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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

evil qualities of the wicked man this is reckoned as the chiefe Ps 140.1.2 that he is prone to war Release thou me Iehovah from the evill man from the man of wrong c. Every day they gather warres Yea in this the wicked man discovers the image of his father the devill Rev. 20.8.9 who being let loose after the thousand yeares expired goeth out to deceiue the people and to gather them together to battell Warre the wages of sin And for the second that it is the wages of sin and that the speciall it is as cleare as the first from plaine places of Scripture from Gods order in his proceeding and Davids avoyding of this when God gave him his choyce of the punishment For the first the Lord threatning to harden himselfe against his people in punishment as they had hardened themselves against him in sin Lev. 26.25 saith thus I will bring upon you a sword that shall avenge the quarrell or vengeance of my covenant It appeareth also in the order of Gods proceeding by comparing of places of Scripture together as the first and second Chap. of the prophesie of Ioel. The Lord having plagued his people with famine by the which they were not moved to repentance he cōmandeth the Trumpet of war to be sounded telleth them that he would bring a fierce and cruell people against them whose mercilesse monstrons tyranny he compareth to the devouring of fire and for the fiercenesse of their consuming wrath he calleth that plague The day of the Lord a day of darkenes a day of blacknes Thirdly and lastly David delivereth thus much in choosing rather the plague Warre the cause of sin Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur Lucan then the prevayling hand of the enemye 3. Warre is likewise the cause of much sin as pregnant testimonies and woefull experience teacheth The proverbe is as true as common That faith and pietie are rare in armes Wee may iustlie now with Erasm that great Maister in Arts take up the complaint made by him of his time Wee war continually Nation against Nation Kingdom against Kingdom Citie against Citie Prince against Prince People against People friend against friend kinsman against kinsmā brother against brother yea son against the father which the very Heathen held impious and barbarous yea that which is most detestable of all Christian against Christian and yet there be saith he that commend and applaud this hellish practise for a holy course instigating the inflamed fury of Princes by adding oile to the flame as they say till all be consumed And what is come of this I may answer What evill is not come of it I may justly apply that of Aristophanes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Lypsius applyeth to the troubles of his time That God the heaven and earth hath set on fire In war renown honor wealth chastity life wiues and children yea and religion it selfe lyeth at the stake nothing so sacred no sex so tender no age so impotent which the barbarous souldier will not contaminate defloure and kill It is the souldiers sport as one saith truely to ruin houses to ravish Virgins to spoit Churches Iocus ludas in militia c. Ludo. vives in epist ad Henr. 8. Angl. reg Silent leges inter arma to consume Cities and Towns to ashes with sire yea these be the ornaments of war to profit none to hurt every one to respect neither sex nor age yea nor God himselfe for his in warr are neglected and the lawes of peace and war contemned All laws in Armes are silenc't by the sword The world for the proofe of this affoords a world of woefull experience both from sacred and profane Writ To omit the examples of ages past let us view with compassion the instances of our own times and as God usually doth commemorate his latest mercies to leade men to repentance and his latest judgements to terrifie men from their sinnes so let us look upon the latest warres in France Bohemia and the Palatinate Is it not with Gods people every where as it was with them in Asa his time There is no peace to him that goeth out or commeth in but great vexations are upon all the inhabitants of the Countries 2 Chron. 15.6 7. and Nation is destroyed of Nation And though my heart doth quake while I remember Et quanquā animus meminisse horret Phil. 2.1 Yet to use the words of the Apostle If there be any confolation in Christ any comfort of loue any fellowship of the spirit any compassion and mercie behold all you that passe by your mournfull sisters Bohemia and the Palatinate with their torn hair about their eyes their vail taken away their crown fallen their sanctuaries defaced their people flain their land laid wast yong old Priest and people exposed to the immane and bloudy cruelty the beastly filthinesse and Ismaelitish mockerie of the cruell enemy In a word was there ever sorrows like to theirs Yea I may safely say the old Threns of Ieremy hath got a new subject And what is the immediate cause of all this evill of sin and punishment Tu bellum causa malorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Even bloudy warre thou art the cause of all It is the part therfore of wise men saith one if they be not the more provoked to be quiet yea of good men if they be provoked to change peace into warre but so that they change war againe into peace with all possible conveniencie Men disposed to unnecessary warre are compared by some vnto two Gamsters whereof the one is undone and the other is never a whit the richer Plin. l. 8.2 for all the gain is in the box Compared also they may be fitly to the Elephant and the Dragon Plin. l. 8. c. 12. which in their cruel conflict are each killed by other The Dragon as it is written sucketh out the bloud of the Elephant and being drunke therewith the weight of the falling Elephant oppresseth the Dragon and crusheth out the bloud which some calleth but falsly sanguis Draconis but they both perish And so it often falleth out with the unadvised undertakers of warr Vpon this ensuing evill the wise and learned haue taken occasion to check the humors of Princes so disposed as Lodovic Vives to Pope Adrian and in his epistle to Henry the 8 King of England there his motiues and counsels against unnecessary warre are to be seen at large The proverbe is true indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sub melle venenuncl●tet That warre is very sweet to those that never tasted it but those that taste it shall be forced to confesse that there is poyson under the honey This Hannibal the honour of Carthage knew very well when the Roman Embassadours came from Rome to treat of the continuance of peace one Gisco as great a coward as a vain-glorious bragger without either the practick or

