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A89159	The souldiers triumph and the preachers glory. In a sermon preached to the captains and souldiers exercising arms in the artillery garden, at their generall meeting in S. Michaels Church Cornhill in London, the 31. of August, 1641. / By Matthias Milvvard, B.D. Minister of S. Hellens.	Milward, Matthias, fl. 1603-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2186; Thomason E175_7; ESTC R5018	15,617	40

runs upon the wheeles of mischiefe cruelty rashnesse impatience impudence drawn along with two fierce beasts Secular pompe and Carnall power fed like Diomedes horses with the flesh of men A generation saith Solomon whose teeth are swords and their jawes knives to eat up the afflicted and the poore from among men Prov. 30.14 God is no Author of this triumph Next Luxury hath her Chariot that runnes riot they drive like Iehu as if they were mad wheeled with Gluttony Lust Pride and Sloth drawne along with two pampered and high-fed horses Plenty and Prosperity Oblivion the Coach-man After these comes Covetousnesse warily moving her Chariot hung all with iron hooks running upon foure wheeles Pusillanimity Contempt of God Inhumanity Forgetfulnesse of death her horses like her selfe spare and leane called Tenacitas and Rapacitas Greedy to catch and Loth to forgoe raind up with the bridle of Holding fast and whipt on with a Desire of Having more These be the Devils and the Worlds Pageants their end is Praecipices and downfalls for they that climbe by privie sinne shall fall with open shame Thou O man of God saith S. Paul to Timothy fly these things It is our glory that are Preachers to win soules it is your comfort We cannot triumph without you nor you without us What a joy will it be at that great day of accompt when we shall returne our poore talents with advantage When Peter shall lead in triumph after him Iury Andrew leading Achaia Iohn Asia Paul triumphing with a world of souls after him and some of us I hope triumphing with some of you Now thanks be to God which causeth us in Christ But if this triumph be not constant where is our comfort It followeth therefore in the next place the continuance of time 3. Alwayes he causeth us to triumph Alwayes in Christ for he having triumphed over death and hell doth lead Captivity captive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he hath unloosed the sorrows of death so we in him doe alwayes triumph A good conscience is a continuall feast the Comforter abideth with us for ever it is ever working For as the creatures of God do alwayes continue their actions to which Nature enclines them The fire alwayes burneth if it have matter combustible the heavens alwayes moving except by an Almighty power commanded to stand the Sun alwayes shining though clouds obfuscate his bright beams to us yet ever cleare in it selfe So the righteous whom God causeth to triumph in Christ are alwayes moving in the spheare of Obedience alwayes warming with the flames of Charity alwayes shining with the bright beames of Sanctity The Father hath not left me alone saith Christ because I doe alwayes those things that please him Iohn 8. so doe we in Christ Alwayes hope Hos 12. alwayes pray 1 Thes 5. alwayes give thanks Ephes 5. alwayes rejoyce Phil. 4. alwayes burning shining and teaching and so doing alwayes triumphing S. Augustine upon the Prophet Davids words All the day long will I praise thee hath this Meditation In prosperity because I find consolation in adversity because I feele thy mercifull correction When I was lost thou foundst me when I sinned thou pardonedst mee when I returned thou receivedst me when I continued thou crownedst me For he that giveth the end giveth all things belonging to the end The grace of inchoation to begin well of continuation to goe on well of consummation to end well Voluntatem praeparat adjuvandam adjuvat praeparatam He prepares the will that he may help it and he helps it when he hath prepared it and so he causeth us alwayes to triumph in Christ Alwayes Now thanks be to God So I come to the last Part. 4. The Thanksgiving Amongst the Iews were as many Thanks-offerings as Offerings of Expiation and Atonement To teach us to be as thankfull for blessings received as in our wants we are importunate to obtaine them The excellencie of this service would be considered which is preferred by the Lord himselfe before all sacrifices peculiar to Saints the service of the life to come when all other almost cease it is all we are able to render Non habeo nisi minuta duo Two mites is all I have a soule and a body Et si millies rependerem quid