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A66471	The valorous warrior's welfare, in God's victorious warfare A sermon preach'd in His Majesty's English camp, near the city of Ghendt in Flanders; before the battalion of His Royal Highness George Prince of Denmark, under the command of the right honourable Colonel Charles Churchill, major-general of His Majesty's forces in the Netherlands. By William Williams, minister of the Gospel, and a son of the Church of England.	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2791; ESTC R219571	20,595	33

Proclamation with holy David Psal 18.1 2 3. saying on this wise We will love thee O Lord our Strength The Lord is our Rock and our Fortress and our Deliverer Our God our Strength in whom we will trust our Buckler and the Horn of our Salvation and our high Tower We will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall we be saved from our Enemies Like to this cordial and cheerful Proclamation was that comfortable Speech which good Hezekiah made to enliven and encourage his Army who being but few in number as compared with their Enemies the great Host of Senacherib King of Assyria were nevertheless by a setled Dependence on God's Power both willing and ready to give them the Encounter as you may read in 2 Chron. 32.7 8. where it is thus related Be strong and couragious be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria nor for all the Multitude that is with him for there be more with us than with him With him is an Arm of Flesh but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to sight our Battels And the People rested themselves upon the Words of Hezekiah King of Judah And while the People rested on the Words of Hezekiah behold the Lord sent a destroying Angel that on the same night smote in the Camp of the Alliances an hundred and fourscore and five thousand And when the People rose up early in the Morning behold they were all dead Corpses as you may read 〈◊〉 in the 2d of the Kings Chap. 19. Vers 35. Hence we may observe that a King who had the best Cause never fail'd of the best Courage The same may be said of WILLIAM the Third King of Great Britain and Ireland for God hath given him a good Cause of War against his Enemies as namely the securing of pure Religion the procuring of lasting Peace the uniting of divided Kingdoms the composing of Peoples Differences the preserving of wholesom Laws the correcting of disloyal Servants and the protecting of Loyal Subjects These being the Causes of God the King and the Church do so enhance his Majesty's Spirit that he is not afraid to meet his Enemies in the Gate but seems to declare his Interest in the Lord with holy David Psal 118.6 7. where the Prophetical King speaks on this wise The Lord is on my side I will not fear what Man can do unto me The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me Hence we may find it observable that the Lord also taketh part with our King's Party in order to fulfil his Desire upon his Enemies This Truth visibly appears in the late Wars that were managed both in the Kingdom of Ireland and the Territories of Flanders where God wonderfully preserv'd his Majesty's Sacred Person from the violent and revenging Peril of the Sword as if no Weapon form'd against him should prosper like one interested in those Escapes of David mentioned Psal 18. v. 50. namely Great Deliverances giveth he to his King and sheweth Mercy to his Anointed to David and to his Seed and Religious Successors for evermore Many miraculous Deliverances hath his Majesty already experienc'd as if a Guardian or encamping Angel had a special Commission from Heaven at all times in all places and upon all occasions to protect or preserve his pious Person Such a Commissionated-Angel we read of in Psal 34. vers 7. where it is said That the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them But of all the miraculous Deliverances and Preservations which Heaven decreed for his Safety the most capital and remarkable was his last Escape from a cursed Cabal of Assassinates who by mischievous Machinations hatch'd a Hellish Stratagem how to embrew their hateful and unhallow'd Hands in the scarlet and crimson Dyes of his Royal Blood had not God as the Anointed of Himself prevented the Martyrdom by a matchless Miracle of mysterious Mercy We have not besides what Divine Revelation affords a greater Argument to prove this World to be govern'd and all Things in it carried on and directed by the vigilant Eye and powerful Hand of Almighty GOD than the sudden and seasonable Discoveries of such damnable Enterprizes contriv'd with the utmost Caution and Secresie propagated with great Subtilty or Cunning and being just ripe for execution yet in an instant blasted in a trice broken all to pieces either by a surprizing dread seizing the Conspirators themselves or an unwary Word over-heard or an unaccountable Suspicion of ill Designs though founded upon no reason or a very trifling one yet hath proved true or God smote upon the Conscience of some one of them and for the ease of his tortur'd Mind he is forced to a Discovery Peradventure their Jealousie of being betray'd by others hath made some to give notice of it themselves A Letter miscarry'd a Fright Mistake Oversight or something happening otherwise than was expected hath brought the hidden Works of Darkness to light whereby the King and his Liege People or Loyal Subjects have been mercifully snatch'd from the Jaws of Ruin and the Conspirators themselves brought to condign