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A19887	A royall edict for military exercises published in a sermon preached to the captaines, and gentlemen that exercise armes in the artillery garden at their generall meeting. In Saint Andrewes vndershaft, in London, Iune 23. 1629. By Iohn Dauenporte, B. of Diuinity, and P. of Saint Stephans in Cole-man-street in London.	Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1629 (1629)	STC 6313; ESTC S118437	18,564	36

the earth what may serue for his vse and benefit Reason 3 Religion and obedience to God binde men to vse all lawfull and possible meanes of safety Not that God is tied to the meanes so as not to worke without them for hee gaue light to the world without the Sunne and nourished Moses and Eliah 40. dayes without food nor so as alwayes to worke with them only wee are bound to vse the meanes with submission to his prouidence who as a free Agent workes with them or without them according to his good pleasure Excellent to this purpose was that resolution of Ioab Be strong and let vs be valiant for our people 2. Sam. 10.12 and for the Citties of our God and let the Lord doe that which is good in his eyes For neither Gods purpose nor his power nor his promise secures any man in the neglect of meanes 1. Not his purpose for in the greatest matter that concernes man 2. Tim. 2.19 2. Pet. 1.10 though The foundation of God remaineth sure in himselfe yet men must giue all diligence to make their calling and election sure to themselues Iosh 5.12 2. Nor his power he could feed Israel in Canaan as hee had done in the wildernesse but Manna ceased when they came to a land that would yeeld corne vpon mens ordinary labours at this day hee can feed men Mat. 6.26 28. as hee clothed Lillies which neither sowe nor reape nor carry into their barnes but it is his will that man should labour with his hands the thing that is good Eph. 4.28 if he would haue wherewith to feed himselfe or giue to others without theft Iudg. 6.14 Iudg 7. ● 8. Mat. 4.7 8. 3. Not his promise Gideon had a promise of victory yet he vsed meanes Our Lord Christ had a promise of protection yet hee would not cast himselfe downe from the pinnacle Paul had a promise of safety Act. 27.22.31 yet he saith Except these abide in the ship we cannot be safe Wee conclude then that since Soueraigne power Common-wealths Lawes and Armes had the same originall the same end and since the common safety of King and people is procured by Militarie exercises and since Religion and obedience to God binds all men to vse all lawfull and possible meanes for their owne safety and good we conclude that it is a care well beseeming Kings to prouide that their subjects may by such meanes be trained vp to warres And so we haue as briefly as we could dispatched the Doctrinall part we now come to application wherein after we haue laid downe some consectaries which shall be clearely deduced from the Text we shall endeuour to speake to the present occasion 1 Vse or consectary 1. Vse or consectary is vpon this ground to iustifie warres lawfully vndertaken now in the times of the Gospell against the Manichees and Marcionites of old with the Anabaptists and Familists of latter times for how can it be said that the care of preparation for warrs beseemes Kings if warres themselues be vnlawfull or how shall that be recorded to Dauids praise which beseemes not other Kings Obiect But the difference of times alters the case That might be lawfull in Dauids time which is vnlawfull now For of these times of the Gospell it s said They shall breake their swords into Mattockes Isa 2.4 their speares into fithes Nation shall not lift vp a sword against Nation neither shall they learne to fight any more For Answere of this Answ we must oppose to it another text where the Lord calls vpon the people to breake their plow-shares into swords Ioel 3.10 and their fithes into speares That it may appeare there is no contradiction in the Spirit speaking by Isay to it selfe speaking by Ioel we must distinguish betweene the purpose and intent of Christ in comming into the world and in publishing the Gospell whereat Isay aimeth and the successe or euent which was accidentall in respect of mans malice which Ioel intendeth Respectiuely to the first Christ said to Peter Put vp thy sword Mat. 26.51 52 for hee that strikes with the sword shall perish with the sword As if he had said I came not to send the sword but peace Repectiuely to the second he saith to his Disciples He that hath no sword let him sell his coate Luke 21.36 and buy him a sword As if hee had said My comming sends not peace but a sword So that though the end of Christ his comming was to reconcile things in heauen and things on earth which end he now attaineth betweene God vs in our Iustification will accōplish betweene man and man in the day of Redemption yet so long as Satan workes in the children of disobedience and so long as any remnant of sinne is in the heart of any there will be a necessity and lawfulnesse of war and of this care to prepare for it 2 Vse or Consectary 2. Thes 2. 