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england_n	king_n	lord_n	time_n	17,472	5	3.8110	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

thy Sword nor with thy Bow 3. Thirdly It seemeth good to the Lord sometimes visibly to fight for his People without any human means at all and that by Emissaries sent from Heaven I had almostsaid from Hell too Thus a good Angel an Emissary from Heaven was sent at the Prayer of that good King Hezekiah who kill'd in one night in the Camp of Sennacherib King of Assyria Isa 37 36. 185000 men And thus they fought from Heaven the Stars in their courses fought against Silera Judg 5.20 defeated by a Woman the valiant Deborah and her Captain Baruk Thus they fought from Heaven the Stars in their courses the Winds and the Waves fought against the Spanish Armado stiled Invincible in 88 In memory whereof I have seen much of Queen Elizabeths Coin with her Effigies and the Effigies of a Drake defeated by a Woman the Valiant Queen Elizabeth and her Captain Drake Thus they fought from Heaven the Stars in their courses the Winds and the Waves brought our Deliverer's Navy in 88 three years ago to their desired Port Nothing but the Finger of Him that commands the Winds and the Waves could have done this to him be the Glory not with thy Sword alone tho' a brave Sword nor with thy Bow Nay sometimes Almighty God sends Emissaries from Hell to vex and plague the Enemies of his People Thus the Psalmist tells us Psal 78.49 that when God delivered his People from that Tyrant Pharaoh and Aegyptian Bondage He sent evil Angels amongst them And thus a lying Spirit and therefore a Devil made King Ahab fall at Ramoth-Gilead 1 Kin. 22.22 when God sent him on an Errand improper for a good Angel and Emissary from Heaven An Angel thus made a few silly Worms pull down the Pride of that Atheistical King Agrippa and eat him up alive And a silly Fly killed our Countryman Pope Adrian IV the only English-man that ever was Pope The Hand of God guided the Randome-Arrow to the Heart of that Idolatrous King Ahab 1 Kings 22.34 through the Joints of his Harness where only it was penetrable 4. Lastly God fights for his People sometimes with weak human means Thus Israel must be delivered in Gideon's time not with his whole Army for then God's Arm could not have been so visible amongst so many strong men at Arms but by the men that lapped as a Dog lappeth probably the weakest and sickliest in the Camp From this Topick the good and valiant King and therefore valiant because the good King Hezekiah cheer'd up his drooping Souldiers 2 Chron. 32.7 8. Be strong and couragious be not dismayed for the King of Assyria nor for the multitude that is with him with him is an Arm of Flesh but with us is the Lord our God to help us and fight our Battels But how long will God fight our Battels The Prophet Azariah answers this Quaere in good King Asa's time 1 Chr. 15.2 The Lord is with you whilst you are with him but if you forsake him he will forsake you Many a good Cause is spoil'd by ill management and many a good Army by ill Discipline England has a potent Enemy but yet a Cause so good that we may say of our King as Abigail said to King David My Lord fighteth the Battels of the LORD GOD grant that this good King and this good Cause do not miscarry by a debauched Army and Navy Can we expect that God should fight for or with these men that fight against him and bid him Defiance cursing themselves and their God We may assure our selves that those that wage War against the King of Heaven will never fight successfully for Their Sacred Majesties He that is not truly virtuous may do perhaps some flashy Feats in Vapour or for Company or for Shame or for Fear or for Despair but he can never be true to his Post nor truly valourous Where there 's no Grace no Goodness no Sobriety nor any Vertue God is not there Valour is not there nor Faith nor Faithfulness there A man's Courage and Loyalty must needs be as frail and precarious as his Conscience and Religion and if he does not fell his Loyalty as he bought his Place and fell his King and his Faith too it is because the Judas wants a Chapman But in these days 't is possible to find a Chapman too that will be as free to part with his Purse as any Wretch can be to part with his Faith and Allegiance Purge out therefore our Sins for thy Names sake Psal 79.9 saith holy David when he prayed to God for Victory If our Armies and Navies be not soundly and throughly purged from open Prophaneness and Cursing Swearing Damning and Debauchery and from fighting against Heaven by sinning with an high Hand and an impudent Forehead they will never prove Men of good Courage never play the men in defence of Their Sacred Majesties nor in defence of our People and the Cities of our God FINIS Advertisement The Works of the Learned Or an Historical Account and Impartial Judgment of Books newly printed both Foreign and Domestick As also the state of Learning in the World To be published Monthly this for January 1691 2. By J. de la Crose a late Author of the Universal and Historical Bibliotheque Printed for J. Dunton at the Raven in the Poultry