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A08552	The Christian conflict a treatise, shewing the difficulties and duties of this conflict, with the armour, and speciall graces to be exercised by Christian souldiers. Particularly applied to magistrates, ministers, husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants. The case of vsury and depopulation, and the errours of antinomists occasionally also discussed. Preached in the lecture of Kettering in the county of Northampton, and with some enlargement published by Ioseph Bentham, rector of the Church of Broughton in the same county.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1635 (1635)	STC 1887; ESTC S113626	266,437	390

their sallies surprisalls stands and stratagems in their fighting or forbearing in their marching Z●zom Hist Eccl. lib. 6. Chap. 6. and other military proceedings Answerable hereunto was the speech of valiant Valentinian It was O you souldiers saith he in your power to choose me to governe but n●w I am chosen of you it is in my power onely to elect not in yours to choose him partner of the Empire whom you desire Moreover it is meete that you who are now subject to my governement to be quiet and for me who am Emperour to consider what is to be done Aemilius the Romane Generall likewise Car. Chro● lib. 2. said publikely to the people that had they chosen a man more fit he would have obeyed but if they would have him to bee Captaine hee desired that the army would obey him and not take the office of the Generall to themselves nor hinder him with their curiosity and fables The souldiers of Tamerlane durst not turne their backes in fight it being contrary to his leave and liking The souldiers of the famous Romane Scipio were so obsequious and obedient to him their Generall that at his wish and willing charge and commanding they would adventure upon and attempt imminent yea unconceaveable difficulties and dangers so as not onely to encounter with much hazard and little hope upon uneven and unequall termes fierce and furious foes but also violently to throw and tumble themselves from of the tops of steepe and cragg● rockes and mountaines Atto 〈…〉 s actor 〈…〉 esse 〈…〉 Spem retulit 〈…〉 plures serva 〈…〉 The Persian souldiers were so faithfull to Zerxes that many of them speedily and voluntarily cast themselves into the sea to safeguard and preserve him Hector Mochint●s●h a Scottish rebell had two hundred such faithfull Captaines that life and liberty being offered to them after their apprehension and arraignement as they were going to the gallowes conditionally that they would declare and tell where Hector was they answered they could not tell and if they could yet they would not by any paine or terrour of death bee induced to breake their faith or betray their Marian Franc. de ●●ri master Those licentious Locusts and luxurious Loyalists the Iesuites at the will and command of their barbarous and bloudy unnaturall and irreligious Superiours murther Facinus 〈◊〉 Marian. lib. 1. c. ● and massacre the Lords annointed ones Kings and Princes as a most memorable enterprise The servants of Absolom and the soulders of Abimelech do as they are directed put in execution what by them as their commanders was enjoyned Iudg. 9 49. 2 Sam. 13. 27. The young men of Ioab and Abner at their assigning and appointment arose and acted such sad and sorrowfull parts in that terrible and cruell tragedy where each man sheathed his sword in his fellowes side so that they fell downe dead together 2 Sam. 2. 16. Yea disobedience and unfaithfullnesse of souldiers to their Chiefetaines and Leaders is so odious and opprobrious so criminous and culpable that by the law of armes such are to suffer even death it selfe which hath beene executed upon delinquents not onely by renowned Commanders for faults oftentimes Knol T●rk Hist not many and meane Witnesse Charles Count Maunsfelt who in his wars against the Turkes hanged an Hungarian horseman because he refused to carry a faggot to damne up the trenches at Stragoniam a Flens Tamerlano queritur pauper●ula ma●no Vnum è militibus lac rapuisse sibi Innumer as jubet ille slatim consistere tu●mas Raptorem lactis qu crat ut illasui Intento at tetricus rescindit pectora ferro Qud justa an fuerit neone querela sciat Dick. Spec. Frag. Knols Turk Hist Moris Hist of Ireland Stowe And Tamerlane the great who put a souldier to death for stealing a little milke from a maid at her complaint contrary to his military precepts But also by enemies themselves who having made use of and taken advantage by the trecheries and treasons of such unfaithfull and fraudulent fellowes have rightly repayed them with losse of life as a condigne and convenient recompense for such false-hearted execrable and abhorred persons Witnesse the strange and dreadfull death of Nicholas Kereischen who by the commandement of Selimus was put into a hogshead of nailes with this inscription Heere receive the reward of thy avarice and treason Gynto thou hast sold for gold if thou be not faithfull to Maximilian thy Lord neither wilt thou be to me Witnesse the death of Parese foster-Foster-brother to Kildare who having the custody of Mainoth in Ireland