2. Vse or Consectary Is this care well beseeming Kings as that which belongs to them by right Then it ill beseemes that Man of sinne to vsurpe vpon this right of Kings God committed the Magisteriall power of appointing the times of sounding the siluer Trumpets Numb 10. vnto Moses But the ministerial power of sounding thē vpon cōmand to Aaron See the pride of this Vsurper who will snatch the Trumpets out of Moses hands and not the Trumpets only but the swords also nor the swords only but the Crownes and Scepters also I doubt not that in due time God will vnite the ten hornes against his pride who exalts himselfe aboue all that is called God 1. Thes 2. 3. Vse It remaineth that a word or two of incouragement 3 Vse Inc●uragements and Cautions and caution be added for the Iustification and Direction of your Noble designes in these Military exercises which are of so great consequence for the Common good as hath beene formerly declared If it be a course vvell-beseeming Kings to prouide that by these meanes their subjects be trained vp and fitted to vvarres certainely it vvell becomes subjects to offer themselues willingly to such exercises 1. Incouragements to 2. sorts 1. Such as are already mēbers of this Society Those to whom I am to addresse this part of my speech are of two sorts 1. Such as are already exercized members of this society 2. Such as may hereafter be added thereunto For the former I need not seeke farre for incouragements your workes praise you and the aboundant fruit Who are incouraged frō former successe In respect Iudges 5.8 1 Sam. 13.18 19. 1. Of Armes and successe of them may incourage you It was ill with Israel when there was not a shield or a speare to be found amongst forty thousand in Israel There was want of Armes And no lesse miserable was their estate when there was no Smith in the Land There was want of Armourers Little better was the condition of

2.7 that he forgets the care of his people which you may see implyed in the copulatiue particle Also Also God hath planted more affections then one in the soule of man as there is griefe to humble vs so there is feare to quicken vs. Dauid knowes how to mourne for euils past so as to take a course for preuention of the like for time to come not to be afflicted after such a losse in Israel had beene Stoicall apathy to haue beene so afflicted for the losse of Saul and Ionathan as to neglect the peoples good had beene base pusillanimity Therefore Dauid at once actes diuers parts of a good subiect and patriot in lamenting the losse of his King and Country and of a gracious Soueraigne in prouiding for the safety of his subiects For as he mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul and ouer Ionathan his son So also he bade them c. He bade them Not by way of Counsaile only but by way of Command also So that these words seeme to containe an Edict or a law of Dauid inioyning the people the vse of the Bow History of the world 2. booke 4. c. 15. Sex 244. p. For not to trouble you with the difference obserued by some betwixt a Law and an Edict you may obserue in these words all those things which are required in a Law 1. It must haue a right end which is the Common-good so had this Lex est quae dam rationis ordinatio ad bonu commune ab eo qui curam cōmunitatis habet promu●gata T. Aq. 12. q. 90. Art 4. Conc. for this exercise conduced much to the common peace and safety 2. Right meanes to attaine that end warranted by reason so had this For the people might be cōuinced of the equitie of this injunction by reasoning from naturall principles thus That which tends to the Common peace and safetie must be practised by all but the vse of the Bow tends to the Common peace and safety Ergo. The vse of the Bow must be practised by all 3. A right of authoritie in him who imposeth it so had this For Dauid whose command this was was before this time by a speciall command from God 1. Sam. 16.12 13. anointed to bee their King 4. It must be enacted and published so was this for he not only bade them but it is recorded in the Booke of Iasher Teach Or instruct which is done by rules exercise and examples as the manner is in your military Schoole The Artillery Garden The Children of Iudah It s an Hebraisme signifying that Tribe 2. Sam. 2.4 ouer which Dauid was anointed King in Hebron called so from Iudah the fourth sonne of Iacob who was the roote Gen 29.35 and father of that Tribe By the Children are meant all the people of that Tribe without exception of age or condition 1. Without exception of age Numb 1.20 after 20. or sooner it may be for at that age they went forth to warre and other Nations as for instance Corn. Tacit. lib. 5. cap. 7. the Germaines were wont to traine vp their sonnes euen from 14. yeeres old till they grewe by age or weakenesse vnfit for seruice 2. Without exception of condition Saul the King Ionathan the Prince Vriah a Noble man all sorts went to war as in Rome none were excused from seruice when Hannibal was at the gate The vse