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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95610	The souldiers commission, charge, & revvard both of the deceitfull and negligent, and the faithfull & diligent in the Lords work. Opened in a sermon preached in Christ-Church Dublin, May 14. 1642. Before the state and chief of the Army, upon occasion of the interring of Sir Charles Coote knight, and one of the honourable Privy Council in Ireland. By Faithfull Teate D.D. then lecturer there, now preacher of the gospel in East-Greenwich in Kent.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1658 (1658)	Wing T616; ESTC R232310	29,273	35

power but because he relied upon the Lord 2 Chron. 16.8 Therefore although others trust in their owne preparations numbers policy strength skill or former successe let your onely confidence be placed in the promise power and presence of God as Davids was Psal 20.7 8. Direct 5 5. Heathens require prowesse and valour in martial men and certainly God cannot abide cowardlinesse in such as fight his battels Cic pro Mar. Certè in armis militum virtus multum juvat for saith he to Israel Deut. 20.1 When thou goest out to battel against thine enemies and seest horses and chariots and a people more than thou be not afraid of them And when they approach to battel he commandeth the Officers to speak to the people saying What man is fearful and faint-hearted let him goe and return unto his house lest his brethrens heart faint as well as his heart v. 8. But what heathen Authors can afford you such encouragements and valid incentives to true valour as the word of God doth Be strong and of a good Courage saith the Lord to Joshua have not I commanded thee Ch. 1.9 Again Be not afraid nor dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest The first argument here is taken from Gods Commandement and that doth not only require but also infuse courage into the hearts of all obedient hearers 2. Mark his promise I will be with thee whithersoever thou goest this if it be rightly laid hold on will so fortifie the Spirit that if ten thousand should hemme you in you could not be afraid it will also defend you and repel your stoutest foes even then when they are most confident and all outward helps seem to fail you Adde to these a third which Joab useth to Abishai 2 Sam. 10.12 Be of good courage let us play the men for our people and for the cities of our God and let the Lord doe that which seemeth good in his eyes Loe here a triple coard never to be broken let us put them together God sets you a work God will be with you in the work and for God and * Bern Epist 129 Ecclesiae inimicos expugnare decet his Church you fight Who would desire to die better than in such service as this Direct 6 6. Obedience to superiours may well challenge the next place among these Directions Mat. 8.9 I am a man saith the Centurion under authority having Souldiers under me and I say to this man goe and he goeth and to another come and he cometh The want of this drove David to greater straits than all his adversaries could do 1 Sam. 30.6 Direct 7 7. What a glorious ornament would it be to Christian profession if Justice both Commutative and Distributive might be found in Camps when as it hath been of old and still is reported of such places that there lust ruleth in stead of law Jurisque locum sibi vendicat ensis 1. Justice requires that * Concil Lateran Sess 6. Bellum cum hostibus arma inf●ramus cum nostris beneficiis certemus de recuperandis quae nostra sunt contendamus innocent persons especially such as for whose help souldiers pretend to come should be defended and not wronged by them See John Baptists charge Luk. 3.14 when the souldiers demanded of him saying What shall we do he answered Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly and be content with your wages 2. Justice commandeth that notorious offenders in no case be spared Agag was worthy of death Saul saved his life and lost his Kingdome for this indulgence Foolish pitty to * Plutarch Lenitas erga sceleratos est in bonos crudelitas one malefactor is cruelty to your selves and many others Ahab let Benhadad escape hereat the Lord was displeased and sent him a tart message by the Prophet 1 King 20.42 Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to destruction therefore saith the Lord shall thy life go for his life and thy people for his people 3. There ought to be a distributive Justice among your selves I beseech you be not offended with me for shewing you the way of God to your own temporal and eternal prosperity and though carnal reason will perhaps suggest other counsel to you yet acknowledge you him in all your ways Pro. 3.6 and he shall direct your paths The spoils taken from the enemy should not be ingrossed by some but by an equall distribution imparted to all See Davids order in this case 1 Sam. 30.22 24. Some of his men were faint and so were cast behind when the rest followed him to battel wherefore after they returned back with great spoiles some of them would not allow any share of the prey taken unto their fellows so cast behind for which cause they are termed wicked men and men of Belial and David told them they should not do so but they should all share alike even they that tarried by the stuffe as well as they that went down to the battel and he made it saith the text a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day Direct 8 8. The ends for which war is undertaken and maintained ought ever to be regarded and these ought to be Gods glory the preservation of good men the punishment of hainous offenders and the setling of peace in the Common-wealth not covetuousnesse desire of revenge or affectation of dominion or vain-glory for which Jehoash King of Israel thus reproved Amaziah Thou hast indeed smitten Edom and thine heart hath lifted thee up glory of this and tarry at home for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt that thou shouldest fall and Judah with thee 2 King 14.10 But Amaziah refused to hear and therefore he and Judah were worsted before Israel v. 11. The end of wars is peace Aug. de civitate Dei l 19 c. 12. Pacem constat belli esse finem optabilem saith August and in Serm. de verbis Domini Apud veros Dei cultores ipsa bella pacata sunt quae non cupiditate aut crudelitate sed pacis studio geruntur ut mali coerceantur boni subleventur Among the true worshippers of God their very wars are peaceable being waged not for lust or cruelty but with desire of peace that bad men may be suppressed and good men aided These be the chief directions to which more might be added but I proceed Vse 3 Are wars thus waged the work of the Lord here is matter of terror to the enemies of Gods Church and comfort to such as go forth against them in this way of God for although the former may seem for a time to prevail yet in due time they shall be subdu'd and God will be sure to arise at last to maintain his own cause This is assigned the reason why the Hagarites and many others fell down slain before two tribes and an half because the war was of God 1 Chon 5.18 22.

