together for themselues which they may afterward lauish out on prodigall riot and filthinesse of life And it may be sayd of many of them as is in the Poet Nulla fides piet asque viris qui castra sequuntur Venalesque manus ibi â—as vbi manima merces No faith no godlinesse no good in those that follow Souldiers trayne They set their hands to sale for blood all's right with them that yeeldeth gayne Though I say many of them be thus prophane and wicked yet our hope is that as often heretofore so hereafter still for the good Princes sake the Lord will blesse the labours of Ioab Deus operatur per malos non in malis God worketh by the euill though not in the euill When wicked Pharao exalted godly Ioseph when Achab maintained that good Obadiah when Daniel was aduaunced by Nabuchadnezzar when many Saints were in the house of Nero GOD wrought by the hands of the wicked a benefite vnto his children he wrought by the euill but not in the euill Howsoeuer many Souldiers and Mariners haue not their affections sanctified yet those that truly feare God ought not to be discouraged but rather to striue by their godly exhortations and good examples to reforme the imperfections of them and to seeke by all meanes so to increase the number of the true repentant that for their sakes also some mercie may bee shewed to Sodome We may lawfully enioy the spoyles of the Lords enemies as did Dauid Asa and others we may also lawfully desire to maintaine our selues by our vocation as Paul sayth Who goeth at any time to warfare on his owne cost But our chiefest intent and purpose ought to be to promote the glorie of God to doe good and acceptable seruice to our gracious Soueraigne to procure peace vnto Sion to break or weaken the power of Antichrist to turne aside that course of the Indian fountaine of gold the nurse of all those warres and troubles that are now amongst our neighbours and confederates in France and Flanders to take the sworde out of the mad mans hand and to plucke downe that lustie Nimrod that so eagerly hunteth for the kingdomes of the whole earth which affections if we cary then no doubt the Lorde will so blesse our labours that liuing we shall be most profitable meÌ„bers of our Christian common wealth and if death doe take vs away we are assured that ending our liues either in or for the faith of Iesus Christ we shall be partakers of a farre more blessed estate in the world to come euen of that immortall crowne of glory which Christ Iesus hath prepared to al that loue him and to those that for his sake haue not loued their liues vnto death God saue and preserue our most noble Soueraigne Lady Queene ELIZABETH and grant vnto her many ioyfull and happy yeares GOD gouerne all her Maiesties most honourable priuie counsaile with the grace of his holy spirit God preserue amongst vs the ministerie of his holy worde and continue his Gospel and truth to vs and to our posteritie for euermore God defend the Realmes of England Ireland from all daungers of their enemies as well forraine as domesticall God blesse and prosper all her Maiesties forces and munitions as well by sea as by land God conuert the hearts or confound the practises of all her aduersaries God breake the power of Antichrist giue an vtter ouerthrow vnto all his sworn souldiers and namely the Spaniard euen GOD for his Sonne Christ Iesus sake happily and speedily confound him that he neuer may bee able to lift vp himselfe against the Lord and against his annointed and let all English hearts that doe feare GOD and loue his truth euen heartily and faithfully say Amen Amen Imperet viuat regnet vincatque triumphet Emineat vigeat floreat Elisabeth A Prayer for the Souldier and Saylour in time of seruice O Most mercifull God and gracious father we humbly praise thy glorious name for all thy vnspeakeable mercies which of thy bountifull goodnes thou hast hitherto vouchsafed to bestow vpon vs thy poore and vnworthie seruants as well on our soules as on our bodies and namely for that thou hast not onely allotted vnto vs thus to be daylie sustained by a lawfull vocation agreeable to thy blessed ordinance but also doest mercifully preserue vs in the same from all those dangers which in thy iudgement thou mightest iustly lay vpon vs and into which others of our brethren oftentimes haue