betrayed it to Breretan for reward which was faithfully paid and then presently the untrusty traytor beheaded Canute the Dane commanded the traytor Edrike of Stroton Earle of Mercia to be put to death who by flight had purposely betrayed Edmund the King with the English into his hands according to his treacherous promise In the Barons wars against King Iohn they sent into France for Lewis the son of the French King to whom they Stowe in King Iohn joyned against their Soveraigne c. The Vicount of Melin who came with the Prince into England before his death at London told the Barons that if Lewis did get the Kingdome he would banish out of the Realme for ever all those which now doe take his part and persecute King Iohn as Traytors to their King Thomas Gourney and Iohn Maltravers the more Stowe R. 3. then barbarous murderers of Edward the second had also a condigne reward for their trechery Banister who betrayed Stowe his master the Duke of Buckingham to Richard the third His son and heire waxed mad died in a boare-stie his eldest daughter was stricken with leprosie his second son made lame his youngest drowned in a small puddle himselfe in his old age arraigned for murder and for a thousand pound promised by King Richard received not one farthing the King telling him that hee which would be so untrue to so good a master would be false to all other Worthy to this purpose is the saying of Philip King of Macedon If any Athenian living in Athens doth say that he prefers me before his countrey him verily would I buy with much money but not thinke him worthy my friendship But if any for his countrey sake shall hate me him will I impugne as a castle a strong wall and bulwarke yet admire his vertue and reckon the city happy in having such a one Bee we therefore who are the servants and souldiers of the Lord Iesus dutifull and diligent observant and obedient firme and faithfull in our generall and particular stations and standings to the precepts and prescriptions the doctrines and directions the instructions and injunctions to the royall rules and divine commandements of our Supreme Soveraigne and chiefe Commander Christ Iesus Ephes 6. 14. Stand therefore The word there used is a word of conflict implying not one onely but many and divers

his body afterward in the lowest parts a fistulous ulcer and from these a certaine raging evill feeding upon the inward bowells and a hidden multitude of wormes breaking out and breathing out a deadly stinke the whole rising of the body being changed through the abundance of meate before the disease into fatnesse which then being mattered yeelded an intollerable and horrible spectacle to those which came neare him therefore some of the Physitians not being able to indure the intollerable stinke were slaine others because the whole body being swelled there was no hope of health remaining and because they could not do any thing to heale him were also cruelty slaine At the last when he was afflicted with 〈…〉 lib 9 cap 17. ● such evills he b●gan to think what he had done causlessely against the pious worshippers of God c. Maxentius was drowned like Pharaoh and his army vanquished Euseb lib. 9. cap. 9. by Constantine Afterwards the Arrians persecution raged so through the whole Easterne parts yea the whole Romane empire especially Constantinople that scarce any bloud-thirsty Nero did exercise such cruelty as the Arrians did against Orthodoxe Christians Micrel p. 565. But behold the revenging eye of God which sent downe first of all hayle like a bowle in the greatnesse of hands like stones in hardnesse and smote many men and cattell afterwards overthrew Nicaea after that destroyed Phrygia with a very great famine and Val●ns himselfe bing wounded by the Goths in fight when he did convay himselfe into a shepheards Cottage was burnt with fire throwne in and wanted common buriall Arrius sitting to ease nature his inwards and all his bowells Russin Hist Eccl. lib. 1. cap. 13. p. 189. did run out and so in such a place he came to naught and fearefully perished with a kinde of death fitting such a blasphemous and filthy wretch Iulian the Apostata and tyrannicall persecutor of the Saints Abrah Buc●olcer p. 650. warring against the Persi●ns was wounded with a dart by a horseman or as Theodoret reports he was sound wounded uncertaine Lib. 4. cap. 25. pag. 367. whether by an Angell or man but certaine whosoever did it he was a Minister of Gods will and being thus wounded he filled his hand with bloud threw it into the ayre uttering these words O Galilaean thou hast ●v●rcome A little before the death of this bloudy wretch Libanius Iulians teacher in Paganisme scoffingly asked a Christian Schoolemaster what the Abrah Buc●ol● p. 650. Carpenters sonne was doing he answered he prepareth a coffi● for Iulian which was ●●ortly fulfilled Iulian Vnkle to the forenamed Iulian was taken with a grievous diseas● and peri●●ed his bewells rotting when the excrements were no more convayed out by their passages but that cursed mouth which had beene the instrument of blasphemy was the passage of them They report that his wife a woman singular Theod. lib. 4. cap. 13. p. 363. good in saith said to her husband