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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94138	The soldiers catechisme, composed for the King's Armie; wherein his 1 cause is justified, and his enemies condemned. 2 Soldier is instructed, and the rebell reclaimed. Written for the incouragement and direction of all that have taken up armes in this cause of God, his Church, and his annointed; especially the common soldiers. By T.S.	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1645 (1645)	Wing S6224; Thomason E1185_5; ESTC R203688	6,408	19

THE SOLDIERS CATECHISME Composed for The KING'S Armie Wherein His 1 Cause is justified and his enemies condemned 2 Soldier is instructed and the Rebell reclaimed Written for the incouragement and direction of all that have taken up Armes in this Cause of God his Church and his Annointed especially the Common Soldiers By T. S. DEUT. 20.1 When thou goest out to battell against thine enemies and seest horses and charets and a people more then thou be not afraid of them For the Lord thy God is with thee OXFORD Printed by Henry Hall 1645. TO MY HONOVRed Freind NOAH BRIDGES Esquire Clarke to the Honourable House of Commons of the Parliament of ENGLAND Sir Iunii 18. 1645. I received from you a Thing called The Souldiers Catechisme composed for the Parliaments Army written by R. Ram Minister of Spalding in Lincolneshire you desired me to answer it because it had done some Disservice to the King as is supposed in misleading some simple soules I have read it and beleive the supposition and for present answer returne you the same Title with this alteration onely Composed for the Kings Army certainely perswading my selfe that this truth and it is nothing else but truthy may reduce those whom his Falsehood hath seduced yet promising you if so you will have it speedily to answer his verbatim and largely which is here done onely in sense and breifely yet fully I imagine for the service abovesaid namely To reclaime my Countrymen to their ancient obedience which is your and all good mens desire and amongst them Sir of Your Freind and Servant T. SVVADLIN Junii 19. 1645. THE SOVLDIERS CAtechisme Composed for the Kings Army Qu SIR I pray tell me is warre lawfull and may I lawfully be a Souldier Ans Yes Warre is lawfull For God allowes it Deut. 23.9 and He is stiled a man of warre Exod. 15.3 And you may lawfully be a souldier For Gods choicest Servants Abraham Ioshua Sampson Gideon David and many more were Souldiers And you may safely follow their example so that you have a lawfull calling to that Profession Qu. How may I be assured that I am lawfully called to this profession and consequently may with a safe conscience take up Armes Ans This you may know both Negatively and Affirmatively Qu. How Negatively Ans By three Notes 1. If you thrust your selfe into this calling either without or against that education your Parents have given you either without or against their allowance For such Rashnesse Jacob chid his two sonnes Simeon and Levi Gen. 34.30 and blamed them Gen. 49.7 If your Parents disallow and forbid you this calling you are not lawfully called unto it 2. If you enter into this Profession either without or against that Supreame Authority under which you live For this fault were the children of Israell destroyed by the sword because they presumed to go up against the Amalekites when Moses their King forbad them Numb 14.42 If the King or those Magistrates that are appointed by Him doe forbid you you are not lawfully called unto it 3. If you take up Armes for your owne private ends either for Coveteousnesse and to grow Rich thereby or for Malice and to be Revenged thereby or for Sensuality and to delight therein you are not lawfully called unto it For saies the Psalmist Scatter thou the People that delight in Warre Psal 68.30 Qu. What then thinke you of those that now take up Armes against the King Ans Why I thinke yes I know they are Rebels and I feare without Gods great mercy and their owne Repentance they shall be tormented with the Devill and his Angels Q. God forbid Sir pray why censure you them so hardly Ans Nay God will not forbid it for he hath forbidden all men to Rebell and hath threatned them that doe Rebell with Damnation Ro. 13.2 Nor is there one example in the whole Bible of any one Rebell that ever died in the outward possibility of Salvation Qu. Sir may not Subjects resist their King in any case though He be an Hereticke an Apostate or a Tyrant Ans No Subjects may not resist in any case this