fallen O Lord we haue heard of and partly seene and knowne of diuers whom thou hast suffered to be ouerwhelmed with tempestuous winds in the gulfes of the outragious seas others pinched with extreame famine and penurie others taken captiues led to most miserable thraldome others brought to their end by loathsome diseases and sundrie kindes of death We acknowledge O Lord that our sinnes are as huge as theirs and our iniquities as grieuous Those Galilaeans whose blood Pilate spilt and those eighteene on whom the tower of Silo fell were not greater sinners then the rest in Israel and those on whom in our time thou hast shewed thy heauie iudgements seeing that we haue followed them and ouertaken them in their sinnes we had deserued rather to haue been made examples vnto them then they vnto vs. But it is thy mercie good Lord thus to spare vs to giue vs a larger time of repentance We confesse our selues O blessed father to be vnworthie the least of all thy benefites if we consider our owne deseruings we haue so manifold waies transgressed thy most holy commandements by our vncleane thoughts by our vngodly words by our vnrighteous deedes that wee are not onely become worthie to be depriued of all thy gracious benefites and blessings but also we haue deserued to haue all thy iudgements in full measure to be powred vpon vs not onely in this world but also in the world to come But O Lord we appeale to thy throne of mercie beseeching thee to looke vpon vs not as we are in our selues polluted stayned with sinne and wickednesse but to behold vs in the face and person and obedience of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ accepting his death and passion as a full recompence for all our transgressions Good Lord clothe vs with his righteousnes ingraft vs truely as liuely members of his bodie and for his sake continue all thy mercies and louing kindnes which so many waies we haue tasted of from our tender youth vntil this present day O Lord increase our faith daylie more and more grant that we may be fully perswaded of thine eternal election that thou good Lord of thy infinite fauour goodnes hast elected and chosen vs to be saued before the foundation of the world was layd giue vs that applying faith whereby we may be assured that we are of the number of them for whom Christ dyed vpon the Crosse giue vs that iustifying faith whereby thy
Iniustitiae duo sunt genera vnum eorum qui inferunt alterum eorum qui ab ijs quibus infertur non propulsant iniuriam Qui non obsistit sipotest iniurie tam est in vitio quam si parētes aut amicos aut patriam deserat There are two kindes of vniustice the one of them which doe iniurie the other of them which doe not defend from iniurie He which doth not withstand iniurie if he be able is in as great a fault as if he should forsake his parents his friends or his own countrey their houses can hardly burne but ours must be in danger to smoke and therefore especially we are to labour to preuent the ende that is the slauery and bondage which they intend to bring vpon our owne nation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is a noble thing saith Xenophon to fight for the auoyding of bondage And it cannot but be as noble to fight for the eschewing the Antichristian yoke of popish Idolatrie for howsoeuer the Spaniard would seem to be a defendour of the Catholike faith let his filthy Idolatry his pestiferous heresies his truce breaking his greedy couetousnes his swelling ambition and his bloody cruelty be sufficient testimonies to vs that his fayth is not true and Catholike but diuelish and Antichristian Well he may make a shew of deuotion and of the seruice of God and of liberall contribution to maintaine the Church of God But all their offerings as ye haue heard are of goods wrongfully possessed and therefore they doe but according to their owne prouerbe Hurtan el puer as darlos pies por amor de dios steale the swine and bestow the feete for the loue of God and all their outward glorious profession is but to haue as their owne by word goeth of them Vnnas de gato y habitas de beat◠la cruz en los pechos yel diablo en los hechos The clawes of a catte and a Saints weede the crosse on their brest and the diuel in their deede It is but an outward shew to cloake and couer their couetousnes