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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90971	A spirituall snapsacke for the Parliament souldiers. Containing cordiall encouragements, effectuall perswasions, and hopefull directions, unto the successefull prosecution of this present cause. by J. P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1643 (1643)	Wing P3348; Thomason E103_13; ESTC R17482	16,838	20

A Spirituall SNAPSACKE FOR THE PARLIAMENT SOVLDIERS CONTAINING Cordiall Encouragements Effectuall Perswasions and hopefull Directions unto the Successefull prosecution of this present CAUSE BY J. P. LONDON Printed for Henry Overton in the Yeare 1643. To His Excellence ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX Viscount Hereford Baron Ferrars of Chartley Lord Bourcheir and Lovaine One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell and Generall of the Army raised by the Parliament in Defence of the true Protestant Religion his Majesties Person the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdome and the Priviledges of Parliament Right Honourable GReatnesse and Goodnesse as they are infinitely in GOD so in what degree they concentre in Man they have a God like Divine influence and power to create Love and Respect Boldnesse and Reverence in Persons Inferior Your goodnesse hath made you Great and your Greatnes contrary to common Experience hath made you Good and both these hath emboldened me humbly to solicite your Excellence that this small Snapsacke upon the strictest search of your dilligent Sentinels and approbation thereof may freely passe among your Common Souldiers It is not my presumption to present your Excellence with the broken Morsells Cram'd up therein knowing that Curious Carving fit for such a personage becomes not a Snap sacke and well Considering both your plentifull Supply from your Spirituall Quartermasters and mine owne insufficiency being neither a Prophet nor a Prophets Sonne but the best of my hopes is your EXCELLENCIES permission of its free Portage and could it procure the light of your countenance and your Command of it's use as a taken hereof it would be to its Author like the filling of the poore Widdowes Vess●lls for the Oyle in the Cruce a greater reward then ever ●●s look't for howsoever the Eternall God and our succeeding Posterity shall call you blessed for your Love Zeale and Courage in Gods and your Countries Cause And that the Almighty may not onely make you a Moses to lead his Israel out of Egypt and bring you to Mount Nebo in the sight of the good Land But a Ioshuah to bring them into the Possession thereof removing all Obstacles supplying all wants in your way fill you withall the divine qualifications of the worthies of Israel make you Strong and of good Courage bee with you never leave you nor forsake you is the earnest Prayer as of many thousands the Israelites of GOD so amongst them of your EXCELLENCIES most humbly Devoted Vnworthy whose Name should be Spel'd out J. P. A SPIRITVALL SNAPSACKE FOR THE PARLIAMENT SOVLDIERS MAN is borne to sorrow because borne in sinne and his insensible security is his chiefest misery common Souldiers and common Saylors are most commonly under the shadow of death and seldome mindefull of another life the consideration whereof is the ground of our present discourse wherein as brevitie must be our practice because many morsells must be cram'd up in a small Snapsack so spiritualitie must be our Subject for these Reasons First because the Souldiers for whom this is chiefly intended have a spirituall Palate the bread of life is their Hony-comb and Angells food their fare Gods word is their delight and all their well Springs are therein a rare thing in common Souldiers Secondly because they cannot come to the common Markets where this Provision is to be had this is their sorrow but not their sinne Gods Ordinances are rarely in the Souldiers march and therefore a little in the Snapsack will doe some good for to the hungry stomack every bitter thing is sweet Thirdly through constant want of wholsome dyet corrupt food may doe some hurt I meane the body of sinne within and evill Company without proves bitter to an honest minde to dwell in Kedar is his woe and to march in Mesech his complaint Fourthly because they are subject to many sorrowes for good Souldiers must endure hardnesse cold and hunger Wounds and Soares are commonly the Souldiers share spirituall refection will beare them up the waters of Life proves Cordiall in fainting fits and in outward troubles inward comfort refresheth the minde But least we should be longer in untying the strings then your stomacks will beare being sharp set roule these considerations as so many sweet morsells under your tongue to beare up your hearts in your hardest worke First you HAVE A GOOD CAUSE a singular incouragement to a pious minde amongst all other causes that ever drew Armies into the field yours for goodnesse hath the precedencie and this will appeare by these particulars First it is a most cleare and candid cause whose shining beauty and refined perspicuity amongst all other causes is like the Sunne in the Firmament It is not my purpose to answer scruples about the clearenesse of the Cause they for whom this is provided are not to seeke in this particular the Swords in their hands argues the clearenesse of their Judgements herein neither are they singular in this opinion all the Godly Learned and conscientious Ministers and people of the Kingdome will joyne issue with them herein satisfaction herein from learned Orthodoxe and godly Divines in this particular hath bin like the waters of Iordan in the time of harvest witnesse Goodwins Anticaval severall Answers to Dr. Fearne a late Treatise made by many Godly Ministers in justification of Defensive Armes and few there are of the contrary judgement but Papists Athiests Praelates Delinquents and prophane wretches excepting such who may exchange their eye-sight with Balaams Asse and cannot see the drawne sword of ruine or slavery in their base submission to the adverse party Secondly as the Cause is cleare so it is A MOST FULL AND GENERALL CAUSE soule and body in all their present concernments are deeply interessed in the same First for Matters of the Soule consider First you fight for God who will therefore fight for you the Battell is his the Victory therefore shall be yours mighty in Battell is God for you Couragious in Battell be you for Him you fight for Him whose glorious Attributes will be unto you a munition of Rocks 33. Esay 16. You fight for Him whose glorious name will be unto you a strong Tower Prov. 18.10 You fight for Him at whose Command is Heaven and Earth for your defence you fight for Him who hath divided the Seas for passage Exod. 14.21 smitten Rocks for drinke Ex dus 17.6 given Angells food for meat Exod. 16.14 Who hath made the Mountaines to skip like Rams and the little Hills like Lambs 114. Psal 6. Who hath bound Kings in chaines and Nobles in Fetters of Iron Psal 149.8 Who hath rebuked Kings and destroyed mighty Princes in the behalf of those that fought for him you fight for Him in whose hands is the breath of your nostrills and all your wayes without whose Providence not one hair of your head shall fall to the ground Who can protect in Battells succeed Battells restore losses make up breaches and give you an inheritance and Crowne with glory who would not

