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A02572	The souldiers honour Wherein by diuers inferences and gradations it is euinced, that the profession is iust, necessarie, and honourable: to be practised of some men, praised of all men. Together with a short admonition concerning munition, to this honour'd citie. Preached to the worthy companie of gentlemen, that exercise in the artillerie garden: and now on thier second request, published to further vse. By Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1617 (1617)	STC 127; ESTC S100420	20,526	44

THE SOVLDIERS HONOVR WHEREIN By diuers inferences and gradations it is euinced that the Profession is iust necessarie and honourable to be practised of some men praised of all men Together with a short Admonition concerning Munition to this honour'd Citie Preached to the worthy Companie of Gentlemen that exercise in the Artillerie Garden and now on their second request published to further vse By THO. ADAMS EXODVS 15.3 The LORD is a man of warre the LORD is his Name LONDON Printed by Adam Islip and Edward Blount and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the blacke Beare 1617. To the well deseruing Captaine EDWARD PANTON the Captaines and truly generous Gentlemen Citizens of London of the Societie of ARMES practising in the Artillerie Garden WEe are all Souldiers as wee are Christians some more specially as they are men You beare both Spirituall Armes against the enemies of your Saluation and Materiall Armes against the enemies of your Countrey In both you fight vnder the Colours of our great Generall Iesus Christ. By looking a little into this mysticall warre you shall the better vnderstand how to be Milites cataphracti good Souldiers in all respects Iob calls mans life a Warfare and wee find Reuel 12. that there was warre in heauen Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon his Angels Where by Heauen is meant the Church of God vpon earth as Interpreters obserue generally For in Heauen aboue there is no warfare but welfare no trouble but Peace that passeth all vnderstanding Now to this War euery Christian is a professed Souldier not onely for a spurt for sport as young Gentlemen vse for a time to see the fashion of the warres but our Vow runnes thus in Baptisme that euery man vndertakes to fight manfully vnder Christs Banner against Sinne the World and the Deuill and to continue his faithfull Souldier and Seruant to his liues end And this Battell let vs fight with courage because we are warriours vnder that Generall that without question shall conquer Nil desperandū Christo Duce Auspice Christo. They ouercome by the blood of the Lambe Reu 12.11 Though they loose some bloud they shall be sure to winne the victorie Bernard supposeth a great war between Christ the king of Ierusalem Satan the K. of Babylon The Watchman on the wals spies a Christian souldier to be surprised by the Babylonian Host carried captiue to their Tents Hereof he informes the king who presently chargeth Timorem the Feare of God to run redeeme the souldier Feare comes thundring vpon the aduersary power forceth thē trembling to surrender backe their prey which he is now returning home to the king Hereupon steps vp Spiritus Tristitiae Sadnes cryes O ye Babylonians is it not a shame that one man should rescue a prisoner from such a multitude Well ne timeatis a Timore isto be not afraid of this fellow Feare I will giue you a stratagem how to reduce him This must not be done Marte sed arte not by force but by fraud marke the euent This Spirit of Sadnesse lyes in the way and falls in with the Souldiers colloguing as a friend as a fiend amica sed iniqua collocutione Suspectles Feare followes a little off But Sorrow had brought the Souldier to the brinke of a deepe Pitte Desperation and was euen vpon the point of thrusting him in The Watchman obserues it and againe tells the king who quicker then thought dispatcheth a fresh supply of succour Hope to his deliuery Hope mounted vpon a swift horse Desire comes amaine and with the Sword of Gladnes puts Sorrow to flight so quits him from the gulfe of Despaire Once again is the Citizen of heauē freed now Hope sets him being weary on his own horse Desire himselfe leads him with the Cord of Promised mercy Feare comes after with a switch made of Remembrance of sinnes and so sets him forward to Ierusalem Hereupon the King of Babylon calls a Councell where some grieue others rage all Hell rores that they had lost a prisoner of whom they lately thought themselues so sure There is not more ioy with the Angels in heauen then there is