of the Bow By a Synechdoche the Bow is mentioned 1. Because it was much in vse amōgst the Israelites Psal 78.9 Therefore the Children of Ephraim are described Armed and shooting with the Bow 2. Because the enemy was expert in it and had annoied them much with that weapon Hence the Parthyans are described by drawing the Bowe and the Lidians Esa 66.19 Ier. 46.9 by handling and bending the Bow and it s said of Saul now slaine by the Philistims that the Archers and Bow-men hit him he was sore wounded of the Archers 1. Sam. 31.3 3. Because it was accounted most seruiceable and vsefull in warre Zach. 10 4. Ier. 51.3 therefore it s called The Bow of battaile and the bender that bendeth the Bow is the Periphrasis of a Souldier About the vsefulnesse of this weapon about those Muskets and Caliuers S. I.S his discourses with the preface thereunto now in vse it becomes not me to dispute others haue handled this Argument largely to whose discourses I referre you Beholde it is written in the Booke of Iasher What Booke this was is questioned 3. opin●ons ab●ut the booke of Iasher The word Iasher signifieth iust Some by this vnderstand the Pentateuch which say they is called the Booke of the just either because it was penned by Moses that just man or because it treateth about just things 2. Others thinke that only the Booke of Genesis is meant and that Dauid intended to incourage them to those Martiall exercises by what they find recorded in that Booke concerning the Tribe of Iudah that The Scepter should not depart from him nor a Law-giuer from betweene his feet Gen. 49.10 vntill Silo come 3. But to me their opinion seemes more probable Pet. Mart. in locum who thinke it to be some History containing after the manner of Annales or Chronicles the most remarkable passages in the State of Israel because this Booke is mentioned as the Register wherein that famous successe of the Sunnes standing still at Iosuahs prayer Iosh 10.12 13. for the space of a whole day is recorded whereof no mention is made in any of the fiue Bookes of Moses yet this no whit aduantageth the Papists who would from hence and such like places proue the defect of the Canonicall Books of the Old Testament For not to insist vpon the ambiguity of the word here vsed which signifieth any discourse about a thing as well as a Booke what if we grant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it was a written Booke must it necessarily follow that this Booke was Canonicall It s true that some ascribe it to Nathan and Gad Gen. 5.1 Nehem. 7.5 Mat. 1.1 who were Prophets yet all things which the Prophets wrote were not written by them as Prophets It cannot be denyed that the Prophets were Gods publicke Notaries Alia sicut hom nes historicâ diligent●a alia sicut Prophetae i●sp ratione diuinâ scripserūt atque haec ita ●uer●nt distincta vt illa tanquā ipsis ista vero tanquam Deoper i●sos loquēti iudicarentur esse tribuenda ac sic illa pertinerent ad vbertatem co●nitionis haec ad religionis authoritatem Aug de Ciuit. Dei li. 18. ca● 38. yet all the writings of a Notary are not authenticall vnlesse he doe them as a Notary Dauid the Prophet wrote a letter to Ioab concerning Vriah yet that was not penned by him as a Prophet The Prophets wrote some things as Prophets other things as Historians These serue to increase our knowledge those to increase our faith Thus we

haue opened and cleared the sence of the words In them you may obserue two things First an Act or Edict of Dauid for the training vp of the Children of Iudah in Martiall exercises He bade them teach the Children of Iudah the vse of the Bow Secondly a Record or Register of that Act. Behold it is written in the Booke of Iasher Out of the words thus opened the conclusion which naturally offreth it selfe is this that Doct. It is a care well beseeming Kings to prouide that their subiects be instructed and trained vp in Military exercises The Scriptures fully cleare this in examples of Abraham Gen. 14.14 hauing at least 318. men in his house fitted for warre vpon a short warning of Moses instructing the people how to camp by their standards Num. 2.2 3. and vnder the Ensignes of their fathers house of Ioshua and the Iudges 1. Chro. 12.1 2. vnder whom of Ruben and Gad and halfe the Tribe of Manasseh 1. Chro. 21.5 2 Chro. 1.8.7 ● 9. 2. Chron. 17.13 c. 2. Chr. 14 8. 2. Chron. 