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A95610	The souldiers commission, charge, & revvard both of the deceitfull and negligent, and the faithfull & diligent in the Lords work. Opened in a sermon preached in Christ-Church Dublin, May 14. 1642. Before the state and chief of the Army, upon occasion of the interring of Sir Charles Coote knight, and one of the honourable Privy Council in Ireland. By Faithfull Teate D.D. then lecturer there, now preacher of the gospel in East-Greenwich in Kent.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1658 (1658)	Wing T616; ESTC R232310	29,273	35

your selves and towards all men wrong no innocent person in the least matter Let the ends which you propound to your selves be the glory of God the punishment of enormous offenders the preservation of good men in their lives and estates and the happy restauration of peace in the Church and Common-wealth And as many as walk according to these Rules peace be upon them and upon the Israel of God They shall be blessed in this life in their souls bodies undertakings and posterities and in the life to come Christian Souldiers we seek not to bring you into a fools paradise as * So Pope Nicolas the first in his rescripts l. concilior tō 3. Quisquis in hoc belli certamine fideliter mortuus fuerit illi regna coelestia minime negabuntur some Popes have used to do their Proselites by promising them heaven who should wage their wars strenuously as if heaven were at their disposing but the Lord himself who hath all power in heaven and earth whose servants you are shall blesse you He hath cursed your enemies already as you have heard and as they have begun to fall they shall fall before you but you shall remain blessings even to others of your own Nation and Religion yea all the congregations of the Saints shall blesse you and God for you As Melchizedek Priest of the most high God met Abram when he returned from that famous service the slaughter of the five Kings who had before taken his Nephew Lot prisoner and spoiled all the countries round about Gen. 14 19 20. and blessed him saying blessed be Abram of the most high God possessour of heaven and earth and blessed be the most high God which hath delivered thine enemies into thine hand Thus Deborah and Barak having brought in the Angel of the Lord charging all the world to curse Meroz yea and again to curse bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the Lord against the mighty And justly they deserved this curse this double curse for if they be accursed in my Text that do the Lords work when they perform it negligently how much more cursed shall they be who will do nothing at all for God or for his cause and people Then they pronounce blessings upon Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite for her manful executing of Sisera Judg. 5.23 24. Saying Blessed shall she be above women and again Blessed shall she be above women in the tent where the Blessing is doubled as was the Curse before And hence observe with me in the last place that we read of two women in Scripture who are pronounced blessed above women the one is in the New Testament the Virgin Mary the mother of our Lord for bringing forth a Saviour into the world the other in the Old Testament namely this Jael for smiting dead that cursed enemy of Gods Church Sisera And this brings me vice Coronidis to speak somthing of this deceased and blessed Knight whose Obsequies we are met to solemnize at this time The Testimony given to Sr CHARLES COOTE who died Honourably in the Churches his Countries service and with exceeding great Lamentation was Interred in Christ-Church Dublin the 14th day of May 1642. Worthy and Christian Auditors THe time being far spent I shall utter but little of that which might be spoken of this renowned and blessed instrument of Gods Glory and his Nations good who was well known to us all to be faithful till death in the Lords work and in his life a true mirrour of Piety Prowesse and Prudence and infatigable Industry both in times of peace and of war Before these commotions in Ireland began it pleased the Lord to visit him with sicknesse and to convince him of his sins after his recovery he sent for some spiritual Physitians to whom ingenuously he opened the estate of his soul and took their counsel what he might do to procure pardon and reconciliation with God heedfully observing what was sayd and carefully making use of it afterwards I doubt not to his everlasting good For ever since he hath been observed to be a very due resorter to publick ordinances and a large contributer towards their maintenance having in high esteem the faithful messengers of Jesus Christ and expressing singular affection to the generation of Gods people He was like Cornelius the Centurion frequent in prayer abundant in alms-deeds His prowesse rendred him terrible to our enemies round about and the Lord of Hosts made him successefull for as David said of Jonathan 2 Sam. 1.22 From the blood of the slain and from the fat of the mighty his sword returned not empty His rare dexterity in animating the Souldier his winning demeanour affable and seasonable speeches and his prudent ordering of his affairs made him great among his people Est 10.3 and accepted with Mordecai of the multitude of his