and hypocrisie and therefore going against him wee goe against the Lordes enemie and we may conclude to our owne heart with the confidence of Dauid Surely GOD will wounde the head of his enemie and the hayrie pate of him that continueth still in wickednesse The Frenchman that hath answered all the Maximaes gathered out of the workes of Machiauel is in this poynt too short who concludeth generally that there ought to be no warres against Gods enemies in cases of religion onely vpon this ground Puis que toute religion consiste en vne approbation de certains points qui concernent le seruice de dieu il est certain que telle approbation pend de la persuasion qui en est donnée aux hommes Or le moyen de persuader vne chose a vne personne ce n' est point de prendre les armes pour le batreny de le menasser ains de luy remonstrer par bonnes raisons allegations qui le puissent induire a persuasion Seeing that all religion doth consist in the allowing and yeelding to certaine poynts which concerne the worship of God it is certaine that that allowing doth depend vpon the perswading of men Now the meane sayth he to perswade any man is not to take vp weapons to beate him nor to menace and threaten him but to make demonstration to him by such reasons and good proofes as may leade him to perswasion What perswasion I pray you can be vsed with them which will not suffer a perswader to liue amongst them who if a teacher come to them doe put him straight to the fire or sword or if the holy scriptures or any godly instruction be brought vnto them they burne both the booke the bringer who are not content to liue vnder Antichrist but doe with al tyrannie and bloodshed vphold the kingdome of Antichrist which are not weake but wilfull not blind but obstinate which are not content themselues to beare the marke of the beast but doe fight for the beast and seeke to bring all nations vnder the yoke of his bondage If the Spanyards were no otherwise enemies to vs thē the Indians were to them who were most of them meeke and obedient and willing to be taught and gouerned if we should then haue spilt the blood of so many infinite thousands as they haue done then might the Papist iustly haue opened his mouth against vs and we should haue had great occasion to feare that which now hangeth ouer them euen the vengeance that the Prophet speaketh of one stone to crye against another and one beame to crye against another woe be to him that buildeth of blood As the blasphemie of the Philistine made Dauid more couragious so these huge iniquities of the enemie ought to make vs expect the vengeance at the last to light the more heauier vpon him Another comfort and solace had Dauid in all his troubles that euen for the Churches sake the Lord would destroy his enemies and for this cause he saith Arise O Lord in thy wrath and lift vp thy self against the rage of mine enemies so shall the congregation of the people compasse thee about for their sakes therefore lift vp thy selfe againe the Lord shall iudge the people c. We must needes confesse that in respect of the most part of our selues in the Realme of England both by our contempt of Gods holy word and by our vnthankfulnes for his manifold blessings we are so farre off from being worthie to haue out enemies subdued vnder vs that we haue deserued much rather to be long agoe deliuered as a pray vnto their teeth But we know the Lord hath his Church amongst vs he hath committed vnto vs his holy word and Sacraments he hath also his number of his elect and chosen and we may say with the Prophet Esay Except the Lord of hoasts had left a remnant to vs we had been as Sodome and Gomorrah For that little remnant that number of the elect which God hath amongst vs the Lord hath hitherto extended so many blessings vpon vs and we hope that for their sakes he will still lift vp himselfe againe God promiseth for ten good men to spare all Sodome Dauid had in his armie Ioab a most wicked manquellour who had most trecherously and wilfully murdered Abner the sonne of Ner Generall of the armie of Israel and Amasa the sonne of Iether Generall of the armie of Iuda men as the scripture sayth better then himselfe This wicked Ioab was Dauids Lieuetenant of all his armie and the Lord sent vnto him many noble victories for his good Prince Dauids sake We haue many English Souldiers and Mariners of most wicked and dissolute life and such as in their warres haue no respect to the glorie of God and the benefite of his Church but onely seeke to take somewhat
