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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02671	A sermon preached at Brocket Hall, before the right vvorshipfull, Sir Iohn Brocket, and other gentlemen there assembled for the trayning of souldiers; Sermon preached at Brocket Hall, before the right worshipfull, Sir John Brocket, and other gentlemen there assembled for the trayning of souldiers.	Harris, Edward, fl.1587-1590.	1588 (1588)	STC 12803; ESTC S119766	20,841	48

Sirach chap. 4. of his booke Striue sayth he for the trueth vnto death and defend iustice for thy life and the Lord God shall fight for thee against thine enemies For why his delight is to defende his trueth and he taketh pleasure in maintayning the good cause of his children and chosen people These things being so Consider I beseech you deerely beloued the most comfortable examples of the holy Scripture written for this entent and purpose that wee being pressed in like case might haue hope to preuaile and ouercome in like maner Although the Lorde in great mercie hath sowne our land both with men and cattle he hath taught our handes to warre and our fingers to fight he hath not bene to vs as an heath or a drie vnfruitfull grounde but hath blessed vs plentifully with all things necessarie for our defence and the withstanding of our enemies Yet suppose that it were not so Let it be that wee were but fewe and our aduersaries many in number should that dismay vs which professe the trueth God forbid Did not Abraham with 318. men of his owne house and no more follow after and pursue foure wicked Kings with their whole retinue and came home againe from the slaughter of them with safetie Gene. 14. Did not Iosua with a small hoast in comparison subdue and vtterly destroy 31. Kings and all their people Iosua 12. Did not Barake hauing at his feete but tenne thousand men ouerthrowe Sisera his nine hundred Charets of yron and all his hoast with the edge of the sword Iudg. 4. Did not Dauid with foure hundred men alone set vpoÌ„ the hoast of the Amalakites and smot them from the twilight euen vnto the euening of the next morowe so that there escaped not a man of them saue foure hundred yong men which rodde upon Camels and fied 1. Sam. 30.27 Did not Adino a counsailer to King Dauid stay himselfe eight hundred at one time Did not Eleazar the sonne of Dodo one of the three worthies of Dauid defie the Philistines his owne selfe did he not arise and finite the Philistines till his haud was wearie and claue vnto the sworde by whose meanes the Lord gaue so greate victorie that same day that the people returned after him not to fight but onely to spoyle Did not three of the Captaines of the same Dauid when he longed to drinke of the water of the well of Bethelem breake into the hoast of the Philistines that was there and drewe water out of the well and brought it to Dauid 2. Sam. 23. Let it bee that there were amongst vs neither speare nor shield nor any weapon of warre should wee therefore shrincke backe at the fight and assaulting of these our Popish aduersaries GOD forbid Did not Shamgar with no better weapon then an Oxe goad destroy 600. of the vncircumcised Philistines and so deliuer Israel Iudg. 3. Did not three hundred persans and no more vnder the conducting of Gedeon by blowing the Trompets which they held in one hand and breaking the flaming pitchers which they held in the other discomfite the hoast of the Midianites Iudg. 7. Did not the Lorde with the sounde of Rammes hornes and the showte of mens voyces ouerthrow the high and huge walles of Hiericho Iosua 6. Did not Ionathan with his armour bearer alone what time the people of Israel had neither sword nor speare among them to helpe withall set vppon the mightie hoast of the Philistines and ouerthrewe them 1. Sam. 14. Let vs not feare then a small companie of the house of faithfull Abraham will scrue to put foure Antichristian Kings to flight one Iosua will be enough to subdue 31. Princes of Canaan Euery Adino will kill his eight hundred One Eleazar will ouercome the whole hoast himselfe c. An Oxe goad were weapoÌ„ enough in the hand of one faithfull Shamgar to kill 600. popish Philistines withall An Asse iaw will serue the Nazarite of the Lord to stay a thousand of them Neither thinke deerely beloved that these are such extraordinary examples as we may not hope in some measure to match theÌ„ in our selues For the promise of the Lord is generall to the godly and faithfull which warre in desence of his truth Fine of you saith he shall chase an hundred and an hundred of you shall put tenne thousand to flight Leuit. 