her name be sowen Nahum 1.14 HOPE But God once spared this populous City wherein there are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discerne betweene the right hand and the left TRVTH The Lord indeed is slow to anger but great in power and will not surely cleare the wicked Cap. 1. ver 3. HOPE We heare no rumors of warre we are at rest and haue peace with the Nations round about vs. TRVTH Though they be quiet and also many yet thus shall they be cut off when he shall passe by Cap. 1.12 HOPE But if there be no remedy let vs not be beaten at home stop the passages man the frontiers keepe the munition watch the wayes let vs make our loynes strong and fortifie our powers mightily Cap. 2. ver 1. TRVTH Yea but The shields of the mighty men that come against thee are made red Their charets shall rage in the streets they shall runne to and fro in the high wayes they shall shoot like the lightning Cap. 2. v. 4. HOPE But Niniueh is of old like a poole of water the riuer Tigris is in stead of moates ditches trenches to her walles and besides shee will remember her strong men cap. 2.8 TRVTH But the gates of the riuers shall be opened and the palace shall melt they shall flee away stand stand shall they cry but none shall looke backe cap. 2.8 HOPE But Niniueh hath multiplied her merchants as the starres of heauen there is no end of the store and glory of all her pleasant furniture and therefore she can hire succours from forraine countries TRVTH Yea but The Chaldaeans shall take the spoile of the siluer and gold c. 2. v. 9. and for other Nations they shall be so farre from helping her that all they that looke vpon her shall fly from her and say Niniueh is laid waste who will bemoane her cap. 3. ver 7. HOPE But Niniueh is the seate of the Empire shee can command to her aide many Countries Prouinces and Cities that are vnder her dominion TRVTH Yea but Is shee better than No that was full of people and was situate among the riuers Aethiopia and Aegypt was her strength and it was infinite Put and Lubin were her helpers yet shee was carried away and went into captiuitie c. 3. v. 9. HOPE But Niniueh hath store of munition and is victualled for many yeares TRVTH I I draw thee waters for the siege fortifie thy strong holds goe into the clay and tread the morter make strong the brickill yet there the fire shall deuoure thee and the sword cut thee off c. 3. v. 14 15. HOPE But Niniueh hath her walles an hundred foote high so broad that three carts may goe on a row at the top of them furnished and fortified with fifteene hundred bulwarks and towers TRVTH Yet all her strong holds are but like fig-trees with the first ripe figs if they be shaken they shall euen fall into the mouth of the eater cap. 3. vers 12. HOPE But Niniueh hath in her the flower of the Princes the chiefe of the Nobility and the greatest Captaines and Commanders in the Empire TRVTH Alas Her crowned are as the Locusts and her Captaines are as the great grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the cold day but when the Sunne ariseth they flie away and the place is not knowne where they are cap. 13. ver 17. HOPE But Niniueh is full of ancient experienced braue Souldiours such as haue beene accustomed but to come and conquer TRVTH Yea but peace and plenty hath made them wanton effaeminate base drunken coward-like Carpet-Knights Behold thy people in the middest of thee are women cap. 3. v. 13. Thy people those that haue beene so renowmed in Armes those that haue atchieued such victories those that haue made such conquests Thy people those that haue beene the terror of the world able to affront Babylon and to giue her checke-mate in the height of her pride Those thy people thy strong martiall honoured feared people In the middest of thee not thy pondus in vtile thy dregs and off-scowring not thy paisants and husbandmen not thy Artisans and Mecaniques not they that are farre remote from the safety of thy walles and turrets not they that dwell in thy skirts and suburbs but thy people in the middest of thee in the place of greatest eminence securitie and defence Are women proud as women foolish and voide of counsell as women fantasticall and new-fangled as women delicate and tender as women fearefull and coward-like as women nice and effaeminate as women which neuer will venter to set the sole of their foote vpon the ground for their softnes and tendernes the heart melteth and the knees smite together much paine is in the loynes and the faces of them all gather blacknesse Nahum 2.10 Wee now come to our selues againe and demand whether after the light of so great euidence reflected vpon vs from the glasse of this