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A01970	The dignitie of chiualrie set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company of London, Iune xiij. 1626. By William Gouge, B. of Diuinity and preacher of Gods Word, in Black-friers London.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1626 (1626)	STC 12112; ESTC S103305	21,704	56

incorruptible and vndefiled and that fadeth not away reserued in heauen If yee bee ouercome yee are perpetuall slaues to Satan that malicious enemie who will hold you with euerlasting chaines vnder darkenesse in torture and torment endlesse and ease-lesse merci lesse and remedilesse To put you in minde I say of this your spirituall condition know that if valour and the fore-mentioned ground thereof be so requisite as hath beene shewed against bodily enemies which are but flesh and blood how much more against spirituall enemies which are not flesh and blood but principalities and powers These especially wee ought to resist stedfast in the Faith The chiefe spirituall enemie of our soules the Diuell from whom all our other spirituall enemies receiue their strength and courage is like a Wolfe and that as in fiercenes so in fearefulnesse A Wolfe if he be stoutly resisted will flie away but if he be fearefully shunned or yeelded vnto then hee will the more fiercely assault and more greedily deuoure Euen so the Diuell Resist the Diuell and he will slie from you Giue place and yeeld and he wil the more eagerly persue and the more easily preuaile Neither if he preuaile will he any whit the more spare thee for thy yeelding to him but rather the more proudly insult ouer thee Wherefore my Brethren bee strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Put on the whole armour of GOD that yee may be able to stand against the wiles of the Diuell Being thus armed Watch ye stand fast in the Faith quit you like men and be strong stand couragiously and yee shall stand victoriously Hitherto ye haue heard of the Honour of your profession and of the Valour required by virtue thereof The last point noteth the necessity and benefit thereof which is this In peace to prepare for Warre is a principall part of prudence The most prudent Prince that euer gouerned people put in practise this point of policie euen Salomon to whom God said I haue giuen thee a wise an vnderstanding heart so that there was none like thee before thee neither after thee shall any arise like thee This Salomon enioyed much peace had a promise to enioy peace all his daies and had no cause to feare any assaults or inuasions of enemies all the nations round about being brought vnder by his Father Dauid Yet this Prince of Peace built senced cities with walles gates and barres and chariot-cities and cities of horsemen and had his trained men of War which are heere noted in my Text yea to shew his store of warlike prouision it is expressely noted that hee had forty thousand stalles of horses for his chariots a thousand foure hundred chariots and twelue thousand horse men The first Father of that stocke wise Abraham whose house was a place of peace for the feare of God fell vpon all nations round about him they honoured and reuerenced him they accounted him a Prince of God yet had this Abraham his Artillery Garden wherein were trained vp and fitted for Warre such as were borne and brought vp in his house the number of which Company I suppose was greater then the number of your Company For at once on a sudden he armed and led to the Warre more then three hundred trained men And it is not likely that hee left his house destitute of all defence He had questionlesse many more of that his Artillery Company Now note the benefit hereof On a sudden in a time of necessity and case of extremity hee had them ready to rescue fiue Kings that were ouerthrowne by their enemies To presse this patterne yet further for the point in hand the holy Ghost noteth that Melchizedeck King of Salem whose name declared him to be a King of Righteousnesse whose nation shewed him to bee a Prince of Peace this Melchizedeck King of Salem met Abraham with his sorenamed troopes blessed him and them gaue good entertainement to them al and congratulated their returne giuing thereby an euident demonstration of his approbation of Abrahams prouidence and prudence in maintaining an Artillery garden for his house The condition of Iehosaphats Kingdome who was the fourth Son that by lineall descent came from Salomon and sate on his Throne was much like to Salomons For the feare of the Lord was vpon all the kingdomes of the land that were round about Iudah so that they made no War against Iehosaphat But in testimony of amity they sent him yeere after yeere many presents Yet he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Iudah and set garrisons in the Land and had eleuen hundred and threescore thousand Men of Warre mighty men of valour that waited on him besides those whom hee put in the fenced cities thorow out all Iudah Admirable it is and but that the word