brethren for they all saw he sought the welfare of his Nation and put his life in his hand to procure their safety Fines Morison He was a man of war from his youth The Irish Chronicle relateth he came hither a Captain in Q. Elizabeths wars Anno 1601. Sept. 4. And did memorable exploits against Tirone and his complices As the Lord made him instrumental to introduce peace so he was vigilant to preserve it afterwards Many combinations of theevish Crews and trayterous conspiracies in the Province of Connaght and Confines of Ulster hath he dissipated making some most notorious offenders exemplary to the terror of the rest Job 29 12.13 14. On the other side delivering the poor innocent from such as were too strong for them He brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of their teeth The blessing of them that were ready to perish came upon him and he caused the strangers heart to sing for joy He put on righteousnesse and it clothed him and his judgment was as a robe and diadem Many years together did he shine as an eminent Star in our Horizon nothing danted with false aspersions of some Maximus Serm. 54. In sole ambulantes necessariò umbra sequitur in honore dignitate viventes invidia comitatur or foolish credulity of others for he knew that as the shadow follows the body walking in the Sun so doth envy attend worth and vertue Since this new eruption of war he only was left of all the ancient worthies in the former wars of Ireland whom time either hath worn out or disabled for this work but the Lord renewed his strength as the Eagles when hearing the rufull out-cries and beholding the prodigious miseries of our stript English which surpasse all expression he was exceedingly moved in his spirit and prayed the Lord to endue him with strength from above that he might be able before he died to give three or four defeats to the authours of the great indignities and numberlesse sufferings of an helplesse people This prayer the Lord condescended to for

allowing of war as the Old Testament doth that Christ flatly forbids it Matth. 26.52 where he bids Peter Put up thy sword and renders this reason for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword Ans Ans Though in this case our Saviour forbids Peter to make use of the sword and in him all others without a due calling thereto yet * Aug. contra Faust Nulla ergo inconstantia praecipientis sed ratione dispensantis temporum diversitate praecepta vet consitia vel perm ssa mutantur elsewhere this Prince of peace doth allow his Apostles and in them all others upon just occasions to buy and consequently to use the sword as you may reade in the Gospel of Luke 22.36 He that hath no sword let him saith he sell his garment and buy one Which cannot be understood of any spiritual sword as some would fain pretend being otherwise unable to evade this clear Text For what spiritual sword can the price of a mans garment purchase and what got Simon Magus but a curse for offering the Apostles money for the gift of conferring the holy Ghost in Acts 8.19 20. when Peter said unto him Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money Another Gospel proof we have in Rom. 13.4 where the Magistrate is said not to bear the sword in vain and therefore evil doers should be afraid for he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon malefactors and for that end if they become numerous * Ames l. 5. De consci c. 33. Sect. 9. he may and ought to levy and prosecute war against them till they be subdued Take a third that so by the mouth of two or three witnesses this truth may be so confirmed that none that have understanding may scruple at it any more In Revel 12.7 8. we have war in heaven that is the Church Michael and his Angels Constantine with his souldiers fighting and prevailing against the Dragon in the persecuting Emperors Maxentius Maximinus and Licinius his instruments Again Revel 17.14 we finde the Lamb Christ Jesus making war with and overcoming the Beast and the Saints on the Lambs side are said to be called and chosen and faithfull 3. Lastly in Rev. 19.11 12 14. the Lord Christ there termed the Word of God is brought in upon a white horse having his vesture dipt in blood to shew the exceeding great slaughter of his foes both past and future with his Armies following him who are said to be in heaven because the people of God have their conversation there and these joyn in battel with Antichrist and the Kings of the earth and their Armies and vanquish them Now what better service can the devil possibly devise to do his eldest son Antichrist aliàs the Pope then to perswade Christians that they ought not to fight or at least not for Religion since he full well knows that these are they that must give him his mortall blow Vse 2 Souldiers being thus informed of the lawfulnesse of a just war must learn in the next place that Gods work must be performed in a * Dionys Carthus q. d. Maledicetur exercitus Chaldaeorum si punitionem Moabitarum juxta Dei voluntatem non adimpleverit nec tamen id faciendo benedicti fuerunt quia non recta id intentione egerunt sed animo cupido atque crud●li right manner or else suppose the work be Gods yet the party shall be accursed that doth it negligently or deceitfully as my Text affirms Would you then be partakers of the benefit of Solomons prayer in 2 Chron. 