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city_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	5,525	4	4.6112	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01690	Christiana-Polemica, or A preparatiue to warre Shewing the lawfull vse thereof. The iust causes that may moue thereunto. The necessitie of preparation for it. The duties of those that wage it. Together with diuers instructions concerning it. A sermon preached at Wooll-Church in London, before the captaines and gentlemen that exercise in the artillerie-garden vpon occasion of their solemne and generall meeting. Aprill 14. 1618. By Abraham Gibson, Bachelour of Diuinity, and then preacher to the temples.	Gibson, Abraham, b. 1586 or 7.	1619 (1619)	STC 11828; ESTC S118766	14,920	48

Iudge Belli susceptio penes Principem executio penes Militem saith Augustine For the continuance of our fight we must take heed of relying more vpon Gideon then vpon God Take heed of trusting to the arme of flesh before the outstretched arme of God It is better to trust in the Lord then to put confidence in Princes saith the Princely Prophet And lastly in the end of the fight take we heede of ascribing more honour to Gideon then to God For Gideons power is from God Omne regnum sub regno est God is King among the Gods Reges in ipsos imperium est Iovis For euery King is the Minister of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and though they be Gods with men yet they are but men with God who is Rex regum Dominus dominantium King of kings and Lord of lords Reuel 19. Hence it was that King Henry the fifth of England that good and valiant Prince after his conquest in France would not suffer his Helmet which was full of blowes and dintes to bee brought ouer into England with him nor to be welcomed home with any songs of the successe but would haue all the glory ascribed to God Because the key of victorie God keepeth in his owne power It commeth neither from the east nor from the west nor from the north nor from the south Vnlesse God hold vp his hand Gideon cannot preuaile Not the people without Gideon nor Gideon without God For the Lord and for Gideon And now beloued brethren that I haue ripened my discourse and brought it as it were to a head in it selfe I come in a word to shew you how it fitteth and suiteth this present solemnitie And therefore for you Generous Gentlemen and Heroicke spirits that haue an exemplarie Campe in your companie and a Colledge of Souldiers in your societie it will serue both as a warrant for your profession and an acquittance against all discouragement in that ye know assuredly in whose name for what end to whose seruice you haue dedicated your selues and all your endeuours What though some goe about to slander your societie and discountenance your vndertakings speaking euill of all because some few miscarrie It will be your glory to contemne the cauill and forgiue the wrong remembring that he will neuer endure a blow who cannot concoct a word he is not likely to ouercome an enemie who cannot vanquish himselfe he is vnfit to fight for equitie that hath not learned to passe by an iniurie But if there be any such disordered persons crept in among you who are lead with the spirit not of fortitude but faction not of conscience but of insolence not of zeale but ambition milites non tam emerti quàm malè meriti expell them your lists let them not march vnder your colours that so you may stop the mouthes of your opposers and open the hearts of men in place and gouernment to aduance your intendments both with countenance and maintenance if neede so require In which dutie if they shall be backward wee may well account them as base and ignoble Caitiffes neither good seruants of God nor trustie subiects of our King seeing neither in conscience to the one nor allegeance to the other they will giue due respect nor lend assistance to you who by your continuall practise both for Gods sake and for Gideons sake doe preserue intemerate that honourable forme of militarie discipline which in times of peace vseth to grow obsolete and out of vse Howsoeuer goe ye on happily in your courses your memory shall suruiue in a second age and your names shall be had in euerlasting remembrance those that are yet vnborne shall blesse you and blesse God for you Yet withall be informed that this your daily exercise is but a medium to a further end a preparation to a greater performance You doe but now spend your paines and your purses time may require your persons You now vse rather fulgentibus armis quàm fortibus weapons defensiue then offensiue and fight gloriously without an enemie Time may make triall of your courage in hotter skirmishes and more bloodie opposition Indeed for the present it may be said of vs as of Israel and Iuda 1. Kings 4. euery man dwelleth safely vnder his owne vine and vnder his owne figtree there is no leading into captiuitie no complaining in our streets but peace within our walles and prosperitie within our palaces And long may it bee continued to vs to the glory of God and quiet of our Nation But wee cannot promise to our selues any perpetuitie of this felicitie the hideousnesse of our sinnes may giue vs good cause to expect a change Therefore it is your parts to reserue your selues chiefly for worse times whensoeuer God shall send them lest you bee thought like those doubtfull companions whom Diogenes is said to affect in Laertius that would still bee about to marry and yet did not marry and that would still be about to rule and yet did not rule I may adde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that would still be about to fight and yet did not fight Wherefore I say no more but as Saul to Dauid 1. Sam. 18. Be valiant for your King and fight the Lords battels And as Ioab to the people 2. Sam. 10. Be of good courage and play the men for the people and for the cities of your God In the meane time all true Subiects will pray to the God of peace to gird you with strength vnto the battell to teach your hands to warre and your fingers to fight that so being well appointed both with the spirituall armour of a Christian and the corporeall armour of a Souldier intus fide foris ferro muniti you may be able both to defend your selues against the siege of Sathan and your Country against all forraine inuasions and I doubt not but all true-hearted Subiects will say Amen Wherefore wee humbly beseech thee O Lord God of Hosts looke downe from heauen and behold and visit this vine and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted amongst vs. Let not the Bore out of the wood destroy it nor the wilde Beasts of the field eat it vp but forgiue the crying sinnes of the same remoue thy iudgements that hang ouer vs and teach vs to know the things which belong vnto our peace And because there is none other that fighteth for vs but only thou O God pleade our cause O Lord with them that striue with vs and fight against them that fight against vs. And thou that art a man of warre whose name is Ichonah oh teach our hands to warre and out fingers to fight that the Heathen may neuer come into thine inheritance and make this our Ierusalem an heape of stones but that thou maist still blesse vs with peace