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A86110 A fevv collections for Irelands souldiers. Haward, Lazarus. 1647 (1647) Wing H1166; Thomason E375_19; ESTC R201351 11,321 20

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A FEVV COLLECTIONS FOR IRELANDS Souldiers LONDON Printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the Old-Bayley 1646. TO THE RIGHT Honourable Phillip Lord Lysle Lord Leivetenant Generall of IRELAND My Lord THe favours I received from you Honourable Father in my first journey to Ireland and now sutable to your Lordshipps Fathers Will seconded hath emboldened me to offer this poore tribute not to teach your uncontradictable knowledge but humbly desire it may kisse your hands as a sacrifice offered from your servant or as a weakenesse that stands in neede of your protection therefore I humbly crave it may not bee offensive if for one houre or lesse I begge you from your more serious thoughts to vouchsafe the reading of these few lines The profession of a Souldier is necessary his ends glorious and his quality honorable But when I come to thinke of a minde befitting a Souldier I can only say this that how curious costly plaine or deformed the Cabinet be yet must it necessarily bee filled with all manner of vertues vice must be as that deadly foe with whom he will never make truce or ever Capitulate and the bulwarke to withstand his assaults must be Faith and a good Conscience under the guard of these he must finde his security A Souldier must bee valiant for his proper vertue valiant to conquer his Countreys foes and valiant to overthrow is owne passions to which purpose I presume this manner of writing Since then my Lord you are by the Honorable Houses of Parliament made Lord Leivetenant Generall of the Kingdome of Ireland for the reducing of those Apostated miscreants and that on you depends all the Millitary actions of that Kingdome I cannot be perswaded but any thing which comes cloathed with this title being nothing but truth shall finde from you a noble respect Be it then your Lordshipps noble favour to save this poore Epistle from the wrack of envie and when it shall arrive at your presence bee pleased to heare what it delivers And I doubt not but though it can bring little to Augment your knowledge yet it may leave something worthy to be retained in your best memory and howsoever the weakenesse of words may deface it yet your Lordship shall finde it hath an honest aime and points at the way to prosper it being the constant prayer of my soule that you may reape the fruits of so honorable and gallant an undertaking so that God being thereby glorified your soule may be everlastingly comforted For my share of which service I am Your Honours devoted Souldier by word and deede to the hazard of his life LAZARVS HAVVARD A Few collections for IRELAND A GOod heart hath learned to frame it selfe to all conditions and can change estates without change of disposition rising falling according to occasions DIstrust not God who is judge of all causes and men for hee bringeth nothing to passe but that which is most righteous and most for his glory VAine men goe forth in a morning weake and unarmed to encounter with principalities and powers but hee that truly knowes Christ comes not into the field without this captaine AFfliction upon a nation is either to reforme them or destroy them when Israel worshipped strange gods warre was in their gates NO people is saved for their righteousnesse sake nor chose a people because they were righteous but to make them righteous yea the righteous shall be more righteous though the wicked grow worse and worse CArnall hearts are carried away with presumption of their owne abilities and not finding matches to themselves in outward appearance insult over the impotency of inferiours EUen for our sinnes of Hypocrisie and Idolatry we have beene punished by the sword of Atheist Idolater yea one proud man correcteth another YE we could say with Abraham and Lot let there bee no strife betweene me and thee and so both joyne together against the common enemy we might expect a good successe OPpression and wrong upon even termes are not so hainous unto God as those that are upon manifest disadvantage in one there is an hazard of returne in the other there is a tyrannous Insultation VNprovoked and envious onsets upon the backs of the Israellites by Amaleck God tooke to heart every cowardly and cruell attempt upon an impotent enemie sticks in the stomack of the Almighty REmember saith Moses how Amelecke met thee by the way and smote the hindermost of you all that were feeble behinde thee when thou wert faint and wearie PUnishment upon a nation was never removed till the sinne was either punished or taken away there can be no end of warre where sinne is cherished in the seate of justice IT s not the name of peace or warre but the circumstances and condition of either that should make a man embrace the one or eschew the other KIngs that uphold Gods Kingdome God upholds theirs if they will have God to bee mindfull of them in his mercy they must be mindfull of him in their businesse EVery important action requires a sacrifice of prayer to blesse it but much more that action which imports a whole Church or Common wealth OUr dayes are growne desperate full of homicides as if violence would leave nothing to doe the merciles souldier hath put on his armour left off his charity and fights for money REligious and worthy Arts alwaies advance a worke intended it prospers a warre brings souldiers into a better command and a whole Army under good governement DOe enemies what they can so Christ be our Captaine our leader and our friend we neede not to feare EUery man forsake sin and rest upon Gods providence for mans extremity is Gods opportunitie REward Babylon as shee hath deserved yea serve her as shee hath served us suppresse an Antichristian Prelacie cut off those which make warre against the people of God YF there be a dog in the manger he shall not always lie there though there be divisions in Church and State yet wee shall at last be taught of God to be of one minde O How happy were we if we could say as Abraham to Lot let there be no strife between me and thee but both joyne together against the Common enemy VEngeance in a great and an extraordinary measure is sure to fall on al those that are Rebells persecuters of Gods Elect. REvenge for Religion-sake upon such Idolaters as have by craft and wiles sought to destroy and corrupt the people of God is warranted by his word PRinces in honour cannot make peace with any People Nation or Countrey that have shed the blood of his innocent Subjects but especially not with his own in like Case IT 's a good prediction and a presage of future happinesse to a distracted Kingdome when righteous men are brought into place of Judicature KIngdomes never flourish better then when Christs Gospel hath a free passage in it EVery violence that opposeth it selfe against Gods truth must be utterly supprest for the