sorrow with the deuils in hell for this Sinners conuersion But yet all is not well as the Watchman certifies the King of Omnipotence The Souldier is mounted vpon Desire Hope leads him and Feare driues him amaine but I doubt he comes too fast because he hath neither Bridle nor Saddle Hereon the Kings that hath euerlasting care of all Christian soules sends forth two of his graue Councellors to him Temperance and Prudence Temperance giues him a Bridle that is Discretion and Prudence a Saddle that is Circumspection This is not all Feare and Hope giue him two Spurres on the left heele Feare of punishment on the right Expectation of blisse Knowledge cleares his Eye Diligence opens his Eare Obedience strengthens his Hand Deuotion rectifies his Foot Faith encourageth his Heart And if he want any thing Prayer offers him her seruice to wait vpon him as a faithfull messenger promising that whensoeuer he sends her to the King with a Petition she will bring him backe a Benediction Thus as in a little Tablet you see the whole world that all of vs must be Souldiers on earth militant that will be Conquerors in heauen triumphant But are there not enemies in the flesh so well as enemies in the Spirit Is mysticall armour only necessarie to a Christian is there no vse of materiall No Aequūest Deum illis esse propitium qui sibi non sunt aduersarij it is iust that God should be a friend to thē that are not enemies to themselues I know prayers are good weapons and Exo. 17. there was more speed made to victorie by lifting vp of Moses hands then of Ioshu's word He that would ouercome his enemies on earth must first preuaile with his best friend in heauen If the mercy strength of God be made thine by prayer feare not the aduerse powers Ro. 8. We shal be conquerors through him that loued vs. But is it enough to bend the knee without stirring the hand Shall warre march against vs with thundering steps shall we only assemble our selues in the Temples lie prostrate on the pauements lift vp our hands eyes to heauen not our weapons against our enemies Shal we beat the aire with our voices and not their bosomes with our swords only knock our own breasts not knock their heads Sure a religious conscience neuer taught a man to neglect his life his libertie his estate his peace Pietie and Policie are not opposites he that taught vs to be harmelesse as Doues bad vs also be wise as Serpents Giue way to a fiction fables are not without their vsefull morals A boy was molested with a dog the Frier taught him to say a Gospell by heart and warranted this to allay the dogs furie The mastiffe spying the boy

bellum or rather in vicinitie to the name mos belluarum For men Solummodo iustum quibus necessarium not iust but when it is necessarie and cannot well be auoided Not to be waged by a Christian without obseruation of Saint Augustines rule Esto bellando pacificus In warre seeke peace though thy hand be bloudie let thy heart be peaceable Pacem debet habere voluntas bellum necessitas Let necessitie put warre into the hands religion keepe peace in the heart In it selfe it is a miserable punishment This is the Nature What. The time or Quando Then When was this warre Tempore Idolatrico in the time of Idolatrie They chose new gods Then When we fight against God we incense him to fight against vs. Indeed wee haue all stricken him which of vs hath not offered blowes to that sacred Deitie Our oathes proffer new wounds to the sides of Iesus Christ and our mercilesse oppressions persecute him through the bowels of the poore Saul Saul why pesecutest thou mee Saul strikes vpon earth Iesus Christ suffers in heauen Yet if timely repentance step in we scape his blowes though hee hath not scaped ours Hee is readie to say as Cato to the man that hurt him in the Bath when in sorrow hee asked him forgiuenesse Non memini me percussum I doe not remember that I was stricken But if Israels sinnes strike vp alarme Israels God will giue battell If they chuse new gods the true God will punish Then was warre It is a fearefull thing when God fights When God tooke off the chariot-wheeles of the Egyptians they cryed Let vs flee from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians The heathen gods could not defend their friends nor subdue their enemies nor auenge themselues Mars vltor galeam quoque per didit res Non potuit seruare suas Their stout god of warre might loose his helmet his target the victorie vnable to deliuer himselfe But God is the Lord of Hostes God hath spoken once twice haue I heard this that power belongeth vnto God Once twice yea a thousand times haue we heard