sum ego ad Deum If I should give my selfe a thousand times what am I to God Nature it selfe teacheth this duty The very ground payes back the cost bestowed upon it Non ingratus ager The Sunne drawes up vapour from the earth sends it back in raine Vnde exeunt flumina revertuntur ut iterum fluant The rivers return to the sea from whence they came As in the Sun beames the more their multiplication the greater the reflection so for Gods blessings shewed forth to you by his Ministers in every place the greater should be your fruitfulnesse the more your thankfulnesse Who causeth us alwayes to triumph in Christ Now thanks be to God Now here me thinks I should make an end but that one thing is wanting to the accomplishing of our triumph which presents it selfe to our view this day That is to acknowledge the causes of your triumphing which are many 1. In your Princely Generall Patron and Protector of your Company our Illustrious Prince CHARLES of whom it may be said as of Titus the sonne of Vespasian Delitiae humani generis The honour of Armes whose hopefull vertues are the food life and soule of Souldiers In this we have cause to triumph 2. In the order and splendour and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the united hearts and fellowship of your whole company Though ye differ in your individuals as so many severall persons and perhaps in opinion yet you make up together one compacted Body of an Army and as touching your common good have but one soule Like the foure Elements though of opposite qualities yet they meet harmoniously in a middle temper of mans constitution concordi pace ligantur In this wee have cause to triumph 3. In your brave Commander the Captaine of your Yard Of whom I could say much but that I feare to offend his modesty Et ne damnum illius laudibus mea faceret verecundia Lest my modesty also might damnifie his due praises Onely thus much because I will not sinne against Iustice whilst I am afraid to offend Modestie If you desire to be instructed in Militarie Discipline accompanyed with religious mildnesse Christian sobriety wise temperance manly fortitude I say no more but Follow your Leader In this we have cause to triumph 4. In the bounty of our generous Citizens and noble Benefactors who have begun a glorious work your Campus Martius your Field of Honour The Romanes had such a place which they called their great Schoole of defence It was given to the people by a Vestall Virgin Caia Tarnatia but Tarquine the Proud the last King of Rome tooke it away from them and converted it to his owne use in sowing corne there Which corne when he was deposed the Romanes threw into the River Tiber judging it unfit that any should reap commodity from so holy ground In processe of time the sheaves of corne being stopt in a shallow Foord of the River became firme ground and was called The holy Island and after the expulsion of Tarquinius this Campus Martius was restored to its former use wherein they exercised Chivalrie and feats of Armes The like to this is yours but never a proud Tarquine will alienate the use of that so happily begun Goe on therefore ye worthy Citizens finish your noble Schoole of Defence If I have erred in commending you ye will pardon my charitable mistake I did deliver freely what I thought you had done or what I beleeved you should have done or what I hope you will doe It is wisdome to prepare for War We have enjoyed peace a long time blessed be God but that peace hath bred some surfets which we pray God to cure with gentle purges without letting bloud Lipsius gave this to be the reason of our Halcyon dayes in Q. Elizabeths raign Quodjam in pace Britannia imperio debet pacati sexus We did owe our peace to that quiet and mild sexe And yet we have had and still have masculine Princes and still enjoy peace blessed be God But what then shall that lull us asleep and secure us from all Martiall meditation because the Summer quarter hangeth upon us shall we think that Winter rots in the Skie Goe on therefore let not so glorious a work be hindered with faint-hearted avarice but bestow your bounty for their convenience who will be ready to spend their bloud for your defence In ancient times when the Captaine returned from the Wars in triumphant manner he entred the City Non apertis portis sed disruptis muris Not by opening the gates but by making a large breach in their walls To signifie as Plutarch saith that having so great and valiant Souldiers they needed no walls to defend them As Homer calls Achilles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so these are the walls of the City This is one of the glorious things that are spoken of thee O City of London and it must needs joy your hearts to see so many brave Worthies issue out of your sides like the flower of Greece out of the Trojan horse In this also we have great cause to triumph Now thanks be to God which causeth us to triumph thus on earth even in this Church Militant and the same God bring us at last to the Church triumphant in heaven through the blessed merits of his Son Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be ascribed all honour power and dominion now and for evermore Amen FINIS

