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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02792	The solace for the souldier and saylour contayning a discourse and apologie out of the heauenly word of God, how we are to allow, and what we are to esteeme of the valiant attempts of those noblemen and gentlemen of England, which incurre so many daungers on the seas, to cut off or abridge the proude and haughtie power of Spayne. By Simon Harward.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1592 (1592)	STC 12923; ESTC S112564	30,044	56

together for themselues which they may afterward lauish out on prodigall riot and filthinesse of life And it may be sayd of many of them as is in the Poet Nulla fides piet asque viris qui castra sequuntur Venalesque manus ibi ●as vbi manima merces No faith no godlinesse no good in those that follow Souldiers trayne They set their hands to sale for blood all's right with them that yeeldeth gayne Though I say many of them be thus prophane and wicked yet our hope is that as often heretofore so hereafter still for the good Princes sake the Lord will blesse the labours of Ioab Deus operatur per malos non in malis God worketh by the euill though not in the euill When wicked Pharao exalted godly Ioseph when Achab maintained that good Obadiah when Daniel was aduaunced by Nabuchadnezzar when many Saints were in the house of Nero GOD wrought by the hands of the wicked a benefite vnto his children he wrought by the euill but not in the euill Howsoeuer many Souldiers and Mariners haue not their affections sanctified yet those that truly feare God ought not to be discouraged but rather to striue by their godly exhortations and good examples to reforme the imperfections of them and to seeke by all meanes so to increase the number of the true repentant that for their sakes also some mercie may bee shewed to Sodome We may lawfully enioy the spoyles of the Lords enemies as did Dauid Asa and others we may also lawfully desire to maintaine our selues by our vocation as Paul sayth Who goeth at any time to warfare on his owne cost But our chiefest intent and purpose ought to be to promote the glorie of God to doe good and acceptable seruice to our gracious Soueraigne to procure peace vnto Sion to break or weaken the power of Antichrist to turne aside that course of the Indian fountaine of gold the nurse of all those warres and troubles that are now amongst our neighbours and confederates in France and Flanders to take the sworde out of the mad mans hand and to plucke downe that lustie Nimrod that so eagerly hunteth for the kingdomes of the whole earth which affections if we cary then no doubt the Lorde will so blesse our labours that liuing we shall be most profitable mēbers of our Christian common wealth and if death doe take vs away we are assured that ending our liues either in or for the faith of Iesus Christ we shall be partakers of a farre more blessed estate in the world to come euen of that immortall crowne of glory which Christ Iesus hath prepared to al that loue him and to those that for his sake haue not loued their liues vnto death God saue and preserue our most noble Soueraigne Lady Queene ELIZABETH and grant vnto her many ioyfull and happy yeares GOD gouerne all her Maiesties most honourable priuie counsaile with the grace of his holy spirit God preserue amongst vs the ministerie of his holy worde and continue his Gospel and truth to vs and to our posteritie for euermore God defend the Realmes of England Ireland from all daungers of their enemies as well forraine as domesticall God blesse and prosper all her Maiesties forces and munitions as well by sea as by land God conuert the hearts or confound the practises of all her aduersaries God breake the power of Antichrist giue an vtter ouerthrow vnto all his sworn souldiers and namely the Spaniard euen GOD for his Sonne Christ Iesus sake happily and speedily confound him that he neuer may bee able to lift vp himselfe against the Lord and against his annointed and let all English hearts that doe feare GOD and loue his truth euen heartily and faithfully say Amen Amen Imperet viuat regnet vincatque triumphet Emineat vigeat floreat Elisabeth A Prayer for the Souldier and Saylour in time of seruice O Most mercifull God and gracious father we humbly praise thy glorious name for all thy vnspeakeable mercies which of thy bountifull goodnes thou hast hitherto vouchsafed to bestow vpon vs thy poore and vnworthie seruants as well on our soules as on our bodies and namely for that thou hast not onely allotted vnto vs thus to be daylie sustained by a lawfull vocation agreeable to thy blessed ordinance but also doest mercifully preserue vs in the same from all those dangers which in thy iudgement thou mightest iustly lay vpon vs and into which others of our brethren oftentimes haue fallen O Lord we haue heard of and partly seene and knowne of diuers whom thou hast suffered to be ouerwhelmed with tempestuous winds in the gulfes of the outragious seas others pinched with extreame famine and penurie others taken captiues led to most miserable thraldome others brought to their end by loathsome diseases and sundrie kindes of death We acknowledge O Lord that our sinnes are as huge as theirs and our iniquities as grieuous Those Galilaeans whose blood Pilate spilt and those eighteene on whom the tower of Silo fell were not greater sinners then the rest in Israel and those on whom in our time thou hast shewed thy heauie iudgements seeing that we haue followed them and ouertaken them in their sinnes we had deserued rather to haue been made examples vnto them then they vnto vs. But it is thy mercie good Lord thus to spare vs to giue vs a larger time of repentance We confesse our selues O blessed father to be vnworthie the least of all thy benefites if we consider our owne deseruings we haue so manifold waies transgressed thy most holy commandements by our vncleane thoughts by our vngodly words by our vnrighteous deedes that wee are not onely become worthie to be depriued of all thy gracious benefites and blessings but also we haue deserued to haue all thy iudgements in full measure to be powred vpon vs not onely in this world but also in the world to come But O Lord we appeale to thy throne of mercie beseeching thee to looke vpon vs not as we are in our selues polluted stayned with sinne and wickednesse but to behold vs in the face and person and obedience of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ accepting his death and passion as a full recompence for all our transgressions Good Lord clothe vs with his righteousnes ingraft vs truely as liuely members of his bodie and for his sake continue all thy mercies and louing kindnes which so many waies we haue tasted of from our tender youth vntil this present day O Lord increase our faith daylie more and more grant that we may be fully perswaded of thine eternal election that thou good Lord of thy infinite fauour goodnes hast elected and chosen vs to be saued before the foundation of the world was layd giue vs that applying faith whereby we may be assured that we are of the number of them for whom Christ dyed vpon the Crosse giue vs that iustifying faith whereby thy