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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29207	A sermon preached in Yorke Minster, before his Excellence the Marques of Newcastle, being then ready to meet the Scotch Army, January, 28. 1643. By the Bishop of Derry. Published by speciall command	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.; Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4234; ESTC R214129	15,024	25

edge-tooles Profane Lucian was torn in pieces with dogs and the other will find that God is a severe avenger of such impious scoffes Davids care of his servants shewes how Governours ought to protect their Inferiour and subordinate Ministers in the execution of their commands and to preserve them from contempt The Ammonites see their errour when it was too late there is no doubt but even then upon submission David would have remitted the injury but their consciences told them the abuse was too grosse and publicke to be forgotten We see by daily experience that conscience of guilt and desperation of forgivenesse drive men into courses pernicious both to themselves and others Therefore to secure themselves the Ammonites wage 33000. Syrians but in the disposing of their men this is worthy our observation that they kept themselves neare the gates for a sure retreite but the Syrians they placed in the open field It was never held to be discretion in any Nation to bring Armies of Forreigners whom they could not regulate into their chiefe strengths and holds witnesse the Mammertines in Messana the Saxons in Britaine But here they met with Joab an overmatch for them in the art of Warre as he shewes by the ordering of his men verse 9. By his provident forecast verse 11 Feare the worst and the best will alwayes save it selfe And lastly by his gallantry in my Text Be of good courage and let us play the men for our people and for the cities of our God and the Lord doe that which seemeth him good In which words I observe foure parts First A brave exhortation Be of good courage Secondly A magnanimous resolution And let us play the men Thirdly A just reason For our people and for the cities of our God Fourthly A pious submission And the Lord doe that which seemeth him good It hath beene ever the custome of Generalls before an hazardous Battell to cheere up the hearts of their Souldiers in a Patheticall Oration with arguments drawne from the approved valour and vertue of themselves or their ancestors from the assured hope of rich spoiles from the justice and piety of their cause So God commands Deut. 20.3 So Joab practiseth in my Text Be of good courage c. I cannot passe in silence by the brotherly love of Joab and Abishai verse 11. If the Syrians be too strong for me thou shalt help me And if the Ammonites be too strong for thee I will help thee As when one foot trippes the other is ready presently to sustaine it And here in my Text By encouraging one another to play the men or rather to play the man As it is said of the Children of Israel that they went out as one man 1 Sam. 11.7 That is with one heart and one soule animated with the same desire of the publicke good The left hand doth not stand more in need of the right then an Army doth of the concord of its Commanders where I see this blessed sympathy I cannot but eccho out that of the Psalmist Behold how good and joyfull a thing it is brethren to dwell together in unity for there the Lord hath promised his blessing and life for evermore Psal. 133. But where men are drawne into action as a beare to the stake by force or feare where a little base Plunder is preferred before Honour and Victory where there is Faction Envy and Emulation amongst great Officers it portends Destruction and Dissipation The God of heaven and earth ever blesse this Army from it And if there be any person within the sound of my voyce who are conscious to themselves of such sinister respects or of any other impediment which may retard our hopes of an happy Victory either by offending God or disabling them to doe the duties of their places I doe here beseech them by that service which they owe to God by that allegiance which they owe to His Majesty by that love which they owe to their native Countrey to sacrifice them this day to the common Cause or at least with the Serpent to deposite them so long till this Army returne againe in peace And the only way to peace is Courage which yeelds to no chances is terrified with no dangers Et ab ipso ducit opes animumque ferro There cannot be a worse counsellor then Feare in time of danger Pessimus in du●iis augur tim●● Feare caused Moses to stagger at Gods Commandement Exod. 3.11 Feare caused Elias to flie from the womanish threatnings of Jesabell 1 Kin 19.3 Feare caused Peter to deny his Master Feare will metamorphise a field of Thistle into an Army of men Feare will cause a man to tremble at the sound of a shaken leafe Lev. 26.36 As a man standing upon the edge of some lofty turret or precipitious cragge without any to push him forward even by looking downe is in danger to tumble down head-long through Feare So degenerous Feare betraies the succours of the soule Therefore when Gideons Army was to give the charge upon the Enemy he caused proclamation to be made in the Camp Whoso is timerous let him depart Ju●g 7.3 The reason is given Deut. 20.8 least his example make his fellow souldiers to faint But nothing is difficult ●o Courage In the land of Canaan there were Giants to whom the Israelites being compared did seem but Grashoppers yet said Caleb and Joshua Feare them not they are bread for us Num. 14.9 bread which is eaten without any labour or difficulty When Saul was to be inaugurated King by Samuel he set nothing before him but a shoulder 1 Sam. 9. A meane dish for a Royall entertainment some have found out a mystery in it they might better call it an allegory That as the shoulder doth beare up the beast so the courage and fortitude of a King doth sustaine the body politicke so to teach Governours how they ought to beare the burthen of the Common-wealth The ancient law of governing the Romans Army was reduced to two heads First Non sequi Secondly Non fugere First not to make a rash hazard without good ground he that loveth danger shall perish in it Secondly not to decline danger timerously when it offers it selfe and cowardly to betray a good cause Therefore as one said that pronounciation was the first and second and third part of a good Oratour So may I say that Courage is the first and second and third part of a good Commander It is a slander cast upon Religion that it makes men cowards The feare of God is the best armour against the feare of man Religion is the root of Courage Heb. 11.33 By faith our fathers subdued Kingdomes c. Waxed valiant in fight and turned to flight the Armies of aliens Let the Heathens bragge of their Decii add Curtii that devoted their lives to death for the love of their Countrey Vicit amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido We have our Moses and Paul that desired to be