26.11 12 13 14. were foure hundred forty thousand seuen hundred and three score exercised in warres The time would faile me if I should speake largely of Dauid of Salomon of Iehosophat of Asa of Vzziah whose care in this particular is plentifully declared in holy Writ This practice was grounded vpon good reason as we shall euince thus Reason 1 Soueraigne power Common-wealths Lawes and Armes had the same originall the same end which that you may vnderstand conceiue it thus At first euery father or eldest of the family gaue lawes to the rest of that family and tooke care for their safety Afterwards mankind multiplying into diuers housholds Vicus of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or v.a. joyned their Cottages into one common field and so made vp that which we call a Village diuers Villages joyned together Pagus of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they dranke of our cōmon Spring Vrbs ab orbe Ciuitas ab eo quod multitudo coiuit grew into that which is called an Hundred but as pride and emulation increased with the increase of mankinde they inuironed diuers of these Villages thus joyned at first with bankes and ditches afterwards with walls which being so compassed and fortified were called Townes and Citties People thus conjoyned that they might liue honestly and peaceably together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist must be ordered amongst themselues Hence came the inuention of Lawes which are not only the rule and leuill and square of the foundation and building but the very spirit and sinewes of any Common-wealth and State whereby it liues and moues The end of these is the good of that Community Salus populi suprema lex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.4 Iam. 4.12 where they are in force The makers or preseruers of these Lawes are called Kings Gouernours Magistrates Higher powers their end is the Common welfare he is the Minister of God for thy good for which purpose the great Law-giuer who is able to saue and destroy hath by expresse rules in his Word ordered the carriage of Rulers towards the people (a) Deut. 16.18 19 20 21. and of people towards their Rulers (b) Rom. 13.1 to 9. This gouernment according to the diuersity of subjects wherein it rested had diuers names as it rested in one person it was called A Monarchy As it rested in few of the chiefe it was called An Aristocraty as it rested in many it was called a Democraty The Common-wealth being thus settled with Lawes and Gouernours for the honest conuersing of people amongst themselues it was necessarie to prouide for their peace and securitie from the iniuries of others for men naturally are as Lyons Leopards Wolues Asps Isa 11.6 to 9. Rom. 8.7 1. Pet. 2.11 Iames 4.1 and Cockatrices by reason of those inward lusts which maintaine Enmity against God fight against the soule and raise warres and contentions amongst men which sinfull disposition Satan out of his ancient malice against mankind acteth and exciteth inticing men to battell that they may fall 1 King 22.20 This being the common danger of all men euery man bethought himselfe of some course for preuention and hence came the inuention of Armes and Military discipline Thus you see we may truely say of these foure Soueraigne power Common-wealths Lawes and Armes as it was said of Hippocrates his Twinnes They laugh and weepe together they liue and dye together For as without Lawes the Soueraigne power and Common-wealth cannot subsist by reason of disorders within so without Armes and the exercise of them they cannot be safe by reason of dangers without Reason 2 The Common safety both of King and people is much aduanced by this course Pro. 14.28 In the multitude of people is the honour of a King and for want of people commeth the destruction of a Prince But what safety is in a multitude of men without weapons and skill to manage them Counsell and strength are for war Isa 36.5 But how shal Counsell and strength be established without education and instruction to seruice or how shall men be instructed without such Military exercises Add hereunto the disaduantages that sometimes happen in warres partly by reason of the suddennesse of the warre as in the rebellion of Sheba the sonne of Bichri 2. Sam. 20.4 an Army was to be raised in three dayes warning and in the case of Iabesh Gilead in the space of foure or fiue dayes 1. Sam. 11.8 9. Ioab raised three hundred thousand men of Israel and thirty thousand of Iudah to fight against the Ammonites Partly by reason of the inequality and oddes betwixt parties as betweene Dauid and Goliah 1. Sam. 17.33 The one a Boy the other a Man of warre from his youth and betweene the Ammonites and Israel 2. Sam. 10.9 when the front of their battell was against the Israelites before behind In such straights how shāeful fearefull would the losse and the ouerthrow of an Army and Kingdome be if by frequent exercise the Souldiers had not gained dexterity and skill to extricate themselues out of such difficulties To conclude Herein Kings imitate God whose prouidence is seene as well in defending as in feeding his creatures For amongst them some are fortified with hornes some with hoofes some with tushes some with teeth others that haue not these haue burrowes some haue strength to helpe themselues others that want that haue swiftnesse of feet to run away those that haue neither of these haue dennes and secret places to hide themselues in and those that haue none of these goe by heards and multitudes but vnto man God hath giuen reason and vnderstanding which is in stead of all these whereby he is able not only to espie meanes of escape from dangers but he can take from euery creature vpon earth yea from within the bowels of