of truth records it incredible that in so small a Kingdome as Iudah was there should be so many trained expert valiant men of Warre as were in Iehosaphats time When Iudah and all Israel were ioyned together euen all the twelue Tribes in one Kingdome that Kingdome was nothing so spatious as England is For some of our shires are larger then some of their Tribes were and yet our shires are in number aboue foure times more then their Tribes were For wee haue aboue foure times twelue shires How farre then doe the three Kingdomes vnder the Dominion of our Soueraigne England Scotland and Ireland how farre doe they exceede in spatiousnesse the Kingdome of Iehosaphat Yet question may bee made whether in these three Kingdomes there be so many score thousands of trained Souldiers well disciplined men of Warre mighty men of valour as there were hūdred thousāds in Iudah We account twenty or thirty thousand a great Army fiftie thousand a royall Army What then an hundred thousand What an hundred thousand eleuen times multiplied and threescore thousand added thereto All these were vnder their Captaines by name Ready f●r Warre Waiting on the King to bee sent forth at his command and yet all the fenced cities which were very many well replenished with Garrisons ouer and aboue those 1160000. Surely they counted it an honour and safety to their land to haue store of trained souldiers men expert and ready for Warre at all times Therefore frequent mention is made thereof To omit other particulars in Dauids time Ioah gaue vp the number and summe of fineteene hundred and seuentie thousand men of Warre and yet left two Tribes vnnumbred Surely there must needs be many Artillery Gardens and they well replenished Martiall discipline must needs be there much exercised where were so many thousands yea hundred thousands trained vp to Warre If the wiseman might send men to the Ants to learne of them to prouide meate in the summer and to gather foode in the haruest much better may men be sent to such worthy patternes as were guided and approued by God to bee alwaies prouided

to sling stones at a marke or else they could neuer haue attained to such extraordinary skill as to sling stones at an haires bredth and not faile The skil which the men of Beniamin of which Tribe those Gibeonites were are after this noted to haue in slinging stones with the right and left hand sheweth that this was an vsuall exercise of the youth and men of that Tribe Such recreations in peace as are preparations vnto Warre iustly deserue to be reckoned vp among those necessarie vocations whereby Polities are preserued and while you are exercising your selues therein you are imployed in your calling and you goe on in that way wherein God promiseth to giue his Angels charge ouer you to beare you vp in their hands least you dash your feete against a stone When I duely weigh that little which hath beene said and withall consider how much more might bee said of and for the warrant honour need vse and benefit of your Artillery profession I cannot s●fficiently wonder at the blindnesse carelesnesse improuidence and security of this our age in neglecting and disrespecting a matter of so great consequence so nearely concerning the glory tranquillity and safety of the whole land and of all the societies and seuerall persons therein Me thinkes that it is more then meete that euery Citie and Corporation if not euery Towne and Village throughout the Land should haue an Artillery Garden and that the great populous Cities especially LONDON should haue as many Artillery Gardens as it hath Wards and that publique allowances should bee afforded to such as willingly offer themselues to these Militarie exercises I haue heard of liberall legacies bountiful donations giuen for making Cawsies mending High-waies building Bridges and other such like workes but little or nothing for purchasing and maintaining Artillerie Gardens and the Warre-like exercises appertaining thereto I cannot therefore much wonder that there are no more such Companies as yours is and no more of your company But because euery rare thing is pretious I reioyce that you are of those who by how much the more rare they are by so much the more glorious they appeare to be By you it must be effected if it be effected that the antient english name and Renowne for Martiall discipline be preserued if not repaired also propagated to posterity Be not therefore now slacke in prosecuting that which you haue so wel begun Be diligent to keepe your training daies to exercise your armes that such as by much practise are well experienced may be presidents and patternes to others and those others by like constāt practise may attaine to answerable experience Let no discouragements dismay you The lesse encouragemēt you haue from others the greater is your praise that so willingly take such paines at your own cost to make your selues seruiceable for the defence security and safety of the Land Kingdome where you liue In you my Text is in our daies Land verified for of you it may be truely said THEY were MEN of WARRE FINIS Nulli qui est deputatus ad aliquod officium li●● id per quod s●o officio incongruu● redditur Vnde clericis omnino non licet bella gerere c. Aquin. 