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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

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