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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05289	Speculum belli sacri: Or The looking-glasse of the holy war wherein is discovered: the evill of war. The good of warr. The guide of war. In the last of these I give a scantling of the Christian tackticks, from the levying of the souldier, to the founding of the retrait; together with a modell of the carryage, both of conquerour and conquered. I haue applyed the generall rules warranted by the Word, to the particular necessity of our present times.	Leighton, Alexander, 1568-1649.	1624 (1624)	STC 15432; ESTC S108433	252,360	338

a broken title This I was forced to cleer as briefly as I could that the right of King Frederick might be the clearer which being laid in the ballance of equity with the former pretended right shall shew it selfe of a just weight which the other vvants First the place was orderly quitted of all lavvfull challenge Secōdly he vvas called vvithout seeking or intruding Thirdly he had an orderly unanimous and plenarie election all vvhich as I haue shevved vvere vvanting in the former Neither did ever the said king infringe any of their liberties This being as you see his undoubted right stood it eyther vvith equitie or pietie not to maintaine it Compare his right and maintenance of the same vvith the examples quoted of the Campani the Romanes and out of them you shall see as from the minor to the maior that his cause action is as just as may be First the Campani vvere a free people to make choyse at their pleasure of their Head and Governor so vvere the Bohemians and ever haue been since their first being Witnes all the Histories of Bohemia Hungaria Polonia the Annalls of Cilecia and the examples monuments of the Bohemians Aeneas Silvius in hist Bohem. To the vvhich I may add for the better cleering of the point that Embassye of Charles the seventh of France to the Bohemians after the death of Ladislaus to vvhom he had contracted his daughter vvherein he requested them eyther to chuse one of his sons for their King or such a one on vvhom he might bestovv his daughter Secondly they vvere unjustly invaded by a mightie people the Samnites so did the Bohemians suffer much from the hovvse of Austria and no litle by the present Emperour Thirdly they sought aide from the Romanes vvho would not but on just ground undertake the vvarre and therefore they became their subiects and so they vndertooke it so the Bohemians made suit to the Prince Elector in their feare of cruell dealing that he vvould become their King and take the maintenance of their iust cause which he did and that lawfully not undertaking any thing for them directly or indirectly before he vvas their King Compare these together In Nevio licet quod in Gais non licet and except that we wil say that it is lavvful in Nevius which is not lawful in Gaius or a heathen Senate may doe for their subiects vvhat a Christian King may not doe for his I see not whye the one in him is not as lawful or more lawful then the other was in them But to conclude this point If his successe of possession had seconded his right of election a great many of our English Imperialists other drowsy Sybarits would never haue torne his title nor exclaimed on his practise as they now doe To them for the present I will say no more but to iudge actions by events right of titles by present possession is in these evill dangerous dayes rather to approve of tyrannous intruders both in church commō wealth then of the true owners As for the latter point of the ground namely truth of religion the defence whereof he undertooke It is the trueth and none but it against which the gates of hell the dragon beast and false Prophet the croaking frogges and all the drunken Princes of the earth with the cup of the whore doe what they can shall never be able to prevayle As hitherto then appeareth the equitie of the warre on the Kings part The iniquitie of our onemies war so likewise from the want of this ground is laid open to the view the iniquitie of all the warres vndertaken by the enemies of God against his people as the warres of Gog and Magog and of the heathen Emperours made vpon Gods inheritance What ground had the great red Dragon for making warre against the woman and to stand before her to devour the man child when it was brought forth Rev. 12.3.4 As for the greatnes of this persecution by the Roman Emperours and for the bloudy crueltie of it it may justly be called a wonder so not vnfitlie may it so be called because there was no cause given them by those whom they persecuted but