6.34 35. it is not enough to be of the number of Gods people nor to go out to war against Gods enemies but you must also go by the way which God shall send you and then you may be certain that he will hear from the heavens your prayer and maintain your cause Would you be crowned then must you strive lawfully 2 Tim. 2.5 Aquinas extracteth out of divers parts of Augustines works some Rules for direction in this way But I shall acquaint you with what the great General of all Armies requireth of you as you may readily find with me if you consult with his holy Word Direct 1 1. He that goeth to war must be sure that the cause which he undertaketh is just For 1. Otherwise it cannot be the Lords work who is a God that takes no pleasure in wickednesse Psal 5.4 2. How can they that take an evil cause in hand pray to God with confidence for good successe or expect a blessing upon their enterprizes since they fight against God Acts 5.39 3. He that knows he is upon good ground fights manfully and embraceth even death undauntedly whereas on the other side consciousnesse of an evil cause emasculates the spirits and rendreth death extreamly dreadfull Prov. 28.1 The wicked flee when none pursue Propert. l. 4. c. 6. but the righteous are bold as a lion Frangit attollit vires in mili●e causa 4. If the parties who either raise or endeavour to maintain an unjust war be therein slain their blood shall be on their own heads or if they kill others they become murderers in the sight of God Yea let all Incendiaries Ringleaders ☜ and fomenters of unlawfull wars know that they are * J Lipsius Multae bodiè sunt bellorum faces utinam vel aquis Stygiis resting uendae de Militia Rom. l. 2. dial 7. guilty of all the slaughters rapes rapines burnings and outrages which be committed ab ovo ad malum in such combustions and one day shall answer for them and yet more if ye will believe the Judge himself upon such shall come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the last believers blood whose death was procured or occasioned by them Mat. 23.34 35. For which cause it is truly affirmed that in spiritual Babylon will be found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain upon the earth for righteousnesse sake Revel 18.24 because modern persecutors justifie all that their forefathers Mat. 23.31 as our Saviour calleth precedent murtherers of Saints and Prophets have done by the like facts Direct 2 2. A souldier being a minister imployed by authority for the execution of justice upon malefactors Aug in Psa 50. Ille Justus punitor qui non habet quod in ipso puniatur that cannot otherwise be restrained ought to repent of his own sins before he be fit to punish others for their offences For want of this the children of Israel though their cause were just fell twice before the Benjamites Judg. 20.21 For he that judgeth another and doth the same things condemneth himself Theophyl Videtur hic sermonem dirigere ad magistratus praecipue Romanos ut qui orbi terrarum praesiderent Magistratuum enim est judicare and shall no waies escape the

all other Heb. 12.25 2. The New Testament condemneth making leagues with Idolaters as much as the old Read 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16. 3. The Gospel no waies protecteth wilfull murtherers but calleth for justice upon them as the Law requireth Mat. 26.52 and Revel 13.10 They that take the sword saith our Saviour shall perish by the sword he that killeth with the sword saith his Apostle John must be killed with the sword and yet the worst is behind for after this life ended both Murtherers and Idolaters shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21.8 And is not all this new Testament Obj. But you are Ministers of the Gospel of peace you should preach peace bloody preaching and bloody praying should be far from you Ans Parcius ista viris Shall you plead for rebels and murtherers and condemn us for crying out for justice to the righteous Judge and his substitutes 2. Do we pray any otherwise than the soules under the Altar even of them that were slain for the word of God did who cryed with a loud voice saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Rev. 6.10 And although you condemn these our prayers our Lord Jesus assureth us that his father will hear them Luk. 18.6 Where he is pleased to demand both of you and us Shall not God avenge his owne elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily Obj. 4. But the seven Nations are expresly nominated whom God enjoyneth Israel to destroy Deut. 7.2 You have no such particular rule Ans You have heard Christs expresse Command that all that take the sword shall perish by the sword and a particular rule is given how Anti-Christ is to be dealt with in Rev. 18.6 Reward her as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works See then what these Popish conspirators Anti-Christs limbs have done to the Protestants being instigated thereunto by Romes Emissaries Priests Friers and Jesuits you may do the like to them yea it is just to render to them double for God hath so commanded it should be Obj. But what if they had the Kings Commission for what they did Ans So they pretended * Sr Phelim Oneale at his execution confess'd that they gave out at their first rising