is the doctrine of Jesuites and Puritans but assure your selfe there is neither Precept nor Practise for it in the holy word of God nor did the Primitive Christians ever dreame of it Qu. But if the King be such a one and intends the Destruction of His People what remedy have the Subjects Ans Prayers and Teares 1 Sam. 8.10 18. let the King be never so bad they may not use other weapons against their King then Prayers and Teares Qu. Sir It may be you speake of an Absolute Monarch but I speake of the King of England who as some Divines and Lawyers have told me is but a mixt Monarch and may be curbed and resisted Ans Did they tell you He is a mixt Monarch are you sure on 't then they told you a Bull and by their language you may perceive they are but boyes in Divinity and but Smatterers in law for the Kings of England are Absolute Monarches and not to be curbed by any not to be resisted by any 24. Hen. 8. cap. 12.25 Hen. 8. either at home or abroad If Forraigners doe it they are publicke Enemies If Domestickes doe it they are Rebels Q. But the Subjects of England have supposed they had such a Power and upon that supposition they have entred into a Holy League and Covenant and bound themselves by Oath to Reforme the King and Kingdome even by Armes are they not now bound to doe it Ans No For the Oath is unlawfull and the end is ungodly Qu. How is the Oath unlawfull Ans Because it is imposed without Authority because it is imposed against Authority Qu. Why Is it not imposed by Authority of Parliament Ans No because the King is absent and none hath Power to impose an Oath but he that hath power to draw the sword i. e. the King Or admit it as you say Yet because that which you call the Parliament hath imposed this Oath hath inforced this Covenant not only without but also against Supreme Authority i. e. the King It is unlawfull Qu. How is the End ungodly A. Because it is to shed bloud because they that take it sweare that Assertively the truth whereof they know not viz. the Scots Religion in Doctrine and Discipline and they sweare that Promissorily which for ought they know is impossible viz. the extirpation of Bishops and the bringing of all those whom they call Delinquents who are the best and major part of this Kingdome to condigne punishment i. e. to Ruine and also for the extirpation of Popery whereby they must divorce many Husbands and Wives which is a thing detestable both to God and man And this is plaine perjury Qu. But good Sir for Gods sake what shall we then doe now that we have sworne Ans What must you do Why you must Repent Repent even for taking this Oath so farre must you be

from performing this oath or else you will add sinne unto sinne the sinne of Perjury to the sinne of Rebellion the sinne of Murther to the sinne of Perjury and the sinne of Obstinacie to the sinne of Murther Qu. But Sir I am bound in Conscience to performe that which I have so solemnely vowed How else shall my Conscience be satisfyed Ans Your Conscience may be satisfyedupon these foure irrefragable Maximes of Divinity 1. A Sacrament of Piety must not be a Bond of Iniquity i. e. Admit the Oath be an holy Oath yet because thereby you have sworne to be Evill viz. to fight against the King which is to be a Rebell you must desist The Example of Herod proves this Mat. 14.7 2. A Sacrament of Piety must not be an Impediment of Piety i. e. Admit the oath you have taken be an holy Oath and the end you have taken it for be an holy End viz. Piety simply to extirpate Popery yet because it hinders a greater point of Piety viz. Obedience and Loyalty to the King you must desist The example of Saint Peter proves this John 13.8 and so doth the Example of Saul 1 Sam. 15.22 3. Unjust Bonds are dissolved by Righteousnesse i. e. Admit you were forced to take this Oath for feare of plundering Imprisonment and the like You are yet discharged from the performance of it and bound only to Repentance for it The Example of Jepthe comes neare this Judic 11.31 40. and so doth that of the Elder sonne Mat. 21.28 The example of Saul in slaying the Gibeonites proves it at full 2 Sam. 21.1 and so doth that universally resolved Case If Theives make me sweare not to discover them upon paine of death I am yet bound to discover them 4. Just vowes may be nulled and made voyd by the Superiour i.e. Admit the vow you have made the Covenant you have entred into be neither of Evill for an evill End nor of Evill to a good End nor of Good to an evill End but De Bono Bene of Good for a good End yet because the consent