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A91728	Orders from the Lord of Hostes, for regulating the hostes of the Lord. Set down in a sermon preached at the leaguer before Newark, on Friday the 27th of March, 1646. By order from, and at the desire of the Committee of Lords and Commons, commissioners from the Parliament of England. Upon occasion of a publick fast and solemn humiliation, appointed to be kept that day throughout the English and Scotish armies before Newark, to seek a blessing from heaven upon the proceedings of the said forces in the present siege of that garrison. / By Edward Reyner preacher of the gospel in the city of Lincoln.	Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.	1646 (1646)	Wing R1222; Thomason E337_1; ESTC R200816	27,994	40

Have daily exercises of piety in the Camp prayer at least and reading of Scriptures also if it may be evening and morning as both the motions or journeyings and rest of the Arke and cloud and Hoste of Israel were sanctified by prayer before the people might either set forward or pitch their Tents Numb 10.35 36. When the Arke set forth Moses said rese up Lord and let thine enemies be scattered for prayer will raise God and move him to goe with his people against their enemies if he late before and awaken him if he was asleepe before and stir him up to scatter enemies if hee permitted them to gather before Prayer in an Armie awakens and raiseth God to the preseruation of the Arme and destruction of the Enemies So when the A●ke rested Moses prayed to God to returne and remain among them for in his presence is joy and safety rest and security 3 Let it be the care of the Commanders in chiefe to chuse both good Officers and good Souldiers for good Materians will make a good Bunding How can an Armiebe good if the Soulderie be bad Holinesse is the Head-prece both of Commandere and Souldrers Piety is the chiefest praise of born as of Moses the great Commander in Israel That he was the servant of God And the Centurion in the Gospel Luke 7.9 that Christ found not so great saith as in him no not in Israel and the Centurion in the Act. 10.1 2. Cornelius who was a devout man and one that feared God with a●● his house and of them that w●yted on him conlimally one was adevout Souldier ver 7. here note Devotion is the Commendation of a Souldier Religion shipires the principles and Spirit of true Valour they raise an 〈◊〉 report of it and slander it excedingly they say Religion makes men Cowards 4. Set up strict discipline in the Carsiple Pumsh such us Transtesse and make some exemplary that the rest may see or heart and feare and not dare to doe any such wickednesse Many Souldiers are no better then Discipline makes them Camp-discipline is as one saith the Soule of an Armie which organizeth the whole body and keeps all within due limits and compasse as well for Carriage and Manners as for Postures and Quarters The very name of a Campe implies Discipline as one saith a Dista 〈◊〉 eastra quasi casta eo quòd ibi castraretur libide Discipline is a fruit of Necessity bred up by the exorbitancie of mans Nature and the evils incident to a Military life It was exactly exercised in Israels Campe as appears in the censure of Achan and others Give me leave to distribute what remains of these reforming directions to the Officers and Souldiers feverally 1 To the Commanders and Officers You our Worthy Leaders who have shewed your selves the Sonnes of Valour and beene a wall unto us both by night and day and adventured your lives to save ours The Lord fasten these two things upon your hearts for promoting holinesse in your Armie 1 Be Zealous for God his Name and Glory Numb 25.11 as Phinchas was with the zeale of God who thrust Zimri and Cozbi through in the Tent for their fornication God hath made some of you a great Name like unto the Name of the great Men that are in the Earth 2 Sam. 7 9. and honoured you to bee Field-Saviours to Us On shew your selves tender of his glory that his Name may not be dishonoured nor Mercies abused nor Sabbaths prophaned nor his Laws violated by any under your Command so fat as it is in your power any way to prevent or redresse the same Commanders in the Campe should be a Terror to evill-doers and a Praise to them that coe well there as Rulers are in the Common-wealth Rom. 13 3. that Souldiers may be afraid of the power of Martiall Discipline as Subjects are or ought to be of Magistraticall Imitate Job Iob 29.25 who when he sate chiese and drest as a King in the Armi● over his people for he was a great Eastern Prince as one ●hal comforteth the Mourners he chose out their way for them that is ● 11. 