THE SOULDIERS TRIVMPH AND The Preachers Glory In a Sermon preached to the Captains and Souldiers exercising Arms in the Artillery Garden at their Generall meeting in S. Michaels Church Cornhill in London the 31. of August 1641. BY MATTHIAS MILVVARD B. D. Minister of S. Hellens Bern. ad Milites Templi cap. 1. Infoelix victoria quasuperans hominem succumbis vitio LONDON Printed by W.E. and I.G. for Iohn Clark and are to be sold at his Shop under S. Peters Church in Cornhill MDCXLI TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES PRINCE OF GREAT Britaine Son and Heire apparant to our Soveraigne Lord CHARLES King of Great Britaine c. Long happinesse in this and eternall blessednesse in the next world Most gracious Prince IT hath pleased your Highnesse to honour the Company of the Artillery Garden by vouchsafing to be their Generall wherein you have so endeared and obliged them to your service that upon just occasion their lives and blouds are for your defence ready tobe laid down To whom then doe I owe this Dedication if not first to your Highnesse which if your Grace deigne to take into your Princely Patronage I have the utmost of my ambition My weaknesse I confesse forbad me to aspire so high but your Gracious clemencie invited me thus far And indeed you may challenge it as a due debt if it were worth the owning it being the first Sermon preached since your Highnesse so much honoured the Company You have a great Part to act most excellent Prince when God shall please to call you to it whose word will teach you to governe your selfe and people to rule justly and amongst the Courtly adulations and crouchings not to be lifted up but to remember your selfe to be but man not so much to consider how great you are as how good you should be to acknowledge your power to be lent you for the advancement of Gods true worship to love God more then your earthly dominions to punish slowly to pardon easily to bend your revenge more for the Common-wealths safety then to satisfie your owne desire to mollifie sharp Decrees with the lenity of mercy to desire to command your selfe as well as others to subject your own passions to Reason as well as men to remember that you rule over men that you must rule according to Lawes that you must not alwayes rule but one day be called to your accompt before the supreame Judge of heaven and earth and having ruled well to receive an immortall Crowne in his everlasting Kingdome VVhich shall be the prayer of Your Graces humbly devoted Matthias Milward To the Right VVorshipfull Alderman THOMAS SOAME one of the Colonels of the Honourable City of London and President of the Artillery Company Captaine PHILIP SKIPPON Captaine of the same Company AND To Captaine JOHN VENN Deputy President Lieutenant VVILLIAM MANBY Treasurer AS ALSO To the worthy Captaines of the City Martin Bond. Marmaduke Rawdon George Langham Edward Ditchfield Thomas Covell Edmund Forster William Geere Samuel Carlton Tobias Massy Randolph Manwaring Henry Sanders Nicholas Beale Robert Davies Matthew Forster John Bradley Rowland Wilson James Bunce Tho Chamberlaine Tho Buxton And to all other Gentlemen exercising Armes in the Artillery Garden London Noble Sirs I Bring you here together and cite your names in the view of his Highnesse your Princely Generall that as he beheld you in your War-like marches so he may know you in your religious postures I have joyned your sword to ours Preachers and Souldiers together one hath need of another we to pray for you you to fight for us being humm'd at by a company of Brownists as we walk the streets whose very cloaks which we buy of them they hate upon our backs Pudet haec opprobrie nobis This Sermon I heare hath undergone some censure but by the weaker sexe for reciting Stories in it as it is said but they which spake it considered not that I was to speak to Gentlemen that are both Souldiers and Scholars and not to women who are now grown such learned Doctresses that they will take upon them to teach any Minister both what and how to preach An over-shooting expectation