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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

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