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A05289	Speculum belli sacri: Or The looking-glasse of the holy war wherein is discovered: the evill of war. The good of warr. The guide of war. In the last of these I give a scantling of the Christian tackticks, from the levying of the souldier, to the founding of the retrait; together with a modell of the carryage, both of conquerour and conquered. I haue applyed the generall rules warranted by the Word, to the particular necessity of our present times.	Leighton, Alexander, 1568-1649.	1624 (1624)	STC 15432; ESTC S108433	252,360	338

his worship and that he should not be the appointer of it Hence it is that not onely the Hebrews but also all Greeks and Barbarians did rest from work on the seventh day witness Iosephus Clemens Alexandrinus and Eusebius lastly it afronteth Christs institution included in the very name of the day Why is it called the Lords day Rev. 1.10 1 Cor. 16.2 is it not because it was appointed by the Lord and to continue for the Lord as the Sacrament for the same reasons is called the Supper of the Lord. To make an end of the point let the Magistrates of London and other parts who haue kept back their authority from sanctifying of the Sabboth look to the end fire is broke out already but I fear if we will not ●earken to hallow the Sabboth of the Lord that the fire spoken of by Ieremy shall break forth in our Gares and not bee quenched till it haue devoured us I might say much in this point both by reason of the commonnesse of the sin and plenty of matter against it but I will onely say this Where there is no conscience of keeping of the Sabboth sincerely they haue no ground to expect any good As for Stage-plaies they are the devils chaire the seate of Scorners the plague of piety and the very pox to the Common-wealth but I haue a whole Treatise against them And as for the other sins mentioned it is counted but Puritanism to count them sins but so much the worse As our Nation is a field of crying sins so the cry of some sinns must not be discovered but countenanced in a searfull manner who knows but the things which we count trifles may be the speciall matter of our controversie with God A little other fire then God had ordained might seem a small matter in the eyes of indifferency yet it was such a sinne as made all Israel guilty as appeareth by the sacrifices offered for that sinne Levit. chap. 16 yea it brought such a fire from the presence of the Lord as could hardly be quenched These sinnes therefore must be taken by the poll and others of the like nature as contempt of the Word and hatred of Gods people and they must be beaten to powder with the Israelites Calfe Goe from a Tribe to a Family from a Family to a house and so to every man of the house till the golden wedge be found out We must not trust our wicked hearts with this work for corrupt nature is blind as a beetle in the finding out of sinne witnesse the Israelites even then when all the plagues of God were comming upon them they sayd What is our iniquity or sinne against God Ier. 16.10 Princes and people had need of good Seers whom they must suffer to shew them their sinne that either they cannot find or will not finde such was Nathan to David they must not count such men of contention and busie-fellows as the Iewes called Ieremiah but our evill age doth not onely hide sinn but maintaine sinne There is also too much propensitie both in the bade and also in the good to palliate sin to tranfer their troubles to other causes then to it I remember that Traian Generall to Valence the Emperour that mirror of impietie going against the Gothes he was defeated in the very first battle for which Valence upbrayded Trajan at a feast with cowardize and sloth as being the causes of the overthrow but noble Traian not enduring that indignitie with freedome of speech told enduring that indignitie with freedome of speech told the Emperour in plaine termes that he had lost the day for you do so war against God saith he meaning his persecuting of Christians that you abandon the victory and send it to your enemies Niceph. Calist lib. 11. Cap. 40 Eccle. Hist it is God saith he that overcommeth and he giveth the victory to those that obey him but such are your adversaries and therefore you haue God to fight against you how then can you overcome Here you may see a patterne of a wicked disposition well taken up and the saddle set upon the right horse And not onely doe such bloudy monsters as this shift off their calamities from their sinnes but also Gods people by falling in sin and lying in sin may be tainted with it witnesse David a man otherwise after Gods owne heart yet tainted with this Amongst the rest of his trickes of legerdemain when he spun the spiders webbe of his implicit sin this was one to cover the murther of Vriah he useth a principall experimentally knowen the sword devoureth one at well as another make thy battell more strong against the cittie and so overthrow it 2. Sam. 11.25 David spake the trueth but not truely for he knew that it was not common