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death_n	sin_n	soul_n	spiritual_a	8,699	5	7.0020	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91728	Orders from the Lord of Hostes, for regulating the hostes of the Lord. Set down in a sermon preached at the leaguer before Newark, on Friday the 27th of March, 1646. By order from, and at the desire of the Committee of Lords and Commons, commissioners from the Parliament of England. Upon occasion of a publick fast and solemn humiliation, appointed to be kept that day throughout the English and Scotish armies before Newark, to seek a blessing from heaven upon the proceedings of the said forces in the present siege of that garrison. / By Edward Reyner preacher of the gospel in the city of Lincoln.	Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.	1646 (1646)	Wing R1222; Thomason E337_1; ESTC R200816	27,994	40

fighting Armie a thundering Legion so that the campe be holy When other Souldiers that are rude and have no savour of the things of God nor care of their own souls will goe drinke till drenke or sing foolish songs talke ribaldry or play at Cards and so game away their time and money Oh goe you and pray together seeke God together edifie one another in faith patience courage godlinesse helpe one another heaven-wards strengthen your selves mutually against corruptions tentations and discouragements to which you are subject as men as Christians and as Souldiers The fruit and comfort hereof will rem●in with you when all vain delights and sports are vanished and leave a sting behinde them in the conscience I thinke Souldiers of all other men should be good Husbands both with their Money and Time to spend it well 1 With their Money not to shufle and cut it away at Cards nor cast it away at Dice seeing they get it with the hazard of their lives it is the price of bloud 2 Sam. 23.15 16 17. David would not drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem though he longed for it because his men got it with so much hazard Is not this said be the bloud of the men that went in jeopardie of their lives therefore he would not drinke thereof but poured it out unto the Lord as an offering of Thanksgiving unto God for delivering them out of that danger If David would not drinke the water that was drawn with the hazard of his mens lives vvill you game away the money you carn vvith the hazard of your ●●vn lives every day 2 With your Time because yours is most uncertain and may be very short That which is past cannot be recal'd and that which is future cannot be assured only the present Time is yours improve it I beseech you to better purpose then drinking or playing you may be cut off before to morrow Oh! Remember you carry your lives in your hands continually Should not a Souldier be a Saint because he is in danger of death and damnation every houre if he continue in sin un-repented and un-reformed Such as spend their Time in play or idlely can be in no good posture for death and judgement 〈◊〉 they make a course to lye down in sorrow and to be buried in a field of shame Souldiers consider is there not as good fellowship in praying as in playing together in singing Psalms as base Ballads in talking of spirituall matters for the benefit of your souls as in opening your mouth and in multiplying words without knowledge say to one another Come fellow-souldiers let us go pray or seeke God or instruct incourage admonish warme the heats of one another by sweet-breathing of holy Counfail and bosom-experience What shall we march and watch and fight and lye and dye together for so we may for ought we know and shall wee not pray together nor serve God together that if we go out of the world together we may go to Heaven together Should we not be holy together in our militant state here that we may be happy together triumphantly to eternity hereafter Shall we do duties together for man in the field and not for God and for our own souls in our Quarters Accustome your selves to such spirituall exercises Now as will be your delight when you go hence and shall be no more There is neither drinking nor gaming much lesse swearing and revelling in the grave whither your bodies are going or in Heaven whither you desire your souls may go What will it profit you to win the Field and get spoyls and lose your precious souls I will conclude this Application of my Text to our Commanders Officers and Souldiers in a few brief Cautions and Mementoe's to them all as an abridgment of all Cautions three 1 Take heed of sin for God will not go among a Company of base debauched disordered fellows such are most obnoxious to a fatall stroak Ier. 25.31 Amos 9.10 God will give them that are wicked to the sword And the sinners of the people shall dye by the sword though they be such as use the sword One such person sometimes brings Gods judgements on a whole Army as Achan did on the Hoste of Israel by plundering the goodly Habylonish garment 200 shekels of silver wedge of gold Iosh 6.18 7.12 Eccles 9.18 Non prospere pugnant adversus malos qui ●psi sunt mali which made the Camp of Israel a Curse 〈…〉 One sinner destroys much good You that fight for God against Enemies should keep your selves free from the sine of Enemies else the successe will be doubtfull They that go against Babylon should first go out of Babylon 2 Take heed of self-confidence trusting in your own strength skill valour or weapons of War This will blast all your designes and hopes See the effect of it in thee Champion Goliah 3 Take heed of by ends or self-respects in the service as paper praise booty plunder preferment It s true a souldier deserves his pay as the labourer doth his wages but to make this your sole or chiefe End of Ingaging in so good a Cause as you have in hand is to be very mercinary even to make a Trade of killing men for money when you have gotten your salary I feare it will be said Verely you have your Reward Brave Gallant-spirits should scorn poore low ends Let the ends and aymes you set up in your hearts of all the service you performe in this Cause be pure and high as Gods glory publike good and discharge of your duties for conscience sake in what you have undertaken The Mementoe's are three also 1 Remember I beseech you all to make your peace vvith God by faith repentance for your sins before ye go forth to fight vvith the Enemy It s not sufficient to die in a good Cause except you be in a good estate for your souls if you vvould avoid the second death 2 Remember to commit your life soule and whole selfe and all you have into Gods hands when you goe to charge the Enemy Psal 31.13 Trust God with all look at God as grasping you and yours in his hands that you may wholy attend the businesse in hand and cast the care of all other things wholy upon God What quiet and comfort is this to a Souldier to be able to say when he goes to looke his enemie and for any thing he knows even death that King of terrour also in the fate as Paul did I know in whom I have believed 2 Tim. 1.12 and I am perswaded he is able to keepe that which I have committed to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my pledge or what I have deposited with him untill the day of Christ If you will confidingly carry your lives in your own hands not put them seriously by faith into Gods hands and custody as Paul did earnestly his soul in times of suffering you may soone lose and scatter them or have them taken from you 3 Remember when you got to fight in this present war you carry foure precious Jewels in your hands committed to you 1 The Cause of God or his Truth 2 The Peace of the Kingdom 3 Your present lives 4 Your future hopes even for eternity What manner of persons ought you to be in point of godlinesse and boldnesse diligence and faithfulnesse to discharge so great a Trust and be able to give a good account of them all Oh be vigilant and valiant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quit your selves like man be strong The Lord of Hosts be with you and the God of Jacob be your refuge and your recompence FINIS