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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15528	A sermon preached in August the 13. 1610. In Canterbury to the corporation of black-smiths Declaring the goodnesse, necessity, antiquity and vse of that trade which workes in iron. With directions to men of this, and of all other trades and callings, how to carry themselues religiously and iustly therein. Whereunto are annexed a short catechisme, with two short tables. The first opening the parts of wisedome, to be learned from mans mortality, out of Psa.90.12. The latter laying forth the order of Gods counsell, touching the saluation of the elect, out of Rom.8.29.30. By Thomas Wilson preacher.	Wilson, Thomas, 1563-1622.	1610 (1610)	STC 25797; ESTC S104831	17,507	56

then as naked and vnarmed ●en so we may be ouercome by him ●ithout any stroake striking No ●orldly enemie feares the edge of a materiall sword so much as Sathan ●eareth the force of feruent prayer which preuaileth much with that God whose power alone is Sathans curbe and bane Therefore hee resolues that he hath more then halfe won the field if he may winne this to make thee giue ouer praying to God in the mediation of Christ Now sithence we heare what policies olde and new Philistines vse for vpholding of their kingdomes and whence they learne it what remai●eth but this that we be admonished not onely to beware of them lest we be circumuented But furthermore Christian pollicy to ●se such policie to good purposes as they turne and employ vnto euill and mischieuous ends Children of the light should be wise in their generation Luke 16. Our gouernours do imitate the deuise of the old Philistines in the affaires of the common wealth for there is order taken by acts of Parliament that such Papists as be knowne Recusants conuicted to be such refusing the oath of Allegiance shall be stript of all their armour sauing for necessary defence of their persons that if any ciuill or forraine warres should arise they might lacke meanes to hurt and annoy their king and country to which it is so well knowne that they are so ill affected like vipers which come into the world with the death of their damme Also here at home if a quarrell or fray be likely to happen the first care of our rulers and officers is this to take from them their weapons Let vs imitate this policy also in our soule dangers against the enemies thereof to dispoyle and rob them of such weapons wherewith they vse to fight against our soules And seeing the lust of honour and promotion is the weapon whereby Sathan fighteth against the ambitious and against the couetous and letcherous with the lust of money and pleasure against the intemperate and proud the malicious and enuious with the concupiscence of delights prayses and reuenge Let it be our wisedome to keepe or if he haue got hold of them to wrest these baites and instruments out of Sathans hands that he may not therewith subdue vs to his will and ouerthrow vs with destruction Moreouer whosoeuer haue heretofore giuen their members as weapons to sinne to commit iniquity let him now contrariwise giue his members as weapons to righteousnesse vnto holinesse Lastly concerning you Blacksmiths who haue hot worke in hand which causeth drynesse and this engendreth want of liquor to moysten and this breeds thirst and thirst not moderated drawes on drunkennesse and drunkennesse whets choler and wrath and this kindles contention and this puls on words words beget blowes blowes wounds whereof sometimes followeth death of body and danger of soule being in feare of being depriued of both parts of your selfe in one day nay in one houre let me therefore beseech you to be sober to drinke for strength not for excesse to liue temperatly at home with your wife and children so shall ye withhold from Sathan a perilous weapon wherewith if ye should put it into his hand he will be able to cut the very throat of your soule vnto your eternall perdition Let this suffice concerning the second part of this text Nowe to the third and last The third thing obserued in our text The third part of the Text. doth concerne the effects which did follow the pestilent policy of the Philistines in taking Smiths from the Hebrews These effectes do belong to the time of warre or of peace In the time of warre they had neither sword nor speare a sore defect for it gaue power and liberty to the treacherous and tyrannous Philistines a great deale more easily not onely to keepe vnder the Israelites but to kill them also euen to take away their liues when they listed as they had before taken away their liberty We may very well by our selues iudge how miserable this case was if we will but a little imagine it to be our owne case Though we be now at peace with all our neighbour countries yet doe but suppose that we wanted speare shield and sword bow and bill guns and all other military furniture offensiue and defensiue is it not more then probable and likely that we could not be in this peace foure and twenty dayes to an end but that one or other which now holds league of peace with vs more to serue their owne turne then for any loue to vs would take the oportunity especially such as hold their hands off because they are too weake for vs lacking not will but might to destroy this noble kingdome and be glad to make a spoyle of our riches and a massaker of our persons And touching the other euill effect ensuing the want of Smiths if it were so with vs that for our axes wherewith we hew our wood or mattocks wherewith we digge our ground our shares wherewith we plough our fields and our hookes wherewith we weed our corne we should be inforced to trauell so farre as Scotland or Wales or Holland to whet them when they were blunt and vnfit for vse might we not thinke this and that worthily to be a very great extremitie This was the very case of the Israelites whose land was much like in compasse as appeares by the maps to this our Realme of England There being then neither in towne nor city a Smith to be had it must needs be that such as dwelt in some part of the country were driuen to trauell very far when they had need but to whet a toole for they were faine to go to the Philistines for it who had gotten all their Smiths into their coasts From hence there is iust occasion offered to say something of the commoditie of Black-smiths as before we spake of their worth ancientnesse and needfulnesse Commodity of Smiths in peace For the times of peace what vse and benefit they are to vs it is more manifest then I neede to say much for who is ignorant that this trade doth helpe to maintaine husbandry by which euen the King is maintained The life both of prince and subiect is preserued by the fruits of the ground and these cannot be attained without the aid of the Black-smith who shapeth and sharpens the instruments by which the ground is manured What shall I tell you that neither could you haue Cities to dwell in nor Churches to serue God in nor ships to transport and import commodities by were it not for Smiths who make those instruments by which great Fabricks are both made and maintained Neither can we in the night lye safe in our beds for feare of theeues if the Smiths daughter be not before their hands Nor trauaile in the day securely for robbers were we not armed with weapons of their framing And touching the vse of them in warre because euery man doth sufficiently vnderstand that