we shall bee O pinion of the minde are like diseases of the body all alike infinite V iolent passions makes men bandy controversies who fight with their Pens like Souldiers with their Pikes wounding the peace of the Church R eligion is more practicall then theoriticall rather an occupation then a meer profession dwelling like an Artizan wit at singers end O ne man is an Atheist and beleeves no God another is an I dolater and worships many one will be of a new Religion another of none no matter to the Devill they are both travelling towards his kingdome Roome never means us so sudden a storm as when she makes faire weather and beares us in hand all is peace D ogs are fawning but sicophantising Iesuits are worse for their tongues doe more harme then their teeth E very man that will not adhere to the God of truth shall be turned over to the faither of lies R esist the Devill and he will flye from thee give to God obedience to thy Prince allegiance to superiours reverence to the weak assistance to the Devill and sin resistance O ur day is broken why day we sleep in sin when the Sunne is up good husbands thinke of rising the slumber of the body and the soul is not much unlike R epent therefore in life that thou maiest finde comfort in death that thou maiest be acquitted at the day of judgement of Jesus Christ O ur entrance into this world is full of weaknesse our proceeding full of wickednesse our departure full of wretchednesse P ray that you may leave the earth when you know the way perfectly to heaven desire to live till you are inspired by grace desire to dye when you are assured of glory E very man with Paul learne to dye daily for no man knows when he shall dye therefore be evermore armed with expectation N ever expect peace without Christ whosoever dyes in peace dyes in Christ the Prince of peace O ur breath is in our bodies the life of our soules is in heaven our bodies move upon earth let our heart dwell in heaven R ighteousnesse must dwell in those that looke to dwell in heaven where righteousnesse dwelleth for Christ is the Lord of righteousnesse D eath takes the clocke of our life asunder but then the omnipotent Maker takes it into his owne hand and sets it together againe at the Resurrection E nquire not what heaven is too curiously lest thou have a snib as Manoah had for asking the Angels name it is secret and wonderfull R emember Gods mercies and blessings to us in all times of this pilgrimage and he will hear us when we pray with the penitent theefe Lordremember us in thy Kingdome Silence STand right in your Files Stand right in your Rankes To the right hand As you were To the left hand As you were To the right hand about As you were To the left hand about As you were Rankes to the right hand double As you were Rankes to the left hand double As you were Files to the right hand double As you were Files to the left hand double As you were Halfe Files to the right hand double your Front As you were Halfe Files to the left hand double your Front You may doe the same by bringers up or leave it our To the right hand Countermarch To the left hand Countermarch Files to the right or left or to the Center Close to your order or close order Rankes close forward to your order or close order To the right hand wheel To the left hand wheel To the right or left hand wheel about Rankes open backward to your order open order or double distance Files to the right or left or from the Center open to your order or open order In distances observe if you open from the right to the left that the left hand man next to the right hand man is to take his distance from the said right hand man first and so every man on the left hand successively one alter another be in any of the distances of close order order open order or double distance If in Ranks the first standing the second opens backwards to either of the distances above said and not forwards in closing of Ranks it is to be done forwards and not backwards all moving together saving the first Ranks In facings you are to be sure to keepe your left foot on the groundâ—s in doublings if you come up to the right turne off to the left and so alway to the contrary hand In wheelings if you close to the left then wheel to the right or if you close to the right wheel to the left or you may wheel upon the Center According to my intended purpose I shall adde to the exercise of the Pike and Musket in the briefest manner being only what shall belong to present service and first for the Pike in all standing postures of the Pike keep your left foot fast fixt upon the ground in all marching postures move with the left foot advancing forward 1 Advance your Pikes 2 Order your Pikes 3 Shoulder your Pikes 4 Port your Pikes 5 Advance your Pikes 6 Shoulder your Pikes 7 Traile your Pikes 8 Cheeke your Pikes 9 Charge your Pikes 10 Shoulder your Pikes 11 Charge to the Front Reare right or left 12 Shoulder your Pikes 13 Advance your Pikes 14 Or order your Pikes 15 Charge to the horse and draw your sword any of the foure wayes For the Musket standing or marching First your Musket not being charged without a Rest supposing alwayes your left hand to be your Rest 1 Slip your Muskes 2 Poyse your Muskes 3 Bring her to your Rest 4 Open your Pan. 5 Clear your Pan. 6 Prime your Pan. 7 Shut your Pan. 8 Cast off 9 Blow cast about and 10 Charge 11 Draw out your scourer 12 Shorten your scourer 13 Put in your bullet 14 Ram your scourer 15 Draw out your scourer 