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A00461	The arriereban a sermon preached to the company of the military yarde, at St. Andrewes Church in Holborne at St. Iames his day last. By Iohn Everarde student in Diuinity, and lecturer at Saint Martins in the fields.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?	1618 (1618)	STC 10598; ESTC S114619	42,065	124

in darke places namely that according to Ioabs counsell to his brother Abishai We be strong and valiant for our people and for the Cities of our God and let the Lord do that which is good in his eyes and as the builders of Ierusalem did the worke with one hand and held the sword with the other so let one of our hands be lifted vp against our enemies and the other vnto our God precibusque manus iam fortiter adde that words and blowes and hands and hearts be seuerally imployed about their proper businesse for as it is true on the one side partem super quam non pluit Dominus arescere that the peece which is not rained vpon doth parch and wither away so on the other side what Plutarch spake of Philosophy is much more true of the Allmighty that hee hath not like a statuary made men simulacra in sua perpetuò haerentia basi images cleauing and perpetually growing to their basis and foundation but actiue iudicious full of counsell inuention and greatnesse of minde and most ready to execute whatsoeuer they shall be by them spurred and prouoked vnto running sometimes into those dangers and troubles quorum ortū nesciuerunt whose originall or cause they do not vnderstand but most an end like Sampson pulling vpon their owne heads ruine and destruction either through contempt or neglect of the meanes which if maturely applied might haue beene antidotes and defensatiues against those poysons For conclusion of this point The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon of the one as concha the fountaine and originall of the other as canalis the streame and conduit of safety and victory let be the meditation the cry the confidence of all those who are or shall be like horses praepared against the day of battell I would I might here make an end that after so calme and serene a day my sunne might not set in a cloud but as our Sauiour sayes If these should hold their tongues the stones would cry So it being the property of light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to reprooue darknesse Although I should be silent yet your forwardnes willing offering your selues would accuse and conuince others whom it concernes as much or more than you of a kinde of namelesse sloth or improuidence which hath insensibly emasculated softned their hearts making them lesse carefull to preuent lesse able to resist whensoeuer nation shall rise against nation or kingdome against kingdome It hath beene said of old Many a good father hath had an euill sonne I am sure that we haue seene three of the best mothers peace prosperitie and plenty bring forth such monstrous and abhorred issues as wee haue iust cause to wish the knees had neuer praeuented but that they had beene hid as vntimely births or as infants which haue not seene the light Peace hath brought forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iniustice Prosperity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 impiety and Plenty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 effaeminate wantonnesse All we say is that It is pity faire weather should euer do harme yet we feele our selues thereby melted into pleasure and the sinewes of our strength dissolued by litle and litle euery priuate mans vices spreading the infection so that it may iustly be feared that at length the whole body politicke will become corrupted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And surely though the two first may cause the decay of a Common-wealth as much as the last yet experience hath euer found this to be the most infallible and immediate forerunner nutantis iamiam casuri imperij of a declining and tottering Empire ready to fall by the least impulsion or concussion Rome to the top of whose greatnesse aegrè visio humana conscendit scarce any humane sight could reach stood euer fast and victorious as long as they kept their rigid discipline and ancient customes inuiolable as long as they either had warre with other Nations as in the time of the Consulls or were prepared for warre as it is said of Augustus that when the Temple of Ianus was shut he kept forty legions in pay But afterward when want of forraine enemies made her study and apply her selfe to the Persian luxury and delicacies when shee began to haue Nero'es and Heliogabali to her Emperors shee did forthwith not descend but tumble downe headlong from her greatnesse to that despicable and contemned estate whence shee was neuer neuer will be able to raise her selfe As much might be said of the Graecian Empire the Persian Monarchy and all other Estates of whom there is now nothing to be seene but the dust and rubbish Nam caetera regna Luxuries vitijs odijsque superbia vertit Vnhappy men are alwaies made in respect of their sins not accessaries but principalls in their owne destruction they become bloody Pharaohs to themselues in killing the male children and sauing the faemales in destroying or discountenancing masculine virtues and nourishing effaeminate basenes Diuidimus muros moenia pandimus vrbis Though not with their hands yet by these meanes and manners they disarme themselues of their defence and are exposed to the vttermost of all iniuries and perills What could the Philistims haue deuised more dangerously against the Israelites though they made them flie from place to place and hide themselues in caues and in rockes and in holds and in towers and in pits yet there was hope that they might rally meete together and according to Demosthenes saying of himselfe though they once ranne away afterward fight againe But when they had left them neuer a Smith in all Israel so that among forty thousand men there was neither sword nor speare then they thought they had them sure enough for euer being able to lift vp their hands or make resistance against them The same policie did Sesostris vse against the Aegyptians whose country being great and their numbers infinite to keepe them quiet hee thought it his best course to impose vpon women the workes of men and vpon men the workes of women constrayning the men to sit at home and the women to goe abroad the men to spin the women to buy and sell the men to beare burthens on their heads the women on their shoulders the men to weare double garments against the cold the women single ones the men to weare long hayre the women short 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let me spare the translation of this vnnaturally translated gesture And wherefore all this hoping that by these meanes and customes he should in time weane them from all man-like thoughts and exercise of Armes and make them willingly gladly yeeld their necks vnto that yoke of slauery which he knew it impossible any free spirit could beare And what lesse or what other thing doe they who not from any outward compulsion but meerely out of their owne natiue and in-bred vices softnesse security

