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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

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