〈◊〉 hee not onely had them at Command but regulated their course tempering severity with elemencie comands with comforts and 〈…〉 you doe who sit chiefe in the 〈…〉 way for them as Job did for 〈…〉 would have them c●●●y well this is the way to be both beloved and feared by them 2 Be exemplary for piety and vertue as devotion temperance righteousnesse moderation as well as for valour vigilance diligence to your Souldiers saying to them as Gideon did to his in another case Iudges 7.17 Look on us do likewise carry your selves as we do If Officers be bad it is rare to finde the Common Souldiers good for very example will spoil them 1 Sam. 25.28 Remember Abigals speech to David The Lord will certainly make my Lord asure house because my Lord fighteth the battels of the Lord and evill hath not been in thee all thy dayes Gods Military servants shall finde a good reward at Gods hands if in them God hath not found evill This is the easiest and honourablest way of Reformation to take vice away out of the Campe scil rather by example then by punishment It is a great dishonour to you that are Commanders over others and Conquerors over enemies to be servants to sin yea slaves to your lusts and to rule your selves by your own wills while you order your Souldiers by Martiall Laws as it was for Alexander not to be able to conquer himselfe when hee had conquered a world I have done with the Commanders and Officers The Lord do them good by what hath been said Let me speake a few words of advice 2 To the Common Souldiers to further holinesse among you I commend unto you two things 1 Mutuall watchfulnesse and admonitions that you would observe and consider one another to provoke one another to feare God and depart from iniquity to mourne for sin and close with a Saviour to tell one another of what you see amisse saying as Lot did to the Sodomites when any of your fellow-souldiers sweare or drink immoderately or doe violence or mutiny and the like I pray you brethren doe not so wickedly Why was all Israel involved in the guilt of one mans sin scil Achans but because they did not warch over one another and over him in speciall He was a Cain that said Am I my brothers keeper Gen. 19.7 2 Fellowship in soule-edifying duties Your heart will cleave closer to Jesus Christ in faith and each to other in love and bee more deare and intimate mutually if you be Comrades in exercises as well of piety as of military postures and of Armes in praying reading conferring together as in quartering watching marching or in going upon any designe together Holy duties and communion in them are the meanes to make you holy men a godly Souldier a praying

their martiall combinations also they should be holy not only as Masters and Servants as Ministers and People as Magistrates and Subjects but as Commanders and Souldiers they should be not only a holy Family or a holy Church or Common wealth but a holy Army also To this end God appointed the Priests to go along with Israels army Deut. 20.1 2 3. 2 Chra 13 10 11 12. with the holy Trumpets Numb 10.9 31.6 as well to instruct and excite them to their duty towards God as to encourage them to fight the Lords battels against his and their enemies Iohn Baptist teacheth souldiers their duties Luke 3.14 which are branches of holinesse and obedience Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly be content with your wages Quest Why should our Armies be holy Answ The same Reasons conclude the necessity of Holinesse for ours that did for Israels I will not repeat them only the first and adde some more Reas 1. Because of Gods speciall presence in an Army that fights under his banner the name of it may be Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there Look upon the Ark in the midst of the Camp of Israel Now God will be sanctified in all that draw near him Lev. 10.3 Be sanctified scil by holy upright reverentiall carriage in all that approach his presence as well Souldiers as Ministers in times of war as of peace He is the holy holy holy Lord God Almighty therefore where ever he comes sin must be gone or he will not stay God delights to manifest his presence where he sees holinesse promoted Gods goings are glorious as in the Sanctuary when it is purged and kept clean Christ walks in the midst of the Churches when those Candlesticks are of pure gold Rev. 1.12 13. So in the Army when it is well ordered God walks in the midst of it when the Camp is holy then God doth wondrous things and puts forth the excellency of his power wisdome and goodnesse for his people out-witting their enemies wherein they do craftily and