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A89159	The souldiers triumph and the preachers glory. In a sermon preached to the captains and souldiers exercising arms in the artillery garden, at their generall meeting in S. Michaels Church Cornhill in London, the 31. of August, 1641. / By Matthias Milvvard, B.D. Minister of S. Hellens.	Milward, Matthias, fl. 1603-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2186; Thomason E175_7; ESTC R5018	15,617	40

runs upon the wheeles of mischiefe cruelty rashnesse impatience impudence drawn along with two fierce beasts Secular pompe and Carnall power fed like Diomedes horses with the flesh of men A generation saith Solomon whose teeth are swords and their jawes knives to eat up the afflicted and the poore from among men Prov. 30.14 God is no Author of this triumph Next Luxury hath her Chariot that runnes riot they drive like Iehu as if they were mad wheeled with Gluttony Lust Pride and Sloth drawne along with two pampered and high-fed horses Plenty and Prosperity Oblivion the Coach-man After these comes Covetousnesse warily moving her Chariot hung all with iron hooks running upon foure wheeles Pusillanimity Contempt of God Inhumanity Forgetfulnesse of death her horses like her selfe spare and leane called Tenacitas and Rapacitas Greedy to catch and Loth to forgoe raind up with the bridle of Holding fast and whipt on with a Desire of Having more These be the Devils and the Worlds Pageants their end is Praecipices and downfalls for they that climbe by privie sinne shall fall with open shame Thou O man of God saith S. Paul to Timothy fly these things It is our glory that are Preachers to win soules it is your comfort We cannot triumph without you nor you without us What a joy will it be at that great day of accompt when we shall returne our poore talents with advantage When Peter shall lead in triumph after him Iury Andrew leading Achaia Iohn Asia Paul triumphing with a world of souls after him and some of us I hope triumphing with some of you Now thanks be to God which causeth us in Christ But if this triumph be not constant where is our comfort It followeth therefore in the next place the continuance of time 3. Alwayes he causeth us to triumph Alwayes in Christ for he having triumphed over death and hell doth lead Captivity captive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he hath unloosed the sorrows of death so we in him doe alwayes triumph A good conscience is a continuall feast the Comforter abideth with us for ever it is ever working For as the creatures of God do alwayes continue their actions to which Nature enclines them The fire alwayes burneth if it have matter combustible the heavens alwayes moving except by an Almighty power commanded to stand the Sun alwayes shining though clouds obfuscate his bright beams to us yet ever cleare in it selfe So the righteous whom God causeth to triumph in Christ are alwayes moving in the spheare of Obedience alwayes warming with the flames of Charity alwayes shining with the bright beames of Sanctity The Father hath not left me alone saith Christ because I doe alwayes those things that please him Iohn 8. so doe we in Christ Alwayes hope Hos 12. alwayes pray 1 Thes 5. alwayes give thanks Ephes 5. alwayes rejoyce Phil. 4. alwayes burning shining and teaching and so doing alwayes triumphing S. Augustine upon the Prophet Davids words All the day long will I praise thee hath this Meditation In prosperity because I find consolation in adversity because I feele thy mercifull correction When I was lost thou foundst me when I sinned thou pardonedst mee when I returned thou receivedst me when I continued thou crownedst me For he that giveth the end giveth all things belonging to the end The grace of inchoation to begin well of continuation to goe on well of consummation to end well Voluntatem praeparat adjuvandam adjuvat praeparatam He prepares the will that he may help it and he helps it when he hath prepared it and so he causeth us alwayes to triumph in Christ Alwayes Now thanks be to God So I come to the last Part. 4. The Thanksgiving Amongst the Iews were as many Thanks-offerings as Offerings of Expiation and Atonement To teach us to be as thankfull for blessings received as in our wants we are importunate to obtaine them The excellencie of this service would be considered which is preferred by the Lord himselfe before all sacrifices peculiar to Saints the service of the life to come when all other almost cease it is all we are able to render Non habeo nisi minuta duo Two mites is all I have a soule and a body Et si millies rependerem quid sum ego ad Deum If I should give my selfe a thousand times what am I to God Nature it selfe teacheth this duty The very ground payes back the cost bestowed upon it Non ingratus ager The Sunne drawes up vapour from the earth sends it back in raine Vnde exeunt flumina revertuntur