example there can any man be so stupid as to doubt so impious as to deny that all power to worke with meanes without meanes against meanes belongeth to the Lord of Hostes who hath done doth and will do whatsoeuer he listeth in heauen on earth in the sea and all deep places And therefore as the Elders in the Reuelation throw downe their crownes before the throne so cast downe your armes ô ye mighty your swords and shields ô yee valiant men of warre before his foote-stoole hang them vp as trophees in his Temple with this inscription Through God we will doe valiantly for he shall tread downe our enemies vnder our feete But if he be not our helpe in the day of battell what can these aduantage vs for victory ouer enemies as safety from enemies is of the Lord. But it may be that as a Philosopher dissuading the too much feare of death made men preposterously to cast away their liues and Physitians somtimes seeking to comfort the heart doe inflame the liuer so we by fastening our eyes thus long vpon the transcendent and imperiall power of God haue lost all sight of the necessity of meanes or second causes and beginne to perswade our selues that seeing it is all one with God as we haue heard to helpe with many or with few to giue victory to men armed or naked to saue with sword and shield or without them therefore all preparation against the day of battell all prouision munition numbers experience and practise are either needlesse or bootlesse If the Lord will help he can doe it without these and then they are needlesse or if he will strike there is neither security nor succour in any of these and then they are bootlesse For answer whereunto we are to consider that albeit the absolute power of God be infinite a matter much rather than a Kings royall prerogatiue not to be quaestioned nor disputed of for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Damascene things incomprehensible are likewise vnspeakable and to be
is praepared against the day of battell but saluation is of the Lord. THESE three bookes of Salomon which onely of all those great voluminous works of his the prouidence of GOD hath to this time preserued in the Canon of Scripture are like the three Tabernacles which S. Peter would haue had built vpon the Mountain where his Master was transfigured one for Moses one for Elias and one for Christ. This booke of Prouerbes or Parables is like the Tabernacle of Moses contayning matters morall and politicall Ecclesiastes or the Preacher is like the Tabernacle of Elias sparkling with the fire of a sacred zeale the light whereof discouers and reprehends the vanity of all things vnder the Sunne But his Song or rather The Song Canticum Canticorū is the Tabernacle of Iesus filled with that sweetnes which none can conceiue but they that taste with hidden Manna which onely Contemplation feedes on with new names which onely Contemplation reads with new light which onely Contemplation discouers and with new tones and raptures which onely Contemplation heares O thou that dwellest in the gardens the companions hearken vnto thy voice cause me to heare it But we must downe againe from this eminent height and for this night take our rest at the foote of Iacobs ladder in this forrest of Prouerbs amongst which such is their nature and condition you can expect no dependance nor neede wish any euery line shewing Apelles his hand and euery letter the wisdome of him that had a wise and vnderstanding heart so that there was none like vnto him before him neither after him shall arise the like vnto him For this particular we see here Almighty God who in euery syllable of his word breathes freedome and royall maiestie and is as sparing in those dominantes sermones speeches which will not be easily translated from their first notion as frequent in flourishing Allegories both of necessitie and ornament commending vnto vs the wisdome of man in his prouision and preparation for things necessary but reseruing vnto himselfe the power and authoritie to dispose thereof conformably to other places of scripture Behold saith Ieremy he shall come vp as the cloudes and his charets shall be as a tempest His horses are lighter than Eagles There 's the wisdome of Nabuchad-nezzar in parandis equis ad diem belli in praeparing horses against the day of warre yea but saith Dauid The King is not saued by the multitude of an hoste neither is the mighty man deliuered by his great strength An horse is counted but a vaine help c. There 's Gods praerogatiue to crosse the greatest meanes and to giue a blessing to the weakest and most despised when it shall please him to worke such Miracles Dominus enim salutem tribuit for