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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01371	A watch-vvorde for warre Not so new as necessary: published by reason of the disperced rumors amongst vs, and the suspected comming of the Spanyard against vs. Wherein we may learne how to prepare our selues to repell the enemie, and to behaue our selues all the tyme of that trouble. Compendious for the memorie, comfortable for the matter, profitable for the matter, profitable for the tyme.	Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604.	1596 (1596)	STC 11492; ESTC S117690	33,754	62

with extreame bargaines these hard yeeres let them make some amends The Ethnicks required double restitution Zaccheus made foure-fold restitution Luke 19. Salamon telleth vs of a seauen-fold restitution Prou 6 and therefore they may do little if they make not some restitution Such as haue carried theyr heads as hie as Lucifer let them now holde downe their heads like Bulrushes Such as haue ground the faces of the poore let them doe good to them thys time of Scarcetie not onely for commandement sake as Sirach sayth Ecclus 37 but euen for pollicie sake for you know what Salomon sayth In the multitude of the people is the honour of a King but for the want of people commeth the destruction of the Prince Prou 14 28. If God should send the enemie against vs the most defencible strength of the Land consisteth in the poore for they are subiect to most seruice and greatest dangers VVee see thys hard season that the poore begin to pine alreadie because they want the stay and staffe of theyr strength which is bread Now if we would haue them to fight for vs let vs not see them famish if we would haue them forcibly to vse theyr weapons let vs not infeeble them for want of victuals If we would haue them strong let vs not starue them How can a souldier bee hardie against the enemie when his hart is killed for want of succour therefore if we loue our Prince let vs labour to preserue the honor of our Prince let vs not suffer the multitude of her people to perrish for want of sustenance least if the Spaniarde happen to come wee haue misse of those men to defend vs which for want of our foode did famish Generally seeing all sinne is odious and the naming of it tedious let euery one of vs amend one so by our true contrition we shall pacifie the Lord and cause him to appease the furie of our foes 1 How to debilitate and repell the Enemie The meanes which we must vse are two 1 Diuine 2 Humaine The diuine meanes be these Inuocation Abstinence INuocation as a learned vvryter sayth is that vvhereby we flye vnto God in all perils and aduersities with an assured confidence that he is able to succour and defend vs D. Martir in Com. Ro. cap. 1. This inuocation or prayer we ought to practise as a thing most precious First because it is the forme to frame al our requests by let your requests be shewed vnto God by praier Phil. 4 6. Secondly because we are willed to vse it in our distresse for ease Call vpon me in the time of trouble I wil heare thee Psal 50 15. Thirdly because it effecteth many things Moses did more good in lyfting vp his handes then the Israelites dyd with theyr weapons for when he did let down his hands the Amalekites preuayled Exod. 17 11. Fourthly because he wee call vpon is the God of Hostes and therefore vve haue many reasons to moue vs to pray to him for first he must prepare our hearts therevnto or else we cannot pray VVe cannot thinke a good thought 2 Cor. 3 neyther say that Iesus is the Lord 1 Cor. 12 3. Then much lesse can vve pray vvithout hym Secondly his power is infallible and therefore he is such an one as we may stay vpon Abiah got the victory of Iehoram not vvith worldly power but the text sayth Iudah preuayled because they staid vpon the Lord God of their fathers 2 Chro. 13 18. Heerof Dauid sayth blessed is the man that maketh the Lord hys trust Psal 40 4 3. Hys prouydence is vigilant and therefore is alvvayes readie at hand to helpe the Lord is neere vnto all that call vpon hym sayth the Psalmist Ps 145 18. He maketh vs pertakers of his essentiall presence VVhen Iehoshaphat was to fight against his enemies what a comfort vvas this to him when he heard the Lord will be vvith you 2 Chro. 20 17 and fight for you as he did for Israel Iosh 10 14. Fourthly without hym wee can do nothing and therefore we haue neede to pray to him The Horse is prepared against the day of battell but saluation is of the Lord. Pro. 21 31. There is no hope of prosperous successe if the Lord sayth the Enemie shall gather hym selfe but vvithout me Esay 54 15 whereas if he be with vs vve are assured none can be against vs or hurt vs 2 Chro. 18 31. Thys prayer or inuocation is so heauenly a medecine for humaine malydies that our fore-fathers dyd flye vnto it as a refuge vvhen theyr enemies afflicted them Nowe because we may haue the lyke occasion of trouble as they had it shall not be impertinent to expresse some of theyr zealous prayers for vs to practise in the like extreamitie Examples and formes of godly prayers vsed in vvarres WHen the Ethiopians came to vvarre against Asa that godly King the text saith that he cried vnto the Lord his God and sayd Lord it is nothing with thee to helpe with many or vvith no power helpe vs ô Lord our God for we rest on thee and in thy name are vvee come against thys multitude ô Lord thou art our God let not man preuayle against thee 2 Chro. 14 11. The Lord heard hys prayer for it followeth in these words So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa VVhen the Assirians came to assault Israel the Scripture sayth that Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and sayd O Lord God of Israel vvhich dwellest betweene the Cherubins thou art very God alone ouer all the kingdomes of the earth thou hast made the heauen and the earth nowe therefore ô Lord our God I beseech thee saue thou vs out of hys hand that all the kingdomes of the earth may know that thou ô Lord art onely God 2 Kings 19. His prayer preuailed with the Lord for it is there written I haue heard that vvhich thou prayedst me verse 20. VVhen the Moabites and Ammonites dyd war against Iehoshaphat that vertuous King he prayed vnto the Lord and sayd O our God vvilt thou not iudge them for there is no strength in vs to stand before this great multitude that commeth against vs neither do we know vvhat to doo but our eyes are toward thee 2 Chro. 20 12. Hys prayer had good successe for hee ouer-threw all hys Enemyes VVhen Lysias came vvith a multitude of men against Iudas when he saw that mighty Army he praied and said O Lord shut vp this Armie in the hand of thy people and let them be confounded with theyr power make them afrayd and consume theyr boldnesse and strength that they may bee astonished at theyr destruction Cast them downe by the sword of them that loue thee then shall all they that know thy name prayse thee 1 Macch. 4 31. Hys prayer was not neglected of the Lord for he slew many of the host of his Enemie Let vs follow thys course when the Spanyards come against vs and we shall receiue the like comfort