is an enemy to all honourable actions and where that is not satisfied the undertaker suffereth disgrace From me therefore seeing nothing of worth can be expected I cannot suffer much in my reputation if I have done that which is worth nothing Yet as it is I am bold to present it to your view being in a manner enforced thereunto For though your desires were command enough yet there is required a Vindication both of my selfe and you Of my selfe that the world may see my doctrine and preaching is not so heterodoxall as the malicious would make it Of you that mine enemies may see your judgement hath not so exceedingly erred in making choice of one not altogether so unworthy as their envy reports me It would trouble me said Seneca upon like occasion if Cato or Laelius or the other Scipio did thus censure me Nunc malis displicere laudari est 'T is praise to be dispraised of those that speak ill who never yet learned to doe well They are like bawling dogs saith he qui non feritate sed pro consuetudine latrant that bark more for custome then curstnesse However such as it is I present to you and the worlds view I can make it no better then it is and if others will make it worse yet my hope is you will make the best of it Finally worthy Gentlemen Feare God honour the King be religious in peace be valiant in war fight the good fight of faith Agonotheta Deus God the Lord of battailes hath promised you immarcessibilem coronam a never-fading crowne and triumph in his Kingdome So prayeth Your faithfull Symmachus and Fellow-souldier Matthias Milward THE SOVLDIERS TRIVMPH c. BEloved Christians worthy Gentlemen Souldiers and Citizens ye have had many excellent Instructors who have led you forth to fight the Lords battailes in your spirituall warfare and they have phrazed their Sermons in your owne Martiall termes of Motions Postures Marches Alarums Retreats and the like Whatsoever your Discipline affords in your War-like Dialect I shall desire you to pardon me if I tread not in their steps nor walk their round whom I may sooner envie then imitate For I professe ingenuously as I should hold it both an honour and ornament if I could present my service in your language so I am loth being to speak before our Christian Hanniball to shew my self through ignorant boldnesse an old doting Phormio I shall therefore speak plainly yeelding the glory of learned eloquence to those who have gone before me And now after so many directions given you to fight I purpose to lead you forth to a triumph yet not I hope before the victory for even in this Church militant whilst we live we have some triumphs So saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 2.14 Now thanks be unto God which alwaies causeth

us to triumph in Christ THese words may be called The Triumph of the Church Militant whose Catastrophes of Sorrow being turned into Trophees of Ioy she doth in the midst of devilish malice and worldly misery lift up her head with heavenly comfort praising God who alwayes in his Son giveth victory In all these things saith S. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8.37 we are more then Conquerers If so then certainly triumphers Now thanks be to God c. In this Triumph I observe foure things 1. The Actors 2. The Author 3. The Time 4. A Thanksgiving First the Actors or Triumphers are of two sorts 1. The Preachers 2. The Hearers 1. The Preachers From whence I note the glory of the Ministerie in us for though we be made Spectaculum a gazing stock to the Angels to the world and to men yet Vs He causeth us to triumph 2. The Hearers From whence I note the comfort that comes to you for seeing your good is the cause of our joy you also are Actors in this Triumph We rejoycing in your Salvation You in our Ministration Secondly the Author is God he causeth us for seeing neither we nor you have cause to triumph in our selves Not we for we are onely Gods Labourers Not you for ye are Gods Husbandry Therefore He whose Labourers we are whose Husbandry ye are he causeth us to triumph We for you you by us both in Christ He causeth us to triumph in Christ Thirdly the time of continuance how long it lasteth Not like the Pageants or triumphs of the world a tedious toile and a quick spoile set up in a yeare and pulled downe in a day not per annos for a few yeares but perennis for ever Alwayes he causeth us to triumph Fourthly then follows a Thanksgiving like the shout of an Army after a victory like that of Israel when the Arke of God came into the Hoste Now thanks be to God which alwayes causeth us to triumph in Christ 1. The Preachers of the Word of God are Actors He causeth us to triumph Our triumph stands in three things Watching Feeding Ordering And for these the Church is compared to a City to a Flock to a Bride To a City Matth. 