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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08873	Bristolls military garden A sermon preached unto the worthy company of practisers in the military garden of the well governed citie of Bristoll. By Thomas Palmer, master of arts, and vicar of St. Thomas, and St. Mary Redcliffe in the same citie.		1635 (1635)	STC 19155; ESTC S102339	22,204	42

Quas homini novisse datum est Pax una Triumphis Innumeris potior Peace the best Mistresse that a man can court To which a world of triumphs do come short Peace is the worlds Jubile the Crowne of a body Politique the Supporter both of Church and Common-wealth In Peace the Gospell findes a free and a glorious passage In Peace Faith the mother of Charity is aboundantly fruitfull in good workes In Peace every one sits quietly under their owne Vine and enjoyes the fruite of his owne labour But in the exercise of Warre our Plow-shares should be turned into Swords and our Sithes into Speares our Garments should rowle in blood There would be a famine of Bread a cleanenesse of Teeth a dearth of all good things Our Faith staggerd the lippes of the Priest that should preserve knowledge sealed up the tongue of the blasphemour set at liberty Holy things prophaned the Church despised Then that Petition in our English Lyturgy is as needefull as warrantable From battell and murther and from sudden death good Lord deliver us It is true our feare might bee the lesse were every Souldier a David as religious as valiant Therefore as Davids Action hath beene a lawfull precedent of warre so let David Person be a religious Parterne for a Souldier which shall bee the particulat Application of the generall Proposition He was a just Man adorned with all vertue David a Patterne for a souldier valiant beyond comparison yet moderate and courteous Thus he is characteriz'd by * Joseph Antiq. lib. 7. cap. 12. Iosephus Hee that beares Armes with David should beare his Character Though every Souldier canot be a worthy with David yet like him he should be a worthy Souldier a Man after Gods owne heart as religious as resolute As Saints may beare Armes so they that beare Armes should be Saints As God is a Man of Warre so a Man of Warre should be a Man of God * Quàm mitis David humilis spiritu sedulus corde facilis affatu fort is in praelio mansuetus in imperio Ambros In Gods list in the time of the Law they were sanctified Ones which God himselfe set apart for Military imployment Esay 13.3 * Gen. 14.4 Abraham had a Train-Band in his Houshold and he trained them up as well for Gods Service as his owne This was the resolution of Warlike Iosuah I and my House will serve the Lord. An honourable Service God was the Lord of his House though his House was a Campe. * It was prophesied of Campes under the Gospell that on the bels of their horses should be written Holinesse Zach. 16.20 In the list of the Gospell you shall finde a faithfull Centurion A devout Cornelius who feared not the enemy yet feared God And Ecclesiasticall Histories have registred the best Souldiers sometimes for the best men Iulians thundring Legion Constantine who was as good as great And the Theodosii who were as pious as victorious The good life of the Generall should bee a Sermon unto the Souldiers And the good lives of the Souldiers should bee a repetition of that Sermon * Justum bellum esse debet ergo religione non careret Cas Polit lib. 3. cap. 10. I am perswaded that the religious exact and impartiall Discipline of the Sueden Army made them so constantly victorious Religion makes men valiant The Righteous are bold as a Lion Prov. 28.1 How can they feare the Enemy that feare not Death their gate unto Heaven Religion is prevalent We must bee Iacobs or wee cannot bee Israels prevailing with God and then we shall prevaile over men Religion confines a Souldier unto the obedience of his Commander Like the Isractite to Ioshuah or the servant to the Centurion The reason why the Souldiers of our time do so degenerate is because our Captaines doe invert the course of * Dinit Galba legi à so Militē non emi Tacit. Galba They doe buy not chuse their Souldiers Legio à delectu Militum dicta A band of souldiers is denominated from their choise If they be not selevted they loose that title The body of an Army should not * Ex omnium gentium Colluvie like Hannibals consist of the scumme of the Sea of the excrement of the Land A Commander should have more then a common care in the choyce of the common souldier A matter of great weight but of little regard Warre is now counted but the spleene of a body politique to draine out the ill humours * Pecuniola proponitur ecce coeunt aliqui igneti ignerantesque purgamenta urbium quibus ab egestatem maxima flagitia peccandi necessitudo est assueti latrociniis bellorum inso●●tes When occasion of service is offered tatter'd Jayle-birds and masterlesse vagrants are the greatest part of master Constables choice Amongst whom it would grieve the sould of any honest subject to be an Associate It is no Christian policy to chuse such sinfull instruments for such a serious Action God will not bee the Leader of that Army where sinne raignes in the maine battell Sinne is the onely Ramora that stoppes the happy proceedings of the most numerous Army A guilty Conscience doth chill the blood and dull the edge of the most daring resolution The sight of woundes and death must needs startle that wreteh who hath had the wounds and death of his Saviour too often in his mouth but never in his heart And the terrour of death must needes affright him who cannot expect the death of the body without the damnation of the soule A souldier must be prepared for death as well as for danger which none can be but he that is Religious Let us fight with our sinnes before wee fight with our enemies The conquest of the former will assure us of the latter conquest Then shall wee be blessed in our going out and in our comming in then our enemies shall be smitten before our face Levit. 26.36 * Donabit certanti victoriam qui certandi dedit audaciam Goliam magnū robustum armis terribilem ingentique turba munitum David solus parvus atque inermis uno lapidis ictu prostravit August contra quinque her in principto If they be Davids though their enemies were Goliahs they shall bee conquerours not onely in their life but in their death Though they dye in Warre they shall depart in Peace Everlasting Peace shall be the Crowne of their temporall conflicts if they bee religious Davids and fight the Lords quarrell And thus I passe from David the lawfull Precedent of warre and the religious Parterne of a souldier I come now to his refusall which was not of the Action but of the Armes I cannot goe with these There is as I told you There is a necessity of arms a choice of others intimated in the refusall of these weapons whence I noted that there is both a necessity and a choice of Armes A necessity for David went not