rather by their quiet and holy behaviour they deserved to live in peace So the Psalmist speaketh of the rage of the wicked against Christ his Church Psal 2.2 Why doe the people tumulteously rage Where David marveileth at the tumulteous hurling together of the wicked as if they would devoure the godly as they would indeed What ground had the scarlet whore to bathe her leprous carkasse in the bloud of the Saints Where observe likewise Rev. 17.6 that it is called a great wonder What equitie was there that the Popes unholinesse under a pretence of the inlargement of Peters patrimony took armes against Kings and Emperours as Iulius the second against Lewes the tvvelfth of France Yea he gave battel on Easter day against the French at Ravenna Innocent the second against Roger king of Cicilie What ground of stirring up one Prince against another giving of Kingdoms from hand to hand the French against the English as Lewis against King Iohn by Innocent the third the English against the French as Rich of England an Vrbanist made war at the Popes command upon the King of France a Clementine Paul the third sent Cardinall Poole to forraigne Princes to stir them up against Henry the eight giving him his people as a prey to their enemies So how like is the Pope to the devill his father in being prodigal of Kingdomes which are none of his to deale Doe wee ever reade as a fryer Minorite said well that Peter did so Vpon what ground doe they incite subiects to take armes against their soveraigne Kings and Princes as Pius quintus Sixtus quintus the one by his Bull the other by his Declaration excited the subiects of England to take armes against their soveraigne Queene Elizabeth yea to lay hands on her and punish her What just cause had Philip the 2 of Spaine to undertake by force of Armes against law and covenant the establishing of the bloudy Inquisition in the Low countries The best ground I can find was Duke de Alva his hart-burne against the people and Cardinall Granvils spleene against the Gospell What account in conscience could the Duke and Red-cap giue to counsell the King to conquer England whereto he had no right at all and to suppresse religion in all other places For the effecting of this Chiapin Vitelli Duke de Alva his Chiefe Captaine was sent with some faigned message to the Queene but indeed his errand was to try the Papists for immediatly after his departure out of England the Earles rebelled in the North. And for fuell for this fire Duke de Alva had ready in Zealand 10 Regiments to be imbarkt for England but God quenched our fire quickly and found him enough to doe at home for all

turned to the undoing of himselfe and of the businesse Another notable instance vve haue in the aforesaid Lewis Sforcia a Prince as Histories report highly adorned vvith all endowments of nature Non tutor at crudelis hostis proripit imperium nepoti lov l. 4 de El. and ornaments of the minde a quick vvit eloquence at vvill but that the bloud of his Nephew did staine all these excellencies for of a Tutor he proved a Traytor like Richard the third he might vvell haue deserved the name of a meek and benigne Prince but as his haughtinesse and arrogancie vvas such that he thought to dispose of Italy at his pleasure so he vvas puft up vvith such a false-conception of his ovvn selfe-sufficiency that he contemned and rejected all counsell For though he made a shew thereof in his coulors as I shewed you yet indeed he made use of nothing lesse hee carryed all by the compasse of his own opinion whereunto he was so much addicted that nothing relished with him that came not from himselfe But this selfe-confidence and despising of counsell brought him to a tragicall end as witnesseth Guicciar●ne For being foyled by the French Lib. 4. Hist Ital. he betooke himselfe ●ong the Switzers to the habite of an ordinary souldier ●t he was discovered and taken by the French and in an ●ominious manner vvas conducted to Lyons vvhere in the ●ew of a great concourse of people he was tossed betwixt ●vie and pitty for a time and being denyed the Kings pre●nce which he did exceedingly desire vvas shut up in ●ison which served both to limit his ambitious thoughts ● which all Italy could not contain and likewise to put a ●riod to his disgracefull and disdained life after ten yeares ●prisonment One instance more let me giue you in Iames the 4 King ●f Scots as braue a man as vvitie a King so benigne and ●acious a Prince to his subjects as Europe had not so great ●usticiarie so that he seemed to be composed of clemency ●nd equity and vvhich surpast all the rest he vvas so guar●ed vvith the