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A00951	Miles Christianus, or The campe royal set forth in briefe meditations on the words of the Prophet Moses, Deut. 23, 9, 14. here under following, preached in the armie as Dungen-Leager, profitable for all sorts of men to reade; and published for the generall good of all that will read, By Samuel Bachiler, Preacher to the English at Gorinchem.	Bachiler, Samuel.	1625 (1625)	STC 1106; ESTC S114807	35,497	56

sinewes and disioint us wholly enfeeble and disarme us in the sight of our enemies Exod. 32 25. 2 Chr. 28 19. the people were made naked before their enimies pharang is to strip or draw off uncover What did Aaron or Iudah take their armour from them in no wise but had occasioned God for the sinne they caused them to commit to take his armour of defense from them Stript them they had in a manner of Gods wonderfull and mightie protection and so they were as a people stark naked Their defense protection was gone from them as is said Num. 14 9. Feare them not they are bread for us their defense is departed from them the meaning is God had left them for their wickednes and so they became naked and as weak as water Deprived they were of the power and providence of Almightie God for that time Though we haue no defense in the world if we haue Gods protection his arme over us we want no furniture and covering on the otherside if we haue all outward fense wanting Gods protection we are but bare and open to our enimies Secondly we cannot do evill then without great presumption inasmuch as we haue least time to repent us of any evill done Our dayes are never of the longest What is your life sayth Iames it is euen a vapour which appeareth for a litle time and then it vanisheth If our liues be alwaies so momentanie much more when we goe with the host against our enimies Souldiers are specially mortis stipendiarij We neede not proue unto you the evidence of this which experience in the wars doth ever shew yet for our remembrance looke upon these places of Scripture where you shall see the hazards of the wars Deut. 20 5 6 7. order is giuen for such and such to returne the reason is from verie great likelihood least they dye in battell Iudg. 9 17. My father sayth he fought for you and adventured his life far So that the life of a man in the wars is in the greatest perill venture that may be 2 Sam. 11 25. The sword devoureth one as well as another Chap. 15 21. Surely in what place my Lord the King shall be whether in death or life there will thy servant be 18 3. Thou shalt not goe forth said the people to the king for if we flee away they will not care for us neither if half of us die will they care for us c. by all which we may see the continuall hazards we are in at that time we carrie our liues in our hands and there is but a step betweene us and death What time will there be or place for repentance in case we doe especially if we will sinne Then to sinne must needs be a sinning with a high hand and presumptuously when we know that for that and other reasons we ought then to sinne least Thirdly how heynously was God offended with the whole host of Israel and Iosua for the sinne of Achan Ios 6. and Num. 25 with all the people yea with the Heads v. 45. Take all the heads of the people hang them up before the Lord against the Sunne c. Num. 16. And they fell upon their faces said O God the God of the spirits of all flesh shall one man sinne and wilt thou be wroth with all the Congregation Fourthly because it is the greatest honour when the occasions are greatest to be abstemious from sinne At other times perhaps we haue not that freedome of our selues we cannot alwaies do the evill we would we are pent and walled in perhaps then if we do no evill it is no marvail but when the dore is open as it were and we haue more oportunitie to sinne abroad then not to sinne is a greater glorie As it is a greater grace to abstaine from drunckennes and surfeting at feasts meetings when the occasions will be more because of more freedome and plentie of the creatures because of the vile provocations through prophane healths which one or other commonly puts afoote And change of place brings change of objects Achan had not had the occasion but there where he was to haue played the thief And for Achan to absteine at other times was no praise to Achan but then to haue forborn had been his glorie If thou faint in the day of adversitie or if thou art remisse in the day of streights thy strength is small or narrow is thy vertue Prov. 24 10. If thou shewest not thy self a man when occasions come upon thee thy resolution and courage is but weake Fiftly he that hath power over himself abroad will undoubtedly keep him self at home Let a man liue soberly Tit. 2. godly and righteously abroad and such a one shall be safer from evill doing at home Sixtly and lastly we should so minde our calling hoc agere and be so employed and exercised so intent and taken up therein as to finde no leasure to sinne This serues for complaint for alas when are we more sinfull we runne into forbidden evill because it is forbidden and then especially when it is most forbidden So malignant is our nature such peccant humours are we repleat of unlesse purged with a great deale of grace It is this doth aggravate our sinn that we then sin most when wherein we ought to sin least We are sinfull enough at home but when we are gone forth with the host to fight against the common adversarie then then we are excessiue fall together by the eares fight unmanly one with another then we ring of prophanenes then towne and countrie all places where we come are filled with the noise and clamour of our evils our drinking and drabbing stabbing and pillaging without respect of persons I wish we might not speake so often of these things T is no pleasure to us to grate your eares with the unpleasant and harsh sound hereof Yet as he that will haue his sores cured must suffer them to be touched yea sometime launced so if you will haue these evils healed you must heare of them and sometime with bitter reproofe to them Is this to keep us from evill to run into the wilfull and headie practise thereof as the horse rusheth into the battell And is it not usually seene Note that manie come sober and civill at least to the warrs but when once the host is gone forth and they with it they do as much forget goodnes as though they had never knowne or beene where it grew And yet some of them haue had good education graue instructions sweet plantations and haue sproute up with the blossomes of hope some of them haue had religious carefull parents who haue sown them with the feeds of moralitie toward men true pietie toward God who yet when they betake themselues to the warres loose all civilitie all frugalitie Secondly let this admonish you to looke better to your selues for keeping your selues from sinne as at