16 Shorten your scourer 17 Put up your scourer 18 Recover 19 Poyse 20 Shoulder 21 Slope 22 Slip. 23 Poyse 24 Bring to your Rest 25 Draw forth your Match 26 Blow 27 Cock 28 Try 29 Guard your Pan. 30 Blow 31 Open. 32 Present 33 Give fire 34 Returne your match 35 Clear your pan and so charge again as is taught All these in service are reduced into these three words Make ready With these two added either Shoulder your Muskets Present Or Give fire Order your Muskets T he postures of arming and disarming according to my intention of brevity is needlesse to be here inserted they having been sufficiently written of by your Trained Band teachers I shall but only present you further with what firings are necessary for our present service out of a single Company or Regiment wishing heartily all noble Captaines and their officers would conforme themselves to these brief rules using no other words of Command then what are here used Y our single Company being drawne up Regiment wise at three foot distance being your order and your Pikes all shouldered the manner of firing to the Front is first let the two first Ranks making ready advance 8 or 10 paces from the Body the rest of the Ranks marching to the front of Pikes which two Ranks having presented and fired one after another let them march off to the right and left hand the next two ranks doing the same with the rest successively as long as you please when you draw near to your Enemy or by way of supposition charge over your Pikes three ranks deep and the rest ported following the charge T o fire from the reare first command your Body to advance their Pikes then face them about to the right or left and then shoulder your Pikes againe moving your Body command the two last Ranks to make ready being ready command the last Ranke to the Rear present who is to turn to the right hand and give fire and so turning up to the right and left advanceth into Front placing themselves before their Leaders the rest of the Ranks doing the same successively one after another T o fire from your right and left stanks command the right and left hand file to make ready which done marching your Body command them to present to the right and left and so give fire which being done let the files stand and charge their Muskets again by which time the two next files wil have performed the like who are also in like manner to stand facing toward their Commander and the first file is immediately to march up to the second the next files having done the like are to stand the first and second file advancing up to them and so of all the rest successively making up your Body again with all speed that may be T here is sometimes another firing used standing whereby an Enemy may receive suddenly a very hot charge when you are retreating command your Body to face about to the right or left and then let them all make ready which done standing let the first Ranke fire and fall off into the Reare and so the rest of them in like maner successively one after another your Pikes retreating back as your body loseth ground Y ou are to use your endeavour to bring your souldiers to know the severall notes of a Drum and what he is to performe upon the hearing of them your Pikemen being to be shouldered upon the beat of a march and advanced upon the beat of a troop This thing perfected will be sufficient for our present service to which God give 〈◊〉 FINIS
healthfull or languishing R epentance neglected is the despising of Gods goodnesse and will cause war to fill our streets and fields with blood E ven Gods long-suffering is an affoordment of time to repent and is a favour not mans but Gods not a common grace but a speciall fruit of his goodnesse T here is great need of mourning where sin is great for heavy judgements will not be turned away without deep sorrows O ur sinnes deserve destruction our repentance is no satisfaction it is only Gods mercy in Christ that gives absolution T he greater the corruption the vaster the destruction but if we be found in the faith there is no end of blessednesse H ee that lookes outward upon some eminent and notorious sinner concluding he is in the plague of our Nation is a vaine man looke inward there is an Achan in thine owne bosome E very sin is mighty therefore our repentance must be more hearty or else expect not the removing of calamity L ittle pleasure doth the Father of all mercies take in the death of a sinner ere David could see the Angell he had restrained him E very man censures none amends nay all grow worse therefore vain man apprehend condemne and execute thine owne sin F east drinke carouse and play when so many hearts are bleeding is the signe of a desperate soule that can rejoyce and be merry when God shews himselfe angry T he content hath corrupted the continent mens sinnes have infected the whole world as the plague in persons infect thâ—â—ery walls of a house H ee that wounds the truth by his sinnes which God hath sent to save his soule no wonder if he perish by her forsaking kim that hath lost himself by forsaking her A s no importunity can delay Gods judgements no secresie avoid it no policie corrupt it so nothing but sanctification can give us comfort in it N oah preached much the World was warned so patient is God that if sin were not desperate it should not smart D educt our owne evills from the evills of these dayes and then God the land and our owne consciences shall finde the lesse A s Gods mercy hath her day