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lord_n	aaron_n	army_n	levite_n	29	3	10.1847	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05289	Speculum belli sacri: Or The looking-glasse of the holy war wherein is discovered: the evill of war. The good of warr. The guide of war. In the last of these I give a scantling of the Christian tackticks, from the levying of the souldier, to the founding of the retrait; together with a modell of the carryage, both of conquerour and conquered. I haue applyed the generall rules warranted by the Word, to the particular necessity of our present times.	Leighton, Alexander, 1568-1649.	1624 (1624)	STC 15432; ESTC S108433	252,360	338

that are Counsellours in vvarr As of al the heavenly creatures that ever God made a good Angell is the best but a bad Angell is become the vvorst so of all the sonnes of men a good Minister is the best and therefore called an Angell but a bad Minister the vvorst and therefore may bee called a Devill As all Gods Saints are his peculiar Iewels so his Messengers are the Starshining-Diamonds amongst the Iewels A mans state is but weak when he pawneth or putteth away his Iewels But it is a note of ignominie for a Prince to pawn his Crown Gods faithfull Ministers are the Crowns and Iewels of the Kingdom All the Iewelrie of Venice is not worth one of them A question was put once what Forreignes had received the richest gifts out of the Tower One answered the Spaniard another answered not so for the Duke of Bulloin had carryed the richest Iewell out of the Tower that ever was in it yea such an one as was worth all the rest and the Archduchesses inventory besides Those Princes wrong themselues much saith a learned Author that send such Iewels out of the land because they may stand in need of them when they cannot be had I haue knowne some of the black crue on their death bed to haue cryed out and roared for comfort from such Ministers whose presence in their health they haue hated and whose persons they haue persecuted besides others instance that Maule of the Ministery and arch-persecutor the first letters of whose name were Sir P. M. having persecuted in his life with cruel persecution that holy Father M. R. B. in dispair at his death he sent sundry to seek him but neither the man of God nor the favour of God could be found God giue others of his stamp to look to it in time for as there be many haters and persecutors of Gods Ministers against the light so I see or reade but of a very few reconciled to God Of all the gifts that ever God gaue to a people such a Iewel as I shewed is the very best Witnes that saying of God by the Prophet Ieremy Amongst many blessings promised upon repentance hee promiseth to giue them a good Pastour as the Crown of all the rest Ier. 3.18 And I will giue you Pastors according to mine heart which shall feede them with knowledge and understanding But of all the plagues that ever God threatned against a people or brought upon a people a Counterfeit Iewel is the very worst Witnesse likewise the Lord Chap. 2.11 by the Prophet Micah If a man walking in the spirit and falshood doe lie saying I will prophesie unto thee of wine and of strong drinke he shall even be the Prophet of this people Let Gods Warriours then take heed of such as God hath not sent of Wolues in Sheeps cloathing beware of vile pontificall Iason who for gain vvill betray the Citie and the Sanctuary to abominable Antiochus Let Nehemiah beware of couzening Shemaiah vvho under a colour of saving his life would earn the hire of iniquity from Tobiah and Samballet by suggesting false feares to disgrace him and to bring an evill report upon Gods Generall So man-pleasing Vriah is also to be looked to vvith vvhom change is no robbery namely to chop out the Altar of God and in the Altar of Damascus Take heed likewise of the Turn-coat Levite at the rate of who will giue most And likewise of the belly-god Chop-church the Bisteepled or Tristeepled metaphisicall ubiquitatiue the enemy to the crosse of Christ the maker of merchandize of Gods vvord Never one of this crew vvill doe good but hurt These cannot make up the breach nor rise up in the gap Ezech. 13.5 nor stand in the battell of the day of the Lord Hosea 9.8 yea the Lord calleth such snares and fowlers in the way of the people and hatred in the house of God In the name of God then let Gods Lieftenants get such as are of God such as are the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel and they vvill teach them to smite their enemies as Flisha did Ioash The ordering of the Lords Army by his own appointment is an excellent pattern for all others in this point Moses and Aaron with the Priests and Levites vvere quartered about the Tabernacle between the Sanctuary and the Tribes of Israel and as they were next unto the holy place and kept Centinal there continually so they were the first that moved in the March Numb 2. Neither vvas it onely so in the Camp of Israel but also in the Camp of the new Ierusalem vvhere God hath his Throne You may see the like namely between Gods Throne and the 24 Elders compassing it There are foure living creatures full of eyes glorifying God night and day Rev. 4.5.10 after whom the 24 Elders fall down and worship God This me thinkes should be a strong motiue to all Gods forces to take this course since none can giue better order for incamping then God himselfe Vntill the time such Centinall be set such Watch be kept such Counsellours be followed and such Commanders in the first place be obeyed giue me leaue to be plain the Lord will not be with us But if this couse be taken as I hope it shall I durst pawn my life for it that Gods enemies should flee before us with shame enough to their faces As the croaking froggs the Iesuites are the incendiaries of warre so it must be undertaken and continued at their pleasure What warre by the Papists hath been undertaken since they began to flourish but they haue had a speciall hand in it It is true as Remigius Nantelius a Dane doth discover that the Iesuites went not personally to warre before the Prince of Parmes going into France about the year 1595 because they thought it a disgrace to their Clergie and a breach of a Law made against it so to doe but with a non obslante sundry ensignes of them followed the said Prince with their Chariots and all furniture yea with their banners after the manner of Princes therunto ambitiously annexed they gaped as the Author saith for honour and spoile wherof they did assure themselues if the Prince had subdued the French In rationali Iesuitarum For it should haue been their prayers onely that moved God to giue the overthrow to their enemies But they counted before their Host and so they were deceived in the reckoning Yet for all this they cease not to ply it assuring all that fight for the beast that it shal goe well with them Their large promises of heaven of victory of pardon of freeing of their friends out of Purgatory and foyling and rooting out of their enemies maketh me call to minde a blasphemous brag of that curse● Heretick Nestorius made Prelate of Constantinople by The●dosius to whom he speaketh thus in a Sermon O Caesar pur● me the land of Hereticks meaning the true worshippers o● God and I shall giue thee