they had the Kings cōmission for what they did but took it upon his death it was false for their owne excuse But were it so indeed Had not Doeg I pray you the Kings command to smite Ahimelech with the City of the Priests 1 Sam. 22.18 The King said to Doeg turn thou and fall upon the Priests And Doeg the Edomite fell on the Priests and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linnen Ephod yet because this was unjustly done the Kings warrant would not excuse him but the Prophet threateneth him in the name of the Lord Psal 52.5 saying God shall likewise destroy thee for ever he shall take thee away and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living Selah Obj. But Doeg exceeded his Commission for he smote not the Priests alone with the edge of the sword but men and women also children and sucklings and Oxen and asses and sheep and therefore was he thus punished Ans Did Doeg exceed his Commission therein also have these Irish Edomites exceeded him their little finger hath been heavier than his loins and therefore must expect a farre heavier punishment 2. He destroyed only the City Nob they left but few undestroyed in the whole Land and their intent was if their design had proceeded in surprizing this City of Dublin and the Castle to have left in this land not one man woman or child of our Religion alive Remember O Lord these children of Edom who cryed in the day of our Jerusalem rase it rase it even to the ground Aug. de civit Dei l. 1. c. 7. Quòd innsitatâ rerumfacie immanitas barbara mitior apparuit ut quidam parcetentur hoc Christi nomini tribuendum Absit ☞ Ut prudens quis quam hoc feritati imputet ●arb●●orum Obj. 7. If they had been so savage and mercilesse as you would render them they might have destroyed many more when they had them in their hands who yet survive Ans Blessed be the Lord whose hook was in their nostrils to preserve a remnant alive as it is this day but sure we are the tender mercies of the wicked were cruel for when some being stripped in frost and snow others being wounded also thought it impossible to travel 40 or 50 miles in that case and so chose death rather than life these Hamans usual answer was no they would not shew them so much favour as to kill them for then they should put them too soon out of their pain whereas on the other side if they perceived any to be fearful of death and to beg for life such they cut off incontinently no intreaties would prevail Call you this pity in requitall whereof a Cessation should be granted them upon their first demand My Lords till meer necessity enforced them they never sought it when any advantage shall be given them they will never keep it Sad experiments of their former perfidiousnesse from every quarter can witnesse this Say unto them therefore as Jehu did to Jehoram what have you to do with peace so long as your wilful murthers and execrable blasphemies remain blood defileth the land and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it Numb 35.33 Now the Lord hath armed you with power put on Davids resolution and say we will early destroy all the wicked of the land Psa 101.8 He that should punish capital offenders and doth not when he may * Corn. à Lapide in locum is as guilty before the Lord as if he himselfe had perpetrated all that they have done * Plutarch in Lacon moral Hoc est sceleratos ad malcsicia armare Nazianzen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yea more he shall be guilty of all the wickednesse that ever afterwards they shall commit I have read how a King of France complained that one man had been pardoned twice for murther and yet he had slain a third man his jester standing by sayd to the King nay my Liege he killed but one and you slew the other two for if you had caused him to have been executed for the first fact * Si primum non condonasses reliqua non perpetresset erat Ludovic XI rex Franciae he had never lived to have committed the second and third So may I say to you some of these Rebels and more of their ancestors have rebelled thrice within these 47 years space had they then

received condign punishments according to their just demerits these mischiefs had not now issued from them No marvel then that the curse denounced against all partial indulgent and deceitful workers in this particular be doubled in my text Cursed be he that doth the Lords work negligently and again Cursed be he that keepeth his sword from blood where the ingemination denoteth four things 1. The suddennesse of the curse 2. The certainty 3. The greatnesse and 4. the continuance of it q. d. If you dally and delay in so weighty a businesse God will not dally or delay with you if you deal doubly with him he will send a double curse upon you if you sleight his work of doing justice heavy judgments shall light upon you either deal truly with him this once or he will never trust you more if you favour his enemies his fierce and durable plagues shall fall upon you and your friends like fire and there shall be none to quench it My Lords the interpretation be to your enemies and let the Lords Councel be acceptable to you as you desire to prevent this curse 1. It is threatned against the deceitful 2. Against the slothfull in the Lords work Bee you then 1. Faithfull therein 2. Diligent This was Davids