5. whereof they are watchmen Esay 21. To a flock Iohn 10. and they are the Shepherds Ier. 6. To a Bride and they are the Paranymphi the friends of the Bride-chamber Cant. 2. Three things therefore are due from them to the Church Munimenta Alimenta Ornamenta saith Bernard As she is a City she must be watcht for her safety As a Flock she must be fed of necessity As a Bride she must be ordered with decency In these stands our triumph First therefore ye shall see a description of this City Apoc. 21. It was all of gold it had a great wall and high twelve gates three East three West three North and three South and it lay foure square To this heavenly Ierusalem the Church may be compared Cujus murus concordia antemurale patientia Bern. in dedicat Ecclesiae Vnity of the Citizens is the wall for Civitas est civium unitas a good conscience and patience are the Bulwarks It is called holy because established in the holinesse of faith It is new because the Law dies the Ceremonies fade The Law like old Zachary is dumb and cannot speak because Iohn which signifieth Grace is borne Luke 1.20 Old things are passed away all things are become new New hearts Ezek. 36. New tongues Act. 2. A new commandement Iohn 13. It is called Hierusalem the vision of peace for Christ the Founder of it and confounder of the enemies of it is our peace The twelve gates resemble the twelve Articles of our faith through confession whereof we enter into the Church The foure parts of the world shew the amplitude thereof Lastly this City lyeth foure square which is a resemblance of our faith love hope and good works They are all of one length for how much a man beleeveth so much he hopeth what he hopeth he loveth and as he loveth he worketh And thus as saith the Prophet thou shalt be called a City sought out and not forsaken Esay 62.12 But now saith the Preacher I have seene this wisdome under the sun A little City and few men in it and a great King came and compassed it about and builded Forts against it And there was found therein a poore and wise man and he delivered this City by his wisdome but none remembred this poore man Then said I Better is wisdome then weapons of war Eccles 9.14 But I know not how this City is betrayed there is a conspiracie of the Prophets in the midst of her Ezek. 22. and a confederacy of the people Esay 8. I meane Iesuites and Separatists they craftily crept in to spie out our liberty these have wickedly gone out to betray our peace not content to drink of the sweet waters but trouble the residue with their feet Ezek. 34.17 yea like so many Saepiaes have vomited forth Inke with too much gall in it to disturbe our Churches peace and dash our triumph I wish there had not been men arising out of our selves speaking perverse things Act. 20.30 For as the sea would be quiet of it selfe if winds and vapours and exhalations did not trouble it so the people would have been tractable and peaceable enough if some seditious Orators the blustring brethren of Boreas had not set them in agitation When Ioab understood that his enemies were encamped both before and behind him he divided his Army betweene himselfe and his brother Abishai with this direction If the Aramites be stronger then I thou shalt help me but if the children of Ammon be too hard for thee I will come and succour thee Let us doe so and like those in Peters ship that beckoned to their fellows in Andrews boat aid one another against the common adversary They write of Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond mother to King Henry the seventh that the would often say On condition that the Princes of Christendome would combine themselves and march against the common enemy the Turk she would most willingly attend them and be their Laundresse in the Camp God unite us at home among our selves that the seamelesse coat of Christ rent by schisme and faction may be made up that so we may triumph in Christ Secondly the Church is a flock and must be fed of necessity and in this also stands our triumph Feed feed feed saith Christ to Peter Earth earth earth heare the word of the Lord saith the Prophet Ieremy for that is your food You are thrice called upon to heare we thrice called upon toteach shewing thereby that your joy and our triumph are both twisted upon one threed O ter foelices amplius quos irrupta tenet copula nec malis divulsus queremoniis extrema citius solvet amor die as he said of man and wife Thrice happy shall we and you be if our unity be