in giving time of repentance so justice shall have her day of retribution S atan would have all perish the infinite goodnesse of God would have all blessed their names will fit in our language good and God evill and Devill Y f a whole Nation apostate to lewdnesse and there be none to stop the course how should it stand an houre O h England prepare to meet thy God for although he be offended with the whole Land yet there be some that he will owne U niversall judgements call for universall repentance our Land mournes yet some feel not the sharp wound of that hungry sword W hen man turnes himselfe out of Gods service all the creatures serving him are as it were turned out of his service E very man pray heartily that the Lord destroy us not let our sins be lesse and our prayers more that we may sinde mercy R un not on in sin till thou meet with unexpected mercy for thou maiest as well spur thy beast till he speake because Balaam did so E xcept we love our owne lusts and vanities more then the wellfare of a whole Land let us confesse and redresse our sins T he wrath of a King is a fright we feare an ague wonder at a comet and tremble at thunder but fear not the Commander of all these O ur fathers were more devout then we for they did but what they heard though it were but the devices of men we heare and doe not though it be the Word of God T hat heart is hard frozen that nothing but hell fire can thaw beware of such a heart H ee that laughs at the memoriall of his sins shall weep tears of bloud for those sins E liphants will be ruled and led about by little dwarfs but man is an indomable creature aâ—â— forsees not the judgements of God R eligion made a staâ—king horse for policie is odious and of all men the religious dissembler shall be sure of plagues I n vaine doe men speake well of us when no man knowes good by us G od is just he hath many wayes to punish us we have none to escape him H ee loves not the Lord that will not suffer for him be patient therefore unto his comming T he glosse of profession will off in a storme and unlesse we be dyed in graine we never hold grace H ee will hardly brooke wounds that cannot endure wounds for the cause of our Saviour A true Christian may live without doing wrong but not without receiving wrong N o walking to heaven upon roses God put his children into the way of discipline by the fire of correction to eat out the rust of our corruption D eceits are most abominable when we shrowd them under the name of Religion nor is there any such Devill as he that lookes like an Angell A true Christian is like Jacobs ladder while his body the lower part stands on the ground the top his higher part is in heaven B ee not devout in a storme and stormy in a calme like Mariners on land who imitate the rage of the Seas and roar here as fast as they doe there O ur faire shewes are a just argument of our unsoundnesse no naturall face hath so faire a white and cleare a red as that which is painted V aine glory swells men with rank opinions of their owne worth mighty are their words as if they shooke mountaines and spake thunderclaps T he tongue that yeelds not defence when Gods glory is in question is tyed by the Devill and not loosed by God A wise man wil not be scoffed out of his mony nor a just man out of his faith S ome men may be stored with some acts of patience but what are they amongst so many troubles yet if patience be with us we are all safe Y f we had before we went about our warlike affaires penitently cleansed our hearts we might have expected better successe O ne lust fights against another both against the soule they made one soul against another and many soules fight against God U nnaturall coldnesse in some and preternatuall heat in others hath set us together by the eares about trifles while the common enemy breaks in W oolfe and woolfe can agree lambe and lambe fall not out but who can reconcile the woolfe to the lambe but Christ Jesus E very day it is the Devills policie to assault the best the multitude hee knows will follow after for the unstable vulgâ—â— are soon carried away with the religion of authority R ooms Schoolmen have invented a doctrine of fables cunningly devised and the Friers had crotchets enough but the Jesuit put downe all E very bad King hurts much by his unjust commands but more by their examples for the Common wealth like a fish rots first at
in baptisme forbids it L ooke to the innumerable savours where with God hath blessed us graced and honoured us and we shall find them sufficient to oblige us to obedience E ither the name of Saviour in our salvation or the name of Judge in our confusion some way this honourable name will strike upon us F eare God more and we shall feare all other things lesse turne all thy feare into the feare of God for he will honour them that honour him T ill we have put our sins to the worst we shall never get the better of our enemies for God will not be wanting to us if we be not wanting to him and our selves W hen rebellions abound punishments are full of variety God destroyed Corah by fire the Canaanites by the sword the whole earth by water H ee little loves Christ that will not love him without company and his zeale is cold to heaven whom the example of numbers can turn away E very true childe is obedient and will follow his fathers directions then if we follow not God we are bastards E very promise of God is a cordiall able to fetch backe a swooning soule