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enemy_n	colonel_n	horse_n	lieutenant_n	1,115	5	9.3142	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10904	A sermon preached on September the 20. 1632. in the cathedrall church of Christ at Canterbury, at the funerall of William Proud, a lieutenant collonell, slaine at the last late siege of Mastricke. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity	Rogers, Francis, d. 1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 21175; ESTC S116095	14,227	26

yeeres God hath not taken away many of our braue Gentiles and worthy Souldiers but where haue we a succeeding generation What are our Ships without Saylors What are our Gunnes without men What are our men without discipline And how can we haue discipline without braue Commanders and experienced Souldiers Philip King of Macedon accounted the Athenians happy because they were able euery yeere to send out ten worthy Commanders whereas he onely had Parmenio Hence did this Nation florish heretofore and was a terrour to all Nations Yea Charles the eighth of France attired his souldiers like Englishmen to make them more fearefull to his Rebels but now alas of late God hath not gone forth with our armies but for our sinnes he hath made vs an hissing and a by word to other people Oh now Abner hath leaue to dye and men of action by the sword neuer lesse regarded neuer better spared Well blessed be God for our peace and pray we all for the peace of our Ierusalem Let them prosper which loue it yet let not vs be secure The sons of Zeruiah may be too mighty for vs though our enemies abroad do sleep and the Papists at home are not plotting treasons yet the deuill all this time may rocke the cradle and God may one day suffer the child to awake therefore let not so many Abners nor this worthy Abner before vs dye without sence of a publike losse and an vniuersall condolment of the whole State For so saith my text Know yee not that a Prince c A Prince that is a prime man a principall Commander a valiant Souldier and a worthy Warrier And hauing finished my text giue me leaue to speake of this present occasion Ptolomeus asketh a question What course men noble in birth quality of mind yet oppressed with pouerty should take to liue by and to be fruitfull members in the Commonwealth He answerd They may in no wise practise any base or mechanicall trade but they must addict themselues eyther to the seruice of their Prince or bee Priests of Gods Altar or else giue themselues to chiualry and a military life This latter kinde of calling our Countryman this noble Commander vndertooke What to be a souldier Nulla fides pietasque viris qui bella sequuntur There is neyther fayth nor piety in men of warre which liue by their sword But Gods Word will gainesay this Abraham the father of the faythfull was a souldier when with 300. armed men he arose and rescued Lot and the Kings which were taken prisoners Iacob his grandchild was a warrier for Gen. 48.22 hee gaue to Ioseph a portion aboue his brethren which sayd he I got out of the hands of the Amorites by my sword and by my bow Dauid a godly man was a souldier for God did teach his hands to warre and his fingers to fight and he entred the lists and fought a priuate duell with great Goliah that monster of the Philistines and he did cut off his head with his owne sword In the new Testament the Centurion was so beleeuing as Christ sayd Verily I haue not found so great fayth no not in Israel And Cornelius Captaine of the Italian band Acts 10. was a deuout man who feared God with all his household which did giue much almes to the people and prayed God continually Thus we see souldiers may be and often are very religious And they are necessary members for the Common-wealth Hence Gabriel Simon did picture Iulius Caesar standing vpon a Globe of the world holding in his left hand a booke in his right hand a sword drawne with this Motto Ex vtraque Caesar to shew that the Empire was gotten and held by armes and good letters And the great Turke going into his Oratory to performe his deuotions the Talesman with a loud voyce willeth him to remember that as the Empire was gotten by iustice and military discipline so it must be mayntayned by the same weapons for as in the body naturall if the head aduise neuer so well the eye see neuer so clearely and the toung speake neuer so pleasingly yet if the armes be dead or disioynted the body can neyther offend other or defend it selfe Euen so in the body politicke If the head that is the King by his Councell aduise neuer so well if the eyes that is the reuerend Bishops and Cleargy see neuer so well and expell all mists of error superstition and idolatry if the tongue that is the learned Iudges and Lawyers administer iustice neuer so vprightly yet if the Strong men the men of warre which are the armes of the Kingdome be dead or disarmed we can neyther offend any other nor defend our selues from the inuasion of an enemy All which doe shew the necessity of the Honorable profession of a Souldier To come now to my subiect This valiant Souldier first went for his Countries seruice Portugall voyage Then he serued in the wars of Brittany Thirdly He went Cales voyage Next the Iland voyage Fiftly He went into Ireland where he was Collonell to a troope of Horse which being cassier'd he was made Lieutenant to a Foote-company After all these trauels dangers he went to Ostend the most famous siege that euer was or I thinke euer will be The enemy valiantly assaulted the besieged valiantly repulsed them The then Generall the honour of our Nation in this latter age Noble Sir Francis Vere employed him being but a priuate Gentleman in a sally in which he got the first badge of his honour being shot into the thigh with a musket bullet And the Generall obseruing his valour and his stout and discreete answere tooke such liking of him as shortly after his returne he made him a Lieutenant and in a little space after he made him a Chiefetaine we say a Captaine which hee alwaies to his dying day would acknowledge with a most thankefull mind to be the ground of all his honour and fortune And such was his fidelity euer after to that noble Generall as he would not endure any man to speak basely of him or in the least measure to detract from his worth Hauing gotten this honour he so carried himselfe for valour for diligence for insight in his Office as that the late Prince of Orange of famous memory and the now illustrious and victorious Prince and all the army noted his worth and merit And still he aduanced himselfe to higher place being made a Seriant Maior of a Regiment and after that a Lieutenant Collonell Degeneres animos ●imor ●rguit heu quibus ille Ia●●●us vemis quae bella exhausta canebat sayth Queene Dido of braue Aeneas so this worthy Captaine neuer harboured the least thought of base cowardise in his brest How many dangers How many battailes How many skirmishes How many sieges hath he past thorow yea with losse of blood but alwaies with gaine of honour I may say of him as is sayd of Vlysses Omnia pericula intrepide pertransit he ranne thorow