her name be sowen Nahum 1.14 HOPE But God once spared this populous City wherein there are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discerne betweene the right hand and the left TRVTH The Lord indeed is slow to anger but great in power and will not surely cleare the wicked Cap. 1. ver 3. HOPE We heare no rumors of warre we are at rest and haue peace with the Nations round about vs. TRVTH Though they be quiet and also many yet thus shall they be cut off when he shall passe by Cap. 1.12 HOPE But if there be no remedy let vs not be beaten at home stop the passages man the frontiers keepe the munition watch the wayes let vs make our loynes strong and fortifie our powers mightily Cap. 2. ver 1. TRVTH Yea but The shields of the mighty men that come against thee are made red Their charets shall rage in the streets they shall runne to and fro in the high wayes they shall shoot like the lightning Cap. 2. v. 4. HOPE But Niniueh is of old like a poole of water the riuer Tigris is in stead of moates ditches trenches to her walles and besides shee will remember her strong men cap. 2.8 TRVTH But the gates of the riuers shall be opened and the palace shall melt they shall flee away stand stand shall they cry but none shall looke backe cap. 2.8 HOPE But Niniueh hath multiplied her merchants as the starres of heauen there is no end of the store and glory of all her pleasant furniture and therefore she can hire succours from forraine countries TRVTH Yea but The Chaldaeans shall take the spoile of the siluer and gold c. 2. v. 9. and for other Nations they shall be so farre from helping her that all they that looke vpon her shall fly from her and say Niniueh is laid waste who will bemoane her cap. 3. ver 7. HOPE But Niniueh is the seate of the Empire shee can command to her aide many Countries Prouinces and Cities that are vnder her dominion TRVTH Yea but Is shee better than No that was full of people and was situate among the riuers Aethiopia and Aegypt was her strength and it was infinite Put and Lubin were her helpers yet shee was carried away and went into captiuitie c. 3. v. 9. HOPE But Niniueh hath store of munition and is victualled for many yeares TRVTH I I draw thee waters for the siege fortifie thy strong holds goe into the clay and tread the morter make strong the brickill yet there the fire shall deuoure thee and the sword cut thee off c. 3. v. 14 15. HOPE But Niniueh hath her walles an hundred foote high so broad that three carts may goe on a row at the top of them furnished and fortified with fifteene hundred bulwarks and towers TRVTH Yet all her strong holds are but like fig-trees with the first ripe figs if they be shaken they shall euen fall into the mouth of the eater cap. 3. vers 12. HOPE But Niniueh hath in her the flower of the Princes the chiefe of the Nobility and the greatest Captaines and Commanders in the Empire TRVTH Alas Her crowned are as the Locusts and her Captaines are as the great grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the cold day but when the Sunne ariseth they flie away and the place is not knowne where they are cap. 13. ver 17. HOPE But Niniueh is full of ancient experienced braue Souldiours such as haue beene accustomed but to come and conquer TRVTH Yea but peace and plenty hath made them wanton effaeminate base drunken coward-like Carpet-Knights Behold thy people in the middest of thee are women cap. 3. v. 13. Thy people those that haue beene so renowmed in Armes those that haue atchieued such victories those that haue made such conquests Thy people those that haue beene the terror of the world able to affront Babylon and to giue her checke-mate in the height of her pride Those thy people thy strong martiall honoured feared people In the middest of thee not thy pondus in vtile thy dregs and off-scowring not thy paisants and husbandmen not thy Artisans and Mecaniques not they that are farre remote from the safety of thy walles and turrets not they that dwell in thy skirts and suburbs but thy people in the middest of thee in the place of greatest eminence securitie and defence Are women proud as women foolish and voide of counsell as women fantasticall and new-fangled as women delicate and tender as women fearefull and coward-like as women nice and effaeminate as women which neuer will venter to set the sole of their foote vpon the ground for their softnes and tendernes the heart melteth and the knees smite together much paine is in the loynes and the faces of them all gather blacknesse Nahum 2.10 Wee now come to our selues againe and demand whether after the light of so great euidence reflected vpon vs from the glasse of this example there can any man be so stupid as to doubt so impious as to deny that all power to worke with meanes without meanes against meanes belongeth to the Lord of Hostes who hath done doth and will do whatsoeuer he listeth in heauen on earth in the sea and all deep places And therefore as the Elders in the Reuelation throw downe their crownes before the throne so cast downe your armes ô ye mighty your swords and shields ô yee valiant men of warre before his foote-stoole hang them vp as trophees in his Temple with this inscription Through God we will doe valiantly for he shall tread downe our enemies vnder our feete But if he be not our helpe in the day of battell what can these aduantage vs for victory ouer enemies as safety from enemies is of the Lord. But it may be that as a Philosopher dissuading the too much feare of death made men preposterously to cast away their liues and Physitians somtimes seeking to comfort the heart doe inflame the liuer so we by fastening our eyes thus long vpon the transcendent and imperiall power of God haue lost all sight of the necessity of meanes or second causes and beginne to perswade our selues that seeing it is all one with God as we haue heard to helpe with many or with few to giue victory to men armed or naked to saue with sword and shield or without them therefore all preparation against the day of battell all prouision munition numbers experience and practise are either needlesse or bootlesse If the Lord will help he can doe it without these and then they are needlesse or if he will strike there is neither security nor succour in any of these and then they are bootlesse For answer whereunto we are to consider that albeit the absolute power of God be infinite a matter much rather than a Kings royall prerogatiue not to be quaestioned nor disputed of for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Damascene things incomprehensible are likewise vnspeakable and to be