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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76326	More sulphure for Basing: or, God will fearfully annoy and make quick riddance of his implacable enemies, surely, sorely, suddenly. Shewed in a sermon at the siege of Basing on the last Lords day, Sept. 21. 1645. Together, with a word of advice, full of love and affection to the Club-men of Hampshire. / By William Beech minister of the Army there, elect: min: of O. in the county of Suffolke. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Sept. 26. 1645.	Beech, William.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1680; Thomason E304_3; ESTC R200304	30,148	36

posterity that he may be not Rex Asinorum a King of slaves but Rex Hominum a happy King of a happy people Let us therefore bravely and stoutly take Joabs counsell in the like case 2 Sam. 10.12 For our Religion and our Lawes Let us be of good courage and let us play the men for our people and the Cities of our God and the Lord do that which seemeth him good Have you any thing else to satisfie us and we are ready We must have better ground before we do any thing before we fight Will Scripture satisfie you then note you have 1 A Precept God commands Moses Moses again the Israelites to execute vengeance upon the Midianites because they drew the people of God to fin and allured them to whoredome and enticed them to Idolatry this Idolatry drew down the judgments of God upon the Israelites whereby thousands were destroyed therefore God commands Israel to vex the Midianites Numb 25.17 Vex the Midianites and smite them for they vex you with their wiles wherewith they have be guiled you in the matter of Peor So then we have a command to vex those that seek to draw us to whoredome and Idolatry The like precept they had touching Amalek the first of Nations that fought against Israel after they came out of the Land of Egypt they fought with Israel in Riphidim God notes the very place and therefore saith Moses to Ioshua his Commander in chief Choose us out men and go fight with Amalek Exod. 17.9 2 We have a Patterne to warrant us God himselfe is said to have warre with a Nation and to fight with them and he is therefore called a Man of Warre The Lord is a Man of Warre saith Moses His name is Iehova Exod. 15.3 This is the condition that Saul made with David when he promised to give him his eldest daughter 1 Sam. 18. Onely be a valiant son unto me and fight the Lords battells And so 1 Chron. 5.22 it is said that many of the enemies of God and his people fell down wounded because the warre was of God So then if God be called a Man of Warre and the battell be the Lords battell and the warre be of God we have a pattern to follow we are on a safe ground 3 We have a promise of good successe too in our just and honest quarrells When Ioshua was to go up against Jericho which was shut up and closed because of the Children of Israel the Lord said Behold I have given into thine hand Iericho and the King thereof and the strong men of war And afterwards when sundry Kings gathered themselves together against the Gibeonites that had subjected themselves to the Israelites the Lord said unto Ioshua Ios 10.8 Feare them not for I have delivered them into thine hands none of them shall stand against thee We have a promise too to warrant us 4 We have an answer of prayers to incourage us Sun stand thou still saith Ioshua and thou Moone in the valley of Ajalon Josh 10.12 And there was no day like that day before it nor after it that the Lord heard the voice of a man for the Lord fought for Israel When the Philistines were assembled against Israel the Children of Israel said to Samuel 1 Sam. 7.8 9 10. Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us that he may save us out of the hands of the Philistines Samuel cried unto the Lord who heard him and thundered with a great thunder that day and scattered the Philistines so they were slain before Israel So then if God heare us when we go about such matters surely the action is very warrantable The blind man could say Ioh. 9.31 We know that God heareth not sinners but if a man be a worshipper of God him he heareth And surely England hath just cause to say God hath heard her prayers hath granted her requests hath given her deliverances If God heare and grant surely the Petition is warrantable 5 The Spirit of God sets down the duty of such as mannage matters of the field as of the Captaine and common Souldier which it would never do if the course were not good hence it is that God instructs Ioshua that he should be strong and of a good courage that he would be with him and never leave him nor forsake him So when the common Souldiers come to Iohn for instructions what they should do he tels them briefly what they ought to do Master and w●●● shall we do Do violence to no man said John And what els Accuse none falsly said he what more Do not mutinie Be content with your pay Our men may do well to observe these Orders it would bring a good report upon themselves and those that imploy them But to give you more particular satisfaction that saying is true Causa non poena facit martyrem A lawfull cause makes the action lawfull and warrantable 1 It is lawfull for us to defend true Religion against the oppugners thereof that this is a matter of equity may be gathered from the words of Ahijah to Jeroboam and all Israel 2 Chron. 13.8 And now ye thinke to withstand the Kingdome of the Lord in the hands of the Son of David and ye be a great multitude and there be with you golden Calves have ye not cast out the Priests of the Lord but as for us the Lord is our God and we have not forsaken him and behold God himself is with us for our Captaine O ye children of Israel Fight not against the Lord God of your Fathers for ye shall not prosper This very businesse of corrupting the worship of God and making Calves was the ground of this godly Kings quarrell more then any thing els 2 Such as are oppressed for true Religion may seek this way to be freed as we see in the history of the Judges who alwaies raised wars to defend the people of God out of the hands of cruell oppressors 3 A third cause that carrieth equity with it is when men fight for the necessary defence of the Common-wealth we may beat off wrongs and injuries offered to us as appeares by that charge of the Ammonites against Israel and Jephthahs Apologie Jud. 11.13 The Ammonites alledge that to be the cause of their quarrell with Israel Because saith he the Israelites took away my land when they came out of Egypt now therefore saith he restore those lands peaceably now Jephthahs answer necessarily implies the equity of taking up armes for the defence of such a propriety and so cleers the matter to them Ver. 14 15. He shewes them how Israel did Ammon no wrong at all but that those lands fell to them by Ammons attainder And so we may rescue and recover things lost whether they be our wives our sons our daughters our goods our lands our cities our possessions Gen. 14.16 You shall find when Abraham heard that his brothers son was taken prisoner by the Kings of Sodom and Gomorrah