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A66471	The valorous warrior's welfare, in God's victorious warfare A sermon preach'd in His Majesty's English camp, near the city of Ghendt in Flanders; before the battalion of His Royal Highness George Prince of Denmark, under the command of the right honourable Colonel Charles Churchill, major-general of His Majesty's forces in the Netherlands. By William Williams, minister of the Gospel, and a son of the Church of England.	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2791; ESTC R219571	20,595	33

of the Syrians or Edomites in the Valley of Salt to the number of Eighteen Thousand Men. The History of which Engagement you may find Recorded in 2 Sam. 8.1 to 17. and also in 1 Chron. 18.1 to 16. in which Relation we may observe that Holy David was very Successful in his Warlike Enterprizes for he overcame many Potent Kings and Kingdoms thro' a fixed Affiance in the Faithfulness and All-sufficiency of an Infallible and Omnipotent God who is the most Magnificent Monarch and Mightiest Warriour of whom Moses saith in Exod. 15.3 The Lord is a Man of War the Lord is his Name or his Name is Jehovah which denotes both his Holiness and Hostility This Military Description of God may be fitly stil'd the Soldiers Armory or Magazine where not only his Carnal but also Spiritual Weapons Accoutrements and Ammunition are constantly kept in a Warlike Readiness It is as it were the Tower of David whereon there hang a Thousand Bucklers all Shields of Mighty Men as you may Read in the 4th Chapter of Canticles or Song of Solomon at the 4th Verse Or as that Tower of Solomon mention'd in Prov. 18.10 where it is said that The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower the Righteous runneth into it and is safe Therefore let us betake our selves to this strong Citadel or Invincible Garison which is the Christian Combatant's Fort Roval where the Captain of our Salvation is Christ Jesus and the Generalissimo of our Believing Forces God Almighty whose Banner over us is Love and that stronger than Death for many Waters could not quench his Love neither could the Floods drown it as you may note in Cant. 8.7 This is that Love which surpasseth Knowledge whereof the Apostle St. Paul speaks in Eph. 3.19 The Superlative Transcendeney of which is apparently made manifest in the Miraculous and many Renown'd Victories obtain'd over their Enemies by the Adventurous Armies and Couragious Champions of the Living God under whose Irresistible Power not only Royal David in particular but also his Loyal Host in general did Valorously resolve to Encount or and Conquer their Adversaries yet so as at the same time and in the mean space that with one Unanimous and Harmonious Consent they voluntarily and devoutly ascrib'd unto God to whom it was due even the Glorious and Praise-worthy Success of their Valiant and Vigorous Victories according to these Heroical or Martial Expressions of my present Text where Divine and Undaunted David as it were after an Alarm to take up Arms made this Consolatory Speech unto his Army Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies This Portion of Scripture being the Subject of my Warlike Discourse hath its Foundation laid on the most durable and unmoveable Rock of Ages namely God himself and that by a Matchless Monarch of Israel to wit the Militant and Triumphant David in which Text as a Garison Town or City of Refuge he hath Erected on the East-side an Heavenly Castle of Safety and on the West an Holy Tower of Security The Heavenly Castle of Safety importing God's Favourable Presence with his People in Countenancing them to defie the fierceness of their Enemies according to these former words of my Text Through God we shall do valiantly The Holy Tower of Security implying God's powerful Providence to his People in Encouraging them to Defeat the Forces of their Adversaries as concurring with these last Expressions in my present Subject For he it is that shall tread down our Enemies Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies In walking the Rounds of this Text Town or City of Refuge which hath God seated in the Circuit Situation and Centre thereof for its Safety as also Sallying the Ports viewing the Rampiers Platforms Counterscarps Fortresses Flankers Battlements Bulwarks and Batteries thereof Besides a Castle and a Tower Erected on the Eastern and Western sides to prevent the Storming Surprizing Besieging Invading or Taking of the same by Force I likewise discover'd it strongly fortify'd on the North and South-sides with two other Regal Citadels or Royal Forts of Defence and they are these which I shall describe unto you First King David's Divine Consideration That the Foundation of a Just War in the Defence of his Peoples Lives Laws Liberties and Religion hath its Victorious Dependency on the Supream Power and Providence of God the which is apparently evident in the front of my present Text where the purpose of God in preserving his People from the violent Enterprizes of their Enemies is thus Elegantly and Excellently exprest Through God we shall do valiantly Secondly King David's