it read it seene it that God is powerfull That as Augustin Verba toties inculcata vera sunt viua sunt sana sunt plana sunt Things so often repeated and pressed must needes be plaine and peremptorie God hath souldiers in heauen souldiers on earth souldiers in hell that fight vnder his presse So that hee hath Mille nocendi artes a thousand wayes to auenge himselfe In heauen hee hath armies of fire to burne Sodome of flouds to drowne a world of haile-stones to kill the Amorites of starres as here Debora sings They fought from heauen the starres in their courses fought against Sisera And whilst Israel slew their enemies at their Generalls prayer the Sunne stood still in Gibeon and the Moone in the valley of Aialon Yea there are heauenly souldiers Luke 2. Suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heauenly hoste One of these celestiall souldiers slew in one night aboue an hundred thousand Assyrians Below hee hath Seas to drowne Pharaoh Swallowes of the earth to deuoure Corah With fierce Lyons fell Dragons hissing Serpents crawling Wormes he can subdue the proudest Rebells In hell he hath an armie of fiends though bound in chaines that they shall not hurt the faithfull yet let loose to terrifie the wicked There was an euill Spirit to vexe Saul fowle Spirits in the Gospel made some deafe others dumbe and cast many into fire and into waters Thus stands the wicked man enuironed with enemies God and man Angels and Deuils heauen and earth birds and beastes others and himselfe maintaine this warre against himselfe God may be patient a long time but Laes a patientia fit furor patience too much wronged becomes rage and Furor arma ministrat wrath will quickly affoord weapons Serior esse solet vindicta seuerior The sorest vengeance is that which is long in comming and the fire of indignation burnes the hoter because God hath been coole and tardie in the execution Impietie and Impunitie are not sworne sisters but if Wickednesse beat the Drumme Destruction will begin to march The ruined Monuments and Monasteries in those Prouinces seeme to tell the passengers Hic fuit hostilitas warre hath been here Wee may also reade in those rude heapes Hic fuit iniquitas Sinne hath beene here It was Idolatrie rather then warre that pulled downe those walls If there had beene no enemie to rase them they should haue falne alone rather then hide so much superstition and impietie vnder their guiltie roofes In the tenth of this booke when the Israelites serued Baalim and Ashtaroth the gods of Syria and the gods of Sidon then was the anger of the Lord hote against them and he sold them into the hands of the Philistins and into the hands of the children of Ammon Then those enemies destroyed their Cities and depopulated their Countries making them spectacles of Crueltie and Iustice Crueltie of man Iustice of God This is the Time When. The Place or Vbi In the gates This is an extreame progresse of warre to come so neere as the Gates If it had beene in terra inimicorum in the land of their enemies a preparation of warre a great way off Sonus hostilitatis the noyse of warre As Ierem. 6. Behold a people commeth from the North a Nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth Their voice roareth like the Sea and wee haue heard the fame thereof Here is warre but comming raising roaring audiuimus tantum wee haue onely heard the noyse of it Yea if it had come but to the coasts and inuaded the borders as the Philistins did often forrage the skirts of Israel yet it had beene somewhat tollerable for then vidimus tantum we haue but seene it onely Ostendisti populo grauia Psal. 60. Thou hast shewne thy people grieuous things shewed but not inflicted shaken the rodde but not scourged vs. But here venit ad limina bellum warre is come to their thresholds to the Zenith and heart of the land to defie them in the very gates And now they more then heare or see it sentiunt they feele it The Gates in Israel were those places where they sate in Iustice as we may frequently read they gaue iudgement in the Gates They distributed the Corne in the Gates They distributed the Corne in the Gates where that vnbeleeuing Prince was troden to death And Absalon sate in the Gates and said to euery man that had a Controuersie See thy matters are good and right but here is no man deputed of the King to heare thee So that Pacis loca bellum occupat Warre possesseth the places of Peace and thrusts her out of her wonted residence and presidence the Gates In the Gates Warre is not then in the right Vbi as they said of Pope Sixtus because he delighted in bloudie warres that he