lot that had cut off Vriah but his owne heart and hand had caused him and others to fall yet he would daube over a filthy peece of business with a litle white plaistring but when once he was awaked he was so far from daubing as that he chargeth himselfe more deeply with every circumstance then any other could haue done I am the man And after the numbring of the people when his heart smote him grieving at the punishment of the people he taketh the whole sin upon him and vvould cleere the people both of the sin and punishment Loe I have sinned and I haue done wickedly but these sheepe what haue they done 2. Sam. 24.77 let thy hand I pray thee be against me and against my fathers house CHAP. XLIIII Of quitting God of all injustice A Third thing in the behaviour of the conquered is this since sin is the cause they must quit God of all injustice how heavy soever their burthen lye upon them David quitteth the Lord of all injustice if he should adjudge him to eternall death Lament 〈◊〉 18. so doth the people of God in the lamentations being under the verie rod of his wrath The Lord is righteous for I haue rebelled against his commandment By condemning of our selues to acquit God De summo bono lib. 3. is the readiest way to get an acquitance from God Yea as Isedor saith let a man learne not to murmur when he suffereth although he were ignorant for what he suffereth let this suffice to tell him that he suffereth justly because it is from him that cannot deale but justly Pompey was herein exceedingly mistaken who seeing all to goe on Caesars side doubted not to say that there was a great deale of miste over the eye of divine providence for with him that offered nothing but wrong to the commō wealth all things went well but with him that defended the common-wealth nothing succeded But Pompey blamed the Sunne because of his sore eyes There be many in our age of Pompey his saucie humor yea arranter wranglers then he because of greater light and showes of profession who if their corruption be never so litle crossed or the Lord

both by Counsel and Armes the land became a counsell of war and an army of valorous counsellors Fourthly the successe of the war doth often follow the vertue of the commander To omit other examples witnes the Kings of Iudah While they were good they pevayled against their enemies as David Ezekiah c. 2. King 16 but by the contrary against the bad Kings the enemies prevailed instance Achas branded by the Lord for a bad one this is that Achas 2. Chron 28 and he had as bad successe For evidence whereof reade the places quoted It is often noted of that King and great Commander Moses that he was the servant of God Deut. 34.5 Rev. 15.3 and that not onely for his authoritie and fidelitie in his place but also for his pietie And this indeed is the greatest honour that any Commander can attaine to to be Gods servant So did David esteeme it It is said of Cornelius the Centurion that he was a devout man fearing God Thus you see then that it is not enough for a man to haue a good cause authoritie in his hand but if he will thriue and haue the same to prosper Application he must be good himselfe It then condemneth to hell from whence it came that hellish principle of Matchiavell that a Prince or great One should endeavor rather to be esteemed religious 2. part m●x 1. then to be so indeed He hath to many apt Schollers in this especially but is not this to extinguish the light of nature to mocke God and to play the damnable hypocrite What gaines he by this First that which is not in graine cannot hold Secondly when once he commeth to dance in a nett and the colour is cast to the eyes of all men then he turnes from hypocrisie to open impietie he takes on the Lyons skin when the foxes will not serve which is a mayne instance of this Matchiavillian rule and he maintayneth that with open tyranny which he could not cover with hypocrisie Lastly when the Lord hath made him thus vile Pompon 〈◊〉 Lae. t in Iul he makes his grave in a field of shame All these may be instanced in Iulian a grand hypocrite while his uncle Constantine lived but as great in Aposiate and as cunning an Atheist after his death But his end was answereable to his courses Such ends made Gaius Caligula that errant Atheist and Herod Agrippa that truell murtherer yet the one dissembled paynim devotion and the other the profession of true religion as might appeare by his solliciting Tiberius for the Iewes when he was incenst against them Let Christian Princes then follow Abraham walke with God and be upright and in peace and warre God shall blesse them Now as the Commāder must be such such also should the souldiers be as Cornelius was a devout man himselfe so he called unto him with his two servants a devout souldier also God himselfe in Deuteromy Act. 10.7 giues lawes concerning the puritie of a Campe when the Campe goeth forth against thine enemies Deut. 23.9.10 Numb 5.23 then keepe thee from every evill thing which after he calls uncleannes because sin defileth He here forbiddeth all morall civill legall uncleannes the former