Punishment according to that remarkable Observation of the Royal Prophet in his IX Psalm at the 16th Verse where he saith That the Lord is known by the Judgment which he executeth The Wicked is snared in the Work of his own Hands From these Diabolical and Inhumane Attempts may the Omniscient Omnipresent and Omnipotent God Protect His Majesties Gracious Person to improve that prepar'd Portion which we hope Divine Providence hath laid up for him in the Disposal of Sacred Providence as length of Days in her Right Hand and in her Left Hand Riches and Honour For her Ways are Ways of Pleasantness and all her Paths are Peace as appears in Prov. 3.16 17. Seeing therefore that the plain Paths of Wisdom are all of them both pleasant and peaceable let us learn of her to be so prudent as to make our Addresses unto God that he would be pleas'd to withdraw our Feet from the rugged Ways of War and Bloodshed that he may guide them into the smooth and pleasant Paths of Peace for in so doing both Church and State will famously slourish This was a Pious and a Primitive Observation among the Jews as appears in Psal 76.1 2 3. where holy David speaks these Expressions In Judah is God known his Name is great in Israel In Salem also is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling-place in Sion There brake he the Arrows of the Bow the Shield and the Sword and the Battel But now to the Praise and Glory of God we Christians may say That in Britain is God known his Name is great in England in the Salem of our British Dominion is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling-place in the Sion of our Three Kingdoms There also brake he the Arrows of the Bow the Shield and the Sword and

Interest appears so Interested in God that he lately Dethron'd a King that offended her and in his stead Enthron'd a King to defend her This is the Lord 's doing it is Marvellous in our Eyes as the Kingly Prophet expresseth it in Psal 118.23 For Promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South But God is the Judge He putteth down one and setteth up another as appears Psal 75.6 7. That this Dethronement and Establishment was God's own Handy-work is Divinely Vindicated by the Prophet Daniel in the Unparallel'd Case and Preternatural Condition of King Nebuchadnezzar who for his unsufferable Arrogance was Exil'd from the Society of Rational Men to take his Abode and Food with the unreasonable Beasts of the Field touching whom the said Daniel in his second Chapter at the 20th and 21th Verses spake on this Wise Blessed be the Name of God for ever and ever for Wisdom and Might are his And he changeth the Times and the Seasons He removeth Kings and setteth up Kings He giveth Wisdom unto the Wise and Knowledge to them that know Vnderstanding Again we Read in the 37th Verse of the same Chapter that the Prophet said to the King on this manner Thou O King art a King of Kings for the God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom Power and Strength and Glory Moreover Daniel told him in the 4th Chapter of his Prophesie at the 25th Verse That the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Thus we see that the disposal of Earthly Kingdoms is a peculiar Prerogative absolutely pertaining to the King of Heaven for God being an Universal Monarch hath ageneral Title attributed unto him in Jer. 10.7 where he is stil'd by the Prophet The King of Nations And that because all Emperors Kings and Princes in their Enthronements wear their Crowns sway their Scepters govern their Kingdoms and Principalities by God's own special Authority This Truth bears the Badge of his warrantable and undoubted Testification in the 8th Chapter of Solomon's Proverbs Ver. 15. where he speaks these certain and significant Expressions By me Kings Reign and Princes Decree Justice This Assirmation hath sufficient Assertions of Scripture to assure it as in 2 Sam. 12 7. where God by the Mouth of his Prophet Nathan spake these words unto David I anointed thee King over Israel Solomon also acknowledg'd that the Lord had plac'd and establish'd him on the Throne of his Father David as you may Read in 1 Kings 2.24 Moreover it was the saying of Ahijah in the Person of God to Jeroboam I will give the Kingdom unto thee as it is observable in 1 Kings 11.35 By all these Scripture Instances it plainly and punctually appears that the removing and setling of Crown'd Heads relate to God's Dispensative Power and therefore we may say of God in such Cases as Job spake concerning the Life and Death of his Children in Job 1.21 The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the Name of the Lord. Having thus prov'd unto you that the Government of this Lower World is according to the Rule of God's undeniable and unlimitted Authority so neither the Kingdoms nor Power of Princes but all things else proper unto them are after a peculiar manner God's their Crowns their Anointing their Globes their Scepters their Thrones and the Government thereof are his and their Persons adorn'd with all these Endowments are so Sublime and Sacred that they are compar'd for Excellent Eminency or Eminent Excellency unto the Angels of God in 2 Sam. 14.17 and also stil'd Gods by a Deify'd kind of Dignity and call'd the Children of the most High in Psal 82.6 From these and such like Observations the sanctify'd Vessel St. Paul that great Apostle and Patron of the Gentiles compil'd an Excellent Lecture of Loyalty in order to oblige both Religious and Rebellious Subjects to bear true Allegiance and