It is meet O husband that thou shouldest praise Christ the Saviour who by this instruction hath sh●wed thee his power for thou didst not know against whom thou didst contend c. Felix also was assailed with a divine scourge for shedding I●id bloud night and day by his mouth when from all the parts of his body all his bloud in his body was come out of his mouth he dyed Eudoxia the Empresse of Constantinople that wretched Herodias and implacable persecutrix of renowned Chrysostome who alwaies breathed out bloud and bitternesse against him was smitten with death the fourth day after his banishment for that cause and both shee and other his enraged * Cyri●us Ars 〈…〉 5 enemies brought Gods judgements upon the city namely a fearefull hayle and themselves as a 〈…〉 li● c. 2● p. 〈…〉 Sozomen and b Li● 〈…〉 17. A●r●b B 〈…〉 p. 6●4 Socrates report Anastasius terrified with thunder and lightning running from chamber to chamber through feare was slaine by thunder and lightning Radagaisus although he had in his army above two hundred thousand Gothes yet being terrified from heaven was taken alive and slaine and that huge host miserably scattered 〈…〉 p. 655. sold or slaughtered Gundecius the Vandal was slaine by the Divell Micrel p. 567. Hunericus called sceleratissimus most wicked in whose dayes if any shall goe about to shew those things which are done in the city of Carthage he cannot shew no not the names of the torments This barbarous bloody butcher had Gods hand so A●rab B 〈…〉 ol p. 663. upon him that his body was so putrified with wormes crawling and bursting out of it that not a body but the parts of a body were buryed Attila the King of the Huns having largely drunke wine at a marriage feast in the night by bloud comming forth of his owne nostrills was choaked Id●m ib p. 661 Alboinus who vowed to root out all Christians and ragingly began to performe the same compelling his wife Rosomond being merry in Verona to drinke out of her fathers skull whom he had slaine was slaine by Helmichild perswaded ●●lyn p ●3 so to doe by Rosomond in revenge of that indignity offered to her Gilimer a bloudy parricide and cruell persecutor of the Abrah Buchol p. 667. faithfull being overcome by Bellisarius and inclosed in a hill desired a friend of his to send him a harpe a loafe and a spunge a loafe because of a long time he had not seene any baked bread a harpe to asswage his misery and a spunge to wipe away his teares De Rom● a bloudy persecutour of them of Merindol was Act. M●n the most wicked and cruell man and afflicted the poore Christians with most cruell torments that could be devised the least paine that ever he tormented any by was this to fill their bootes full of boyling grease and to cause them to be pulled on and to be hold●n before a great fire and so to end their lives whereof the King being advertised commanded that he should be cast into prison and condemned whereof he having knowledge withdrew himselfe to Avinion whereas within a short space he fell sicke of a terrible disease unknowne to any Physition extreame paines and torments were in all his body and there was no ointment nor fomentation that could ease him one minute of an hower neither was there any man that could tarry neare about him wherefore he was caried to the Hospitall and there commanded to be well intreated but no man durst come neare unto him for the great stinch that came out of his body insomuch that the flesh fell away by great peeces and gobbets his body was repleate with sores full of vermine and wormes and oftentimes in great rage he would say in what paine and torment am I now now I remember the great evills and oppressions that I have done unto the poore men and know that for that only cause I am assaild on

So that wee may groane and grieve sigh and sorrow Psal 6. 2 3 6. 13. 2. 25. 17. 22. 14. 42. 3 7 10. 38. 1. Ioel 2. 12 13. mourne and lament under the intollerable and insupportable weight and burden of the same yea this bewailing and bemoaning of our sins ought to be like the sorrowes of a woman in travaile of one lamenting the death of his mother as for the losse of a son yea an onely son Zach. 12. 10. as the lamentation of Dragons and the mourning of Ostriches Micab 1. 8. As David for his Absalom and Rahel for her children To this end 1. Recount and call to minde the number of Gods bestowed benefits to provoke and win us to obedience 2. Weigh and consider the measure greatnesse and excellency of them especially which concerne the soule 3. Marke and meditate how easily and freely they were given and granted unasked and undeserved 4. Ponder and remember upon whom they have beene conferd on us vile and miserable earth and ashes wormes and not men Psal 73. 5 6 10 11 12. who have abused and neglected the many mercies of our good God Lam. 3. 21. who have multiplyed and manifested our rebellions Ezek. 16. 20 22 40 43 61 63. who have deserved of due therefore to have direfull judgements denounced against and executed upon us Lam. 1. 8 9. 3. 