26. Though wee faile in these outward things yet there is a notable palce in the second of Daniel seruing to the great comfort of Christian men and such as haue renounced the trust and confidence in man to followe Christ Jesu alone The Prophet expouÌ„ding the vision of Nebuchadnezar sheweth how by the foure formed Image were vnderstood soure Monartchies of the worlde as by the head of golde the Chaldean Empire by the breast and armes of siluer the Persian kingdome by the belly and thighes of brasse the Maccdonian Monarchie by the legges of yron with feete partly of yron and partly of clay the Empire of the Romaines which as yron breaketh in peeces and subdueth all things so should that ouercome and subdue all other Monarchies of the world and be the last of the soure After this saith Daniel where as a stone cut out of the mountaine without hands smot the Image vpon his feete and brake them to peeces and destroyed all the meaning is saith the Prophet that the kingdome of Christ shall subdue the last or Romaine Monarchie and in that all the rest as for the kingdome of Christ it shal endure and stand for euer by the kingdome of Christ not vnderstanding the person of Christ alone but referring that worde to the whole bodie of his Church also Brethren let vs meditate on this to our comfort wee make no question nor doubt but that wee are of the Church and kingdom of Christ after whose name wee desire to be called not Catholiques but Christians and wee assuredly trust that wee are so as many of vs as doe faithfully belecue the Gospell now truely preached among vs. What then remaineth deerely beloued but that we assure our selues how the kingdome of Christ whereof we are shall neuer bee destroyed but shall become a greate mountaine and fill the whole earth as Daniel faith We see brethren the most parte of this prophesie fulfilled the 4. Monarchies destroyed the gospell set vp and preuailing euery day more more the nÃºber of true ChristiaÌ„s cuery where encreasing euen vnder the Crosse let vs not then doubt of the ende of these beginnings to wit that Christ shall preuaile more gloriously euery day by his Church till it hath brought the remnants of that last and Romaine Empire whereof our enemies that threaten vs are in a maner the summe to vtter and perpetuall desolation For Christ in his Church and kingdome that the Scripture may bee fulfilled must needes triumph ouer the Romaine Monarchie and the adherents thereof Some will say peraduenture why the Papistes also and our enemies say as much for themselues they boast how they

Were not the Spaniards in this Realme in the daies of Queene Mary partakers in the shedding of the blood of Gods children for might not their Catholike King haue wrought the preseruation of these Martirs was not his consent and theirs in the making and playing of that tragedie was not the Italian Nimrod the chiefe causer of that bloodshed What then may wee thinke deerely beloued concerning their entent of assaulting vs here in this lande Uerely if wee goe forward to feare the Lord there is great hope that the Lorde hath hardned their hearts and put in their mindes to come hether to the entent he might here requite them with blood again who were in this place partakers in the shedding of the blood of his saincts Thus I haue shortly my bretheren shewed you according as this portion of Scripture gaue occasion with what comforte and courage with what hope and expectation of victorie wee ought to prepare our selues against these enemies of the Lord abuse not I beseech you neither misconstrue mine exbortations You will aske peraduenture how that may bee done Uerely what I haue sayde whatsoeuer I haue brought for your encouragement as I haue done it in simplicitie and single meaning grounding on the word of our God so if any doe thinke that hue they well or ill seeke they to knowe God aright or abide they in ignorance they shall enioye the promises of the Scripture which I haue alledged let such knowe that these comfortes pertaine not to them For I haue sayd nothing but that which coÌ„taining promise of helpe to them that are the true Church both so farre appertaine to vs as by embracing that true interpretation and profession of Gods worde which our enemies are boyde of and without which none are the chosen people of God we declare our selues to be the true Church of Christ as out of all question our popish aduersaries are not To the entent therfore that we may not glory in our profession alone crying the Temple of the Lorde the Temple of the Lord is amongst vs and therfore to vs simply both al belong obserue that as our professioÌ„ doth minister hope unto vs so that we may be assured to preuaile 3. things necessarily to be performed of vs. 1 The first is that we trust not in our own valiantnes or furniture to the battel but onely in the Lord. In this confidence little Dauid did set vppon the great Giaunt Goliath and preuailed Thou commest to me sayth Dauid with speare shield but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hostes that is to say trusting in him are not in worldly weapons or defence My hart trusted in the Lord saith the same Dauid and I was holpen Psal 28.9 Likewise the Prophet Hanani 2. Chron. 