greater may iustly be layd on them although indeede there is no more professed foe to the kingdome of our Sauiour Christ then they which by all meanes vpholde that man of sinne that sonne of perdition which doth fit in the Temple of GOD as God boasting himselfe that hee is God that Babylonian strumpet which sitting on the City that hath seuen hilles doe giue all nations to drinke of the cup of the wrath of her fornication which therefore beareth the name of Antichrist as the most bitter and professed enemy of the kingdome of Christ chalenging to himselfe all those offices which of right and duety do onely appertaine to our Sauiour Christ for howe is Christ our only King if the Romish Bishops haue power to giue the holy Ghost and to forgiue sinnes and so consequently to create fayth and repentance and to renew the inward man without which graces there is no remission of sinnes How is Christ our onely Priest if they haue power to offer vp the body and blood of Christ as a sacrifice for our sinnes No mortall man no worme of the earth no sinfull creature no nor yet any Angel in heauen was fit to offer vp the sacrifice of the body of Christ but one higher then the heauen of heauens euen Iesus Christ himselfe he was the Priest he was the sacrifice he offered himself once for all How is Christ our only mediator if they may erect so many new intercessours and aduocates ioyning them in commission with Christ for whome Christ shed his blood How is Christ our onely prophet if they may establish decrees and traditions to supplie the want of the Gospel of Christ as though they had an office appointed to make vp that perfect absolute which our heauenly Prophet Iesus Christ should leaue raw and vnperfect How may they bee said to holde the same faith with vs which are as far from vs in euery chiefe article as light is from darknesse or Christ from Belial We hold acknowledge that our Lord Iesus to satisfie the iustice of God took truelie flesh of the Virgin Marie like vnto vs in all things sinne onely excepted as the Apostle witnesseth to the Hebrewes Christ tooke not the nature of Angels but he tooke the seede of Abraham As if hee should haue said it had bin no iustice that God should haue punished the sinnes of man in an heauenlie or angelicall nature but as truely as mans flesh did sinne so truelie it was requisite that the flesh of man should paie the punishment And therefore Christ to answere that iustice of GOD tooke not an angelicall but a true naturall bodie like vnto vs in all things sinne onlie excepted And we beleeue further that our Sauiour Christ as the first fruits of them that slept and the pledge of our inheritance rose againe in the same humane nature and ascended into heauen there to take possession for vs and thereby to assure vs that as hee being our head is gone before so we the bodie shall in due time follow after What affinitie hath this our true faith in Iesus Christ with that moÌ„strous doctrine of the Antichristian Catholikes which attribute vnto Christ a phantasticall bodie and manie bodies and an infinite bodie and therefore indeede no true naturall bodie which dooth expreslie contradict two of the chiefest articles of our Christian fayth and as much as in them lyeth vndermine and cast downe the principall bulwark of mans saluation Moreouer we are assured by the holy word of GOD that the Lord doth giue vnto vs in and through his Sonne Christ full remission and pardon of all our offences both from the guilt of sinne and also from the punishment thereof for the Lord in respect of his infinite iustice will not forgiue a trespasse and afterward exact the danger of it and in respect of his vnspeakeable mercy he must needes giue a sound and a perfect benefite Thus doth the worde of God teach vs that there is no accusation at all or any laying of any thing to the charge of Gods elect that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus that the Lord will no way impute their sinnes vnto them that the Lord will remember their sinnes no more but cast them from him as farre as the