of the Superiour the King is not to it yea because he hath published his dissent against it You are so farre from being bound by it that you are free from it Deut. 30.4 Qu. Sir If I have taken it will you absolve me If I have not taken it can you direct me how I may take it with certaine Limitations that so I may preserve both my Loyalty and my Liberty together with my estate Ans Noe neither I cannot absolve yous nor can any absolve you but God and the King nor will God absolve you untill you have made the King amends for the wrong you have done him by taking this oath And therefore 2ly I dare not indeed I dare not nor may I give you any directions to take this oath by any limitations whatsoever For it is a resolved case in Divinity That every one that sweareth must sweare in the sence of him that gives the oath and not of himselfe who takes the oath be the Judge lawfull or unlawfull I confesse it is a hard case you are put unto either Penury or Perjury If you take it not you must be plundered and imprisoned If you take it you are Forsworne and a Rebell But better loose the world then your soule Some men I confesse doe mince the matter and say a man may take this oath and not be forsworne by reason of his limitations and reservations which is but a Jesuiticall tricke yet even they confesse that thus takeing the oath is taking Gods name in vaine Which who so doeth you know God will not hold him guiltlesse Exod. 20.7 Qu. Sir I have caused you a little to digresse but I thanke you for that abundant satisfaction you have given me I returne and promise to trouble you but in a few Quaeries more What thinke you of them that fight for the King Ans This I thinke of them yes and am assured of it too so they fight Conscientiously for the Cause without by-respects of Riches or Reward or Revenge If they die they die Martyrs for they dye for the Lord Matt. 5.10 which is more then to dye in the Lord Apocal. 14.13 and are therefore blessed If they live they live honest men the honour of their Country and the glory of their Friends Qu. If your affirmative evidence be as good as your negative you have not only disheartened me from them at Westminster but you have also heartened me for the King and I hope many more with me How may I affirmatively know that I am lawfully called to be a Souldier Ans By three other notes 1. If the ground be good as either to maintaine the true Religion Therefore is warre against Antichrist commended Apocal. 17. 16. or else to recover that which the Enemy hath unjustly taken away hence did the Israelites set upon the Philistims 1 Sam. 7.14 or else to punish such as have done publique wrong Hence David made warre upon the Ammonites a Sam. 10.7 Qu. How do any of these Grounds concerne this warre Ans How marry in each respect 1. Those at Westminster have voted downe our ancient Religion which we have justified against Papists and Puritans to be the truest Religion in the world both for Doctrine and Discipline 2. They have unjustly taken away whatsoever belonged unto the King His Magazines and Forts His Customes and Revenues 3. They have done publicke wrong not onely in taking away the Churches meanes but the Church-mens lives also not onely in taking away their and all other the Subjects Property but their Liberty also so that the ground of this warre on the Kings part is To maintaine and Recover our Religion our Property and Liberty Qu. What is the second Affirmative Note Ans If the End be good as either to withdraw Enemies from some dangerous Plot Thus God stirred up the Philistines to invade Israel to draw Saul from pursuing David 1 Sam. 23.27 or else to weaken the power of professed Enemies To this end David set upon the enemies of Israel 2 Sam. 8.12 or else to subdue Rebellious Subjects that will not be governed by Law Hence was Sheba and his followers beseiged by King David's men in Abell of Beth-Maachah 2 Sam. 20.15 And what is the end of this warre on the Kings part but that Rebels and other Delinquents may be governed by law Let the law take place and the warre is done Qu. What is the third Affirmative note Ans If the Execution be right as 1. That you shed no more bloud then Necessity enforces you If the Enemies yeild you must spare them Hence was that charge If they make thee answer of Peace c. Deut. 20.11 2. If you slay not such as cannot hurt you weake women aged men young children Hence is that charge in Deut. 20.11 But the women c. And 3. If you put not such as you are forced to kill to cruell torments For Cruelty provokes God