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A43620	The good old cause, or, The divine captain characteriz'd in a sermon (not preach'd, nor needful to be preach'd, in any place so properly as in a camp) by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1692 (1692)	Wing H1807; ESTC R7616	21,900	38

encounter with that Expression Isa 41.14 Fear not thou Worm Jacob. One would think if Jacob be a Worm had more cause to fear than any other Creature under Heaven a Lion has Strength a Worm has none the Dove is fearful but she has Wings the Hare the Deer are timerous but they have swiftness of Foot to fly from Danger a Snake has none of these Advantages yet she has a Sting But a Worm what Creature so despicable so subject to the tread of every Foot She has no Wings to fly no Sting to make them stand off yet Fear not thou Worm Jacob. And why the Reason follows in the next words For I am with thee saith God And if God be for us who can be against us And here I shall baulk my Discourse and the Text if Id o not shew Q. 1. First How God may be said to be for his People when the Lord does what seemeth him good in prospering them as he did Joab in the Text with Victory Or how God may be said to fight for his People Q. 2. And secondly How long he will fight for them 1. First I answer that God visibly fights for his People four several ways all applicable to this Text and these Times for which I purposely chose this Text and if I should conclude my Discourse on this Text only with shewing what we should do in case of Death Defeat or any other sinister event a Consideration very useful and necessary yet it would be a Contemplation too melancholly and ominous to conclude with Passive Valour in active and victorious times such as this of Joab in the Text a Victory sultable and parallel to ours in this Juncture For in the Verse next following the Text we hear the good News that the Idolaters are run for it the Syrians fled before Joab And when the Children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled then fled they also before Abishai Almighty God then gives Victory and visibly fights for his People when they fight in a good Cause four several ways He did it for Israel Great Britain and Ireland 1. First God is said visibly to fight when he raises up a Hero a Worthy by endowing him with the Spirit of Courage as he did Gideon Baruk Jephtha Sampson David Samuel and that I forget not Moses and Joshua But of this I have spoken fully already under that Head of Supernatural Courage But if I should only remember those famous Worthies so long ago and so remote my Memory would be as ungrateful as treacherous if I should forget what all the World at present admires and Posterity will much more His Sacred Majesty King WILLIAM whom GOD has raised up to be a Deliverer to us in the day of our distress and to rescue us from Popish Tyranny and Superstition and all those Miseries and Calamities which were ready to break in upon us I am upon a Subject uncapable of Flattery or Hyperbole but surely I cannot say less upon so great and Fair Occasion than to say my Prayers I only repeat the daily Prayers of the Church of England In raising up thy Servant King William to be a Deliverer to us in the day of our Distress c. When God's Hand is lifted up they will not see saith Isaiah but they shall see Isa 26.11 and be ashamed for their Envy c. We have still many Envious Souls amongst us it spites them to the Heart to see what God has done for these Kingdoms and yet they clap their Hands before their Eyes and will not see what all others in the World see What 's the Reason The Prophet says For their Envy c. Let them go on and let them go to their Idolater their Idol if they please or dare let the Blind lead the Blind till they both fall into the Ditch I mean the French and the Frenchified English Frenchified English There 's a word unknown to our Forefathers We used to be such Apes as to take Laws from France for Feathers and Lace and Top-knots but the English for 500 years and upwards have been a Terrour to France And are these Frenchified-English Natives then And do they know to whom they truckle and why I cannot say less on this ungrateful Subject and I will not say more especially at this time and on this occasion I am very ready at another time to speak more home to our silly fellows at home 2. Secondly God fights for his People by sending his Fear and Terrour Amazement and Astonishment into the Hearts of the Enemy This in Scripture is called God's Hornet which like Beasts stung with a Garabee or Hornet made Men run they did not know whither and they did not know why nor where to be safe they were in such a Consternation Deut. 7.20 21. Amazement and Fear And so is the word interpreted Thus when the cowardly Spies Cowards all but Caleb and Joshua went to spy out the Land of Canaan the poor Hearts were out of Heart when they saw the Giants the Children of Anak Num. 13.32 33. and that all the People were men of great stature But we say they were in our sight as Grashoppers and so we were in their sight But little men may look up to Heaven little men may cry I hope and call to GOD for help the less Ability they had in themselves Therefore saith God Josh 24.12 I sent my Hornet before you which drove them out from before you but not with thy Sword nor with thy Bow Yet they had both Sword and Bow in conquering Canaan but to little purpose if God had not sent his Hornet before them to sting the Enemy to the Heart and to leave the Lubbers like ominous Beasts for Sacrifice without a Heart And to apply it What account can be given in human Reason why Ten of our men lately in Ireland would usually make an Hundred to fly Was it because we were bigger or taller or stronger-limb'd than the Irish or French No such matter But all the reason that can be given is this they were stung with Dread Horrour and Amazement run like Beasts stung with a Garabee they did not know why nor whither nor where to hide God sent his Hornet before us and to him be the Glory not with thy Sword nor with thy Bow Nor can it be said that our late Deliverance and Redemption three years ago was wrought or brought about with Sword or Spear To see such an Army treble the number of our Deliverer none better mounted nor better arm'd to see a Navy well equipp'd Men of War well rigg'd and all these to melt away and scatter no man pursuing them What 's the matter God sent his Hornet before them Not but that it spoke both natural and supernatural Courage in a superlative manner to attempt so bravely and through Faith to subdue Kingdoms but it was digitus Dei the Hand of God was visible in it to him be the Glory not with

