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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08873	Bristolls military garden A sermon preached unto the worthy company of practisers in the military garden of the well governed citie of Bristoll. By Thomas Palmer, master of arts, and vicar of St. Thomas, and St. Mary Redcliffe in the same citie.		1635 (1635)	STC 19155; ESTC S102339	22,204	42

Divine Scourge so it is a Divine Scourge God himselfe hath beene knowne to be the motive missive and permissive Author The motive Author The Lord stirred up the Philistines and the Arabians against Iudah 2 Chron. 21. And the same Lord stirred up the Spirits of the Medes and Persians against Babylon Esa 13.17 When the forces of the enemies came against them they shot the Arrowes but the Lord may be said to bend the Bow The missive Author The Lord sent against the kingdome of Iudah bands of the Aramites and bandes of the Caldees 2 King 24. And the same Lord sent Nebuchadnessar against Iorusalem to destroy it Ier. 25.9 when the enemies bent their forces toward them they came not so much of themselves as about the Lords businesse The Permissive Author Though the Lord give motion and mission to the enemy yet they cannot prevaile without Gods Permission without his assistance The Lord delivered the Israelites into the hands of the spoiler that spoiled them As it is in the second Chapter of Iudges And the same Lord delivered Goliah into the hands of David as it is in this Chapter In the action of Warre Kings are but Gods Liefetenants or at most his Colonels God is the Author of warre therefore should bee our confidence in warre God is the Generall the chiefe Leader Let him be the highest pitch of our confidence We shall never neede to feare the foe if wee have Him to our friend nor to dread any enemy if so mighty a Generall be on our side As the action of War is the Lords The Lord is a Man of Warre Exod. 15.3 So the end of Warre In victory God is to have the praise Victory is the Lords 1 Chron. 29. God hath the key of Victory and when it shall please Him to lend us that key it should open our lippes to set forth his praise And as God is the Terminus à quo Gods Glory should bee the principall end of warre Plutarch so let him be the Terminus ad quem As warre is from the Lord so let it be for the Lord. If Caesars honour was touched his Souldiers were so prodigall of their blood so desperately furious that they were invincible They gave unto Caesar that which was Caesars let us give unto God that which is Gods the expense of our dearest blood for the maintenance of his Cause As Warre is a Scourge a divine Scourge Warre is a scourge for sin it is a Scourge for sinne It is almost a generall surmise in the World that warre is but a thing of course because it hath beene common in all ages But wee must know that a just God never inflicts a punishment without a just cause Wee take notice of a secondary cause of warre the pride or malice of the enemy Not the primary impulsive cause the sinne of a People the impiety of a Nation Warre is a punishment for sin The Lord of Hosts affirmes it If he sinne saith the Lord 2 Sam. 7. there is the primary impulsive cause and that is sinne I will chasten him with the rod of men there is the secondary instrumentall cause the Sword and fury of the enemy Warre is sent into the World for our sinnes to correct us for them to deterre us from them Warre is a divine scourge for sinne Thus you have heard the originall of Warre and the Nature of Warre The lawfulnesse of it I thus prove By the course of Nature By the course of Religion First by the course of Nature * Quideulpatur in bello an quod moriuntur quicunque morituri ut dominentur in pace victuri Hoc reprehendisse ti midorumest non religiosorum August cont Manich. The desolation of kingdomes the devastation of Cities the prophanation of Holy things with the confused slaughters that are wrought in the fury and heate of Warre have made the cowardly consciences of the Manichee and the Anabaptist to suppose warre to be unnaturall It is true that warre may seeme unnaturall being the destroyer of nature in her individualls And yet is truly naturall as it is the preserver of nature in her generals It is the bread of tear's as it is destructive but it is the bread of necessity as it is defensive * Nocendi cupiditas libido dominandi c. Haec sunt quae in bellis iure culpantur August idid Take away the hunger of Ambition and the thirst of Blood and Warre should not bee distastefull unto the most tender conscience * Natura non deest in necessariis c. Thom. 1. p. q. 76. a. 5. Aquinas is of opinion that as nature hath given to bruite beasts hornes hooses teeth and talents for offence and defence So having left man destitute of these shee hath given him reason and hands in stead of these Reason to invent offensive and defensive weapons hands to compose and use them Now the onely necessary and lawfull action wherein to imploy weapons is the action of Warre * Violentiae per vim repulsio est secundum jus naturale Gratiā decret distinct 1. Warre lawfull by the course of Religion Vim vi repellere licet It is a rule of nature to repell force by force As warre is lawfull by the course of Nature so also by the course of Religion Religion and obedience unto God binde all Men to guard themselves either with the offensive or defensive meanes of safety with a submission of the issue unto the Will of the principall Agent the Lord of Hosts The Spirit of Truth is not the spirit of errour to perswade us to an error in religion But the same spirit was upon Iehazael exhorting Iudah and Ierusalem that they should not bee afraid because the battell was not theirs but Gods 2 Chron. 20. Offences must come saith our Saviour and woe unto them by whom they shall come but not unto them by whom they shall bee decided Both Nature and Religion doe conclude that warre must take place where equity is excluded It brings the fatall and finall compremiser of Nationall controversies The rule of war is no way opposite unto the rule of faith Abraham made warre yet lost not his faith in the action for it yet lives more renowned then his victory * Absurda prorsus in Christianos Principes admodum injuriosa est ea cujusdam assertio bellū non aliud esse quàm commune multorum homicidium ac latrocinium Estius in sentent lib. 3. distinct 33. Is it religiously lawfull for the subordinate Magistrate to inflict a severe punishment upon a particular violence and shall it not bee lawfull for the Supreme who cannot appeale higher then himselfe to cut off such by the hand of warre who offer a publike violence to himselfe and to his kingdome God as hee is universall so he is just and a generall act of justice is no way derogatory unto the glory of God But it seemes that our Saviour is no friend to warre