it is he that giueth health saluation or victory So that you haue in this text one prouerbe iustified by an other for here is Man purposing and God disposing or if you will The commendable wisdome of man and The commanding power of God The one in praeparing the horse against the day of battell The other in preseruing or giuing victory with meanes without meanes against meanes But saluation is of the Lord. And with this plaine diuision and the pursuite of these two points I shall desire you will rest satisfied without expecting that I should spin my text out into so small threeds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as will neither be for the profit of your memories in the wearing nor the dignity of the subiect in deliuering For as Seneca of Philosophy so I of Scripture Diuidi in partes non in frusta concîdi vtile arbitror thinke it fit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to diuide it aright and to distinguish it into his parts but not to mince it into so small and invisible Atomes as if the whole body of Diuinitie were made of nothing else The horse is praepared for the day of battell The horse It is an ordinary figure in the language of Canaan by specifying one part of anything to intimate the whole So you haue sometimes a finger put a man They worship that which their owne fingers haue made Sometimes a foote Thy word is a lanterne vnto my feete Sometimes a hand Manus lass as roborasti Thou hast strengthned the weake hands and sometimes a head Gather of it Manna euery man according to his eating an Omer for a head In like manner it putteth for the whole power and preparation of warre sometimes no more than a Bow All you that bend the bow besiege yee Babel round about let none escape Sometimes only an Arrow Perforabit eas sagittis suis saith Balaam of Israel He shall shoot them through with his arrowes Sometimes onely a sword They got not the land in possession by their owne swords Sometimes a shield only For there the shield of the mighty is cut downe Sometimes Charets onely By the multitude of my Charets I am come vp to the top of the mountaines sayes Sennacherib by his messengers And sometimes horses only as Iosh. 11.6 I will deliuer them into thine hands equos eorum subneruabis thou shalt hough their horses And in these words of my Text The horse is prepared against the day of battell By which is ment not that this wisdom counsell and vnderstanding consisteth in prouiding horses onely nor peraduenture horses chiefly against the day of battell but generally totum apparatum belli all manner of prouision men munition and that which Q. Curtius somewhat besides the good liking of Machiauel calls the sinewes of warre money and what else soeuer the iudgement of man can foresee to be any wayes necessary either for an offensiue or a defensiue warre as the occasions shall most probably arise A point which the Wise-man thought fit to driue like a nayle of the Sanctuary into the knotty timber of secure hearts with many blowes and therefore beside testimonium oris the testimonie of his word we haue also testimonium operis his owne precedent and example who when he had peace round about him and all Iuda and Israel dwelt without feare euery man vnder his vine and vnder his fig-tree from Dan euen to Beersheba yet at that time besides the maintayning of his Nauy the safest wall of a sea-bordering kingdome he had Cities for store and Cities where his Charets for warre were kept and Cities where his souldiers were garrison'd and forty thousand horses alwaies in a readinesse and twelue thousand horsemen continually in pay And certainly howsoeuer this policie escape our practise yet like all virtue which laudatur alget it cannot want our approbation while that prouerbe of taking a cloake with vs in faire weather shall be as well vnderstood as generally vsed the rather because all times do abound in the examples of those Qui dum
had eaten of the prey and till they had drunke of the bloud of the slaine Let me be bold to say with St. Augustine Militare non est delictum sed propter praedam militare peccatum est Nec rempublicam gerere criminosum est sed ideò agere vt rem familiarem potiùs augeas videtur esse damnabile To goe to warre is no offence but to doe it for loue of spoyle and rapine is a greeuous sinne To beare office in the Common-weale is no blemish but to doe it to the end to enrich a mans priuate coffers is no lesse then damnable For as storms and tempests do naturally purge the aire but accidentally hurt the fruits of the earth So is it in a iust warre whose naturall and intended effects are to recouer our owne to reuenge iniuries to succour the