submissive Obedience unto their Supream and Lawful Superiors the which you may find Recorded in Rom. 13.1 2. where it is thus worded Let every Soul be subject unto the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God The Powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation Hence it is observable that as every individual Person ought to be in subjection to his superior and inferior Rulers by reason that the Power of their Government is derivative from God and the Governours now in being Established by his Ordinance whom to resist is plain opposition to God's own Order for which resistance they become liable to receive unto themselves the Reward or Stipend of Damnation Therefore to abandon Disloyalty being the Cause of this Damnable Alotment as Religious Servants to God Loyal Subjects to the King and Loving Sons of the Church Let us that are her Empal'd Children firmly stand in God's the King 's and the Church her Cause resolving that in case no other Kingdom or Nation should accommodate us with their Assistance neither to dread nor to be dismay'd at it although our present Enemies whomsoever they are may seem much more in number than our selves for the Race is not always to the swift nor the Battel still to the strong but to those that have God for their powerful Copartner for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few as it is observable in 1 Sam. 14.6 This Truth is farther confirm'd by the Divine Expressions of Asa who with an Army of Five Hundred and Fourscore Thousand Men waged War with Zerah the Ethiopian whose Host consisted of a Thousand Thousand in number as you may note in 2 Chron. 14.8 9 10. Moreover it is said in Verse 11. That Asa cryed unto the Lord his God and said Lord it is nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that have no Power Help us O Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy Name we go against this multitude so the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah as you may Read in Verse 12. of the same Chapter These Excellent Observations have their full and clear Evidence in Deut. 20.1 2 3 4. where God granted unto Israel a Warlike Commission Seal'd with his own Hand and deliver'd with his own Mouth in these Expressions Recorded by Moses When thou goest 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 which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the Battel that the Priest shall approach and speak unto the People and shall say unto them Hear O Israel you approach this day unto Battel against your Enemies let not your Hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neither be ye terrified because of them for the Lord

The Valorous Warrior's Welfare IN God's Victorious Warfare A SERMON PREACH'D In His Majesty's English Camp near the City of Ghendt in Flanders Before the BATTALION of His Royal Highness GEORGE Prince of Denmark Under the Command of the Right Honourable Colonel CHARLES CHURCHILL Major-General of His Majesty's Forces in the NETHERLANDS By WILLIAM WILLIAMS Minister of the Gospel And a Son of the Church of England LONDON Printed for John Pero at the White Swan and Edward Powel next the Pump-Coffee-House in Little Britain and sold by R. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1696. TO THE Most Magnanimous Magnificent and Munificent MONARCH William the Third By GOD's Providential Appointment KING of Great Britain and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. May it please Your Sacred Majesty IN the lowest degree of Submission I appeal to Your Regal Clemency for a Royal Pardon in presuming so Sublime and Supream a Dedication being very conscious of my Imperfections to manage this Great Enterprize Yet considering that the meanest Loyal Subject hath some Interest in the Favour of his Prince I embolden'd my self on that account to shelter the follow Sermon under the Defence of your Royal Patronage which at its Promulgation in your Majesty's English Camp in Flanders gain'd the diligent Attention and Approbation of its Auditors In pursuance whereof I briefly manifested and maintain'd The equitable Cause of your Majesty's late and continued Wars with the Adversaries of your Realms and Government The indubitable Pleasure of God in placing and establishing your Royal Person on the Thrones of our Three Kingdoms The seasonable Preservation of our British and Irish Church in the Principles and Prerogatives thereof by your sacred Defence of her Christian and Catholick Faith The profitable Wea l of our Nation by your Princely and Puissant Aid in securing the just Rights and Liberties of Free-born Subjects the innumerable Deliverances of your Secular Civil and Martial Excellency from those dangerous and desperate Hazards to which you were often expos'd by the Fatal Peril of the Sword And the incomparable Protection of your pious Person from the Destructive Designs of Sanguinary Assassinates whose Aim in all probability was to subvert the present Government These particular Instances with the whole Matter derived from the Subject of my Warlike Discourse though delivered in a plain and familiar Method I humbly Dedicate to the Condescention of your Royal and Favourable Perusal being a Pledge of that Impartial Love and Loyalty which shall be duly and daily paid to your Regal Authority by him who is according to those Apostolical Rules of Fearing God Honouring the King with Subjection for Conscience and Submission for the Lord's sake Great SIR Your Majesty's most Observant Subject and Obeysant Servant