there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ is a sweet cordiall L et every Christian soule on the holy feet of faith and obedience travell towards Jerusalem then Christ will say thou shalt have my company E arth is more honourable and brave in the spectators then in the spectacle but the glory of new Jerusalem the splendor of righteousnesse is farre more honourable A s a traveller passeth from Towne to Towne till he come to his Inne so the Christian from Grace to Grace till he come to Heaven B lessed is that man that is holy nothing can make that man poore for he graceth all conditions honours and places O ne grace opens the doore for another for God is never weary of blessing where he hath once begun V ivification and living unto grace comes only by mortification and dying unto sinne for by the death of the body comes the life of glory T here is nothing for which Christ will reward us but that whereby his glory is the greater for us such as in great tribulations confesse him R eprobates and wicked men if their bodies were like their soules they would grovell like beasts A s God shews mercy to some in their salvation so it is fit he should shew justice upon others in their damnation N othing can defend against the arrows of God neither are the strongest Cities shot-proofe for things ordained for refuge are by his justice made destructive K nowledge neglected brings great judgements for he that cloaks error with ignorance binds two sins together and receives double vengeance S innes of ignorance stand in need of mercy but what cloake is long enough to cover sinnes against knowledge O f servants they are in worst case that are sold but worse that do service in prison worst of all bound in fetters such is the condition of the ungodly P estilence should not be more avoided then the conversation of the mis-religious or openly prophane E xpiation was offered for the world and offered to the world but those that are blessed by it are separated from the world N othing so sure as there shall be a judgement such as is the conscience such shall be the sentence B oasting of sin when it is done doubles the lewdnesse wicked men glory in that which shall everlastingly cast them from glory A Canon doth not so much hurt from a wall as a myne under the wall nor a thousand enemies that threaten so much as a few that take an oath to say nothing C hristianity is become the footstoole of policie and hath made bargaines with the World for universall Monarchy Religion being but the labell to that Indenture K nowledge is not wholly exercised with good nor wholly taken up with evill but it knows both good and evill thus man thought to have become like God and became indeed like the Devill W ee know Christ to be the best Counsellour therefore undertake nothing without consulting at his Oracle A whole garment is more hand some then a broken one but a broken heart is more pleasing to God then a whole heart R epentace is the necessary way to salvation it is the will of God that none should perish yet withall it is his will that all shall perish except they repent D estruction would not fall upon the wicked unlesse they first by their wickednesse bring it upon themselves O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self T he imitaters of evill deserve punishment the abetters more but there is no hell deep enough for the leaders of wickednesse O ur owne feet carrie us to sin we love the journey our affections seduce us and so have been our undoing Y f there will come no period to the rebellion of the wicked till they sinke downe to hell yet for shame know no date of thy obedience till thou come up to heaven O f all victories love is the greatest to overcome evill with good is to be like God whose Image we beare in our creation and to whose Image we are restored in our redemption U pright justice is without equivocation it seeks not to obey God for mans sake but man for Gods sake it obeyes men but never against God R ighteousnesse and all happinesse is in the will of God to his creature for holinesse is the daughter of repenance O ur persons are justified by our faith our faith is justified by our charity our charity by the actions of a holy life R emember that there is nothing that makes a man so unlike to God as a hard heart without pity without patience D iligence and patience with painfulnesse are good but it is the sincerenesse of the heart that commends the rest E very Christian souldiers scutchion must be patience and his motto I serve Angells are glad of this title R emember the end is neare thy end nearer whether the end of this shall not be the end of all thy dayes thou hast no assurance to day then heare his voice repent one day before thy last day O ld age were better gather grace for themselves then goods for their posterity for it is their last time of gathering R eward belongs to labourers not loyterers the Crowne is laid up not for cowards but for Conquerers O into what infortunate times are we fallen when all our wrongs must be answered in blood P ray and repent repent and pray joyne with them abstinence adde to them three patience faith obedience and amendment of life and the Lord our God will deliver us E very man kisse that hand that strikes us love God that crosseth us and trust in that power that kills us this is the honorable proof of a Christian N o man is the worse for his repentant grief if the evill do come its labour well spent if not its a labour well