16. teacheth vs the same lesson For speaking vnto Asa the King he saith on this forte Because thou hast rested on the king of Aram and not trusted in the Lord thy God therefore is the hoast of the king of Aram escaped out of thy hande The Aethiopians and the Lutims were they not a great hoast with charrets and horsemen yet because thou diddest trust in the Lord he deliuered them into thine hande By all which we may perceiue how the Lord is readie to helpe them which trust in him as for such as trust in the arme of flesh he giueth them ouer to the pray or disappoynteth them of the victorie which they hoped for least they might say how they preuailed by the strength of their owne hand Wherefore let vs so prepare our selues to the battell let vs so exercise the weapons of this earthly warfare that wee trust not in them but in the Lorde and no doubt our enemies shall fall before vs. 2 A second thing required of vs in this case is that we put away vngodlinesse farre from vs that wee repent vs of our sinnes and giue our selues to holinesse of life and a diligent following of the commaundements of God This rule the Lorde teacheth vs Deut. 32.9 When thou goest our with the hoast against thine enemies sayth the Lord keepe thee then from all wickednesse So Leuit. 26. he promiseth victorie to his people on this condition if they serue him Keepe my Sabbaths saith he reuerence my sanctuarie walke in mine ordinaunces keepe my commaundements then shall yee chase your enemies and they shall fall before you vpon the sworde A. game Deut. 11. If ye keepe diligently these coÌ„maundements no man shall stand against you Moreouer Deut. 28.7 If thou shalt obey diligently the voyce of the Lorde and doe all his commaundements the Lorde shall cause thine enemies that rise against thee to fall before thy face Consider this deerely beloued for this purpose and entent that ye which feare the Lorde may haue confidence in the day of battell and that such as being appoynted in the behalfe of our countrie to goe against our enemies knowing this may labour to reforme themselues in knowledge and behauiour before they set foote into the battell least there the vengeance of the Lord ouerthrowe them It is thought of some wicked persons that to haue a payre of Dice in the one hand and a whore in the other this is Souldierlike but wo vnto such for these are poynts of vngodlinesse which must by all of them be put away which will bee assured to prosper in battell against their enemies Wee reade in the seuenth of Iosua how Achan sinned against the Lord in the excommunicate thing for which cause three thousand men of the hoast of Israell though they were the onely true professors of the world at that time fled before the men of Ay and the men of Ay smote of them vpon a thirtie and sixe men beware therefore that ye purge your selues before the fight for the battell is the Lordes place of execution and the enemies are his axe which he holdeth in his hand therewith to destroy all those that with a stiffe necke and a rebellious heart goe on in breaking the commandements of the Lord. Some will say what is this a rule for Souldiers onely No verely but for all generally as well as for theÌ„ It standeth euery one of vs vppon to amende that which is amisse in vs. The oppressor of the Lordes Prophetes vnder what colour soeuer hee doth it must take heede that he leaue the blasphemer of Gods name must now begin to hallowe it the peruerters of iudgement must now giue vpright sentence the robbers of the church must now liue of their owne labors the proud must now be humble the liar must now speak truth the adulterer must now keepe his vessell in holinesse the contemner of the worde must now begin to embrace it the lukewarme Gospeller must now become zealous yea euery Magistrate in his place so farre as his authoritie will stretch in godlinesse must effectually looke to it that sinne be suppressed so shall we prosper against these aduersaries of ours 3 The last thing which is required of

the people from that yeere 367. to the end of those thousand yeres S. Iohn aunswereth They shal be dead in sinnes and trespasses euery day more more through the ignorance of the trueth of Gods word but at the end of those thousand yerrs they shal reuiue againe With what resurrection shal they reuiue shal their bodies theÌ„ rise out of the graue No saith S. Iohn they shall liue againe by the first resurruction or rising of the man from sinne for at the ende of those thousand yeres 1. Anno domini 1367. the gospel shall breake forth againe and in doe de then VVickleiffe began to preach and men shall reuiue againe by the meanes of the true preaching of the worde that then shall be Some might further aske what shall Sathan then bÃ©e bound vp still after this time of one thousand yeeres expired that is after the yeere 1367 S. Iohn aunswereth no but he shall bee loosed againe and shall fall to persecuting of the truth then preached which persecution shal last for a little season verse 3. After all this to come now vnto our selues it might bee demaunded by whom Sathan should persecute the professors of the trueth that short time Saint Iohn aunswereth by Gog and Magog whome hee should at the last stirre vp to make warre against the Saincts Ye see now we are come deerely beloued vnto our owne time The Gospell which lay hidde as it were till the yeere 1367. than began to shine foorth againe by the preaching of Wickleife since that time which is but a shorte space in comparison the professors of the Gospell haue bene persecuted now Gog and Magog make warre against the true professors of Christianitie Who are meant will some say by Gog and Magog Concerning Gog looke Ezech. 