine desire of getting honour and out of some such like grounds perhaps out of an inflamed spirit of the Battery shewed a kind of valour But this is not Christian fortitude such as was in David and others accompanied euer with other laudable vertues What desperate companions were the three seditious Captaines in Ierusalem and their followers they prodigally shed the bloud of one another and like Lyons fought with the Romans but at length to their owne vtter confusion And what becommeth of these sorts of such seeming valorous men what commonly is their end How prosper they to say no more of them but this let experience speake Happy were it that Christian armies were gathered of religious or at least of ciuill and morally honest men that the