two concerne all campes So in Numbers the leper and uncleane were put out of the Campe. Of all Iepers the sinner is the foulest and of all sinners the wicked souldier is the greatest One Achan made the whole army fare the worse Ios 7. Vnholy Armies although they be for a good cause and war under lawfull authoritie yet through their exorbitant courses they incourage the hearts and inarmes the hands of the enemies I will produce but one instance because I must labour to abridge my self The Turkes advantage by our sinnes having many things to goe through Aventinus relateth how they of Rhodes wrote to Frederick the third the Princes Electors how the great Turke being disswaded by his Nobles from making war against the Christians especially against the Germans his answere was as he feared no Christians so least of all the Germans and that for 4 reasons First their disagreement amongst themselves like the five fingers of a mans hand which seldome come together Secondly they are dissolute in their lives by whooring drinking and all manner of riot delighting more in great plumes of fethers then martiall armes Thirdly they are disorderly in their proceedings Fourthly they neglect all laws of government not punishing the bad or rewarding the good As the Turke putteth these imputations upon a natiō once second to none as they gaue good proofe to Caesar so I wish that they all Europes armies could quit themselves of these better then indeed they can for howsoever the envious Turke with Lamia his eyes seeth much abroad and nothing at home yet our home bred evils which he thus taxeth are more hurtful to us then all his forces De sacro foedere l. 5. as witnesseth Folieta in a speech to the same effect upon that victory obtained by the Christians in a Sea-fight against Assanus Bassa where he observerh that they stand not so much by their own forces as by our sloth negligence and discord Oh then that vvee vvould make a holy Warre indeed that is to be holy in our selues and then neither Gog nor Magog should prevaile against us To this end the Lord biddeth us sanctifie a war By which phrase hee vvills Jer. 6.4 that all that vvill vvar for him should be holy As this serveth to direct us what manner of souldiers in a just warre are required so it discovers the blasphemy of that Matchiavillian principle of Atheism wherein with open mouth Machiavils blasphemy he preferreth Paganism in souldiers to true Religion because Religion saith he makes men humble pusillanimious or weak-minded and more apt to receiue injurie then to repell it Before I come to the answer let me say thus much of him once for all if that Atheistly burn paper and blinde bayard had lived amongst the Heathens and had dealt with their feyned gods as he hath dealt with the true God they vvould haue made him an example to the world and would haue burned his blasphemous papers in the fire but as they humored exceedingly his lewd Countrimen so they flew over the Alpes yea and the Seas also infecting France and all the rest of Christendome Insomuch as the Sybillin oracles were the refuge of the Painims for their direction so most Princes and their affaires now are guided by Matchiavel Are not men now of divilish pates and deep reaches to the evill and such as are acquainted with the depth of Satans policie the onely men of service as they call them Yea say they be but very beetles and block-heads yet if their brains vvill serue to hatch toades they will serue the turn as well as can be if he can swear horribly and blaspheme fearfully vvith termes not to be named if he can roare

lastly Iovinian in elog illustrvir after the death of Lauderanus the Prince hee was chosen by sway of consent in his place One more of Matthias Hunniades the thundering son of a lightening father against the Turke who being cast in prison by Viadislaus King of Hungary and Bohemia was sent into Bohemia to be executed Vladislaus dyed of a poysoned apple as it was thought wherupon by the Hungarians partly affected with the merite of his father and hopes of his own valour against the Turke and partly by the labourious solliciting of his friends he was chosen King of Hungary whereof to giue notice they sent messengers with letters to Pog●brachius King of Bohemia with whom Matthias was prisoner which hee receiving at supper presently raised Matthias from below where he sate and set him aboue himselfe willing him not to be dismayed for hee had glad and happy tydings for him which after supper hee would reveale and so hee did saluting him King of Hungary and he gaue him Katherine his daughter to wife Where first obserue by the way how absolutely free an electiue power the Hungarians and Bohemians haue in the choyce of their King which the said Matthias in a great battell made Frederick the Emperour to know Secondly it sheweth how strangely it pleaseth God to exalt from the very graue to the thron for when he looked for nothing but every houre when he should haue lost his head he was made head of the people and had a Crown set on his head so that the saying of the Wise-man