those tippling-places in your Camps the verie sincks and nurseries of all impuritie It followeth in the 17 verse There shall be no whore of the Daughters of Israell nor a Sodomite of the sonnes of Israel meaning none permitted Num. 5 2 3. Command the Children of Israel that they put out of the Campe everie Leaper everie one that hath an issue whosoever is defiled by the dead both male and female shall ye put out without the Campe shall ye put them that they defile not their Camps in the mids of whom I dwell Must Leapers be put out and shall they be suffred in the Camp who haue a worse Leaprosie of all wickednes cleaving unto them to infect all they come neare So then the word of God which is holy his holy and blessed trueth must be diligently taught by holy men whose liues may cast forth holynes to others And the ordinances of Discipline Civill and Ecclesiasticall subordinate to the word The one is to plant the other to preserue holynes in us Thirdly to make choise as neare as we can of the best men What hopes of a holy Camp when the subject matter is not pickt whereof the Romans were not a little carefull as may be seene in their wars By making choyce of the best men I meane not the best timbred men but the best conditioned not onely he that hath not a tattred outside but whose minde is not ragged Make option of the most stayed civill and best disposed and not such as Iepthah and Ieroboam entertained vaine men Iudg. 11.3 2 Chron. 13.7 The skumme of men fitter to fill prisons and Iayles then places of better note to become dennes of theeues then an armie of Saints Such as one sayth who if the Diuell should offer a stipend unto would not refuse him service and be more faythfull to him though it were to beare armes against God himself How happie were it if our Camps were rid of such And I haue often thought that if as we find Deut. 20. Iudg. 7. they that had built houses and had not dedicated them planted vineyards and had not eaten of the fruite of them betrothed wiues and had not taken them I say if they must be casheired and be gone from Israels Campe what should a world of our debauched men professed drunkards robbers swearers fornicators and such like cattell I wonder what they should haue done there I know we haue not all such God forbid but some not more noble in blood then in vertue stayed sober religious men fearing God and eschewing evill in great measure but the number of such is rare and of the other multiplying What is the reason we haue so many of the one sort and so few of the other Is it because the good are fewer and we cannot get them which also is true but is it not rather because we stand not a great number of us upon the grace and goodnes of the men we take on whether there be any blush or appearance of any in them chusing our men as Samuel and the rest would haue chosen a King 1 Sam. 16 6 7. Sed quotusquisque est non iniqua cuiusdā quaerela qui non malit strenuū militēquā pium imo ne locus quident amplius in exercitu horrendum fane piis relinquitur looking on his countenance or the height of his stature things I confesse to be regarded but that is not all there is somewhat els to be looked after that we may possibly make an holy camp But if we cannot doe withall but we must take such as we can a miserable necessitie as the Romans sometime were constreyned to use sclaues for the defense of their common weale yet when they are under us let us cause them to be outwardly at least conformable to holynes and labour that they may be instructed to the end that holynes which grew not in them before may now come up Plant amongst you a godly and painfull ministrie and subject your selues and your men unto it And these be the principall meanes to make a holy Campe we can doe no more then propound them and pray the Lord to giue you hearts to improue them And the rather to stirre you up hearken to a motiue two or three for the conclusion of this point Motiues toward a holy Campe and holynes in our persons The first is Holynes will call more unto us and make men more in loue with our profession from which many are and may be justly daunted because holynes is so great a stranger to us The Complaint hath been old but as true as ancient Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur Wherefore manie are out of loue with the profession and forsweare the Campe which with unsavourie sinne of all sortes doeth stinke in the nosthrils of the world or the civiller sort of it Oh how many would Sanctitie and true reformation in our Camps invite unto us and what a glorie holynes would adde to our profession honourable in it selfe but would be double honourable by the acquisition of this further grace Secondly The continuall dangers we are in and subject unto calleth upon us to labour to be holy For then let what come can come we are ready for death if that be readie for us Then mayest thou say with Conrades in the hystorie Generall hyst of the Turks pag 33. Let the Persian Archer strike me I will dye in an assured hope and with that arrow as with a Chariot come unto that rest which shall be dearer to me then if I should with a base ordinarie kinde of death in my sinnes ende my dayes in my bedde Thirdly then shall you be sure of Gods gracious presence among you for good and against all evil plainly intimated here If they would labour for a holy Camp they should haue the holy Lord among them whose presence should be all in all to them but if otherwise let us not expect God among us unlesse it be to confound our armies It suites not with a King to walke in dung-hills or to be seene in noysome places and will God walke among our Camps if we haue no care to sweepe his paths The second branch of this Conclusion followeth That he see no uncleannes in thee Which is the negatiue part of the order touching their Camp Holynes there must be uncleannes there should not be uncleannes Ervah signifieth nakednes and denoteth that uncomely part whereon man bestoweth more abundant honour Genes 9. C ham discovered the nakednes of his Father So called in Hebrew because it should alwaies be covered Sinne being denominated nakednes in the sacred tongue argues the manner of sinns attaching us by propagation Psal 51. In sinne did my Mother warme me Observation 4. Sinne is a nakednes the Greeke saith Observat 4 a shame Genes 3. Our first parents were naked sinne had made them so Consect 1. Oh then labour to be ashamed of it Rom. 6. What fruit had ye in those