19 20. Our ingratitude disobedience and offences notwithstanding such and so many mercies being great and grievous our due desert for the same the danger wherein we stand in regard of the same and the dreadfullnesse of judgements due to us should the Lord deale with us according to the same ought to breake and bruise our hard and stony hearts so as to take downe our courage and confidence our pride and presumption so as to make us meeke and mortified to drive us out of our selves to have co●fidence in God 2 Cro● 7. 13. 3. So that we may acknowledge and confesse our sins and rebellions Dan. 9. 6 7. Psal 32. 3 4. with bleeding beleeving and honest hearts Secondly In the assurance of the full and free forgivenesse of our sins as also of the procuring and obtaining of our requests so far forth as is for Gods glory Ezra 10. 3. Hope of pardon assurance of remission and obtaining of our requests being necessary companions of true humiliation 2 Chron. 20. 20. For where there is no hope to expect reconciliation with God there it will bee impossible and unprofitable to endeavour and enterprise true repentance neither can there be save a desperate aversenensse to all good and a promptnesse and prones to cry out with those Mal. 3. 14. It is in vaine to serve God Besides without this none can please God Heb. 11. 6. and whatsoever is without it is but sin Rom. 14. 23. Thirdly In a renewed resolution against all sin resigning and renouncing sin so as never to revive revoke or resume the same and so as ever hereafter to walke in newnesse of life This renovation in minding and meaning to mend our lives is of absolute necessity to accommodate and accompany a right religious fast Fasting without this being but a contaminating and counterfet hypocriticall fast neither appointed by nor approved of God Isa 58. 3 4 5 6. for the Lord chooseth commandeth and delighteth in fasting which is accompanyed with a renued life Isa 58. 6. Zach. 7. 7 9 10. Thus doing we imitate and walke after our pious patternes and predecessours the holy ones of God Ezra 9. 10. 3. c. whereas otherwise we doe but mocke God so farre forth as in us lyeth for God is not mocked Fourthly In crying mightily to God E●er 4. v. 3. Ioel 1. 14. Dan. 9. 19 wrestling with God like Iakob untill he blesse us importuning the Lord like Abraham for the Sodomites untill he heare us Nehem. 1. 5. Psalme 35. 15. Acts 9 9. 10. 30. Fifthly In pardoning and passing by forgiving and forgetting injuries and indignities against our selves Isa 58 6. Zach 7. 9 10. As also in giving gladly and bountifully to those who are in want or penury Isa 58. Acts 10. 4 30. 1. For as the Iewes had sacrifices in their fasts Zach. 7. 9. so must we namely such as are workes of mercy Phil. 4. 18. Heb. 13. 16. 2. Giving of almes-deeds workes of charity are signes At this time let us give before hand our dinner to the poore hee who fasts and gives not liberally to the poore makes his fasting a gaine for hee did not fast to please God but that hee might not spend largely saith S. Ambrose Serm. 33. and tokens of our true repentance conversion from sin turning to God of our gratitude and gladnesse for such reconciliation with God 3. These two goe hand in hand together are linkes of the same chaine inseparably united together in the sacred Scripture Act. 10. 1 4 30. 4. Except we joyne almes to fasting making the humbling of our selves a meanes to refresh and rejoyce others giving so much at the least more to the poore as we should have spent upon our owne bellies we doe but make religion a cloake to clad and cover covetousnesse To fast that wee may spare or augment our substance is not for Gods glory but for covetousnesse 5. And such fasting as the afore-named is injurious not only to the poore but also to all a mans family who gaine not by their abstinence onely the master if he doth not rightly and religiously part with and imploy so much at least as is spared to feast and foster others Sixthly In a reverend and right exercising our selves in the Word of God read and preached if it may be reading and hearing the same Neh. 8. 9. 9. 3. Ier. 36. 6. This being a meanes to moove men to repentance and humiliation of minde It is therefore most safe and seasonable The whole day is to bee spent in reading praycer c. Amb. Ser. 33. comfortable and convenient profitable and praise-worthy for such private persons who for their owne private or the publique good desire by this laudable and long continued exercise to keene and edge their devotions to give wings unto and cause their prayers to mount aloft with more fervour force and fruitfullnesse to select and set apart such daies which our Church not onely approves of but also appoints for the reading of the Word and Prayer to which enjoyned excellent exercises many preachers of good note do joyne exposition of some part of the Scriptures for by these publique ordinances they shall be much furthered and made more fervent and fertile in their intended service CHAP. XIIII Christian souldiers must follow Christ our Captaines directions standing in those stations wherein he sets us to warre this good warfare SOuldiers continually comply unto and alwaies follow the Duty 9 directions and discipline and observantly obey the charge and commandements of their Leaders and Lievetenants of their Captaines and chiefe Commanders in their retiring or rushing forward in