distressed to subdue rebels to defend our owne land to maintaine true religion for although there haue beene and are that question the propagation thereof by the sword yet this was neuer doubted of so it be vndertaken by those who haue ius belli and lastly to procure and establish peace pax summa laborum Pax belli exacti pretiū pretiūque pericli Peace is the price and sufficient recompence of all labour warres and dangers These I say are the naturall effects of a iust warre But that amongst Souldiers violence cruelty rapes delight in blood blasphemy and prophanenesse are so frequent and ordinary that they are now thought proper vnto the profession it may seeme vitium personarum non rei the fault of the persons and not of that profession than which I doe not finde any other more honoured in the whole booke of God at the least if you interpret it an honor that he who in these later times hath bene called Deus pacis the God of peace did in the dayes of olde call himselfe Dominus exercituum the Lord of Hosts And had it not bene so he would neuer haue suffered his owne spirit to haue entitled himselfe I l maestro di guerra The grand master of warre Blessed be the Lord my strength saith Dauid which teacheth my hands to fight and my fingers to battell Had it not bene so the Scripture would neuer haue called CHRIST the Captaine of the Lords armie It would neuer haue called the Angells souldiours Nunquid est numerus militum suorum Is there any number in his armies and at the incarnation of our Sauiour mustred them in a band of heauenly souldiours It would neuer haue called the CHVRCH a squadron of armed men Thou art beautifull my loue as Tirzah comely as Ierusalem terrible as an Army with banners It would neuer haue called a BISHOP a Souldiour Thou therefore suffer hardnes or euill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a good souldiour of Iesus Christ. It would neuer haue called a Christian a Souldior Put vpon you therfore the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the Deuill Nay it would neuer haue called euery man a souldiour Militia est vita hominis super terram The life of a man vpon earth is a warrefare For although as Augustine and Ruffinus affirme similitudes in the book of God be sometimes drawne à rebus non amandis from euill things and applyed vnto those that are good as from the vniust Iudge to God Luc. 18. yet Titles or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Basil calls them you shall neuer finde ascribed either to holy men or to the most Holy if borrowed onely saue from things in their owne nature good and approued But what neede wee striue so much to expresse and wring iuyce from symbolicall Diuinitie which seldome concludes when waters sufficient to quench our greatest thirst of knowledge do so plenteously gush from the rocke of the word Or shall curiositie seeke out another Doctor while it is in the chaire There 's none can teach vs so truly none more plainely With how great euidence do the Scriptures proue that the husbandman so soone as he had chosen out a Vineyard hedged it making his care equally ancient of fencing and planting it Are they not as exact though peraduenture not so plenteous in the affaires of the Army as in the businesse of the Sanctuary Will you see modum indicendi bellum a prescript forme of denouncing warre A matter of much regard and cerimony amongst the ancient Romanes see Deut. 20 10. Will you see delectum militū the choise of souldiours see Exod. 17.9 Will you see sacramentū militare the oath of obedience from a Souldiour to his Captaine see Iosh. 1.16 17. Will you see Colonells and Captaines looke Num. 31.14 Will you see the sounding of an All'arme looke Num. 10.5 6. Will you see the order of a Camp and how the Army is quartered looke Num. 2. Will you see a March who haue the Van and who the Riere looke Num. 10.14 c. Will you see a Councell of warre looke the same Chap. vers 4. Will you see a City besieged looke Iosh. 6. Will you see a City releeued looke Iosh. 10.9 Will you see an Ambush laid look Iosh. 8.9 Will you see a prey taken and recouered looke 1 Sam. 30. Will you see the spoile diuided look Num. 31.27 But what should I stand wearying you with repetition of watches spies battels skirmishes defeates supplies stratagems and six hundred things of like nature wherevnto the blessed spirit hath euery where in Scripture giuen not only approbation but direction assuming to himselfe the honor both of the command and execution He teacheth my hands to fight so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes saith Dauid yea I weaken the loynes of Kings I open the dore before him and the gates shall