will ruine the best Cause in the World This common and open Prophaneness does not only provoke God's Wrath against themselves but against their Governors if they only reprove and make Proclamations in detestation of them Old Eli did thus much to his debauch'd Sons but for want of a severer Discipline God punish'd him and his House for ever This Leven must be purged out and cashiered or else it will leven the whole Lump It is no surprize therefore to thinking men to hear of vast Fleets put to Sea with vast Expence and vaster Hopes yet without Success whilst men thus impudently and openly from the First Rate Ship to the Tender from Stem to Stern from the Captain to the Cook swear and curse like Devils and therefore most unfit to play the men for our People and the Cities of our God None therefore can be greater Enemies to Their Sacred Majesties and so good a Cause the best Cause in the World in this Juncture than these damning cursing cursed and swearing Libertines that cannot truly and faithfully honour their King if they fear not God For such I 'll pray though as we do over the Doors of them that have the Plague Lord have mercy upon these Wretches or in the words of Moses O that they were wise Deut. 32.29 30. that they understood this that they would consider their latter end How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight If therefore a Souldier love his God his own Soul his King his own Honour and Welfare his People and the Cities of our God let him so live that he may not be afraid to dye and then his good Conscience will add to his Valour and make a man of good courage and able to play the man 3. A third cause of additional Valour is valiant Leaders by their couragious Words and Deeds 1. First by their Words adding Courage to their Souldiers by such brave Speeches as this in the Text. The first and bravest Emperor Julius Caesar was very happy both in Arts and Arms a good Oratour and a good Captain and was addicted to these Harangues to cheer up his Souldiers when ready to come to the Push as may be seen in his own Commentaries No man spoke better no man fought better both he and Joab in the Text had as all valiant men have a great presence of Mind had their Wits about them in the midst of Dangers they did almost what they list and could say what they lift tho' what they said was but little yet they spoke much in little being happy both for the Pen and the Pike 2. But the brave Deeds of a Commander is far more efficacious than brave Words a couragious Leader like the Sun-beams influences all that see him with Spirit and Heat and Life For as Cowardice is infectious a few Cowards if not timely knock'd down are enough to ruine a whole Camp so Courage also spreads it self and there 's none so timerous but will be ready to follow their Leader if a brave man at Arms. 4. A fourth cause of additional Valour is good Arms and good Armour Those will put Courage into a Coward and those daunt the bravest Enemy that fights unarm'd A Souldier may with as much reason flight all his Garrisons ruine the Bulwarks of his strongest Forts and cut down his Palasadoes as fight without his Armour The Prince of Poets the first in Time as well as Exoellence never sights his Champion Achilles till he has first buckled on him his Armour of Proof Nor does our * Sir Philip Sidney who was elected to be K. of Poland but refused English Homer so famous for but less happy in his Pike than his Pen yet as terrible to his Enemies abroad as amiable to his Friends at home that accepted the Lawrel but refused the Diadem in his English Arcadia ever sight his Knights to beat the Giants till he has first brought them the best Horses the best Arms and Armour that he could imagine nay he spares for no Costs to furnish them with And neglected by none but Braggadochios especially since the Invention of Gunpowder Is Valour any Fence against a Bullet That dismounts the Highest's Courage in its full Careir tho' shot by the most feeble Arm. The Wonders done by a late Hero in England Scotland and Ireland in a had Cause was truly attributed to his care of good Armour for that cause sirnamed Ironside If good Armour has done so great things in a bad Cause what Wonders may it not do in our Cause at this day the best Cause in the World In defence of our People and the Cities of our God from the Ravage of a merciless and bloody Foe the Common Enemy of Mankind the Turks and Mahomet only excepted This harden'd Enemy wonted to spoil cannot be oppos'd in humane probability by a Militia that has no other Armour than Feathers and Scarfs as if a muster of Men when three Kingdoms lye at stake and rais'd and maintain'd at a vast charge to their Country were nothing but a Morris-dance that their Women out of their Windows might admire in the Street the goodly menage of the gay Puppit that belongs to their House No other reason can be given why at this day the Militia-Captains clude and frustrate the Statute that commands Back Breast and Pot for the Horse and Corslet for the Pikes now chang'd forsooth into a Leather Jacquet nick-nam'd a Buff Coat and into a Red Coat and Byonet Or is it because some Feather-bed Captains sell such Ware Oh! but Armour is wearisome and heavy Yes so also is the whole Duty of a Souldier but it is the Occupation he has undertaken and by which he gets his Livelihood and Can a Workman work without Tools Or is he asham'd like other Workmen to carry them on his Back Let a Souldier be asham'd of being beaten of being a Captive or running away but let him never be asham'd of the Tools of the Trade by which alone he stands fair for the Victory But say some This Armour speaks Fear and Timerousness Does it so Then be it so Fear that makes a Centinel or a Guard more watchful is a due Ingredient of true Valour Was there ever any wise or successful Generals but fortified their Camp When the Spade and the Pickax are the Souldier's Armour yet this is really fear of Surprizal but not Cowardice but the greatest Wisdom The great Alexander Caesar Pompey and generally the Grecians and Romans were no Cowards for they conquer'd the greatest part of the known World yet they never engag'd but in bright-shining Armour especially their Horse except some light-armed Horsemen with us called Dragoons that are not intended to abide the shock but in a Battel to be here and there and every where as occasion serves being Mars's Hermaphrodites neither right Horse nor right Foot yet both these and of extream use and behoof in a Camp A Souldier may as well dismantle