2. 2. quaest 40. Artic. 2 * See page 15. Black-Freyers London Iul. 10. 1026. The Sum of Text Sermon The Parts of the Text. 2 Chron. 8. 7 8. Who not fit for Warre 2 Chron. 8. 9. Who fit for Warre The property of men of Warre Numb 13. 2 3. 1 Sam. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est●te viri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Situ viri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Herod in Poly●● 1. Chr. 12. 23. Ver. 38 Ioel 2. 7. 3. 9. 2. Chr. 17. 13. Preparation for warre vnder a Prince of peace Ios. 5. 8. Iudg. 5. 8. Iudg. 15. 11 2 Sam. 8. 1. c. 1 Chron. 12. 9. Isa. 9. 6. Ephes. 2. 14 * The three principall points of the Text. a C● Phormio de Imperatoris essi ●o omni re militari sic dixisset vt caeteri qui illum audirent vehementer es sent dele●lati Annibal inte●●gatus quid de illo Philosopho iudicaret respondit ●●●oltos se deliros senes sapè vidisse sed qui magis quam Phormio deliraret vidisse neminem Cic. de Orat. lib. 2. The souldiers profession and honourable function Gen. 23. 6. 14. 14. 1 Sam 17. 12 13. 1 Sam. 17. 32. c. -18. 27 30. Who of old were men of Warre 1 Sam. 14. 52. Titles of honour most due to men of warre Maiores nostri summam rebus bellicis retulere glo ria Amb. Offic. l. 1. c. 35. Things requisite to make men fit sro War Double honour due to such as exercise Armes 1 Tim. 517. Honos alit artes Cic. Tusc. quaest lib. 1. Sint Me●anates non de●runt Flacce Marones Virgiliumque tibi vel tua rura dabunt Martial l. 8. Epigr. 56. Encouragement to Artillery Gét. Iudg. 5. 9. * Compare Rom 13. 5 with 1 Pet. 2. 13. 2 Chron. 17 16. Quoniam sibi mercedem ab homine non quaesiuit à deo accepit sicut legimus c. Ambr. de Abr. Pat. l. 1. c. 3. Motiue to draw more to the Artillery Garden * Page 40. Valour requisite for Souldiers Iudg. 7. 5. Expounded Ios. 1. 6. 9. Deut 31. 7 Deut. 20. 8 Iudg. 7. 3. De Israelitarum virtute in bellis gerendis lege Aug. de Mirab. S. Script l. 2 c. 34. Iudg 20. 17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Chron. 13. 3. * The Hebrew is very emphaticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the emphasis whereof being obserued by the LXX is thus expressed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mighty in might 2 Sam. 10. 17. 1. Sam. 14. 52. 2 Sam. 17. 10. 1 Chron. 12. 1. 2 8 21 Deut. 20. 8. Damage of timerous Souldiers Numerauit 318. Vi scias non quātitatem numeri sed meritum electionis expressum Ambr. de Abr. Pair l. 1. c. 3. 2 Sam. 23. 8 9. c. 1 Chron. 12. 14. Leuit. 26. 8 Who valerous who timerous Pro. 28. 1. Quis tam sortis quam sanctus Amb. Offic. l. 1. c. 39. Who to be accounted righteous Psal. 14. 3. Rom 3. 10 Impauidus profecto miles omni ex parte securus qui vt corpus serro sic animum fidei lorica induitur vtriusque nimirum indutus armis nee dae mone timet nec hominem Bern serm ad Mil. Temp. c. 1. * Pro. 18. 14 S Laurentius 〈…〉 ignis naturā 〈◊〉 Ossic. l 1 c. 41 Fisi hostes no● perimant ●ullum tamen ad animas periculum migrat c. Crys Hom. 7. in 1 Tim c. 2. Siue in lecto siue in bello qu● mo●●tur preciosa e●t sine dubio in conspectu donum mors sinctorum Caterum in bello taniò profecto pretiosior quant● gloriosior Bern Loc. citat Who to be accounted wicked Rom 3 23. 1 Iob. 1. 7. Leu. 16. 36 D. Barlow in his Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse March 1. 1600. being the next Sunday after the execution of the late Earle of Essex Courage against spirituall enemies 1 Pet. 1. 4 Iam. 4. 7. Libentius te ins●●uitur aduersarius fugientem qu●m sustineat repugnantem auda●ius infi●●● à tergo quam resistat in faciem Bern. Epist. 1. ad Rob Nepot suum Ephes. 6. 10 11. 1 Cor. 16. 13. Warre to be prepared for in Peace 1 King 3. 12. 2 Chron. 8 5 6 9. 1 King 4. 26. 2 Chron. 1. 14. Abrahams Artillery Garden Gen. 14. 14 The number by Patent granted to the Artillery Company of London is ●00 which number was not full at the time of preaching this Sermon Gen. 14. 18 19. 20. Heb 7. 1. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Chron. 17. 10 11 13 c. * In England 39. ●n Wales 13. 1 Chron. 21. 5. Pro. 6. 6. c. Benefits of Antillery Gardens The damage of neglecting Armes Iudg. 18. 27. Iustificatiō of Artiller exercises Plutarch in Vita Thesei 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athen. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plat. Xenoph. de Cyri. instit lib. 1. Idem de Cyri min. Exped l. 5. 1 Chron. 12. 33 38. 9. Statute ●●33 yeare of Hen 8. * Gen 48. 22. Ios. 24. 12. 1 King 22. 34. 2 King 6. 22. 9. 24. 13 15. c. 1 Chron. 5. 18. 8 40. 12. 2. 17. 17. 26. 14. 35. 13. Psal. 44. 6. 76. 3. a 1 Sam. 20 20. b Iudg. 20. 16. 1 Chron. 12 2. Psal. 91. 11 12. Quiae omne rarum pretiosum gaudeo te de illis esse qui quan●o rariores tanto apparebūt gloriosiores Bern. ep 1. ad Rob. ●●p suum