not be shut for I will breake the brazen dores and burst the iron barres saith Iehouah of himselfe Isay 45.1 2. From all which it easily results that as by the law of nature it was permitted vnto man and implanted in his heart to oppose violence with violence art with art and cunning with cunning vt fortis impiugat in fortem that the strong might stumble against the strong and the armed man against him that was armed So in the statutes and ordinances which God gaue by Moses for the reforming of the degenerate and counterfeit manners of his people he confirmed vnto them the lawfulnesse thereof he ordered the circumstances and professed himselfe Generall of all such warres as were made at his command Nor did the Prince of peace at his comming abrogate this as ceremoniall amongst those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 carnall rites which were enioyned vntill the time of reformation nor dishearten the practise thereof in his seruants as though it had beene of the Iudicialls peculiar only by way of command to the then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Common-wealth of the Iewes to vs
honored with silence yet his actuall or ordinarie power is limited and as it were circumscribed by his will so that as the first can do no more than he will so this doth whatsoeuer he will and therefore voluntas eius est potest as eius saith Ambrose His will is his power Now he being pleased to reueale thus much vnto vs in Scripture that it is his will ordinarily to worke by ordinary meanes and secondary causes himselfe to heare the heauens the heauens to heare the earth the earth to heare the corne and the wine and the oyle and they to heare Israel certainly they that shall reason from his posse to his velle from his power to his will are like those deceitfull or vnlearned Physitians who as Augustine saith do so apply vtile medicamentum a plaister wholsome in it selfe vt aut non prosit aut obsit that it shall either do no good or a great deale of harme for with as much probability might we omit both ploughing and sowing and expect Manna from heauen because the LORD once fed the Israelites with it or abstaine from foode because Moses fasted forty dayes or gape till the Rauens feede vs because they once did so to Elias or waite till an Asse counsell vs because Balaams Asse aduised his master as expect that the Lord should giue vs victory with sounding of Rammes hornes or breaking of pitchers that is to stand still onely and behold what the Lord will doe for vs Miracles were they and miraculous would this be and therefore not to be looked for but in cases of necessity our Sauiour himselfe when he was to ascend into heauen hauing chosen Mount Oliuet for the place from whence that as one saith Quamdiu natur ae vis inseruire potuit miraculo non vteretur wherein the power of nature could helpe him he might not worke a miracle Nor is this any disparagement to his might whom we acknowledg to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 solely sufficient by his immediate word to gouerne all things as well as he was to create them but rather an honor to himselfe and to his creatures to himselfe for beating out the golden ingot of his prouidence into so admirable a chaine of causes perplexed folded and linked one within another And to his Creatures in daigning them to be Co-workers with him that as he is the principall agent so they may haue imployment vnder him wherwith to busie themselues that they fall not vpon that iust reprehension Quid statis hic totum diem otiosi why stand yee here all the day idle It rests then that as Hierom speakes truly though to another point Singulorum priuilegia legem efficere non possunt the priuiledges of singular and speciall persons make no common rule for all men in generall What God hath beene pleased to do at sometimes and what he is able to do at all times we may looke vpon for our comfort but not rely vpon for our incouragement to neglect the ordinary meanes For within these limits haue they walked to whom the secret of the Lord hath beene reuealed and whose feet haue beene guided the right way by the lanterne of his word Iacob had Gods promise for the superiority ouer his brother Esau and Dauid was abundantly secured of Gods protection from Saul and all his other enemies yet for all that they were content to vse the best meanes they could watching all opportunities redeeming all occasions sometimes flying sometimes intreating sometimes buying their peace though alwaies assured that safety is from the Lord and by particular promises fully perswaded that he would deliuer their soules from death and their dearlings from the