East is from the Weast or as the prophet speaketh binde them in a bundle cast theÌ„ into the bottom of the Sea They teach that the guilt of sin is forgiueÌ„ by Christ but that the punishmeÌ„t therof must eyther be paid by straight penance afflicting our bodies here or els after this life by the paines of Purgatorie and therefore flatly against the word that there is an accusation there is a condeÌ„nation there is an imputation there is a remembrance of sinne after the remission thereof then which doctrine nothing can bee more derogatorie blasphemous against the price of the blood of Christ which as Saint Iohn saith doth purge and clense vs from all our sinnes Furthermore we professe and are perswaded that as in all the whole life of a Christian there should be truth and fidelitie so especially in truces and leagues of kingdomes and common wealths as the scripture teacheth vs that loyaltie and leagues are to be kept euen with heathen men There was a league made betwixt the Israelites and the heathenish Gibeonits aboue foure hundred and foure score yeare after the league was broken the Lord was so offended at it that he sent three yeares famine and seuen sonnes of Saule were hanged vp as a token of Gods iudgement against truce breaking euen with heathen men Zedechias promised loyaltie to the heathen king the king of the Caldees he brake his league the wrath of God was so kindled against him that being vanquished he was compelled to flye in the flight he was taken his owne sonnes were slaine before his face his eyes were after thrust out he was bound in chaines and led prisoner into Babylon In truce-breaking the Lord punisheth euen the children and ofspring to testifie his wrath and seuere iudgement as the French men haue in verse God graunt they may haue it euer in minde Bien que le dieu du oiel ne piluit pas sur l' heure Le perfide 〈◊〉 stoâ—â—â— de â—aâ—â—â—â— periure Il n' escappe pourtant sonire qui i'en flamme Et destruit a la fin luy see enfans femme Though for a time the Lord of heauen doe spare the periur'd wight Yet at the last on him and his Gods burning ire shall light But this Foedifragus the Hannibal of Spayne as he is taught and doth professe Fidem non esse seruandam cum haereticis that whomsoeuer the Church of Rome doth condemne for heretikes there ought no saith to bee kept with them so he hath shewed it in sufficient proofe both in practising secret conspiracies against
with many such other prayers some of Dauid as the Lords annointed some of the people as vnder and indefence of their Magistrate but all in the feare of God And it is out of all controuersie that whom we may lawfully take vp weapon against for their ouerthrowe we may lawfully pray vnto God and we may as lawfully seek their subuersion by al such meanes as may be with the least blood-shed and spoyle of the people of God Antonius Pius shewed a good minde when he often vsed the saying of Scipio se malle vnum ciuem seruare quam mille hostes perdere that hee had rather saue one Citizen then destroy a thousand enemies If Iosua and Iehu had not been armed with the law full authority of the sworde they might in no wise haue politicklie dissembled with the inhabitants of Ai or with the Priests of Baal but now being placed as publike persons for the defence of the Church of God and going agaynst them as to whome they are bound neither by league of confederacie nor by duety of loyalty they are no further to bewray or proclaime their intent then best may serue for the speedie and safe accomplishing of the lawfull conquest of the Lordes enemies But say some the hostilitie and open enmitie betwixt vs and Spaine ought first to be proclaimed before any warres ought to be taken in hand Was not I pray you that huge nauie of Spaine which came euen to make an end of vs vpon earth a sufficient herald openly to proclaime the hatred and hostilitie of the Spaniard against vs And I think his ships and treasure houses doe meetly well tell him that out fleetes and ordinance vpon the Spanish seas haue beene a reasonable herald to proclaime to them what they are to looke for at the English mans hands If our most gracious Soueraigne whom the Lord long blesse preserue haue vpon causes not knowen to vs thought good as yet no other way to proclaime the warre we are