Encomium who is so faithfull as David 1 Sam. 22.14 Though King Saul ill requited him for it yet the Lord the God of truth commendeth him very highly for the Integrity of his heart The faithful man shall abound with blessings Pro. 28.20 On the contrary Cursed be the deceiver either 1. In the things of God Mal. 1.14 or 2. In transactions with men Gen. 27.12 If I seem to my father said Jacob to Rebekah as a deceiver I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing Or 3. In martial affairs here in my Text. Shall any think that the Judge of heaven and earth will tolerate partiality in matters of life and death will you hold with the hound and run with the hare shall your bodies be on this side and your hearts on the other Be not deceived God is not mocked Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days Psal 55.23 I will set before you but one President Hophni and Phinehas deserved to be cut off old Eli spared them for they were his sons but God neither spared him nor them nor any of his race because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not for this iniquity will I judge his house for ever saith the Lord and further sweareth it shall never be purged with sacrifice 1 Sam. 3.13 14. Must justice then be done upon sons Judges may not think that they may put to death whom they will and whom they will they may keep alive They may not spare a guilty son or brother The second word of your Charge is diligence Motives 1. The work is the Lords 2. His eye is upon you from one end of the year to the other therefore eye-service is not here forbidden as it is to masters according to the flesh Col. 3.22 3. He is the only Master Mat. 23.10 therefore what we do for him it must be done with all our might Eccles 9.10 4. No service will be accepted of him without diligence for it cannot be separated from his love as the notation of the word in latine imports and so much is intimated by the embleme of the firstling of an asse which was not to be offered up in sacrifice but to be redeemed with a lamb or else the neck of it was to be broken Exod. 34.20 shewing that God abhorreth sloth and sluggishnesse in all undertakings for him Heb. 11.6 5. He giveth the best wages if men be diligent 6. He punisheth the slothful here and everlastingly Mat. 25.26 7. Our enemies are vigilant their feet are swift to shed blood Isa 59.7 8. Our delays and negligence giveth them great advantage By this onely stratagem procrastination Q. Fabius Max. recovered the lost estate of the Romans so averreth Ennius Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem Expedition as our case now stands will doe us as much good Lastly As the treacherous person is accursed so is * Sophoc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the slothful being here included under the same word and involved in the same twofold curse to wit 1. In the life to come and 2. In this world 1. He shall be accursed in soul and 2. Body 3. In his undertakings and 4. Posterity This may make the ears of all such to tingle as send relief to besieged places but not till they have intimation they are taken and of such as insinuate themselves into our counsels I had almost said Councils purposely to inform the enemy of such also that come to take up arms among us that they may fly to the enemy when they meet with the first opportunity and so use them against us or that wilfully desert their fellows when they have most need that they may be surprized by such as they more affect or that in stead of shooting at the Rebels shoot into the aire or into their fellows or Commanders bodies Shall not God find out these and all other deceitful workers yes and the curse too He that is more true than they can be false hath fore-spoken it and he will make it good when he begins he will make an end 1 Sam. 3.12 Here by the way before I proceed to the last Use let me hint unto my brethren of the Ministry a note of * Si jussu Dei sermo Propheticus hic subjicit eos maledictioni qui negligentèr occidunt quantas nos poenas exolvemus si munus spirituale parvi pependerimus Theod in locum Theodorets upon my Text to this effect If Souldiers fall under a double curse through their negligence in sparing the temporal lives of them whom God hath adjudged to the sword how many and great curses shall fall upon such Ministers as through negligence destroy the souls of them whom God hath sent them to save Ezek. 33.6 Vse 6 Consolation And so I passe from mount Eball to mount Gerizzim to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord upon all those that are Deut. 27.12.13 or shall be active and faithful in this work of the Lord according to the directions of his word formerly laid down This war is just be well assured that it is your duty to prosecute the same and then before you go forth to battel repent you of all your sins since you are now called to punish others for theirs begin with prayer to him who giveth victory to whom he pleaseth proceed in faith confidently relying upon his mercy and faithfull promises Cast off all fear of men and pusilanimity of spirit Be of good courage and fight valiantly for the cause of God and his people against these Anti-Christian enemies and leave the successe to God Be obedient to the lawfull commands of your superiours and be just among