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A43620	The good old cause, or, The divine captain characteriz'd in a sermon (not preach'd, nor needful to be preach'd, in any place so properly as in a camp) by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1692 (1692)	Wing H1807; ESTC R7616	21,900	38

will ruine the best Cause in the World This common and open Prophaneness does not only provoke God's Wrath against themselves but against their Governors if they only reprove and make Proclamations in detestation of them Old Eli did thus much to his debauch'd Sons but for want of a severer Discipline God punish'd him and his House for ever This Leven must be purged out and cashiered or else it will leven the whole Lump It is no surprize therefore to thinking men to hear of vast Fleets put to Sea with vast Expence and vaster Hopes yet without Success whilst men thus impudently and openly from the First Rate Ship to the Tender from Stem to Stern from the Captain to the Cook swear and curse like Devils and therefore most unfit to play the men for our People and the Cities of our God None therefore can be greater Enemies to Their Sacred Majesties and so good a Cause the best Cause in the World in this Juncture than these damning cursing cursed and swearing Libertines that cannot truly and faithfully honour their King if they fear not God For such I 'll pray though as we do over the Doors of them that have the Plague Lord have mercy upon these Wretches or in the words of Moses O that they were wise Deut. 32.29 30. that they understood this that they would consider their latter end How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight If therefore a Souldier love his God his own Soul his King his own Honour and Welfare his People and the Cities of our God let him so live that he may not be afraid to dye and then his good Conscience will add to his Valour and make a man of good courage and able to play the man 3. A third cause of additional Valour is valiant Leaders by their couragious Words and Deeds 1. First by their Words adding Courage to their Souldiers by such brave Speeches as this in the Text. The first and bravest Emperor Julius Caesar was very happy both in Arts and Arms a good Oratour and a good Captain and was addicted to these Harangues to cheer up his Souldiers when ready to come to the Push as may be seen in his own Commentaries No man spoke better no man fought better both he and Joab in the Text had as all valiant men have a great presence of Mind had their Wits about them in the midst of Dangers they did almost what they list and could say what they lift tho' what they said was but little yet they spoke much in little being happy both for the Pen and the Pike 2. But the brave Deeds of a Commander is far more efficacious than brave Words a couragious Leader like the Sun-beams influences all that see him with Spirit and Heat and Life For as Cowardice is infectious a few Cowards if not timely knock'd down are enough to ruine a whole Camp so Courage also spreads it self and there 's none so timerous but will be ready to follow their Leader if a brave man at Arms. 4. A fourth cause of additional Valour is good Arms and good Armour Those will put Courage into a Coward and those daunt the bravest Enemy that fights unarm'd A Souldier may with as much reason flight all his Garrisons ruine the Bulwarks of his strongest Forts and cut down his Palasadoes as fight without his Armour The Prince of Poets the first in Time as well as Exoellence never sights his Champion Achilles till he has first buckled on him his Armour of Proof Nor does our * Sir Philip Sidney who was elected to be K. of Poland but refused English Homer so famous for but less happy in his Pike than his Pen yet as terrible to his Enemies abroad as amiable to his Friends at home that accepted the Lawrel but refused the Diadem in his English Arcadia ever sight his Knights to beat the Giants till he has first brought them the best Horses the best Arms and Armour that he could imagine nay he spares for no Costs to furnish them with And neglected by none but Braggadochios especially since the Invention of Gunpowder Is Valour any Fence against a Bullet That dismounts the Highest's Courage in its full Careir tho' shot by the most feeble Arm. The Wonders done by a late Hero in England Scotland and Ireland in a had Cause was truly attributed to his care of good Armour for that cause sirnamed Ironside If good Armour has done so great things in a bad Cause what Wonders may it not do in our Cause at this day the best Cause in the World In defence of our People and the Cities of our God from the Ravage of a merciless and bloody Foe the Common Enemy of Mankind the Turks and Mahomet only excepted This harden'd Enemy wonted to spoil cannot be oppos'd in humane probability by a Militia that has no other Armour than Feathers and Scarfs as if a muster of Men when three Kingdoms lye at stake and rais'd and maintain'd at a vast charge to their Country were nothing but a Morris-dance that their Women out of their Windows might admire in the Street the goodly menage of the gay Puppit that belongs to their House No other reason can be given why at this day the Militia-Captains clude and frustrate the Statute that commands Back Breast and Pot for the Horse and Corslet for the Pikes now chang'd forsooth into a Leather Jacquet nick-nam'd a Buff Coat and into a Red Coat and Byonet Or is it because some Feather-bed Captains sell such Ware Oh! but Armour is wearisome and heavy Yes so also is the whole Duty of a Souldier but it is the Occupation he has undertaken and by which he gets his Livelihood and Can a Workman work without Tools Or is he asham'd like other Workmen to carry them on his Back Let a Souldier be asham'd of being beaten of being a Captive or running away but let him never be asham'd of the Tools of the Trade by which alone he stands fair for the Victory But say some This Armour speaks Fear and Timerousness Does it so Then be it so Fear that makes a Centinel or a Guard more watchful is a due Ingredient of true Valour Was there ever any wise or successful Generals but fortified their Camp When the Spade and the Pickax are the Souldier's Armour yet this is really fear of Surprizal but not Cowardice but the greatest Wisdom The great Alexander Caesar Pompey and generally the Grecians and Romans were no Cowards for they conquer'd the greatest part of the known World yet they never engag'd but in bright-shining Armour especially their Horse except some light-armed Horsemen with us called Dragoons that are not intended to abide the shock but in a Battel to be here and there and every where as occasion serves being Mars's Hermaphrodites neither right Horse nor right Foot yet both these and of extream use and behoof in a Camp A Souldier may as well dismantle

sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed Blood and from avenging my self with mine own hand This Duelling is so unsouldier-like that the brave Romans who conquer'd the World yet abominated all private Duels and if they would shew their good Courage and play the men they did it against the common Enemy of their People and the Cities of their God Who more valiant than Julius Caesar or Cato What could be more cutting and reviling Language than that which Cato gave Caesar and even in the Senate-house and yet this never produc'd a Challenge What cares a Rich man if a foolish Fellow call him a Bankrupt and that no body will trust him He smiles and resolves he will not run on Trust. What cares a valiant man if a prating Fellow calls him Coward He smiles and resolves that the other will find him no Coward if he makes trial No greater sign of a Bankrupt than to bring his Action for the words No greater sign of a Coward than to send a Challenge for the words which if a man answer he ventures his Body and Soul his Life and Estate and if he kill he makes work for the Hangman and if he be kill'd he makes work for the Devil But 3dly There is yet behind a worse Slaughter-man than either of the former and all for want of a good Cause and that is your Religious Rogue that fights couragiously and plays the man Plays the man said I No no he plays the Devil for God's sake Of these our Blessed Saviour prophesies when they kill you they think they do God good service Such was the Zealots among the Jews that murther'd the Samaritans because they differ'd from them in Religion the Samaritans owning only the five Books of Moses viz. The Law but not the Prophets but the Jews did believe both to be canonical There 's no more reason that one man should kill another because he differs from him in Religion than because he differs from him in Stature Feature and Complexion Thus Mahomet preach'd with his Alcoran in one hand and his Sword in the other Take your choice take his Faith or feel the keenness of his Sword Thus have I heard that a most Christian Prince makes Converts with Troops of Dragoons Thus the Spaniards in America drove Shoals of poor naked Indians to the Rivers utrum horum take their choice either therein to be baptized or drowned A sad Choice and a worse Cure to knock out mens Brains because they are blind and cannot see so well as we the abstruse Mysteries of Religion St. John says If a man say he loves God and hates his Brother and Killing is the extremity of Hatred he is a Lyar and a Murderer Of these Religious Villains I 'le say as Jacob of his two murthering Sons Simeon and Levi Instruments of Cruelty are in their habitations Gen. 49.5 6. Oh my Soul come not into their secret unto their Assemblies mine Honour be not thou united Blessed be God may the Papists in England Scotland and Ireland say that the Principles of our Holy Protestant Religion teaches us better things Blessed be God may we say that the Principles of our holy Religion teaches us better things Let the Jesuites fight like mad as they cant it ad propagandum fidem let their Council of Constance decree That no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks let them break Truces Leagues and Covenants cemented with Oaths and Sacraments let their Superstition like Paracelsus's Daemon be conjur'd and confin'd to the Pommel of their Swords whilst we know not how to draw our Swords except in that good Cause in defence of our People and the Cities of our God This is such an additional cause of Valour that where a man's Stars make but an awkward Souldier this good Cause will cause a Coward to be of good courage and make an effeminate man to play the man 2. 2dly A second cause of additional Valour is a good Conscience or a good Life and Conversation Virtue and true Valour are so near a kin that they have but one Name in several Languages to express them both Therefore many an Army that has a good Cause of War has been ruin'd by Debauchery and the want of a virtuous and good Discipline Can a man be faithful to his Prince that is treacherous to his God and his own Soul Can a man be a Saviour to his Nation that wishes himself damn'd at every word Can he be valiant that fears to dye And must not all men fear to dye that live in open defiance to the God of Heaven and therefore most unfit to dye lest he be damn'd according to his daily Prayers Will not such a one tremble when he comes near the mouth of a Canon and a Broadside and like Belthazzar knock his Knees together in dread of that fatal Doom he trembling saw but knew not how to prevent The prophaneness of these Debauchees does debauch their Courage tho' they be naturally of a good Courage well may they then think they shall sink and be damn'd they have so often wish'd it in cold Blood Nor can the greatest practise of Atheism prove any Fence against this Fear when Death stares him in the face This Fool as the Psalmist calls him may say in his Heart that is Wish in his Heart that there is no God and perhaps may say so too in his drunken Rant and drunken company but let him come to the Gates or Approaches of Death and he cannot chuse but dread that Judge against whom like the Giants of old he has waged War and bid Defiance all his Life-time And it is observable that the Psalmist says the Fool hath said in his heart there is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as the Chaldee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies God the Judge The Fool could be content there should be a Jehovah a merciful God but wishes as Thieves in Goal do that there should never be an Aelohim or Judge of Assize and both of them for one and the same reason too Obj. A good Conscience may some say and a sober Life and Conversation are good very good things but he that is without Sin let him cast the first stone at my Debauchee Ans It 's one thing to sin thro' human frailty and a vastly-different thing to sin voluntarily presumptuously and with an high hand Num 15 20 such Sinners by the old Law were punish'd with Death without Mercy A man that is a very good Subject may sometimes break some of the King's Laws through Ignorance or Infirmity but will this justifie a Rebel that lives in open defiance of his Prince and bids him Battel It is these Rebels to Heaven that seem to follow the counsel of that wicked Woman to curse God and dye that never pray but to be damn'd and live in open Hostility to the God of Heaven that