Souldiers to accuse men of malignitie that they may the more colourably plunder them and so take away both mens Estates and good name at once Justice and Righteousnesse doth as well bese●me a Souldier as a Citizen and the accompt of both before God shall be a like The third Rule of Christ is be content with your wages As Covetousnes doth alwayes ill become a Souldier so especially in this particular Cause and quarrell for consider first this Cause is for the exaltation of Iesus Christ and therefore those who looke for comfort from the Cause and Successe therein must aime at Him and not to themselves if your aimes be pure for Him He will see your pay good in due time Secondly you pretend the righteousnesse of the Cause and not the benefit of the Warre that sets you on worke but is it so indeed Come see my zeale for God saith Iehu for the Throne saith God and his owne Conscience Iudas did seemingly forsake all and follow Christ but the benefit of the bagg was his hand and hopes When precious oyntment was spent upon Christ he pleaded for the purse under the notion of the poore for his owne base ends under the colour of Charitie are you for the Cause indeed what and not content with your Wages yes with all our hearts if wee could get it saith the common Souldiers How have you wanted it by the deceit of Officers saith the common Voat who like the unjust Steward in the Gospell which cozened his Master by his accompts write upon the mustering dayes a hundred for fourescore and fourescore for fifty who makes as little Conscience of lying for money as of telling the money they lied for I give not the lye to Noble Souldiers but to base dissemblers and to bee offended at these words is as the dipping of Iudas his finger in his Masters dish a certaine signe that that man will betray the Cause if he can make a bargaine on it though a Halter in the conclusion may determine there is nothing gotten by it Well let those whose Consciences speakes plainely with Achan Ioshua 6. the 21. I tooke the Goodly Babilonish Garment the two hundred shekells of Silver and the wedge of Gold c. let these I say who have troubled the Campe. the whole Kingdome by deceiving them both see the aggravations of this Delinquencie under these considerations First it is the most sacrilegious Robberie that ever was committed for it is most particularly against the very person of Christ whose Cause chiefly it is and how can you answer this at the great day He that will rob Christ in a thing so deeply concerning his glory would sell Christ as Iudas did for the like profit I could wish you would seriously remember the sad example of Annanias and Saphirah smitten by God to death for keeping back the accompt of his owne Estate and his sinne is aggravated from this consideration that he had lyed against the holy Ghost Act. 5.4 And if so what will become of you who keep back not your own but the Lords owne monies being the Free-will offering of the Kingdome unto him What doe you when you say I must have moneys for one hundred under me and returne it when happily you have not about 60. or 70 to pay and keepe up the rest but even lie against the Holy Ghost and rob Jesus Christ and to as great shame you shall one day acknowledge it as ever did Thiefe make his Confession at Tyburne when Jesus Christ shall bring to light your hidden basenesse lies and dissimulation againe you rob the whole Kingdome and are thereby as great oppressors as ever Monopolists or Patente●s have been nay more in a great measure you retard the worke of Christ and are horresco referens guilty of a great deale of blood shed in the Kingdome I would you would seriously consider of it I have heard that some of you that have made a great profession of zeale to the Cause and of love unto Jesus Christ and that you applyed your selves unto the working the Warres out of these Principles but now who more covetous than you who more forward to comply with a sinfull custome of others in abusing the State by base and selfeish dealings than you which if you have true Principles of Piety you could never doe without great paines sinfully taken in stopping and in muzzeling the mouthes of your own Consciences which doth secretly vexe you within if spirituall life be in you but as a graine of mustard seed Consider consider do you know how soone your breath may be wrung out of your Nostrills and will this comfort you in your dying agony doth the wages of unrighteousnesse please you better than the love of Christ let me be plaine take heed of base dissimulation and hypocrisie You would be thought to fight for the Cause and for love unto Jesus Christ and this you say is your comfort if you perish you perish in a good cause and you are in Gods way and you expect comfort I would not trouble peace of conscience but why doe you trouble your owne peace What fight for Jesus Christ and rob Christ doe you fight for Christ and steale away the Free-will offering of his people from Him doe you fight for the Kingdome and deceive the Kingdome what and cannot endure to heare of any wayes of reforming abuses whereby the State hath been deceived well know this your greatest gaines will be your losse and your greatest deceipt will be in your owne soules Remember the Counsell of Jesus Christ doe violence to no man accuse no man falsely and bee content with your wages In the last place take heed of the common sinnes of common Souldiers of swearing drunkennesse loosenesse lightnesse vanity of spirit labour for assurance of the love of God and visible Interest in Jesus Christ minde your mortality and let the thoughts of eternity poyse your spirits keep Faith and a good conscience get your hearts into a dying temper and keep them therein for you walke in the shadow of death let God and Heaven and the deep things of the other World fill your thoughts and in all your conditions studie to be found in Christ that having fought your good fight finished your course and kept the Faith your Warefare being accomplished you may receive that Crowne of righteousnesse which God the righteous Judge shall give unto you and unto all those that love his appearing FINIS