Wi. Williams TO THE CAPITAL COMMANDERS And All Other Military Officers According to their Respective Posts or Stations Engag'd in the Management of the English Army William Williams wisheth National Personal and Internal Tranquility Temporal Substantial and External Prosperity Spiritual Immortal and Eternal Felicity Valorons and Victorious Martialists IT was the pleasure of Almighty God as being the Tutor of Valiant David and other Famous Worthies of Heroick Spirits before he instructed them in the Art of Military Discipline by teaching their Hands to War and their Fingers to Fight being Atchievements fit for Combatants and such as are train'd in Gladiatory Affairs to assume unto his Sacred self the Champion Title of a Man of War in Exod. 15.8 where his Servant Moses declares in the same Scripture that the Lord is his Name Thereby importing that Power Courage Success Victory and Triumph are all of them Endowments proper and peculiar to God alone though by his Condescensive and Permissive Pleasure a communicative Respect in a participative manner having its Commission from himself is supernaturally instrumental in causing admiring Mortals to Praise God and to Blazon the Braveryes Adorn the Acts or Fame the Feats of Military Men. This sort of Martial Honour eminently appear'd in the Publick and Princely persons of Saul and David whose magnanimous and magnificent Victories over their numerous Adversaries embellished the Trophies of their Conquering Triumphs with resounding Acclamations of Royal Renown and Popular Applause which as lasting monuments of their Hostile Exploits are Register'd to inform all Humane Posterities in the Canonical Chronicle of Sacred Histories witness the first Book of Samuel Chap. 29 Ver. 5. where it is reported That the Israelites sang one to another in Dances saying That Saul slew his Thousands and David his Ten Thousands to Memorize the Fame of Fate and Fortitude This Accompt of the Slain amounting to Thousands and Ten Thousands seems to intimate an unknown innumerable or numberless number but as to the Armies or Militia that were destroy'd by the Generals Chieftains Centurions and Soldiers of David we find that the Divine Warriour ascrib'd the Success which attended his Arms and Weapons of Warfare to the concurring and corroborating Power of God as it is apparently evident in the words of my present Text where he speaks these Couragious and Religious Expressions Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies The Valiant Acts here mention'd or Valour derivative in this Verse from God to Men I Christianly Conjecture was Experimentally observ'd by many Worthies to whom I Dedicate this Epistle in their Warlike Enterprizes relating to the late Affairs of Ireland and Flanders who with the rest here hinted may lay a just Claim to the Discourse issuing from the following Subject which having the Approbation of numerous attentive Auditors and also their Importunity to have it made publick for the Benefit of the Army I have by forcible Obligations yielded to the sway of prevalency and adventur'd as far as Moderation allow'd me to comply with their reasonable Request And if it meet with some Thwarting and Carping Dispositions of Captious or Conceited Criticks too much intermedling and busying themselves in this Censorious Age I assign Armed Men whose Cause and Right it is both to Patronize and Defend its Innocency leaving such Causless Quarrellers on the Forlorn Hope of doing Injury either to Ministerial or Martial Authority In ample Satisfaction or full Assurance whereof I commit the Army the Fleet my Self and all that desire the Welfare of our Three Kingdoms to God's Gracious Protection and Providence remaining Most Couragious Worthies Your Devoted Friend and Servant William Williams The Valourous Warriours Welfare in God's Victorious Warfare As it was Deliver'd in a SERMON PERTAINING To the English Army in Flanders and Preach'd On Psal LX. Ver. 12. Through God we shall do Valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies THIS Psalm whereof my Text is a part was Compil'd by the Military Monarch David when he and his Army waged War or strove with Aram Naharaim and Aram Zoba even at the return of Joab the Son of Zerviah who was a Chief Officer over the Host of David from slaying

overthrew the Aramites and all his Enemies as you may farther remark in the 5th and 6th Chapters of the Second Book of Samuel Thus according to the words of my Text David the Darling of God did valiantly for He did tread down his Enemies These are some of the Royal Prophet's Atchievements who upon such Undertakings always consided in God's willingness and readiness to assist his Endeavours in all necessary Engagements For the Lord himself who is a Man of War vested him in an heavenly and impenetrable Coat of Mail or spiritual Armour according to those prudent and prevalent Expressions of his unbyass'd Resolution and Reliance recorded Psal 27.1 2 3. where he thus expostulated with himself touching his holy Warfare The Lord is my Light and my Salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the Strength of my Life of whom shall I be afraid When the Wicked even mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Flesh they stumbled and fell Tho' an Host should encamp against me my Heart shall not fear Tho' War should rise against me in this will I be consident This ought to be the couragious Resolution of all sincere Christians but more especially of Christian Soldiers who seem to carry their Lives