ut iterum fluant The rivers return to the sea from whence they came As in the Sun beames the more their multiplication the greater the reflection so for Gods blessings shewed forth to you by his Ministers in every place the greater should be your fruitfulnesse the more your thankfulnesse Who causeth us alwayes to triumph in Christ Now thanks be to God Now here me thinks I should make an end but that one thing is wanting to the accomplishing of our triumph which presents it selfe to our view this day That is to acknowledge the causes of your triumphing which are many 1. In your Princely Generall Patron and Protector of your Company our Illustrious Prince CHARLES of whom it may be said as of Titus the sonne of Vespasian Delitiae humani generis The honour of Armes whose hopefull vertues are the food life and soule of Souldiers In this we have cause to triumph 2. In the order and splendour and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the united hearts and fellowship of your whole company Though ye differ in your individuals as so many severall persons and perhaps in opinion yet you make up together one compacted Body of an Army and as touching your common good have but one soule Like the foure Elements though of opposite qualities yet they meet harmoniously in a middle temper of mans constitution concordi pace ligantur In this wee have cause to triumph 3. In your brave Commander the Captaine of your Yard Of whom I could say much but that I feare to offend his modesty Et ne damnum illius laudibus mea faceret verecundia Lest my modesty also might damnifie his due praises Onely thus much because I will not sinne against Iustice whilst I am afraid to offend Modestie If you desire to be instructed in Militarie Discipline accompanyed with religious mildnesse Christian sobriety wise temperance manly fortitude I say no more but Follow your Leader In this we have cause to triumph 4. In the bounty of our generous Citizens and noble Benefactors who have begun a glorious work your Campus Martius your Field of Honour The Romanes had such a place which they called their great Schoole of defence It was given to the people by a Vestall Virgin Caia Tarnatia but Tarquine the Proud the last King of Rome tooke it away from them and converted it to his owne use in sowing corne there Which corne when he was deposed the Romanes threw into the River Tiber judging it unfit that any should reap commodity from so holy ground In processe of time the sheaves of corne being stopt in a shallow Foord of the River became firme ground and was called The holy Island and after the expulsion of Tarquinius this Campus Martius was restored to its former use wherein they exercised Chivalrie and feats of Armes The like to this is yours but never a proud Tarquine will alienate the use of that so happily begun Goe on therefore ye worthy Citizens finish your noble Schoole of Defence If I have erred in commending you ye will pardon my charitable mistake I did deliver freely what I thought you had done or what I beleeved you should have done or what I hope you will doe It is wisdome to prepare for War We have enjoyed peace a long time blessed be God but that peace hath bred some surfets which we pray God to cure with gentle purges without letting bloud Lipsius gave this to be the reason of our Halcyon dayes in Q. Elizabeths raign Quodjam in pace Britannia imperio debet pacati sexus We did owe our peace to that quiet and mild sexe And yet we have had and still have masculine Princes and still enjoy peace blessed be God But what then shall that lull us asleep and secure us from all Martiall meditation because the Summer quarter hangeth upon us shall we think that Winter rots in the Skie Goe on therefore let not so glorious a work be hindered with faint-hearted avarice but bestow your bounty for their convenience who will be ready to spend their bloud for your defence In ancient times when the Captaine returned from the Wars in triumphant manner he entred the City Non apertis portis sed disruptis muris Not by opening the gates but by making a large breach in their walls To signifie as Plutarch saith that having so great and valiant Souldiers they needed no walls to defend them As Homer calls Achilles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so these are the walls of the City This is one of the glorious things that are spoken of thee O City of London and it must needs joy your hearts to see so many brave Worthies issue out of your sides like the flower of Greece out of the Trojan horse In this also we have great cause to triumph Now thanks be to God which causeth us to triumph thus on earth even in this Church Militant and the same God bring us at last to the Church triumphant in heaven through the blessed merits of his Son Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be ascribed all honour power and dominion now and for evermore Amen FINIS