and therefore their patience and all other vertues were but glistering sinnes Naturall men may by the law of nature both doe and suffer things contayned in the law but if themselues be not under grace what shall it profit them if they would giue their bodyes to be burned in the fire Yea the patience of the heathen as it is without consolation so if their sufferings be prolonged it holds not out to the end for a spirt or fit if they be put to it they dare emounter with death and torments yea in this they haue proved desperately patient but through long continuance their resolution faileth them and through impatiencie of disgrace they become selfe murtherers Examples are frequent for all take that one of Mithridates who for the space of 50 yeares as I shewed had alwayes the better of of the Romans and had given them many great overthrowes he possessed Asia tooke their Legates proconsuls and cast them in bonds at last being overcome by Pompey at first he set a very faire face on it seeming to content himselfe that it was his lot to be vanquisted by the greatest Commander in the world and one whom he thought worthy to command the world but for all this his patience wanting root it could not grow he was in a kind of fever wherein men be cold without but hoat as fire within Epialis Febris which fire of impatientie he quenched with his vitall bloud shed by his owne hands And Pompey himselfe after his overthrow grew impatient against God But Christian patience the more it is tryed it is of the better proofe Yea this maketh the sufferings of the Saints not onely to be easie but also to be comfortable which indeed is a paradoxe to a naturall man It is strange to him that a man should picke any comfort out of sufferings which are so bitter to flesh and bloud therefore the wicked as Tertullian observeth in his time did deride the martyrs that they would suffer fire and fagot for they knew not what And so the worldlings of our time Apologet. cap. 46. wonder that Gods people will for some triviall controversies of religion as they call them loose goods possessions of inheritance honours and dignities put wife and children at randome and hazard life it selfe what comfort say they can they haue in this yes much every way if they be in Christ The worldling is a stranger to the nature of this patience for their tribulation bringeth patience and patience bringeth comfort and the worth of this jewel the cocke on dunghill doth not know As there be two kinds of Antidotes against poyson namely hot and cold so against tribulation and temptation there be two soveraigne Antidots prayer and patience the one hot and the other cold the one quenching the other quickinng And this may serve to giue a tast of the excellencie of patience for having so many things to handle I can giue but a tast of every thing As for the necessitie of patience it will appeare if you looke upon it selfe or our selues on the crosse and the issue wee expect As for it selfe since it is the soveraigne medicine against the evill of trouble it must needs be necessarie Magnum malum est non posse ferre malū Bias. That man saith one of the Sages is twice miserable that in his misery wanteth patience Secondly if wee weigh the crosse it is very heavy except it be corked with patience wee are not able to keepe head above water under it Heb. 12.11 No chastening saith the Spirit for the present seemeth to be ioyous but grievous Againe if we respect our selues eyther in our weaknesse or our drossines patience is necessarie for to support the one and to purge out the other Affliction is the purge but patience keepeth the place of nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it setteth the medicine kindly a worke and is the chiefe work-man otherwise the Phisicke would kill us Sometime a man is dispossessed of his owne heart by sudden impatience ere he be aware and therefore he had neede to possesse himselfe with patience Sometimes the heart is tossed like a ship on the waues against which the Apostle inarmeth the Thessalonians 2. Thes 2.2 be not soone shaken by patience againe it is established Sometime it is weake and faint and by the power of patience it is strengthened Observe the outbursts of the best of Gods Saints 1. King 19 4. Iere. 15.18 and wee shall see that wee haue more then need of patience Eliah desireth that he may dye Ieremy quarreleth with God for deceiving of him Iob 3.3.10 and Iob curseth the day of his birth Lastly if we looke to that which we looke for namely the promises Heb. 10.36 for ye had neede of patience that after yee haue done the will of God yee may receive the promise As for the motives of patience with follow in the third place they be many a few whereof I will lay down First the authour of the crosse should moue thee to patience and that is God whosoever is the instrument The Arrow is sharp indeed but who shot it The burthen is heavy but who laid it on Then bear it with patience and let that ease the smart Psal 39.39 The Prophet David with this did hedg himselfe in from impatiencie I am dumb and will not open my mouth because thou hast done it And thus he carryed Shemies curse 2 Sam. 16.10 Let him curse because the Lord hath said unto him curse David When God did consume with fire the sonnes of Aaron it is said that Aaron held his peace Lev. 10.3 no man can haue power over any of his except it be given him of God A second motiue thou maist take from thy selfe comparing that which thou dost suffer with that which thou deservest to suffer it is the mercy of the Lord that we are not consumed Thus David compareth his troubles with his trespasse and layeth down the one as a reason why he should beare the other Deliver me from all my trespasses put me not to the reproach of the foole then it followeth I am dumb as he would say It is thy doing Lord and thou mightest justly lay more upon me for my sin whereof I beg pardon and then lay on me what thou wilt so thou giue me patience Gregory hath a fit speech to this purpose Our sufferings shalt be the more easie In Registr● if we call to mind our sinnes in our sufferings Thirdly consider the nature of the crosse as it is qualified to the godly the worst that it is it is but a furnace to try the gold and purge out the drosse Will not a man suffer the Phisitian to purge out his corruption Or the Chyrurgion with patience to corrode and cut out the corrupt flesh This life as Austin saith is the furnace affliction is the fire Iubeor ege tolerare norit ille purgare