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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04597	A spiritual chaine, and armour of choice, for Sion souldiers Which, whosoeuer weareth graciously, shall be sure of the best honour, comfort and safetie (whether he liue or die in the battell) that can come to a Christian souldier. Very necessary for these times.	Jones, Anthony, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 14717.5; ESTC S114423	39,266	114

louing souldiers held out with him to the end without any storming at all meerly for want of mony or meate So let Sion souldiers do with their Dauids and not stand vpon their due or right in times of difficultie Let souldiers learne to make a difference of times and according thereunto now and then to flourish in all things now and then to fade in all things saue onely in one that is to say the assurance of a powerfull glorious and gracious God to supply all their wants if they will ply him with earnest petitions and trust to him who neuer failed any One way or other a faithfull man shal be supplied yea and sometimes that way hee least thought on as Lot from his bondage and the Israelites from the famine which the Aramites caused Therefore I say once more that a Sion souldier must still looke vpon that famous worthy linke of his heauenly chaine Resolued courage and not be clamorous or detected for want of his due in time of aduersitie Is this a souldiers case alone when he is abroad in war No surely It is the Mariners case at Sea yea and more then that also it is the Plowmans case at home it is the Artificers case at home nay and it may be the Pastors and the very Kings case himselfe at home All these haue their portions allowed of the Lord our God and according to their places plentifull portions in time of prosperitie but in aduersitie in troubled waters in stormes in dearths in time of pestilence in persecutions for the Gospell each of these euen the Lords annointed must be content to abate of their due of their right yea and come to sackcloth and ashes with fasting sometimes they must not looke continually for such plentie recompence attendance and respect as belongs vnto them No no they are in their right way when in such cases they abate of their right If this contentednes with want of their due belong to Prince and Pastor how much more to common people If to Kings and Captaines how much more to souldiers All men must receiue their state calling and place vpon condition that if our good God wil call them to wants they must be as wel contented with penurie as with plentie and say with patient Iob The Lord hath giuen the Lord hath taken away Iob 1.21 Iob 2 10. blessed be the name of the Lord Shall we receiue good at the hands of the Lord and not receiue euill And they must say with Paul I haue learned in whatsoeuer estate I am therewith to be content I can be abased and I can abound euery where in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungrie to abound and to want Is not our heauenly Father most wise most prouident most powerfull and most louing He is Therefore this affliction this want is good for vs otherwise he would not suffer it to fall vpon vs. Now know this moreouer that such wants as these may come to the most godly souldiers as wel as to the most vngodly ones For in things of this nature There is as Solomon saith one euent to the righteous and to the wicked to the good and to the euill to the cleane and to the vncleane to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not as is the good so is the sinner and he that sweareth as he that feareth an oath Good souldiers may doe good an hundred times and yet sustaine many wants afterwards wicked souldiers may do euill yea commit foule outrages an hundred times and yet remain in great plentie yea and go away vvith notable victories Howbeit in the end there shall be a differeence made and seene as both Dauid and his son Solomon say Eccles 8.11 12 13. Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sonnes of men is fully set in them to do euill But though a sin-do euill an hundred times and his dayes be prolonged yet surely I know that it shal be well with them that feare the Lord but it shall not be well with the wicked neither shal he prolong his days which are as a shadow because he feareth not before God And again Mark the way of the vpright man and behold for the end of that man is peace A good souldier considering this end wil not be discouraged in a faithlesse manner for want of wages and victuals when the enemy hath aboundant and thereby grieue his gouernour Act. 21.13 but as Paul said in his kind of war What meane you to weep and to breake mine heart I am readie not to be bound onely but also to die for the name of the Lord Iesus So should a holy Sion souldier say Why breake you my heart O louing Captaine by grieuing for my wants I am ready not onely to want my wages and foode for the cause of my Christ but to spend my dearest drop of blood for him and with you Zach. 11.11 Gracious Iosian souldiers so I call the tender hearted to their gouernours wil mourne to see their Captain come to any griefe or wound by the Captaines owne failing in any of his plots or cariages how will they feare then to bring their Captaine to mourning by their owne failing in any dutie of kindnesse to their Gouernour A holy souldier will say thus in time of his gouernours disabilitie to pay wages I serue a good Lord euen the Lord Iesus Christ who hath promised not to leaue vs nor forsake vs he will pay you and me our wages good Captaine And thus he will say in time of distresse for food Deut. 8.3 Math. 4.4 I liue not by bread onely but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of my God hence am I strengthened I did put on this mind at home in my country before I stept a foote towards this war therefore be not grieued I beseech you for any wants of mine as I haue bin well contented with my wages heretofore so am I as well content without it now and as for food O Captain I wait vpon my good God for it and here will I stand for him and to you come what may come till death it selfe come God assisting me onely be you strong and of good comfort Thus much for the sixt Worthy wherein I haue bin the longer because many souldiers haue bin so short in this contentednes with pay prouision as thereby to hazard or dissolue or destroy mightie armies 7. Worthy linke Armour The seuenth vvorthy linke which I aduise Protestant souldiers to consider of is their spirituall armour they must haue much more care of putting on and keeping on that armour then of their corporal armor this is that true armor of proofe which Paul for the excellencie thereof doth call The Armour of God By this armour Gods children are enabled through him by whom they can do all things to stand against the greatest assaults of all Take vnto you