Divine Suggestion That tho' the People of God may be Instrumental in subduing their Enemies yet the Success that makes their Foes their Footstool is a principal Prerogative only peculiar to God himself And this is likewise apparent in the Rear of my present Subject where the pleasure of God in punishing his Peoples Adversaries is thus Emphatically and Pathetically worded For he it is that shall tread down our Enemies Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies I have divided my Text into Two Parts or Portions like Two Regiments or Battalions of Soldiers in which respect it represents the Right and Left Wings of an Army But having thus open'd my Text both to the Right and Left that I may put it again in a proper form I shall reduce the Divisions as they were and thereby bring it to its close Order drawing up the main Body thereof into a more Compleat and Warlike Posture by demonstrating unto you in a considerable measure what Glorious Conquests the Successful and Successive Sabaoths or Hosts of God obtain'd in former Ages over their Adversaries In order to which Demonstration I design thro' God's Gracious Assistance to speak unto the Two Chief Generals or General Heads posted at the Royal Standard of my Text as in the First place To King David's Divine Consideration That the Foundation of a Just War in the Defence of his Peoples Lives Laws Liberties and Religion hath its Victorious Dependency on the Supream Power and Providence of God Secondly To King David's Divine Suggestion That tho' the People of God may be Instrumental in subduing their Enemies yet the Success that makes their Foes their Footstool is a principal Prerogative only peculiar to God himself Both which Observations are inseparately included and compleatly comprehended within the Bounds and Limits of my Celestial Subject where in Expectation of Aid from the Deity to suppress his Adversaries it is thus Dictated by Devout David Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies In all the Series of Holy Scripture we may evidently behold that when Almighty God intended to accomplish some Notable Deliverance to his People he gave them to understand in the mean space that it was not so much their own

Interest appears so Interested in God that he lately Dethron'd a King that offended her and in his stead Enthron'd a King to defend her This is the Lord 's doing it is Marvellous in our Eyes as the Kingly Prophet expresseth it in Psal 118.23 For Promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South But God is the Judge He putteth down one and setteth up another as appears Psal 75.6 7. That this Dethronement and Establishment was God's own Handy-work is Divinely Vindicated by the Prophet Daniel in the Unparallel'd Case and Preternatural Condition of King Nebuchadnezzar who for his unsufferable Arrogance was Exil'd from the Society of Rational Men to take his Abode and Food with the unreasonable Beasts of the Field touching whom the said Daniel in his second Chapter at the 20th and 21th Verses spake on this Wise Blessed be the Name of God for ever and ever for Wisdom and Might are his And he changeth the Times and the Seasons He removeth Kings and setteth up Kings He giveth Wisdom unto the Wise and Knowledge to them that know Vnderstanding Again we Read in the 37th Verse of the same Chapter that the Prophet said to the King on this manner Thou O King art a King of Kings for the God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom Power and Strength and Glory Moreover Daniel told him in the 4th Chapter of his Prophesie at the 25th Verse That the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Thus we see that the disposal of Earthly Kingdoms is a peculiar Prerogative absolutely pertaining to the King of Heaven for God being an Universal Monarch hath ageneral Title attributed unto him in Jer. 10.7 where he is stil'd by the Prophet The King of Nations And that because all Emperors Kings and Princes in their Enthronements wear their Crowns sway their Scepters govern their Kingdoms and Principalities by God's own special Authority This Truth bears the Badge of his warrantable and undoubted Testification in the 8th Chapter of Solomon's Proverbs Ver. 15. where he speaks these certain and significant Expressions By me Kings Reign and Princes Decree Justice This Assirmation hath sufficient Assertions of Scripture to assure it as in 2 Sam. 12 7. where God by the Mouth of his Prophet Nathan spake these words unto David I anointed thee King over Israel Solomon also acknowledg'd that the Lord had plac'd and establish'd him on the Throne of his Father David as you may Read in 1 Kings 2.24 Moreover it was the saying of Ahijah in the Person of God to Jeroboam I will give the Kingdom unto thee as it is observable in 1 Kings 11.35 By all these Scripture Instances it plainly and punctually appears that the removing and setling of Crown'd Heads relate to God's Dispensative Power and therefore we may say of God in such Cases as Job spake concerning the Life and Death of his Children in Job 1.21 The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the Name of the Lord. Having thus prov'd