not to busie our selues in examining the sayd causes which perhaps may priuately concerne her Maiestie her self But as when Moses and Iethro mette together hauing kissed each other rogarunt alter alterum de prosperitate postea ingressi sunt tentorium ipsius they asked one another of their health and so they went into his tent so let it suffice vs to talke of those things which concerne our selues and our owne posteritie let it suffice vs that for our owne warrant we haue learned by the word of God both the causes of our war to be allowed as iust and the manner also thereof confirmed as lawful and let vs not doubt but that as many as thus with a resolute heart and trust in God proceed in these affayres the Lord will so blesse and prosper their labour as shall be most for the praise of his holy name and for the quiet and peace of our Church and Common wealth Many thinke that they haue condemned these warres sufficiently if they can poynt out a fewe that haue been hindered or haue sustained losses thereby But as we may not iudge ill of the sacrifices and prayers which Iob made daily for his children because those children were taken away by fearefull and sodaine death or rather as we may not condemne the voyage which the children of Israel made to conquer the land of Canaan because they so dropped away in the voyage that of sixe hundred thousand there came but two into the land of promise no more may we condemne our practises against the Idolatrous Spanyard because amongst many some haue had but heauie and hard successe Others affirme that they could like of these warres well enough if the aduersaries were thereby pluckt downe but these dealings say they doe not to any purpose weaken the enemie I doubt not but if the Lord doe still continue his holie hand ouer vs they will bee found with the enemie shortly to be somewhat Per lo primo colpo non cade la querria sayth the Italian An oake is not fallen downe at the first stroake Many littles make a mickle It is something that we haue all their Merchandises will they nill they as plentifully as euer we had and more freelie from the clutches of the bloodie Inquisitors and something it is that we doe a little disease the enemie and trouble his patience in his busie prouiding for the new inuincible Nauie and something also it is that we haue hereby many able and expert Souldiers and Mariners to keep the enemie occupied at home which otherwise with greater danger of stirring vp rebellions would attempt as he hath done to make inuasions vpon vs here Scipio had no better way to set his owne countrey Italy free from Hannibal but to inuade the Territories of Hannibal in Affrica He sayd vnto the Senate Castra Romana potius Carthaginis portis immineant quà m nos iterum vallum hostium ex moenibus nostris videamus Let rather our Romane Camps pitch before the gates of Carthage then that we should see our walles besieged of our enemies The very place where warre is endureth many calamities Affrica sit belli sedes illic terror fuga populatio c. Let Affrick be the seate of the warre let there be the terror the flight and the spoyling And a little before he sayth Plus est animi inferenti periculum quà m propulsanti In lawfull daungers there is more courage in him that setteth vpon the enemie then in him that defendeth In sua terra cogam pugnare eum Carthago praemium victoriae erit I will make Hannibal fight in his owne land there will be somewhat to bee gotten Carthage will be the price and reward of our victorie The Senate graunted him a conuenient power he inuaded Affrica it came to passe as he expected he remoued the forces of Hannibal out of Italy he did that by his policie in a short time which by all the Romane power could not be brought to passe at home in many yeares I make not this example of the heathē any ground for vs to build vpon onely we may profitably consider how farre the light of nature did shew it selfe for the defence of natiue soyle and we may learne sometimes wisedome of the children of this world who are more wise in their generation then the children of light Our ground that we are to rest vpon is first the equitie of the cause of our warre which I hope hath been sufficiently declared by the word of the eternall God and by the practises of such Magistrates as the holy scripture doth propound vnto vs. Secondly the power and mercie of God who of the one is able and of the other is willing to effect and bring to passe whatsoeuer we shall take in hand in his feare Iosua going against Idolaters had many and mightie enemies Iabin the King of Hazor the King of Madon the King of Shimron the King of Achsaph the Canaanits Amorits