is made good out of the prison he commeth to raign Eccles 4.14 ● carcere hic ad aurea decore multo culmina transcendit wheras also he that is born in his Kingdom becommeth poore From prison some to golden State with glory great ascends If we look back upon the Romanes men without hope yet under such hope as they had did raise their states from hopelesse ruines to the highest pitch of worldly glory What strayt was Massinissa King of Numidia put to Who for his own right with sore wounds upon him was forced to swim a river having no followers but foure wherof two were drowned He lived in a Caue till his wounds were healed by hearbs and setting to his work again some forces being gathered to him he was encountred again by Siphax and by him overthrown so that of 6000 there escaped but 70 but at length by the help of the Romanes under the conduct of Scipio Africanus he was not onely restored to his own Kingdom but possessed also the Kingdom of S●phax Valer. Max. for his fidelity to the Romanes who after lived in great prosperity and Maiesty having 50 sonnes he dyed of a good age namely 100 yeares After the battle of Cannas the hearts of the Romans were so shaken that despairing of recovery they consulted of the forsaking of Italy whereupon Publius Scipio a braue yong Noble drew his sword and sware he would kill the first man that refused to take the oath which he himselfe would take namely not to forsake the Common-wealth So that the rest for fear and partly for shame following him in the oath stood to it Front lib. ● cap. 6. till they had raysed their State to incomparable greatnesse It was a desperate part in Lucius Paulus the Consul at the battell of Cannas to reject a horse by Lentulus whereon he might haue escaped but he scorning to surviue victory sate him down being wounded on a stone till the enemy came upon him and slew him But Varro his Colleague was of another heart and shewed greater constancie of hope in reserving his life to further service for his Country Idem for which the Senate thanked him much that he did not despaire of the Common-wealth I will conclude the point with one instance not unworthy our memory namely of Robert le Bruise King of Scots whose strayts were as many and case as desperate and calamities as great as any I reade of his wife led captiue his foure brothers all worthy men put to death his whole friends and family partly slain and partly spoyled of all they had and made the subject of calamity himselfe deprived of great inheritance yea of a Crown and Kingdom and forced sometimes with one and sometime by himselfe to liue like a wilde man in the Mountains amongst the beasts and whatsoever he attempted for a long time miscarryed yet in all his misery and penury he sustayned himselfe with hope and as he did not doubt but one day he should be King indeed So in all his distresse he did or spake nothing unworthy of a King He put not hand to himselfe with Marcus Brutus or Cato he cryed not with Casar when his Companies and dearest and neerest were lost His happy successe in the end did answer his noble and hopefull expectation for he was not so low but God exalted him as high When once he rose all went with him victory and glory did still attend him he was happy in his Issue in his friends in his subjects in the esteem of all Nations and most of all in his temperance equity and freedome from revenge In the time of his prosperity for his providence and care in peace and valorous magnanimitie in warre he might well be called the father of the country yea I thinke verilie and am able to maintaine it that if he be compared with the best Kings that wee read of in histories he shall cary the laurell from them all The illustrious Hamilton enioyeth to this day the honour and inheritance conferred upon his ancestor being an Englishman by that mirror of Princes the glorie of whose Majestie he maintained both by word sword in the court of Edward the 2 where he killd one of the Spencers for his contumelious opposing of King Robert his due deserved praise As I desire of God that Kings now living would pick a patterne out of him so my soules desire is out of my loue to that magnanimious Prince of the forefaid familie that he would remember whence he is fallen and return to doe his first works yea that he may never giue his soule rest till he wash out with teares the stain of his unadvised service against Sion If all these will not serve to establish then take one for all from the booke of God when good Mordecai was upon the verie pinnacle of Hamans contempt just over the gulfe of imminent and inevitable death his hope maintained him still and made him stay by it at the Kings gate in despite of Haman the issue was answerable above expectation for he was taken out of the lowest pit carried on the wings of the highest honor but Haman his cruell enemie was throwen from the cloudie sphere of his swelling pride into the bottomles pit of shame and confusion so let all the enemies of God secret or open perish and let the horn of those that love Sion be exalted The fourth ground