over-powring them wherein they deal proudly and cruelly Because holines becomes every Person and thing that is Gods Reas 2. that bears the stamp or character of God upon them or that relate to God as Gods Church and Temple 1 Cor. 3.17 Gods House Ps 93.5 Gods Ministers 2 Tim. 2.21 22. and Gods Magistrate 2 Sam. 23.5 and all Gods people 1 Pet. 2.9 Titus 2.11 12. So Gods Hosts Camps Armies his Warriours and Souldiers Holinesse is an ornament as proper and comely for Souldiers and Armies as for any other of Gods Servants or Societies They that fight the Lords battle ought to be holy as well as they that bear the Lords vessels Compare Esay 52.11 with 1 Sam. 25.28 It s prophecied concerning the latter times in Zach. 14.20 21. That there shall be upon the Horses bridles HOLINES UNTO THE LORD in great Letters much more upon the Riders hearts and that every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be Holinesse unto the Lord much more should the drinkers be holy Holinesse is a Characteristicall distinguishing Mark of those that are the Lords in all the premised Relations from all others Besides God will see and own commend and reward Holinesse in an Army in any corner of it or person in it as soon as he wil spy any uncleannesse there to detest it and punish it God is as ready to observe what is good in his people as to mark what is amisse among them Yea hee will overlook many infirmities where he sees some sanctity and syncerity 3 Because though mens lawes be then silent Reas 3. yet Gods Law which commands Holinesse stands in force in time of war as full as in time of peace and in Armies as well as any where else God will not hold souldiers guiltesse if they take his Name in vain if they swear curse blaspheme oppresse rob be drunk commit uncleannesse no more then any others that offend Though the Laws of the Kingdome be then laid aside and the Laws of Military Discipline be not set up yet even then Gods Law hath a strong Tye upon all the Consciences of Commanders and Souldiers to obliege them unto holinesse and obedience under the penalty of eternall perdition Let such as think themselves lawlesse or at liberty to live as they list now because they are Souldiers and this is a Time of War I say let such prove if they can out of Gods Word by which they shall all be judged another day that God ever gave a Dispensation or Toleration to an Army or any in it whether Officers or common Souldiers to be disordered loose base outragious or injurious in their Courses or to be in any kinde or degree more vile and sinfull then other men or to be lesse carefull to feare God and keep his Commandements to seek after and set up Jesus Christ to eschew evill and do good in times of Warre then of Peace Because there is death in the Campe. Reas 4. Souldiers Carry their lives in their hands and look death in the face daily they had need be holy if they would be happy For without Holinesse no man not a Souldier no more then any other man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 Souldiers stand in most need to be very Holy Men because they may be taken away very Suddainly and to have assurance of a better life because their present life hangs in suspence night and day They cannot be in a Capacity of happinesse or in preparation for death untill they bee in a Posture of Holinesse Because a holy Army is victorious and succesfull Reas 5. I do not mean when all and every one in an army is truly Godly for the best Armies that ever were were never so good but Denominatio est à Potiori when the Commanders Some of them at least and a Considerable part among the Souldiers are holy Such as can pray as well as fight and doe take Care to maintain Peace with God while they are in warre with Men to decline Tentations to sin as they would doe bullets or Thrusts that Come from their Enemies That a Holy army is victorions see the Experiment hereof in Israel in the dayes of Ioshua 23.8 9 10. They did cleave unto the Lord their God to this day sayth Joshua therefore God drave out from before them great and strong Nations and as for them no man hath been able to stand before them unto this day See the like in Iudah in the days of the Pious Kings as David Asa Iehosaphat Hezekiah What glorious successes hath God given when Commanders have been Vertuous in Marcus Aurelius his Army which had a Legion of Christians in it who by their prayer to God at the Emperours intreaty when the whole Army was in danger to perish through drought obtained from Heaven both Lightning upon their Enemies which put them to rout and ruine and plenty of rain upon themselves Eccles Hist lib. 5. cap 5.