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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	earth_n	heaven_n	militant_a	4,766	5	11.7120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13562	The valevv of true valour, or, The probation and approbation of a right military man Discouered in a sermon preached Iuly 25. before the worthy gentlemen of the military company. By Thomas Taylor Doctor of Divinitie, and pastor of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1629 (1629)	STC 23857; ESTC S114873	16,295	38

of military discipline enforceth it selfe vpon generos spirits Because nature brings forth but few meete martiall men but industry and institution breedeth many neither can there bee any exercise for young and able men either more noble then to bee disciplined in the vse of armes to bee skilfull in their Postures in their Marches in their Rankes and readinesse for euery Command or more vsefull seeing the skill and dexterity of armes both keepeth in awe the neighbour nations without and preserueth the peace at home which next to his peace with God euery good man and patriot must by all good meanes aduance whereas contrarily the neglect of this discipline is pernicious both at home and abroad For when men at home waste their time in wanton base and esfeminate exercises by which they eneruate and emasculate their spirits from manly atchieuements being called abroad to seruice are sit for nothing but either to maime the publike designes or else to mischiefe themselues or their followes by their lazinesse and vnskilfulnesse in the vse of their armes 3. For your further incitation you want no examples nor companions in your military exercises If you could looke into heauen you might see the Angels great in power and skill those heauenly souldiers neuer out of the sield nor their rankes But you may looke vnto heauen and see the starres the hoste of heauen fight in their courses and orbes against the Lords enemies If you looke lower to the heauen vpon earth the whole Church vpon earth is in armes in the great military yard of the world and is therefore called militant And wee her ministers are all in our rankes the Lords souldiers in a most hazardous sight against all your and our spirituall enemies If you looke round about you all the creatures are called the Lords armies and from them himselfe is called the Lord of hosts aboue two hundreth and thirty times in the Scripture so as he must be out of all ranke that affecteth not this noble exercise 4. You of this worthy society haue with you and before you beyond other bands the high Commander in earth of vs all Our Great Charles defender of our persons and of our faith who hath vouchsafed to become your Generall and noble Patron You hath he specially honoured by giuing you your colours and by calling you his Company You hee yeerely encourageth with royall remembrance for the honour of your annuall feast and meeting His Highnesse hath taken you in vnto him to encourage to honour to employ you on occasion because hee hath seene you strong men and meete for the warre Where will you find a more Royall Leader Seeing now that the encrease and flourishing of this military society in number in honour and in gracefull exercises is the honourable desire of his Maiesty Is there any braue spirit that would not satisfie his Prince in so noble and easie a desire If Dauid shall but wantonly desire water out of the well of Bethlem his three worthies Iosabam Eleazar Shammah will breake through an whole Army of Philistims and vnbidden attempt a most desperate seruice with extreame hazard of their liues But here is no such hot seruice nor to so little purpose nor without the leaue and leading of the King himselfe Who vouchsafeth to goe before you 5. Wee the subiects of the Kingdome honour you as a strong buttresse of our wall Wee esteeme euery one of you worth so many men as in time of seruice and necessity euery one of you are able to lead We looke not on you as common souldiers but as Commanders when euer any of you shall bee commanded Wee take you in to vs as wee doe gold not by bulke or bullion but by weight and worth esteeming euery graine of your valew and valour at the due rate and estimate Wee are more willing to behold a seemely appearance in your exercises marching vnder your colours in the field then to see you marching to a feast All which layd together may be as sharpe and steeled spurres to quicken euen dull spirits to affect and vndertake this so noble and necessary an exercise wherein whosoeuer is wanting if ability and opportunity bee not wanting he may be sentenced to bee wanting both to his owne reputation as also to the honour and safety of his countrey and to bee an offender against nature it selfe the light whereof denounced them to bee enemies who were wanting to the Common wealth So did Great Pompey esteeme them enemies that hauing power and opportunitie failed the publicke 2. But ●ow forbearing to presse that point further Let mee adde a word or two of counsell and let it I pray you bee acceptable vnto you I will commend you to God when I haue commended a few precepts vnto your consideration 1. The first of them is that seeing God and man doth honour you you must also aduance your owne honour both the honour of your persons and the honour of this Society Dishonour not your persons by vices or disgracefull lusts feare basenes swaggering swearing quarreling drinking rioting and the like Remember that sinne and shame are by God tyed together with an adamantine chaine and waite one on the other as the shadow on the body and what God hath ioyned you cannot sunder the act of sinne as a wound is transient but the scarre remaineth Dishonour not this society by negligence idlenesse or slacknesse in your appearances but giue your presence attendance at your times appointed which is the sinewes and strength of your company Vphold the grace of your exercises and better them and your selues by them for to what purpose are you a company or were your company if it were not for your exercises I haue heard that your worthy founder left you but two speciall rules and directions for the aduancing of the honour of your company The former for the encrease and vpholding of your Band and society by your weekely diligent appearance without fayling in your set exercises The latter for the vpholding of the band of loue and vnity among your selues auoyding carefully such jarres and quarrels as might disioynt you or make you fall off one from another I haue heard also that both these rules haue beene forgotten amongst many of you and especially by fayling in the latter you haue almost ouer thrown the former Yea my selfe haue beene an eye witnesse of your slender appearance and sundry others to their griefe and the dishonour I had almost said the disbanding of your company which made me thinke of the complaint of Vegetius concerning the neglected military discipline of his time But now amongst vs saith he the field discipline I will not say languisheth but is dead neither is it euill but none at all So I may say but in no other respect but of your want of appearance your discipline hath many times beene not faint but dead not euill but none at all