power of the lyon Pauls voyage by sea is knowne euen to the Barbarians so is his danger and the speciall reuelation he had for the deliuerance of himselfe and all his company And what then did that make the Mariners neglect to sound to cast anchors to lighten the ship to wey anchors to hoyse sayles nay such as could to swimme first to land and such as could not swimme to saue themselues on bords and other peeces of the ship No for he knew that si periculum quantum cauere possumus non cauemus magis tentamus Deum quam speramus in Deo if we labour not to auoide danger and perill as much as we can in how deplored and desperate cases soeuer we rather tempt God indeed than trust in God But aboue all we haue an euident and an eminent example hereof in her whom all generations shall call blessed the Virgin-mother of our Sauiour who though shee had laid vp in her heart all the sayings of the Angell at the Annuntiation of Elizabeth at her visitation of Simeon and Annah at her purification yet when the Angell of the LORD appeared vnto Ioseph in a dreame and bad him take that sweet babe and his blessed mother and flee into Aegypt because Herod sought the Childe to destroy it did shee reason against her husbands resolution and plead Gods eternall decree or her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 full perswasion and assured beleefe thereof against his purpose Nothing lesse Shee thought not her selfe wiser than God in his commanding than her husband in his obedience Shee was not like the Leuites wife that answered not nor like Lots wife that departed vnwillingly but as Ruth to Naomi her mother in law so answered her heart to Ioseph I will not leaue thee nor depart from thee but whither thou goest I will goe I know the LORD certaine and firme in the end and accomplishment of his promise I know not the meanes by which he hath determined to effect it and therefore Surge eamus Arise let vs goe hence Thus all the seruants of God haue one of their eyes fastned vpon Ezechiel his Cherubims and the other vpon his wheeles their hearts are reposed vpon Gods mercy but their hands are stretched out vnto all that they shall finde to do when Hezekiah is sicke though the Prophet Isaiah be sent vnto him with a promise of recouery yet he must take a lumpe of dry figs and lay it vpon the sore and therefore meanes must be vsed But though the watchman stand vpon the walles yet except the Lord keepe the City he watcheth but in vaine and therefore secondary causes only must not be relyed vpon nor a sacrifice offered vnto our nets nor incense burnt vnto our yarne The horse is praepared against the day of battell there as I said at the first is mans prouidence but safety is of the Lord there is his power and praerogatiue Giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars and to God that which is Gods It was the Spartane resolution admota manu fortunam invocare to do their best and then to aske helpe from fortune we haue a more sure word whereunto you shall do well to take heede as to a light shining
separant à Deo euill thoughts separate from God But aboue all the rest let our owne reason praeuaile with vs if we be reasonable men to abandon this sin shall I say or punishment of sin or both I meane that frozen and benummed senselessnes of approaching danger sith God hath giuen vs peace on all sides let vs seeke to continue our peace by all meanes Henry the fourth late King of France was heard to say that he had in his Exchequer a hundred thousand horsemen armed mounted and lodged But we should hold it happinesse and securitie enough for vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if we could truly say we had but halfe so many footemen so they were not such as Lampridius calls milites ostensionales soldiers for show or pompe such as can weare their swords in great scarfes rich cariages for any other behoofe as vsefull as Alcinous his golden dogs were for the defence of his house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But such as Dauids Captaines were valiant men of warre men of armes apt for battell which could handle the speare and shield one of the least could resist an hundred and the greatest a thousand like the fifty thousand of the tribe of Zebulon which could set the battell in aray non in duplici corde and were not of a double heart a praise which I could wish our Countrymen especially ambitious of because elder times haue had too many and I feare future times shall not want some who like Hercules his Priest in S. Aug. are able alone to play a game at tables casting for themselues with the right hand and for their supposed aduersaries with the left Now I conclude