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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

instantly of weak he became strong and to all mens admiration went forth in confidence of assistance of the most high and by Faith put to flight those that rose up against him and who saw not that God was with him First he discomfited the Rebels in Wicklow he burned Clantarf a place neer this City filled with rapine and blood he took in the Garrisons of the Naaz and Trim he expeld the enemies out of the Navan and then he encountred with the whole body of the enemy at Kilrush in a pitcht battel and routed their vast multitudes and would have pursued them if he might have had his will with such heat and vigor that they should have had little leasure or opportunity to rally any more but he was called back and the number of his desired victories being made up with some overplus in his last battel near Trim he was slain being shot as it is verily conjectured by one of our side into the body having a little before with three or four Troops chased three or four thousand almost two miles and left about four hundred dead on the place Thus died this honorable Patriot and Champion in the Lords work and victorious in the sixty fifth year of his age Cic. de Senect wherein as Cato Major saith of Q. Maximus Hic bella gerebat ut adolescens cum plane grandis esset he was like Caleb for strength Jos 14.11 as able for the war both to go out and to come in as he was the day when he was first sent over having about a quarter of an hour before his fall slain with his sword a Rebel of great stature hand to hand But now as David said of Abner may I say of him A great man is fallen in our Israel in whom the Lord hath bereaved us at once of the mighty man and the man of war the prudent and valiant Captain the honorable man and the Counsellour c. 3.2 as the Prophet Isaiah speaks The greatnesse of our adversaries rejoycings at his fall proclaimeth aloud the greatnesse of our losse but nothing hath befallen him or us but what hath befallen the dearest of Gods Servants Sampson is reckoned in the Catalogue of Believers Heb. 11. who slew more ar his death than in all his life yet he perished among the Philistines by the Philistines sword gracious Jonathan afterwards fell upon Mount Gilboa 2 Sam. 1.20 which occasioned much triumph to the daughters of the uncircumcised Faithfull Uriah was also betrayed by Joab at the Kings Command and cut off by the sword of the children of Ammon Adde to these godly Josiah to whom there was none like before or after among all the Kings of Judah yet was he slain by the sword of Pharaoh Necho The sword devoureth one as well as another and all things befall all alike him that feareth God and him that feareth him not Yea Aristotle calleth this kind of death the most beautifull of all other Ethic. l. 3. Offic. l. 1. de somnio Scipionis c. 6. The Orator affirmeth that no good man will doubt to die for the profit of his Country This our deceased Champion accounted to be most eligible for such as lay down their lives for the brethren eminently shew forth their love to God and his Church 1 Joh. 3.16 as Gods love is apparently seen in his sons laying down his life for us And wise men in all ages agree upon this maxime Decet Imperatorem stantem mori And God gave him his option he was taken from us by this eligible beautifull honourable death for he deceased on Hors-back being upheld by his Son riding behind him till he had brought him to his quarters The Lord convince and humble us all for all our sins which have brought this judgment upon us Not one but many Achans have thus troubled our Israel for I know no kind of sins which are not predominant among us It is the Lords mercy we are not all consumed The Lord help us to look up to Jesus Christ whom our sins have also pierced Isa 55.4 for him hath God given to be a leader and commander to his people who once died that by his death we may have life and by his life salvation temporal and eternal for now though other Commanders die he liveth for ever and when other helpers may be far off he is ever present with all his people who alone can help when as without him all help of men is in vain as when the Spirit departed ttom valiant Sampson he became weak like other men This hath he commanded us to do and promised salvation to all them that so do Isa 45.22 And then shall our sorrows be all turned into joy and our enemies rejoycing shall vanish then shall the Lord who hath the residue of the spirit in the room of this one Heroick Patriot now gone to his rest raise up many deliverers endued with wisdome counsell and might and the fear of the Lord who may fight our Battels tread down our enemies as mire in the Streets restore poor out-casts to their rightfull possessions again and settle peace and truth in all the borders of this sinfull and bloody Land to the comfort of all true Israelites and his own everlasting glory Amen FINIS

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