38. and 39. and there you shall see that Gog is called the Prince of Mesech and Tuball by which Tuball are vnderstood the Italians and Spaniardes as the learned may see in Iohn Funcius his diuision of the world in his chronicle by Mesech the Turkes by Magog the Tartarians and wee doe all of vs knowe that these are they which at this time doe persecute Christianitie the Turkes in the Cast Church the Spaniards and Italians in the West and North partes of Christendome We see then who are God and Magog as also that our enemies which warre against vs that is to say the Italians and Spaniardes are a parte of them what comforte haue wee by this or how doth this put vs out of feare by shewing that the Lord will fight for vs that which followeth in the text will strengthen vs in the Lord. For the holie ghost telleth vs plainly that Gog Magog shall compasse the tentes of the Saincts about but fire sayth he came downe from GOD out of heauen and deuoured them verse 9. Whereby is meant either that God will plague punish and destroy them with most terrible indgements from heauen according to the phrase of the. Scripture Psal 18.12.13.14 Psal 11.6 Or els that the last iudgement shall come vpon them and take them in their wickednesse whilest they are warring against the Saincts and people of God both which are of force and sufficient to encourage vs. For if the Lorde will fight for vs with vengeance from heauen against our enemies against the Popish Italians and Spaniards by name which are a parte of Gog. what more auaileable to encourage vs against them Or els if the Lord will hasten his indgement and for the saluation and deliuetance of his people whom Gog and Magog hath compassed his Saincts about to destroy them wil oppresse them with that reuenging fire which shall accompanie that last iudgement of his what can bee a greater consolation then this that our brethren wheresoeuer and we shall not long fight and striue against these enemics of ours before the day of indgement shall come and vtterly destroy them O my brethren I beseech you in the name of Christ Iesu let vs not once faint nor be afraide ye see the times agree the enemies are named the trouble is begunne in some places a good while since let vs not doubt but the Lorde which neuer deceiueth will performe his promise in due time take vengeance on our enemics In y meane season let vs be couragious for our people for our true religion for the cities of our God let the Lord do that which is good in his eyes 2. Sam. 10.12 For the persons hetherto let vs now weigh the comfort and consolation which we haue by the causes for which they assayle vs and in confidence wherof we prepare and addresse our selues against them It appeareth deerely beloued by that which is written Iud. 20. how they which set vppon any to destroy them should haue a good cause otherwise they cannot hope and looke for the helpe and assistance of the almightie The rest of the Tribes when they make themselues readie to battaile against the Behiamites it is for want of reformation and punishing of men which had committed most shamefull and detestable filthinesse with a Leuites wife neither that alone but moreouer had murdered her by that meanes Haue our enemies any such cause of warring against vs Uerely no. Wherefore then are they gathered together wherefore doe they threaten Fire and Sworde There is no doubt whatsoeuer bee pretended the setting vp againe of their Romish religion the suppressing of the Gospell now preached among vs the satisfying of the bloodthirstie minde of their proude Pops is altogether entended by this warre of theirs This ought then to turne vnto our comforte and setting all feare a parte to cause vs vnder hope of the Lorde his helpe and assistance to goe with couragious heartes against them They assault to driue vs from the the Lorde wee defende that wee may not bee seperated from him they fight to bereaue vs of the true preathing of the worde the onely comforte of our soules wee striue to keepe continue and entrease it amongst vs they bende themselues to fulfill the minde of Antichrist wee withstande to accompish the minde of Christe They warre to bring Poperie the stucke of all sedition and vngodlinesse amongst vs wee resist to keepe it out and to retaine trueth the mother of peace and godlinesse still in the lande Thus they fight for an euill wee for a good cause Then let vs boldly fight this battaile of the Lorde For seeing they doe not come out against our Soueraigne and against our Countrie for any Euill that they haue founde in them but onely rise vp to persecute vs and to seeke our soules for professing the trueth and doing after that which is right and equall let vs not doubt but The soules of our Soueraigne and of her people are bounde vp in the bundle of life with the Lorde their God and that GOD will cast out the soules of our enemies as out of the middle of a Sling 1. Sam. 25. Remember that worthic exhortation of Jesus the sonne of

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