winde vp all in a word If in the truth of your hearts for alium notorem non dabo I desire no other iudges you be perswaded of the lawfulnesse of a necessary war of your generall obligation to the defence of your country of the necessitie of being exercised and trayned vp to military discipline and lastly if you be touch'd with a serious detestation of these baser and effaeminate virorum faeminae faeminarum viri men amongst women and women amongst men O vere Phrygiae neque enim Phryges ite per alta Dindyma sinite arma viris cedite ferro Then take courage vnto your selues be neither amazed nor dismayed with the mockes of such as sit in the seate of scorners runne not with the multitude to do euill the readinesse and resolution of your hearts hath made you Martyrs in your will and affection and hauing said so I shall neede to adde no more to your praise Looke downe with sorrow and pity vpon the many thousands that march vnder Mindyrides his colours that Epicurean Sybarite who complain'd that his armes aked with seeing one digge and his sides were hurt with lying vpon the doubled leaues of a rose fie vpon these strutting peacocks we haue spit seauen times in their faces yet they will not be ashamed Be in your selues and may your example incourage others to be praepared against the day of battell and accustomed to the meditation of war for Primordia cuncta pauida sunt aliter timiditas non tollitur nisi quum rebus necessarijs nouitas abrogatur The first beginnings of all things haue in them a certaine kind of feare which is not banished but by being made familiar with them Labour as occasion shall serue to plucke vp againe the sunke and drowned honour of our Country and that it may not be the punishment of a slothfull Nation which was once of a slothfull souldiour to be let bloud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let euery opportunity be waited and all meanes of preuention willingly embraced Lastly when we haue gone as far as we can in praeparing the horse against the day of battell yet considering that safety or victory is of the Lord let vs repaire vnto him for help not trust in charets or horses for they are counted but vaine things to saue a man and in much humilitie referre our selues to his good pleasure saying with Ioab 2 Sam. 10.12 Be strong and let vs be valiant for our people and for the Cities of our God and let the Lord do that which is good in his owne eyes Now to Iehouah the Allmighty King of Kings and Lord of hostes and to his victorious sonne Christ Iesus the Lion of the tribe of Iudah together with the Holy Ghost the Communion of them both the inspirer of all vertue and true valour be power maiesty might and dominion ascribed now for euermore AMEN FINIS a Ierom. in prolog Galeat b 1 Reg. 4.32 33. c Mat. 17.4 d Reuel 2.17 e Cant. 8.13 f Iansen prolog in comment in Prou. g 1 Reg 3.12 h Non ego inornata dâ—minantia nomina solùm Verbaque Pisones satyrarum scriptor amabo Horat dâ—arte poet i Ier. 4.13 k Psal 33.16 17. l Aristoph in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Schol. m Ep. 89. n 2 Tim 2.15 o Esa. 2.8 p Psal. 119.105 q Iob. 4.3 r Exod. 16.16 s Ierem 50.29 t Num. 24.8 u Psal. 44.3 x 2 Sam. 1.21 y 2 Reg. 19.23 z The question whether the seruice of foot or horse be more necessary or honorable not falling properly vnder the decision of a Diuine you shall finde argued apud Machiauel disâ—oâ—s lib. 2. c. 18. apud Iulium Ferrettum lib. de antiqâ—â— iâ—staur illustr militia tit 51. n. 53. apud Vâ—gâ—t lib 2. cap. 1. a Machian Discors lib. 2. cap. 10. b 1 Reg. 4.25 c Ingrediare viaÌ„ caelo licet vsque fereno Ad subitas nunquam scortea desit aquas Mart. lib. 14. ep 120. d Hieron dialog aduers. Pelag. e Esa. 2.4 f Agit enim de pace interna non externa vide Aquin. 2.2 q. 40 art 1. ad 3. g Gal. 6.10 h Rom 15 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer Iliaâ— 1. notetur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i Esa. 11.6 7 8. k 2 Thess 3.2 l Esa 57.20 m 1 Sam. 13.22 n Iames 1.17 o August de Ciuit. Dei lib. 19. cap. 11. p Sil. Ital. lib. 11. q Cyprian de Ieiun r Psal. 34 14. s Exod. 17.16 t Psal. 122.3 u Rom 12 18. x Deut 7.2 Iudg. 2.2 y Deut. 23.6 z Esa. 32.17 a Danaeus ad D. August de haereâ—ibus cap. 22. b Idem ibid. ad cap. 86. verum Tertull. excusa tur nec immeritò ab eius vindice Pamelio in comment ad lib. de corona militis c Iudg. 3.10 d Iudg. 6.34 e Iudg. 11 29.33 f Iudg. 14.6 g Iudg. 14.19 h Iudg. 15.14 i 1 Sam. 11.6 k Gen. 49.9 l Deut. 33.20 m Num 23 24. n De verb. Dom o 1 Sam 30. p 1 Chron. 19. q Gen. 14. r 2 Reg. 3. s 2 Reg. 23. t Nehem. 4. De quibus omnibus consule Aug. lib. 83. quaest super Iosueq 10.