in their Hands and are observed to stand upon the brink of the Grave Yet if such conside with David in the corroborating Power of God taking cognizance of the Equity of our late continued War and the just demerit of the Cause thereof being in defence of Christ's Gospel and such Kingdoms Territories Dominions and Provinces as maintain his true Religion together with the Lives Laws and Liberties of free-born Subjects who are thereby protected from infringing their Priviledges invading their Properties and infecting the Principles of their pious Profession Doubtless such necessary Warriors may have a welcom Access to the acknowledgment of my present Text in order to defend God's Word with David's Sword and there to say with the sacred Psalmist Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies In this place I have form'd or fram'd my Text to bear a lively Representation of the late Assairs of our Brittish Nation where a Party of its Inhabitants like the disturb'd Israelites have had several Commotions both with domestick and foreign Enemies This Truth is experimentally memoriz'd by many of us who through God's gracious permission have our continuance hitherto in the Land of the living But what shall we say to these things since God hath been for us who could be against us For through God we have done valiantly he trod down these our Enemies It was the good Pleasure of God Almighty in sundry and some late years past to send variety of Judgments upon the Kingdom of England that the Inhabitants thereof might learn Righteousness as Isaiah speaks Chap. 26.9 But as the pious Prophet David saith in Psal 28.5 we have not regarded the Works of the Lord nor the operation of his Hands either in the late noisom Pestilence which swept away thousands in the Metropolitan City of the said Realm namely London hurrying them into the dark and gloomy Chambers of the Grave nor the raging Fire which burnt up the Dwellings of many thousand Families burying them in their own Ruins nor the revenging Sword that in the Series of War slew a marvelous multitude of our Martial Men in their Engagements with furious Enemies And because we are not yet reclaim'd by all these signal and singular Tokens of God's Displeasure with us we may justly fear that Providence prepares some other severer Judgment either utterly to destroy us from off the face of the Earth or to force us in it unto better Obedience And to this purpose are those terrible Threatnings of a rewarding God recorded in Levit. 26.15 16 17 18. where he speaks these dreadful Expressions If ye shall despise my Statutes or if your Soul shall abhor my Judgments so that you will not do all my Commandments but that ye break my Covenant I also will do this unto you I will even appoint over you Terrour Consumption and the burning Ague that shall consume the Eyes and cause sorrow of Heart And ye shall sow your Seed in vain for your Enemies shall eat it And I will set my face against you and ye shall be slain before your Enemies They that hate you shall reign over you and ye shall flee when none pursueth you And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me then will I punish you seven times more for your sins Here we have a satisfactory Account in what way or method God usually proceeds to inflict his Wrath upon refractory Sinners First he imposeth one Calamity and if that reclaim them not then he will add a second sometimes doubling that with a fourth or trebbling it with the sixth Affliction And if all these work not upon the hardness of their Hearts then will he prepare another that like Nebuchadnezzar's Fiery Furnace shall be seven times more punishable than the former Moreover it is the Customary Phrase of God in Scripture when his Holiness would deter us from Vice to threaten our Destruction with Vengeance as in Deut. 32.35 where he saith To me belongeth Vengeance and Recompence Again he speaks in Ver. 41. of the same Chapter If I whet my glittering Sword and mine Hand take hold on Judgment I will render Vengeance to mine Enemies and will Reward them that hate me And in Ezek. 25.17 thus saith the Lord concerning the Destruction of the Philistines and Cherethims I will execute great Vengeance upon them with furious Rebukes and they shall know that I am the Lord when I shall lay my Vengeance upon them Hence it is observable that as the heavy Judgments of God are made so unconceivably intolerable by the weight of Divine Vengeance our safest Course in avoiding of them is to flee from Sin to his Sanctuary and there humbly and devoutly pray for the Peace of Jerusalem for they shall all prosper that love Communion with the Church of God and that your Requests may be made conformable to God's most holy Will at all times in all places and upon all occasions both Christ and his Church to that end have furnish'd you with sufficient Rules of Devotion he in the form of his gracious Petitions and she in the frame of her Pious Ejaculations He in his Petitions saying Lead us not into Temptations but deliver us from Evil and she in her Allusive Ejaculations saying From all Evil and Mischief from Sin from the Crasts and Assaults of the Devil from thy Wrath and from Everlasting Damnation good Lord deliver us Many Material Circumstances might be alledg'd to demonstrate our Church and its Government consistent with the Divine Will and Pleasure of God for she is so highly in Favour with the Highest that he remov'd those who caus'd her Breaches far from her in order to uphold her Walls and Bulwarks yea her