spirit may speake comfortably to our spirits that all our sinnes are forgiuen vnto vs giue vs that sanctifyng faith which may bring forth all good fruites of amendement of life and true repentance O Lord pardon our huge grieuous sinnes which we haue heretofore cōmitted agaynst thy diuine Maiestie let our former wickednes be no hinderance to thy mercie Lord remember not the iniquities and offences of our youth but according to thy mercie think vpon vs in thy great goodnes Remember not how vnthankfull we haue been vnto thee for thy manifold preseruations and benefites all the course of our life Thou hast been rich in mercie towards vs but we haue been poore in thankfulnes to thee agayne Lord pardon all our former vnthankfulnes and make vs daylie more and more thankfull not onely in word but also in holines of life that we neuer be found to be of the number of those which confesse thee with their mouth but denie thee with their workes In all our affayres of our outward warfare Lord grant vs grace especially to be zelous in our inward combate agaynst sinne and wickednesse that we may mortifie the roote of our carnall and corrupt affections that we may haue the true strife of the spirit against the flesh wrastling agaynst all sinnes but especially agaynst those whereunto we finde our selues most inclined Ayd vs good Lord especially in our spiritual battaile against the world the flesh and the diuell put vpon vs the sword-girdle of truth the breastplate of righteousnes Arme vs with the shield of faith wherby we may quēch al the fierie darts of the wicked and so deliuer to vs and guide in vs the sword of thy spirit that we may ouercome and triumph by the blood of the Lambe and the word of his testament And for as much as the euents of our estate and vocation are sundrie and variable O Lord we pray thee so gouerne vs with thy good grace that in all our trauailes we may ioyfully say Thy will be done and not ours that neither our prosperitie doe cause vs to forget thee nor aduersitie doe prouoke vs to murmur agaynst thee that with contented mindes we may cast all our care on thee for thou carest for vs that in troubles we may assure our selues that thou doest not plague vs as a iudge but correct vs as a father and that in euery good successe we may humbly acknowledge thee the author and giuer thereof and neuer lift vp ourselues to accompt it the worke of our owne hands We that thus goe downe in shippes and occupie our busines in great waters doe daylie see thy manifold workes and thy wonders in the deepe how thou liftest vp the waues of the sea and hast made the Leuiathan to take his pastime in them with innumerable beasts as Dauid speaketh both small and great Lord graunt vs alwaies to make true vse of these thy creatures that wee may learne thereby to acknowledge thy Maiestie to reuerence thy power to feare thy iudgements and to trust in thy mercies Thou hast promised that those which crie vnto thee in their trouble thou wilt deliuer them from their distresse and bring them to the hauen where they would be Thou onely art he that commandeth both the windes and the seas Lord so gouerne them both in these our attempts against the professed enemies of thy truth as may be most for the glory of thy name for the benefit of thy Church for the good and welfare of our natiue soyle and for the sauegard and honour of our most gracious Soueraigne Blesse our labours prosper our voyage let thy enemies so fall before vs as that thou maist haue all the praise and we all the comfort Teach our hands to warre and our fingers to fight couer our head in the day of battaile giue vs thy holy angels to assist vs grant vs to be true and faithfull amongst our selues obedient to those whom thou hast placed ouer vs couragious against thy enemies hold thy holy hand ouer vs sanctifie our affections that we may not so much seeke our selues as endeuour to doe that seruice which may be most