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england_n	france_n	king_n	proclaim_v	3,205	5	10.7688	5	false

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A95806	The good of peace and ill of vvarre, set forth in a sermon preached in the cathedrall church of S. Paul, the last day of July, 1642. By Ephraim Vdall, Rector of S. Austins, London.	Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647.	1642 (1642)	Wing U9; Thomason E113_16; ESTC R23094	24,719	49

depend upon their Armies successe Victory bestowes not her self alwayes to one side and party The battell is not alwayes to the most righteous it is not alwayes to the strongest Eccle. 9.11 But as Noahs dove lay hovering over the waters not knowing where to rest her foot so when a battell is joyned victory hovers sometimes long inclining one while to the one another to the other uncertaine where to light and settles sometimes on the one sometimes on the others sword A gag that by his conquering sword had made many women childlesse was taken prisoner at the last by Saul and hewen in peices by the sword of Samuel and his mother made childlesse among women 1 Sam. 15.33 A doni-bezeck that had overcome threescore and ten Kings and cut off their thumbs from their hands and feete and made them eat bread like dogs under his table was taken captive himselfe by the tribe of Judah and retaliated by them Judg. 1.7 The five Kings that warred against the King of Sodome and his confederates discomfited them and carried away the spoyle of Sodome and Lot Abrahams Nephew also but Abraham arming three hundred and eighteene of his houshold servants pursued these five Kings and overthrew them in battell and recovered Lot with all the spoyle they had carried away as a booty Gen. 14.11.15 The Amalekites invaded Ziklag spoyled the City and carried away David's Wives and all the substance of his people but David and his people pursuing them defeated them and recovered back all they had carried away from Ziklag 1 Sam. 30.1.17 In the warres betweene France and England upon our pretensions to that Crowne wonderfull were the different chances of warre the one sometimes gaining on the other glorious victories and put at other times to shamefull flight and losse that noble and victorious Prince Henry the fift so put that Kingdome to distresse by his victorious conquests and forced the King to such extre●ity that marrying his daughter besides those provinces that he injoyed in present possession it as agreed upon that after the French Kings death he should inherit the Crowne of France by Oath of all the Nobles and cheife Cities of the Kingdome and so it was proclaimed in England and in France But Henry the sixt his sonne lost all his Father had obtained which Henry the Father by what spirit I know not did fore-prophesie for when newes was brought him of the birth of his sonne Henry borne at Windsor hee presently said I Henry borne at Mounmouth shall reigne a short time and gaine much but Henry horne at Windsor shall reigne long and lose all which fell out very true by the differing chance of warre Henry the third in the Barons warres at the battell of Lewis in Sussex was overthrowne by them but in the battell of Eversham in Worcestershire bee defeated his Barons because the Conqueror and rid his neck from the yoke of the twelve Peers that had been put upon him and had a long time beene grievous to him Thus in the long and tedious warres betweene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster the differing changes of the war were many sometimes one sometimes the other faction prevailing in the field and sometimes one sometimes the other wearing the Imperiall Crowne till all on either side were as weary of the war as many wanton men are now of peace All the great Monarchies of the world as they rose so they fell and were ruined by warre as the Prophet Iere. 50.23 instanceth in that great one Babylon saying how is the hammer of the whole earth out asunder and brohen how is Babylon become a desolation among the Nations In warre sometime where strength and policy and shill and courage and all things needfull for the war concurre yet these prevaile not but the weakest the unskilfulest the femest and most unfurnished of military accommodations goe away with the victory and sometimes might overcomes right and the most wicked winne the field when God will chasten a people for other sinnes that have a righteous cause There is no greater evill and affliction in the world than War for it is attended upon by all the evils of punishment that God inflicts upon men for their iniquities And therefore in Scripture when God is so offended that he purposeth the utter mine and desolation of a family City or Nation this is the judgment that he sets on foot to that purpose By the Wars of the Philistims upon Saul he put an end to Sauls life and Kingdom By the Wars of Jehu upon Ahab he swept away the house of Ahab as dung from the face of the earth By the Wars of the Syrians upon Samaria that City was brought to that calamity that women did eat thier children by course to satisfie their hungry soules and fed and sustained their dying lives with the dung of Doves a thing that nature loathes By the Wars of Nabuchadnezzar upon Jerusalem that City was brought to that extremity that the beautifull women the sole of whose foot might not touch the earth such was their nicety and tendernesse did make their own Bowels the sepulcher for their children of a span long the fruits of their own bodies And when it had been reedified by Zerobabel and the rest of the reduct of the captivity by the wars of the Romans under the conduct of Titus and Vespasian it was brought unto as great misery and after taken and rased to the ground and the people sold by the poll for slaves and to this day remaine miserably dispersed upon the face of the earth Troy the most famous City of the World the subject of the song of Homer the oldest writer in the world except Moses that wrote 500 years before him by the wars of the Greeks was ruined and turned into a tilled field Jamseges est ubi Troja fait And now corne grows where Troy Town stood The Canaanites the Hittites the Amorites the Hiuites and Peresites the Gigasites great and mighty Nations who had walled Cyties and Chariots of Iron and the sons of Anack mighty men among them were spewed out of their land by the war of the Israelites upon them Josh 12. War brings the Screech Owle and the Dragon into the most beautifull and goodly Palaces laying them as desolate wildernesses full of briars and thornes and makes them habitations for Satyres the wild beasts of the Islands and other the most dolefull creatures Esay 13.21 Yea when war enters into the Congregation of God the very Temples of God are broken down with axes and hammers Psa 74.4 Even that very Temple that was the beauty glory of the world was burn'd by Nabuchadnezzar with fire 2 King 25.9 which made the Prophet Esay thus complaine Esay 64.11 Our holy and beautifull house wherein our Fathers praised thee is burnt up with fire and all our pleasant things laid wast And the Daughters ran the same fortune with their Mother Psa 74.7 They have cast fire into thy Sanctuary and defiled the