unto you that the Government of this Lower World is according to the Rule of God's undeniable and unlimitted Authority so neither the Kingdoms nor Power of Princes but all things else proper unto them are after a peculiar manner God's their Crowns their Anointing their Globes their Scepters their Thrones and the Government thereof are his and their Persons adorn'd with all these Endowments are so Sublime and Sacred that they are compar'd for Excellent Eminency or Eminent Excellency unto the Angels of God in 2 Sam. 14.17 and also stil'd Gods by a Deify'd kind of Dignity and call'd the Children of the most High in Psal 82.6 From these and such like Observations the sanctify'd Vessel St. Paul that great Apostle and Patron of the Gentiles compil'd an Excellent Lecture of Loyalty in order to oblige both Religious and Rebellious Subjects to bear true Allegiance and submissive Obedience unto their Supream and Lawful Superiors the which you may find Recorded in Rom. 13.1 2. where it is thus worded Let every Soul be subject unto the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God The Powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation Hence it is observable that as every individual Person ought to be in subjection to his superior and inferior Rulers by reason that the Power of their Government is derivative from God and the Governours now in being Established by his Ordinance whom to resist is plain opposition to God's own Order for which resistance they become liable to receive unto themselves the Reward or Stipend of Damnation Therefore to abandon Disloyalty being the Cause of this Damnable Alotment as Religious Servants to God Loyal Subjects to the King and Loving Sons of the Church Let us that are her Empal'd Children firmly stand in God's the King 's and the Church her Cause resolving that in case no other Kingdom or Nation should accommodate us with their Assistance neither to dread nor to be dismay'd at it although our present Enemies whomsoever they are may seem much more in number than our selves for the Race is not always to the swift nor the Battel still to the strong but to those that have God for their powerful Copartner for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few as it is observable in 1 Sam. 14.6 This Truth is farther confirm'd by the Divine Expressions of Asa who with an Army of Five Hundred and Fourscore Thousand Men waged War with Zerah the Ethiopian whose Host consisted of a Thousand Thousand in number as you may note in 2 Chron. 14.8 9 10. Moreover it is said in Verse 11. That Asa cryed unto the Lord his God and said Lord it is nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that have no Power Help us O Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy Name we go against this multitude so the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah as you may Read in Verse 12. of the same Chapter These Excellent Observations have their full and clear Evidence in Deut. 20.1 2 3 4. where God granted unto Israel a Warlike Commission Seal'd with his own Hand and deliver'd with his own Mouth in these Expressions Recorded by Moses When thou goest to Battel against thine Enemies and seest Horses and Chariots and a People more than thou be not afraid of them for the Lord thy God is with thee which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the Battel that the Priest shall approach and speak unto the People and shall say unto them Hear O Israel you approach this day unto Battel against your Enemies let not your Hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neither be ye terrified because of them for the Lord

Proclamation with holy David Psal 18.1 2 3. saying on this wise We will love thee O Lord our Strength The Lord is our Rock and our Fortress and our Deliverer Our God our Strength in whom we will trust our Buckler and the Horn of our Salvation and our high Tower We will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall we be saved from our Enemies Like to this cordial and cheerful Proclamation was that comfortable Speech which good Hezekiah made to enliven and encourage his Army who being but few in number as compared with their Enemies the great Host of Senacherib King of Assyria were nevertheless by a setled Dependence on God's Power both willing and ready to give them the Encounter as you may read in 2 Chron. 32.7 8. where it is thus related Be strong and couragious be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria nor for all the Multitude that is with him for there be more with us than with him With him is an Arm of Flesh but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to sight our Battels And the People rested themselves upon the Words of Hezekiah King of Judah And while the People rested on the Words of Hezekiah behold the Lord sent a destroying Angel that on the same night smote in the Camp of the Alliances an hundred and fourscore and five thousand And when the People rose up early in the Morning behold they were all dead Corpses as you may read 〈◊〉 in the 2d of the Kings Chap. 19. Vers 35. Hence we may observe that a King who had the best Cause never fail'd