tranquillity of a good conscience arising from ●he innocency of his princely carriage that he counted ●ot the aspertions of the wicked vvorthy of requitall with so much as an angry vvord In a vvord he did so ravish vvith ●oue the hearts of his subjects that as he vvas deerer to them ●hile they had him then their very liues so the remem●rance of his death did so gall their soules vvith sorrow that ●ever a Prince in the world lived more desired and dyed more ●mented Yet this one Coliquintida put death in the pot name●y neglect of counsell both in undertaking and managing ●he war against the English which put an untimely end Jncertum est peiore concilio an eventu B. R. Scotie lib. 13. ●oth to his being and his princely vertues Insomuch that ●t is well observed by the learned authour It is uncertaine whether the counsell or event was worse These examples and many others of the same nature makes good that position of Plato That a proud man carryed altogether on the wings of his own conceit scorning the advice both of the wise and warriour is left at length by God to be his own destruction To this effect Comineus a Statesman inf●riour to none laies this down as an infallible prognostio● of future ruin both of King and Kingdom when a Pr●● neglecting counsell cleaveth onely to his own wit Yea he she● eth it plainly to be a fearefull fore-runner of Gods judgment when God doth infatuate the heart so that it 〈◊〉 not hearken to counsell The instance that vvee had last in hand maketh it plai●● For the wise Councel of that good King did earnestly 〈◊〉 swade him from vvarre Besides that strange monitor th● appeared to him at prayer as a man of credit vvith the Kin● informed the Historian David Lin desius eques Montanus that he saw him with his eyes y● for all this by the instigation of Lamote the French Em●● sador he would to it The English forces being gathered 〈◊〉 gether under the conduct of the Earle of Surry and Hera●●● being sent to the King desiring that he would design th● day and place of battel his wise and warlike councel diss●ded him from it and that upon substantiall grounds first they had already the better and so much as they could we desire secondly the English were twice so many and th●● fresh souldiers against them being wearyed vvith taking i● of Castles thirdly by delaying fight they might vvear● the English out or at least draw them to such a disadvantage of place that they might carry the victory rather by Coursell then by Armes Victoria magis consilio quam Armis maximi ducis proprium vvhich as the Earle of Angui●● said vvell is the property of a good Commander The sai● Earle likewise refuted all the allegations of the French wh●● put the King on onely for their own ends But all this vvould not vvork upon the King vvho in great indignation against the noble Earle vvilled him to depart if he were afraid for I vvill fight saith he against the English if the● vvere a hundred thousand Which hee did but to his ovv● undoing and the griefe and damage of his Nation The vvhich I rather relate for confirmation of the former position That when God hardens the heart agains● councell in judgement hee maketh way for ruin Foolish then is that forgery of those who attribute this ●●ngs fall to the taking sacrilegious Armes as they call them ●gainst Pope I●lius the second Englands holy Lord. It was ●e Lord of heaven that gave him this defeat neglect of ●unsell being the secondarie cause I might instance this ●●t further in Richard the second a stout Prince and gover●ng well for the time that he was counselled by his three ●od uncles the Dukes of Lancaster Yorke and Gloucester ●ut the rejecting of them their counsell made vvay to the ●sse of his Crovvn dignitie life Iratus ad paenā Deus si quis trahit auferre mentem talibus primü solet Poets and other writers ●e plentiful to this purpose wherof I give you but a taste When God in wrath will men to judgement bring The soules cleare light from such he first removes So another to thesame effect A supreme power void of councell good Falls of it selfe as though it never stood And there is great reason why ruine should follow neg●ct of counsell not onely from the equitie of Gods judgment but also from the dangerous disposition of a Princes ●ounsell without the mixture of advice For as the ●imple or pure element would not feed or nourish but ●ill or starve so the counsell of a compound body The necessite of a mixt Counsell had ●eed to be a compound counsell Plato and others explane ●his wel by comparison taken from the two-fold course of ●he Sunne The Counsell of the soveraigne power say they is