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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

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