of the best Courage The same may be said of WILLIAM the Third King of Great Britain and Ireland for God hath given him a good Cause of War against his Enemies as namely the securing of pure Religion the procuring of lasting Peace the uniting of divided Kingdoms the composing of Peoples Differences the preserving of wholesom Laws the correcting of disloyal Servants and the protecting of Loyal Subjects These being the Causes of God the King and the Church do so enhance his Majesty's Spirit that he is not afraid to meet his Enemies in the Gate but seems to declare his Interest in the Lord with holy David Psal 118.6 7. where the Prophetical King speaks on this wise The Lord is on my side I will not fear what Man can do unto me The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me Hence we may find it observable that the Lord also taketh part with our King's Party in order to fulfil his Desire upon his Enemies This Truth visibly appears in the late Wars that were managed both in the Kingdom of Ireland and the Territories of Flanders where God wonderfully preserv'd his Majesty's Sacred Person from the violent and revenging Peril of the Sword as if no Weapon form'd against him should prosper like one interested in those Escapes of David mentioned Psal 18. v. 50. namely Great Deliverances giveth he to his King and sheweth Mercy to his Anointed to David and to his Seed and Religious Successors for evermore Many miraculous Deliverances hath his Majesty already experienc'd as if a Guardian or encamping Angel had a special Commission from Heaven at all times in all places and upon all occasions to protect or preserve his pious Person Such a Commissionated-Angel we read of in Psal 34. vers 7. where it is said That the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them But of all the miraculous Deliverances and Preservations which Heaven decreed for his Safety the most capital and remarkable was his last Escape from a cursed Cabal of Assassinates who by mischievous Machinations hatch'd a Hellish Stratagem how to embrew their hateful and unhallow'd Hands in the scarlet and crimson Dyes of his Royal Blood had not God as the Anointed of Himself prevented the Martyrdom by a matchless Miracle of mysterious Mercy We have not besides what Divine Revelation affords a greater Argument to prove this World to be govern'd and all Things in it carried on and directed by the vigilant Eye and powerful Hand of Almighty GOD than the sudden and seasonable Discoveries of such damnable Enterprizes contriv'd with the utmost Caution and Secresie propagated with great Subtilty or Cunning and being just ripe for execution yet in an instant blasted in a trice broken all to pieces either by a surprizing dread seizing the Conspirators themselves or an unwary Word over-heard or an unaccountable Suspicion of ill Designs though founded upon no reason or a very trifling one yet hath proved true or God smote upon the Conscience of some one of them and for the ease of his tortur'd Mind he is forced to a Discovery Peradventure their Jealousie of being betray'd by others hath made some to give notice of it themselves A Letter miscarry'd a Fright Mistake Oversight or something happening otherwise than was expected hath brought the hidden Works of Darkness to light whereby the King and his Liege People or Loyal Subjects have been mercifully snatch'd from the Jaws of Ruin and the Conspirators themselves brought to condign Punishment according to that remarkable Observation of the Royal Prophet in his IX Psalm at the 16th Verse where he saith That the Lord is known by the Judgment which he executeth The Wicked is snared in the Work of his own Hands From these Diabolical and Inhumane Attempts may the Omniscient Omnipresent and Omnipotent God Protect His Majesties Gracious Person to improve that prepar'd Portion which we hope Divine Providence hath laid up for him in the Disposal of Sacred Providence as length of Days in her Right Hand and in her Left Hand Riches and Honour For her Ways are Ways of Pleasantness and all her Paths are Peace as appears in Prov. 3.16 17. Seeing therefore that the plain Paths of Wisdom are all of them both pleasant and peaceable let us learn of her to be so prudent as to make our Addresses unto God that he would be pleas'd to withdraw our Feet from the rugged Ways of War and Bloodshed that he may guide them into the smooth and pleasant Paths of Peace for in so doing both Church and State will famously slourish This was a Pious and a Primitive Observation among the Jews as appears in Psal 76.1 2 3. where holy David speaks these Expressions In Judah is God known his Name is great in Israel In Salem also is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling-place in Sion There brake he the Arrows of the Bow the Shield and the Sword and the Battel But now to the Praise and Glory of God we Christians may say That in Britain is God known his Name is great in England in the Salem of our British Dominion is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling-place in the Sion of our Three Kingdoms There also brake he the Arrows of the Bow the Shield and the Sword and