instantly of weak he became strong and to all mens admiration went forth in confidence of assistance of the most high and by Faith put to flight those that rose up against him and who saw not that God was with him First he discomfited the Rebels in Wicklow he burned Clantarf a place neer this City filled with rapine and blood he took in the Garrisons of the Naaz and Trim he expeld the enemies out of the Navan and then he encountred with the whole body of the enemy at Kilrush in a pitcht battel and routed their vast multitudes and would have pursued them if he might have had his will with such heat and vigor that they should have had little leasure or opportunity to rally any more but he was called back and the number of his desired victories being made up with some overplus in his last battel near Trim he was slain being shot as it is verily conjectured by one of our side into the body having a little before with three or four Troops chased three or four thousand almost two miles and left about four hundred dead on the place Thus died this honorable Patriot and Champion in the Lords work and victorious in the sixty fifth year of his age Cic. de Senect wherein as Cato Major saith of Q. Maximus Hic bella gerebat ut adolescens cum plane grandis esset he was like Caleb for strength Jos 14.11 as able for the war both to go out and to come in as he was the day when he was first sent over having about a quarter of an hour before his fall slain with his sword a Rebel of great stature hand to hand But now as David said of Abner may I say of him A great man is fallen in our Israel in whom the Lord hath bereaved us at once of the mighty man and the man of war the prudent and valiant Captain the honorable man and the Counsellour c. 3.2 as the Prophet Isaiah speaks The greatnesse of our adversaries rejoycings at his fall proclaimeth aloud the greatnesse of our losse but nothing hath befallen him or us but what hath befallen the dearest of Gods Servants Sampson is reckoned in the Catalogue of Believers Heb. 11. who slew more ar his death than in all his life yet he perished among the Philistines by the Philistines sword gracious Jonathan afterwards fell upon Mount Gilboa 2 Sam. 1.20 which occasioned much triumph to the daughters of the uncircumcised Faithfull Uriah was also betrayed by Joab at the Kings Command and cut off by the sword of the children of Ammon Adde to these godly Josiah to whom there was none like before or after among all the Kings of Judah yet was he slain by the sword of Pharaoh Necho The sword devoureth one as well as another and all things befall all alike him that feareth God and him that feareth him not Yea Aristotle calleth this kind of death the most beautifull of all other Ethic. l. 3. Offic. l. 1. de somnio Scipionis c. 6. The Orator affirmeth that no good man will doubt to die for the profit of his Country This our deceased Champion accounted to be most eligible for such as lay down their lives for the brethren eminently shew forth their love to God and his Church 1 Joh. 3.16 as Gods love is apparently seen in his sons laying down his life for us And wise men in all ages agree upon this maxime Decet Imperatorem stantem mori And God gave him his option he was taken from us by this eligible beautifull honourable death for he deceased on Hors-back being upheld by his Son riding behind him till he had brought him to his quarters The Lord convince and humble us all for all our sins which have brought this judgment upon us Not one but many Achans have thus troubled our Israel for I know no kind of sins which are not predominant among us It is the Lords mercy we are not all consumed The Lord help us to look up to Jesus Christ whom our sins have also pierced Isa 55.4 for him hath God given to be a leader and commander to his people who once died that by his death we may have life and by his life salvation temporal and eternal for now though other Commanders die he liveth for ever and when other helpers may be far off he is ever present with all his people who alone can help when as without him all help of men is in vain as when the Spirit departed ttom valiant Sampson he became weak like other men This hath he commanded us to do and promised salvation to all them that so do Isa 45.22 And then shall our sorrows be all turned into joy and our enemies rejoycing shall vanish then shall the Lord who hath the residue of the spirit in the room of this one Heroick Patriot now gone to his rest raise up many deliverers endued with wisdome counsell and might and the fear of the Lord who may fight our Battels tread down our enemies as mire in the Streets restore poor out-casts to their rightfull possessions again and settle peace and truth in all the borders of this sinfull and bloody Land to the comfort of all true Israelites and his own everlasting glory Amen FINIS