agreeable to thy holy will and most for the prosperous estate of our Prince and Countrey whom we beseech thee O Lord to blesse and protect now and euer We know O Lord that the obtaining of victorie doth not consist in number of men it is all one with thee to saue with many or with no power in the defence of thy trueth we goe against the open vpholders and sworne vassals of Antichrist good Lord let not thy aduersaries preuaile against vs let not the wicked say where is now their God Strike a terror into the enemies let the shield depart from them confound that proud and haughtie power of that Haman that doth so insolently oppose it selfe against the Gospel of Iesus Christ Goe before our armie good Lord and be our buckler and shield to defend vs from all daungers both of bodie and soule Lord remember thy wonted mercies and louing kindnes which haue been euer of old and for thy Churches sake euen for that remnant which thou hast amongst vs let it be thy mercifull pleasure to blesse our endeuours grant vs to repose our trust and confidence stedfastly vpon the experience of thy power and goodnesse giue vs such assurance of faith and such continuance in true mortification that we being thy children and our lamps of repentance alwaies burning death may neuer be sodaine vnto vs and when it shall be thy good will to take vs out of this vale of miserie be it in or out of those battailes which to our profession doe appertaine we beseech thee O Lord that our soules may so fight a good fight and finish their course with ioy that they may be partakers of the crowne of euerlasting triumph in the world to come These and all other graces needful for vs and for thy whole Church and euery part and member of the same we craue at thy hand in the mediation of thy sonne Iesus Christ our onely Sauiour in that prayer which he hath taught vs in his holy Gospell Our Father c. FINIS Prou. 15.15 Prou. 28.1 Rom. 14.22 1. Ioh. 3.20 Lawfulnesse of Militarie profession Ioh. 8.39 Gen. 14.18 Deut. 23.18 Matth. 27.6 Iudg. 5.23 2 Chro. 20.15 Psal 144.1 Nehem. 4.14 vers 20. Deut. 20.2 Deut. 20.10 Warre the last remedie Luc. 3.14 1. Cor. 9.7 Luc. 7.9 Act. 10.2 and 48. Obiection against pietie in Souldiers Respons Reuel 12.12 Abuses of war ought not to abrogate the lawful vse thereof Rom. 13.2 Verse 4. 1. Tim. 2.2 Matth. 26. An. Dom. 1512 August lib. 22. contr Faustum Manichaeum cap. 70. Warre against the Spaniard how to be allowed 2. Chron. 19.2 2. Chron. 20. v. vlt. 2. Chron. 25.6 2. Chron. 22.5 2. Chron. 21.13 Exod. 32. Exod. 32.4 Psal 106.16 2. Thes 2.4 Apoc. 17 9. Apoc. 14.8 Iohn 15.21 Heb. 10 14. Heb. 7. v. vlt. 1. Tim. 2.5 Heb. 1.1 Rom. 1.16 Heb. 2.16 Heb. 4.15 1. Cor. 15.20 Col. 1.18 Rom. 8.33 Rom. 8.1 Psal 32.2 Psal 103.12 Mich. 7.19 1. Iohn 1.7 Iosua 9.15 2. Sam. 21.4 2. Reg. 25.7 Iere. 39.1 K of Spayne Luc. 4.6 Ioh. 8.48 Prou. 8.15 Matth. 8.28 K. of Spayne Reuel 19.15 Reu. 18.6 9 Of warre to be proclaimed 1. Cor. 3. vers vlt. Psal 105. vers 44. Psal 105.44 Rom. 12.19 Matth. 5.39 Rom. 13.4 Matth. 18. vers vlt. Deut. 25.17 Deut. 23.20 Matth. 10.16 1. Pet. 2.2 Iosua 8.4 2. Reg. 10. Hieron vt citatur decret causa 22. quaest 2. cap. vtilem Luc. 3.14 1. Sam. 30.26 Psal 24.1 Libr. 2. de bello vandalico Goods of Papists that liue with vs. Aug. lib. 22. contr Faustum Manichaeum cap. 70. Rom. 13.2 Ier. 27. v. 6 7.8 Gen. 14.4 Gen. 14.17 1. Pet. 3.9 Math. 5.44 Psal 83.14 Psal 52.11 Psal 28.3 Psal 10.4 Psal 35.5 Psal 59.6 Iosu 8 4. 2. Reg. 10. Exod. 18.8 Iob. 1.19 Numb 26.64 Titus Liuius in 28. ab vrbe condita Luc. 16.8 Iosua 11.4 2. Chron. 14.9 2. Chro. 14.14 1. Sam. 17. Iudg. 15.15 2. Sam. 15.31 Prou. 21.30 Prou. 21.31 Psal 61.3 Iam. 1.17 Iohn 13.1 Psal 7.15 2. Sam. 17.36 Verse 45. Psa 6◠ver 21 Rom. 13.1 The difference of the English gouernment as it is now from the Spanish In the English the rebel dieth and the subiect liueth In the Spanish the subiect dieth and the rebel liueth 2. Cor. 11.14 The reuerend father Master Nowel shewed one of these kniues to diuers Noblemen of England Tul. Offic. 1. Xenophon Psal 68.21 Par. 3. max. 1. pag. 346. Reuel 13.17 Abac. 2.11.6 1. Sam. 17.3 Psal 7.6 Gen. 18 32. 1. Reg. 2.29 2. Sam. 3.27 2. Sam. 10.7 Lucan Gen. 41.40 1. Reg. 18.3 Phil. 4. 1. Thess 5.11 Gen. 18.32 1. Sam. 30.26 2. Chro. 14.14 1. Cor. 9.7 Psal 107.30