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

you see I haue gone a long in these circumstances of ●●uncell making a mixed application of them as occasion was given both to civill and martiall affaires CHAPT XXIIII Of the particularities of the Counsell of War NOW I come more close to my proper subject of war Of the obiect of war wherein I brieflie meane to shew what is the object of this counsell what is the ground of it and how 〈◊〉 should be carryed The object of the counsell of war is whatsoever ma● accommodate themselves and incommodate the enemie Yea they are to be acquainted as much as may be with th● enemies affaires forces and counsell As what number they be what kind of forces they be vvhether horse or foote vvhat disposition they are of vvhat be their Armes defenfive and offensive Difficile vincitur qui vere potest de suis de adversarii copiis judicare Lib. 3. cap. 26. Stratag lib. 1. cap. 2. and vvhat Armes they are best at Vegeti● giveth a good reason for this he is hardly overcome that 〈◊〉 truely judge or discerne of his owne and his adversaries force● For the discovery of the adversaries counsell as it is of greause so some Generals haue not onely been carefull in th● discovery but haue made great attempts for the effecting of it As Cato in the Spanish war being very defirous to discover the enemies counsell and seeing no ordinary meanes to effect it caused 300 souldiers breake in upon the enemies campe who brought one of the saide campe safe avvay to the Generall out of vvhom he extorted the secrets of the enemie The discovery of the King of Arams councell by the Prophet Elisha was great advantage to the King of Israel Beware saith the Prophet thou passe not suth a place King 6.29 for thither the Sirians are come dovvne Euen in this respect as for others the Lord is called an excellent man of war because he knovveth the forces the counsell and Armes of the adversary In this the diligence of the common enemie doth both blame us and shame us The devill is a busie Bishop They vvant no spies they spare no paines nor charges vvhereby they may discover and frustrate all the attempts of Gods force● for his ovvne cause That serpentine brood of the devill o● rather devills themselves as one calleth them affoordeth al● kinds of counsellours some dormient some couchant some rampant some vvalking yea creeping flying abroad for discoveryes The Duke of Bavariaes letter to Richard Blond Vice-Provincial in England vvherein he thanks him for his paines and diligence for the Romish See and Catholique Cause doth directly discover what weekly intercourse is between the said Blond and the Pope notwithstanding of Romes distance from England As for Blonds interest in some of the Bedchamber mentioned in that letter I will not meddle with it It were good then they were encountred with the ●ike diligence and industry Paulus Aemilius discovered the ambushment of the Boians by the flying of Birds in the Truscan war For the fowles being affrighted from the wood the councell sent out a scout-watch and discovered ten thousand in ambushment So by the flying of these black-birds of Rome their subtilties in war and infidelity in peace vvith carefulneffe might be discovered The Doctors of Doway obserue from Nubrigensis Lib. 2. cap. 21. rer Anglic. 2 King 6.17 upon the opening of Elishaes servants eyes that a husbandman in York●hire named Ketle had the gift to see evill spirits whereby he often detected and hindred their bad purposes As by this lye they vvould make footing for their feigned miracles so indeed the Lords Armies had need of scaled eyes wherewith to discern those Legionary spirits who are digging through the vvall to raze down the foundation But some vvith Gallio care not for these things Applicatiō some see them but wil not see some underhand doe countenance them and some with the faint-hearted spies dare say little or nothing to them But it is to be feared that these evill spirits will proue like a Hecticke once openly discovered ne●ver cured but by a miracle CHAP. XXV Gods word the ground of Counsell IT followeth in the next proper place to shew when●● this councell should come the ground whereof should b● the word of God For although the Scripture be not an Encyclopedia of all the particulars of every Science yet in it the●● may be found a Systeme of all sciences it being the Mistress● to whom all Sciences are handmaids Yea this directs the● ordering of all true principles and conclusions No better Philosophy Logick or Metaphysick then in the book o● God No better counsel or direction for war or peace the● there is to be found Hence the Word is called by the nam● of Councel Act. 20.27 I haue not shunned to declare unto you all the counsell of God Thy Testimonies are my delight saith the Prophe● David my councellours Psa 119.24 or the men of my councell Tha● charge given to the King of Israel concerneth all King● in the world and they that will thriue in peace or war mus● obey it namely that they haue Gods Law-book continually with them that they should reade it that they may learn to fear God to avoid sin yea by this rule all their doings should be so ordred that they should not decline from i● to the left hand Deu. 17.18 or to the right So the like direction was given to Ioshua who was to fight the battels of the Lords Th● book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth Ios 1.8 but thou sha●● meditate therin day and night Both reason and experience confirmeth this position a● what work can teach a man so well to war as the book 〈◊〉 God who is the excellent man of War Again hath eve● any Warriours paralelled those who haue had their rules and directions from God Witnesse Moses Iosua David and the rest Haue all the Worthies come nigh one of these Adde to these reasons the nature of the Word vvhose proper encomy it is to make a man perfect to every good work Since lawfull war is a good vvork and that of a high nature the vvord must not onely fit men for the undertaking of it but also for the happy managing of it to Gods glory and the and ertakers good It is a sure Canon in Theologie That the word of God is not onely the Canon of our faith and life but also of our Calling whatsoever it be from the King to the Porter Would to God we would all obserue it This may very well be said to be that Tower of David built for an Armory vvherein a thousand shields doe hang Cant. 4.4 even all the Targets of the mighty men for whether vve understand thereby the Tropies of Christs triumph hung upon the neckes of the ●aithfull or that Panopli or compleat armour spoken of in ●he Ephesians yet all this we attain unto by the Word Alexander